Rumors about ghosts appearing inside this cave will also be resolved after discovering more than 600 sets of remains below.
About 40km north of the Great Wall of China in Beijing, China, there is a mountain range running east-west, in Yanqing district.
According to a local old man, if you go along this road for a while, you will see a “yamen” . Yamen are the caves of ancient people , but now it has been completely abandoned, sometimes people even see ghosts appearing inside.
Yamen are the caves of ancient people.
“Ghost Yamen ” is rumored by many to be an old house located on a cliff , it looks more like a cave than a house. This place was once inhabited by ancient Chinese people for a long time, also known as ” China’s first labyrinth”.
When you come to this place and look around, you will see stone walls standing up on all 3 sides of the gorge, there are many large and small squares, the largest is about 20 meters, allowing people to bend down and enter. inside.
An entrance inside yamen.
In this “yamen”, some are single rooms, some are long suites, even 3 bedrooms are divided into upper and lower floors, simulating a penthouse. According to experts’ speculation, this location may be a gathering place or to worship the owner of the cave. Locals call it “Guantangzi”.
Inside these caves are connected to each other.
According to statistics, the entire mountain here is densely covered with 147 large and small caves. Inside these caves are interconnected and constantly changing, forming a giant labyrinth. It can be said that these “yamen” are houses, fully equipped with fireplaces, stoves, beds…
This place is often seen flickering fires of unknown origin under the cliffs.
The reason the locals call this place “Ghost Yamen” , is because they often see flames flickering of unknown origin under the cliffs. In fact, these strange fires are caused by phosphorus burning in the air. But phosphorus is normally found in human and animal bones, and this reaction is only produced under certain natural conditions. Therefore, these strange flames often appear in cemeteries, but now it appears here. People began to suspect that there was an ancient tomb underground.
There are more than 600 human skeletons discovered here.
After making many such theories, people began to excavate at the foot of the cliff. Within days, more than 600 human skeletons were discovered, all facing northeast. So who are these skeletons, what does it have to do with this cave on the cliff.
After a period of research, it was determined that these skeletons were all ancient people who lived about 1,000 years ago. Based on the utensils buried with them, they are probably Han people living in the Central Plains, belonging to a certain ethnic group.
These skeletons are all ancient people who lived about 1,000 years ago.
Following that, the researchers looked through the documents and discovered that more than 1,000 years ago, in the middle and late Tang Dynasty, there was a Xi ethnic group who came to the vicinity of Guizhou for a long time. Guizhou today is Yanqing County, in Beijing. So what does this Xi ethnic group have to do with the house on the cliff?
There are more than 600 skeletons facing northeast.
After the decline of the Xi tribe, many people sought to hide in the mountains of Dien Khanh. In the past, the Xi people were nomads, they lived in tents and did not know how to build a house. With this rocky terrain, they couldn’t set up many tents, so their leader devised a way to cut the cliffs and create caves to live in.
This way of life lasted for decades, after people died, they were all buried under the nearby cliffs. There are more than 600 skeletons facing northeast, this may be because they want to head towards their homeland.