It is believed that the last Jesuit, a member of the tribunal of mathematicians, died in China in 1805, however, the Jesuit traditions in China were not interrupted. Here's a fresh series of historical and archaeological paradoxes, and it's impressive.
Look into the documents of the era of the Russian-Chinese war of 1900 *, and you will see a strange phenomenon: the Russian troops that entered China in four directions - from Transbaikalia to Vladivostok - did not notice the Great Wall of China! The titanic structure (against such horse hordes from the north and set up) seemed to vanish into thin air! Moreover, the eight world powers, then dividing China - the last colonial reserve - among themselves, did not notice this wall. The greatest artifact, hundreds of times larger than the pyramid of Egypt, has become invisible!
* This war is sometimes called "boxing uprising", but it is a substitution of concepts. There was a full-scale war of the eight largest European powers for a new cut of China; it led Russia to the Russo-Japanese War, the loss of Port Arthur and influence in Manchuria and Korea
Here is a cartoon that very accurately depicts the main political realities of 1900.
Below is a Russian map for 1903. Here you can see the image of the Great Wall of China (northeast of Beijing), and I showed the approximate path of the Russian troops to Beijing with a bold curved line. As you can see, it was unrealistic for the Russian troops not to know about the Wall; the cavalry had to burrow into it or find a gap in the Wall (they are there). But … the Great Wall of China was simply not noticed. It is on the map, but not in the memories.
However, one can recall that the capture of Beijing did not end. The Allied Forces conducted many punitive expeditions - all over China, and … they also did not see any Great Wall. The Internet is full of testimonies of participants - Americans, Russians, British - with maps, documents. And - no Wall!
They did not see the Great Wall before this war, when the Russians were building the southern branch of the CER. They did not see the Great Wall even after - when Port Arthur was given to the Japanese. People saw another "Great Wall" - a moat three meters deep and an earthen rampart * with a willow tree planted on the rampart. This is a real defensive structure that meets the military-tactical thought of the 16th-18th centuries. Russia itself built exactly the same Great Wall in Altai - just in the 18th century. She perfectly helps the shooters to destroy the attacking cavalry, and if the Chinese army decided to stop the Russian troops, our Cossacks would have sipped hard at this wall. But Cixi was afraid to fight with Russia, and the Cossacks jumped over the ditch and the barrage as casually as they crossed streams and hills.
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* Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron: "Initially, the wall was knocked down from clay and earth, and therefore many of its parts have long since disappeared." The description of the Great Wall as a wall of granite and brick refers only to one of its sections - to the east of Kalgan (Chang-chia-kou).
Now the wall stretches for hundreds and hundreds of kilometers, and much more is known about this new, entirely brick wall displayed to tourists. For example, the fact that it was "reconstructed" in 1957 and therefore is not an insurmountable obstacle. In contrast, the city walls of Beijing were made according to the rules, and when in 1900 the Europeans took them by storm, the bones were broken without counting - they could not take them! If it had not been for the paradoxical decision of Lieutenant General N. P. Linevich to drag a cannon onto one of the walls in order to change the sector of fire, the Russians would not have entered Beijing first. And the Great Wall - no, it does not meet anti-siege standards, since it was originally conceived as a fake. The usual remake.
Most likely, this new wall appeared (on the old line) during the time of Mao's sovereignty, when tens of millions of people suddenly became free labor. Yes, the question arises why the witnesses are silent about this. But there is also an answer: the "old" legend says that all the builders of this wall were buried under it.
NOTE. The evidence has already begun to surface; for example, photographs appeared on the Internet showing that during the excavation of a stone tomb of the Ming dynasty, a Swiss women's watch of the mid-20th century was found right below it. Apparently, the imprisoned woman scientist, who was preparing the tomb for the future epoch-making discovery, did not want to condone lies.
SOME MORE WORTHY PROJECTS
The author of the book "17 Years in China" M. Yakovlev, an eyewitness to many events in the 50-60s, says that Mao had a lot of different ideas. So, for example, it was discussed, and not whether to put a roof OVER ALL CHINA. That is, shouldn't China be made an enclosed space. Many benefits were foreseen, for example, the ability to control the climate. It seemed that Mao did not understand how else to dispose of such power. Apparently, at the same time, the hands of prisoners and the Great Chinese Pyramids were made.
There are many, very many of these pyramids, but they are not shown to tourists or scientists, plus, as befits any bulk structure, they are subject to erosion. The photos posted on the Internet from Xi'an clearly show that one of them has already swam. That is why it became necessary to plant the pyramids with these young trees.
Well, and the terracotta army is in great doubt. It is clear that such titanic projects are implemented only on condition of a colossal surplus of resources. The pyramids in Giza could have appeared - there is the convergence point of all Indian and all Levantine trade. The Kremlin could appear in Novgorod, and the Kiev Lavra could appear - there the path "from the Varangians to the Greeks" ran. What path did you take in Xi'an? To Alaska through Chukotka? The scale of this "ethnographic handicraft" is such that there should be at least a customs post on the way from Wall Street to the Tokyo Stock Exchange! Well, or you need to have several thousand prisoners-sculptors, of which no one will be released anyway.
Not so long ago, Chinese scientists analyzed the content of pollen inside these figures and determined the place of their manufacture. It’s a pity that we didn’t compare this data with the map of the sculptors condemned during the Cultural Revolution. Well, a complete list of pollen is good to look at; I would not be surprised if it contains potatoes, corn and tomatoes, moreover, of the selection of the 50s.
This skepticism is justified: the Jesuits have created a whole school in this country, albeit not too dodgy, but active students. Don't you know yet that America and Australia were discovered by the Chinese - 70 years before Columbus and 300 years before Cook? Here is a copy of the map below. It was made in 1763 from the original in 1418 *. The names of the American and Australian tribes are in Chinese transcription. Moreover, the examination confirmed: the paper on which the original was made is authentic, 15th century!
* It turns out that this original was created 350 years earlier than the map of the world that Matteo Ricci drew for the shocked Chinese.
In my opinion, this means one thing: ALL Chinese documents of the 15th century were made at the same time, hardly earlier than the middle of the 18th century. The card was made by a European; this is indicated, for example, by how the north-west of Africa is depicted in detail and how vaguely - Primorye, so close to the Celestial Empire. The distant Caspian is depicted, but the nearby Baikal is not. Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula is shown better than neighboring Indochina, and Canada's St. Lawrence River is clearer than its own Yellow River. California is drawn as an island, which is normal if it is explored from the mainland, from the east, and not normal, if it was sailed to it by the ocean, from the west. I'm not talking about Hudson Bay; the Europeans barely made it there. And if you remember that it was the Jesuits who taught the Chinese cartography, built armillary spheres for them and asked the Pope whether to give the Chinese the Copernican system or not,skepticism increases many times over.
But that's not all; it is difficult for one who has tasted world fame to stop. As a result, it was absolutely certain in China that the very species Homo Sapiens originated in China! An ancient, pre-ancient cave was found, in which layer by layer, for millennia, the human bones of ALL RAS were deposited, and you already understand what the Chinese scientists came to, and what they reported to Chairman Mao. Poor fellows, completely isolated from the scientific achievements of the world, they had no idea that racial differences were formed at the very last and shortest stage of evolution.
Actually, the whole body of facts indicates that China is a VERY YOUNG country. There are practically no stone (not brick, but stone) monuments in it, there are no fossil cities at all (not separate luxurious insanely ancient burials of national heroes, namely, small dirty, but naturalistic fossil cities). And the principles of matriarchy and the late feudal structure of power survived in China until the beginning of the 20th century *. But papal Europe needed another China in the Far East - China, to which even the plenipotentiary Russian ambassador on behalf of the Russian tsar on all fours (kou-to-ritual) took the oath (thereby recognizing Russia's vassal dependence on China). And the best minds of that time made this "other China" - with all the necessary documents.
* For example, the right to declare war between Empress Cixi and Emperor Guangxu was not absolute; Specifically, in the Heilongjian province adjacent to Russia, the local governor Shou Shan declared war on Russia in 1900 - personally and solemnly, without even referring to the will of Beijing. Moreover, the Chinese "governors" of the early 20th century minted their own coins! After thousands of years of the Emperor's autocracy …
However, China is not alone; history and archeology, too often, are the domain of politicians. So, in New Zealand, through parliament, a ban was passed on excavations of the most interesting stone cities, even before the Maori were built. The Maori ban was carried out, apparently related to the "decline" of this now fossil culture.
In another country, archaeologists are accused of the disappearance of the cross from the headdress of a local fossil warrior. And the fact is that the warrior has become a symbol of the glorious past, and the cross denigrates this unclouded past. And a certain number of "wrong" finds (for example, Renaissance beads in burials of the Bronze Age) are not even included in the inventory by archaeologists - such finds, apparently, affect the interests of the scientific elite
It is clear that the Bronze Age could coexist with both the Stone Age and the Renaissance. You know, in 1968, within the city of Moscow, in the village of Troitse-Lykovo, against the background of the Ostankino TV tower, I saw people plowing with a wooden plow - an absolutely unscientific sight. It is considered scientific to place Palestine in Asia Minor, China in the Far East, and Babylon in modern Iraq. Well, it's time to end Babylon too.
