Detecting ancient rocky beaches dating from 300-400 years in Mu Cang Chai

Yen Bai Provincial Museum has just discovered ancient carved stone dumps scattered in Che Cu Nha, La Pan Tan, Lao Chai and De Xu Phinh communes .

Detecting ancient stone beach in Mu Cang Chai

Through the first survey, the Provincial Museum discovered ancient rock yards in Tang Ghen, Hu Tru Lin and Hong Nhi Pa villages, most concentrated in Tang Ghen village of Lao Chai commune, far from Mu Cang town. Brush 13km toward Lai Chau on the other side of Nam Kim stream.

(Artwork. Phuong Hoa / VNA)

Ancient carved sandstone blocks are scattered, separated from 20m to 10km, with sinking blocks, floating blocks on the slopes about 100-200m from small streams. The researchers determined along the longitudinal axis 1km east-west of the east side of the comfortable mountain range, following the small stream of Mi Hang

Preliminary statistics have about 20 orphaned stones scattered on fields, along roads and around villages. The stones have a mass of 2m3 -50m3. The ancient stones are carved in the open position, standing on the rocks that can be seen throughout the four heavens.

The shape of the rocks consists of a pyramid, a mountain shape, a tortoise shape or a paper that opens before the majestic nature. The carvings on the rocks are mostly terraced fields, crane birds, heavenly horses, astronomical maps, yin and yang yang . with a lot of characters, it can be suspected that it is an ancient script .

According to experts at Yen Bai Museum, the owner of Mu Cang Chai ancient stone carvings is the Mongol people in the 16-17 century, about 300-400 years ago. Especially, there seems to be a connection between the old people and the people today so even though the ancient stone blocks are located on the fields or around the villages, the people do not destroy or deform the carvings.

Currently, Yen Bai Provincial Museum has selected six stone blocks with typical carvings of volume from 2-50m3 of solid stone intact to study.

The study of discovering rocky beaches with ancient indigenous knowledge has opened up the potential for extensive research, is the basis for planners and planners to explore tourism, thereby raising the value of the national landscape. Mu Cang Chai terraced fields.