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Tue 21 Dec, 2004 12:42 pm
It has been said and has been proven that some of the workers who died while building the great wall of china, were buried amongst the stones.
I was doing some reading about this subject a few months ago and had read an article about someone finding an 'upright' skeleton in a part of the wall that had begun to deteroriate.
This skeleton was in a standing position, uncrushed , in what was a piece of solid stone.
This article later went on to say that it was speculated to be a monk.
Apparently , ( this may or may not be true) there was a group of monks who were trying to pass through solid matter. There are some rumors that they were truly able to do this, some rumors stating other wise.
I have been trying for a few days to locate this information and I have had no luck
Anyone else heard of this?
only after i loose good information, do i remember the bookmark feature.
and I'm using it in hopes of not loosing this thread. And I guess also in hopes that someone else knows something about this.
I remember the article was BIG news. It was all over for a while... but now it has all but dissappeared.
I have googled things like
Body in great wall
Upright body in great wall
bodies found in great wall.
monks in great wall ( ya get the picture. )
And nothing... it is like the story vanished.
I cant even find alot about the workers who were buried in the wall.
The terra-cotta-army surely is something quite different to workers buried in the Great Wall. :wink:
Actually, this is known since quite some time (I'm sure, it was in my history 40 years ago as well).
Quote:If anyone died while working, they were buried in the wall. Workers who complained or tried to run away were buried alive
source: The Emperor Heaven -
The Great Wall of China
no, not the terra cotta army.
Though I would LOVE to own one of those.
This information I read was a small strange article wich showed a picture of a hole in the great wall that you could see th eback of a skull IN the stone. This stone wasnt seperated, wasnt a piece of ' concrete' it was stone.
I thought it appropriate to cross-reference these topics.
http://www.able2know.com/forums/about41398.html
The utilitarian explanation: They had to be buried somewhere and they might as well have been put to use.
Ok
So last night, my husband and I are rethinking our conversation about the bodys in the great wall.. and he throws in the fact that he saw this on discovery FIRST about 10 years ago...
THEN says.. the article we saw was another discovery, in a diffrent place, but same mystery.
So, the search is on, but through the discovery channell ( in case anyone else was looking also)
Im not sure if something that old is still around?
>sigh<
Off... too... google i go..
shewolfnm wrote:Im not sure if something that old is still around?
>sigh<
Off... too... google i go..
You mean tombs, tombs in China or buried persons in walls ... ?
I have read about monks doing levitation (The Travels of Marco Polo) but not passing through solid matter.
There is a well-known Chinese fable about a widow looking for her husband who was sent to work on the Great Wall, and she cried so much upon learning he was buried under, that Heaven took pity of her and opened up the wall.
I dont mean tombs.
The article clearly stated that the human body that was found was standing up right in a solid stone. Only after a few hundred years of erosion were they able to see the back of the skull.
the article speculated that it was a certain group of monks who were knows to have tried to pass through solid matter and they believed the found the remains of one.. IF that were the case.
I wish I could remember the specifics of it.
It would be easier to find.
I couldn't find your article (and my old school history books only refer to that mentioned fact), but this legend about the Great Wall:
Quote:Meng Jiangnu' s Bitter Weeping
Many beautiful legends and tales have left in China about
the construction of the Great Wall. However, many of theft.
have been based on historical records. Among them, the
most popular would probably be the one about lady Meng
Jiangnu.
On the night of their wedding, Wan Xiliang, Meng
Jiangnu's husband, was pressganged to build the Great Wall
by the Qin soldiers. Before Wan Xiliang went away, Lady
Meng took her white jade hairpin and broke it into two
halves and gave her husband one half as a token of love.
One day, when lady Meng stayed at home, she had a bad
dream, she dreamed that her husband was constantly
yelling: "Cold, cold! ' She recalled that her husband was
wearing very thin clothes. Very soon, she made some
padded clothes and left home to look for her husband. She
didn't expect that her husband had already died, so she
burst into tears. The Great Wall was moved and it collasped
for more than 20 km, revealing the dead bodies of her hus-
band and many others. On seeing this, she wrapped her
husband's dead body in arm and committed suicide by jump-
ing into the sea.
Source
this is absolutely true.
btw how come a chinese people isn't be invited to this topic?
I must say that would be a neat trick
Unless of course you got stuck like the poor monk
shewolfnm wrote:no, not the terra cotta army.
Though I would LOVE to own one of those.
You can buy miniture replica. I have one in my room.
Of course I know you don't mean this.
I have seen the minature replicas. Those are realllly neat. !
I want a life sized one . One that I could put on my doorstep. :-)
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