Babies' tombs were found in the ancient city of Xinjiang, and they cried frequently in the middle of the night, making nearby residents afraid to travel?

Hello, everyone, I'm Xiaoqi. On the ancient Silk Road, there is an ancient city with the best preservation and the largest scale so far, and there is a strange baby tomb in the center of the ancient city. Every thunderstorm night, hundreds of babies cry from the ancient city, which makes people feel numb. Is this sniffling a cry from hell or a natural phenomenon?

Jiaohe ancient city

This group of baby tombs should also start from the South Xinjiang Railway. In 1970s, the state ordered the construction of a double-track electrified railway connecting Turpan Station and Hotan Station in Xinjiang. When the construction team went to Yaer Township in the west of Turpan, they accidentally found a rammed wall, which was immediately reported to the local cultural relics bureau, which immediately organized an expert group to conduct on-the-spot investigation and excavation. Soon, a huge city appeared before the world. The ancient city is divided into four areas by three streets: east, west and south. The temple area is in the east, where hundreds of pagodas stand in rows. To the west is a residential area, with scattered houses but different sizes. The southeast of the ancient city is the yamen district, the power center of the ancient city. There are yamen, military camps and schools here.

Through a large number of cultural relics and historical research by the expert group, this is the Jiaohe ancient city, the capital of the former Cheshi State, which was founded by the Cheshi in the 5th century BC, and it is the political, cultural, economic and military center of the former Cheshi State. Because it was an important transportation hub in ancient times and the only place where the Silk Road passed, during the Han and Tang Dynasties, the economy here was prosperous and the people were rich. However, in the late Tang Dynasty, due to the fatuity of the emperor and the constant civil war, Jiaohe, as an ancient military fortress, naturally became a battleground for all forces. Under the influence of various forces, car drivers, a weak and once-weak country, seem to be crumbling and vulnerable, and car drivers are struggling to survive under the continuous war. During the Yongle period, it was completely in ruins. Strangely, the buildings here leave neither doors nor windows in the street, and all the doors and windows are opened in narrow alleys.

And because of the special natural conditions here, when people build it, they all dig it down from the platform. With the continuous efforts of generations of car drivers, they formed the "most perfect ruins in the world" underground palace. Everywhere the ancient city goes, there are thick earth walls, and the strong sense of oppression is suffocating. What is even more puzzling is that more than 200 baby tombs have been found in Shu Ya District of the city. According to local villagers, every time it rains, there will be strange baby crying. Why are there so many baby tombs here? Natural death or man-made tragedy?

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There are more than 200 baby tombs in Jiaohe ancient city. Each tomb is rectangular, with a length of 1 m and a width of 0.5 m, arranged neatly and with the same specifications. There is neither a tombstone with a name nor an epitaph about identity records. Why did the ancient car drivers bury the baby in the official area? And why did more than 200 babies die collectively? Archaeologists rummaged through the history books and found no relevant records, so there are different opinions on the cause of the baby tomb. In the face of the collective death of a large number of babies, people can't help but think of the kingdom of monks in the journey to the west. According to the book, when Master Xuanzang went to the Western Regions to learn the scriptures, he passed by the Buddhist country. At that time, the king of the monk kingdom was bewitched by evil ways and wanted to use the hearts and hearts of 1000 boys as medicine to prolong life, so as to live forever.

Jiaohe River is not only the capital of Che kingdom, but also the only way to the western regions. Then the Chechen parliament would not be the prototype of the monk country in the book. In jiaohe city, will there just be a diabolical way of deceiving people with evil words? Through observation and research, it is found that there are boys and girls in the baby tomb in Jiaohe City, which is inconsistent with the statement that only the boy's heart and liver can be used as medicine introduction in the book. Moreover, according to historical records, Che Shifu believes in Buddhism and regards Buddhism as the state religion, while Buddhism forbids killing. Therefore, it can be inferred that in Che Shifu, where Buddhism prevails, it is impossible to have such a large-scale baby abuse and killing incident. Others believe that a large number of collective infant deaths are probably caused by the war.

At that time, the Mongolian army attacked the western regions, burning and looting corpses everywhere, and there were rumors that "the Mongolian army attacked the city and plundered the land, killing the city to kill it." When the Mongolian army attacked Che's country, Che's people fought back, but in the face of the unequal Mongolian fighters, Che's people were defeated again and again. Seeing that Jiaohe City was about to fall, the indignant Cheshi people poisoned their children in order to prevent future generations from being abused and mutilated by the Mongolian army and let them die in a painless sleep. After the child died, he was buried in the yamen district of the city. However, some people have raised objections. According to historical records, although the Mongolian army has the habit of slaughtering cities, there are also regulations in the Mongolian army that women and children cannot be slaughtered. Moreover, there is no record of mass killings of children by Mongolian troops in the history books. So, will Chechen people really kill their children because of a false rumor?

There is also a saying that it is disease. Some experts believe that jiaohe city once had a malignant infectious disease that only targeted at children, and children's resistance was poor. Without good medical care and awareness of prevention and control, children died of large-scale infection. However, there is also a big doubt in this statement, that is, why a large number of collective infant deaths only occurred in jiaohe city, not in the cities around jiaohe city, and there was no record of serious epidemic in the whole history of Xinjiang. So since it was not caused by human factors, were the children in these tombs buried here after natural death?

Funeral custom

In fact, in China, under the religious influence of different times and ethnic groups, the ways to deal with children's corpses are different. Although the handling methods are different, they all reflect the parents' deep love for their children who died young. In the ancient funeral culture, the dead children were not buried in the family cemetery, but were buried side by side near the family residence. At that time, people thought that children who died young could not be counted as family members, so they could not enter the family cemetery. However, children are too young to live independently, so they have to be close to their parents to get their protection. In ancient times, the infant mortality rate was very high. Take the nine emperors who gave birth to children in the Qing Dynasty as an example. These nine emperors gave birth to 195 children, but only half of them really grew up.

You know, this is a royal child. There is the best doctor in the country 12 hour waiting. Even under such conditions, the mortality rate is as high as 50%, not to mention the ordinary poor. This also confirms why there are a large number of concentrated baby tombs in Jiaohe Gu Chenghui. Of course, these are just guesses, and there is no strong data support. Just as everyone was arguing about the cause of the baby's tomb, some local villagers told the archaeological team that hundreds of crying babies were heard here every night, especially in thunderstorms, which was unbearable. What the hell is going on here?

Strange crying

According to the villagers' description, children's cries come from Jiaohe ancient city every night, especially in thunderstorm days. The cries of hundreds of children, like cries from the depths of hell, are both distressing and creepy. Facing the panic of the people, the expert group finally found the clue through careful study. The sand in Jiaohe ancient city is obviously different from the sand outside. The gravel in the city is obviously larger than that outside the city, and its color is blue-gray. Through the detection and analysis of high-density instruments, it is concluded that the magnetic content of this bluish-gray gravel is several times that of ordinary gravel, and this kind of sand with high magnetic content also exists in a large number of baby tombs. Although there is a local saying that this kind of sand can treat rheumatism, it has not been recognized by authoritative departments and has gradually been regarded as a folk prescription.

Later, after testing and analysis, it was found that this kind of sand with extremely high magnetic content did have a physical therapy effect and had a miraculous effect on rheumatism and arthritis. Based on the analysis of this phenomenon, the expert group concluded that the crying of babies in Jiaohe ancient city must be related to these rubble. Under the action of lightning, high-magnetic gravel formed a natural tape recorder to record the cries of children in Jiaohe ancient city at that time. When encountering the same lightning, the recorded crying will be released, so that people can hear the crying through the Millennium. Nowadays, Jiaohe ancient city has become a famous tourist attraction in Turpan, and the sand in the city has become a precious cultural relic, which cannot be touched and trampled, let alone taken away. Jiaohe City is a rammed earth building that embodies the wisdom of ancient craftsmen. Only under the unique climate characteristics of Turpan can they be well preserved, telling us about the rise and fall of the Chechen country across the Millennium.