Mystery around the ancient stone of Sapa - Vietnam

Located in the Muong Hoa valley, surrounded by high mountains with a height of 2,000m, a large ancient stone beach evokes attention with many rich engravings. There is a pretty circular pattern similar to the Sun, mating, or the parallel lines .

Strange images on the rock in Sapa (Photo: VNN) Two ancient stone beaches are located in the territory of Hau Thao, Su Pan and Ta Van communes, around Muong Hoa stream (Hoa stream) in Muong Hoa valley, away from the town Sapa 7km in the southeast direction.

At Hau Thao, the stones gathered into two large yards:

- A beach is located next to Pho village - a copy of the H'Mong people on the mountain side close to the road - extending down to the stream bed. The number of stone carvings is not much, but they are all big stones, with a length of up to 13m. The engravings are of a dense scale, with complex etched structures.

- The second beach is located on the border of Hau Thao and Lao Chai communes, on the trail from the road through the terraced fields to Hau Chu Ong village, the H'Mong village on the top of the mountain is also called the road to the Cave Cave. This is a large rock field with over 100 stones with many carvings of many types, with unique pictures (only on one tablet).

In the peripheral areas such as the area at the foot of the famous Cau May bridge of Ta Van commune, or to Ta Van and Su Pan communes scattered with a few individual stones, carved with patterns are not much different from above two yards.

In general, the carvings can be attributed to several main groups: The relatively engraved circle resembles the pattern of the Hoa Loc culture period, which can be used to symbolize the sun, male and female mating, pressing strong into the genitals, parallel lines like those of the I Ching, short or can stretch to embrace the stone seem to represent fields, or terraced fields, squares, rectangles The submerged sink is a house or symbol of a residential area . The majority of them bear the imprint of simple thinking and philosophy, derived from pristine people who are deeply attached to life. with nature.

According to some historical and ethnographic documents, the history of population formation in Muong Hoa valley has two stages.

The early period was about 900 years ago, where it used to be a living area of ​​an ancient Tay society, organized and fully designed, developing material and spiritual life to a high level. After that, it is unclear why a large migration occurred, the entire community moved away, leaving the deserted valley. Currently, there are still a few small groups of Tay people living in the southern flat lands of Ban Ho, Thanh Phu and Nam Sai communes.

The late stage is the formation of a modern population class, which the earliest residents were H'Mong people, came here to settle down about 300 years ago. So there are two hypotheses about the origin of rock formations, one belongs to a group of modern multi-ethnic and scattered people; one belongs to an ancient resident group whose knowledge about them is still ambiguous, but it seems that this is a large, socially organized community and has attained a certain level of civilization.

Until now, scientists have not been able to make accurate judgments about the origin and true enemy owner of this rock.