Posted on 09/04/2010 6:34:44 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
The group of stone statues is located at the worship site of Guizai Mountain, which is 1 kilometer to the south of Tianguangdong Village, Xianglinpu Town, Dao County in Hunan Province, and is part of the Nanling Mountains. A large cache of ancient stone statues outnumbering the Qin Terracotta Warriors was found in the depths of the Nanling Mountains located in Dao County of Yongzhou City... The group of stone statues is located at the worship site of Guizai Mountain, which is 1 kilometer to the south of Tianguangdong Village, Xianglinpu Town, Dao County in Hunan Province, and is part of the Nanling Mountains. The center of Guizai Mountain is 35 kilometers away from King Shun's Tomb at the Jiuyi Mountain. Guizai Mountain gets its name from the nearly 10,000 stone statues in the mountain, since the local people call these stone statues "Guizaizai." ...There are over 5,000 vivid stone statues at the site, covering an area of 15,000 square meters. They are statues of civil officials, military officers, pregnant women and all kinds of common soldiers and their height varies from 30 to 100 centimeters. In addition, over 90 percent of these stone statues were carved before the Qin Dynasty and some were carved in the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties. It is a large integration of ancient Chinese sacrificial culture.
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meh
Fascinating.
Guizai Mountain
Ancient Chinese secret, huh?
Heh! Good one!
Here are two:
I can’t believe it’s the first time I’ve thought of using in after all these years of GGG pings!
Yeah, when we get old, those brainfarts come so close together they sound like a machine gun.
For all we poke fun at her, she was a pioneer in print journalism by women in the United States. Someone has to go first. It is understandable that her unfortunate features pushed her towards a lifetime profession in a man’s world. It is sad that she was unable to overcome her prejudices hastening the end of her career.
That’s a terrible thing to post! MY EYES! MY EYES!!!
She may have overcome her prejudices, but at her age and in her profession, maybe she just didn’t care any more about political correctness.
She’s famous, she’s no doubt wealthy, and maybe she was trying to decide whether to retire or not. Maybe she decided to let someone else decide.
Everyone is beautiful to someone. And who is to say her choice of profession wasn’t hers to make? Speculation can be iffy at best, dangerous at worst.
:’)
The dominant religious belief in China during the reign of the Qin, and, in fact, during much of early imperial China, was focused on the shen (roughly translating to "spirits"), yin ("shadows"), and the realm they were said to live in. The Chinese offered sacrifices in an attempt to contact this other world, which they believed to be parallel to the earthly one. The dead were said to simply have moved from one world to the other. The rituals mentioned, as well as others, served two purposes: to ensure that the dead journeyed and stayed in the other realm, and to receive blessings from the spirit realm. Religious practices were usually held in local shrines and sacred areas, which contained sacrificial altars.
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