The ancient towers: like the God of the earth fortress

In the Northwest Sichuan Plateau high mountains and lofty hills, the most eye-catching landscape, perhaps not too high in the valley between the place watchtower. The shapes of these complete with slate and stone built layers of tired, octagonal, six corners, four corners...... Some dozens of meters high, in the distribution of the most dense, is like a stone to stone forest at the blue sky, spectacular. However, for thousands of years in towers above the layers of mystery, but always not be disclosed.

The earliest ancient towers when the origin? Almost every new stone towers in Western Sichuan plateau people, have put forward the basic problem.

Danba Tibetan Village

According to the ancient literature, about the high stone towers of the earliest records in the "Han" in the "Hanxi Nan Yi biography Nanban", then living in Wenshan Prefecture (todaySichuanThe western plateau) indigenous peoples (including six seven nine Di Qiang Yi) "is the mountain Juzhi, tired stone chamber, high to more than 10 feet, as a cage". Scholars generally think, the natives called "the cage" stone, probably today we see the first prototype. Write "after the Han Dynasty" by Fan Ye during the northern and Southern Dynasties from the Han people, not far away, he according to various historical data should be more truly reflect the situation of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Sichuan Plateau these stone towers probably the earliest appeared in the Eastern Han Dynasty, there is documentary evidence.

The magnificent castle

Later, in "Sui Shu's biography": in similar records, said the main ethnic of country is the Han Dynasty "southwest", their homes are "base stone for the nest and house", to be more than ten feet high, the minimum is five or six feet, the towers of internal is described in more detail: "each Zhang Yu, with the wooden spacer, the base of the three or four step, the nest above the two or three step, like the Buddha, to open the door from the inside on the lower level, through the night, will be closed, to prevent thieves". "Sui Shu" is a part of the Tang Dynasty from the hand of History Museum, a collection of time to see the former generation for some of the most precious historical materials. From the book, these details and see today are very similar.

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