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As you can see, there is absolutely nothing behind everything that seems to be a big difference between the eastern buildings and the European ones. Both of them were based on a metal frame, hidden or not completely hidden in the material of the walls and roof. But maybe there were other secrets as well?
Let's go back to one of the photos given in the last part.
Vietnam, Tonkin, pagoda. End of the 19th century.
Let's pay attention to the meanders. It's hard to say what might be aesthetic in this design. But all doubts disappear immediately if you look at another photo of the same time, but from the other side of the planet.
Egypt, Cairo, music kiosk., 1870-1875
As you can see, the same meanders, only in the structure many thousands of kilometers from Indochina. Where did they come from there? Maybe there really was a single Tartary with a single standard for such structures, or maybe the Turks brought such structures to Egypt from the east. But it’s not about that now. Obviously, both there and there the meander had the same functionality, and was made from the same material. In Europe, in place of such a meander, there was a standard column capital with curls. What material can this meander be made of? Actually, all figurines and other decorative elements that are located on those sections of the roof should be made from it.
Japan, Nagasaki, 19th century.
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What is this mysterious material from which all the outlined elements are made? That's exactly what is mysterious, and the answer is given by the word itself. It turns out that this is an ordinary tin-mercury amalgam, or tain, which is a solid up to + 60C, but at the same time retains (or partially retains) the properties of mercury. And the task is greatly simplified - in the design of a building or structure, it is not necessary to use rolled iron and vessels for mercury.
Thailand, workshop, 19th century.
Those who were in Thailand will not allow lying that there are simply no serious trees from which boards of such width and thickness can be obtained. Maybe this is the very alloy?
Saigon, late 19th century.
Something similar can be seen here. This alloy was widely used in folk art. But not only in the folk.
Pagoda in Hue, Annam province, Vietnam, 2nd half of the 19th century.
On the ground floor of one of the pagodas, there are statues of two birds, the details of which very much resemble those strange details on the ridge of the roofs in such structures.
Vietnam, cave temple complex, 19th century.
Obviously, the functionality of these things is identical - they played the role of vases in European buildings. Probably, it makes sense to examine this pagoda in Hue more carefully, especially since the photos of it are of more or less high quality.
Pagoda in Hue, Annam province, Vietnam, 2nd half of the 19th century.
As you can see, the crossbars in this design are clearly made of metal. The columns are made, if not of other metal, then obviously not of wood. Most likely, geopolymer concrete with reinforcement inside is used here, and the girders have a direct connection with this reinforcement. Nothing new, the same is present in European structures, except that the metal connections are hidden in the vaults and walls of brickwork.
Pagoda in Hue, Annam province, Vietnam, 2nd half of the 19th century.
Very strange lighting fixtures are present inside the pagoda, with no external electrical wiring or switches at all. If the lamps on the columns can still be mistaken for kerosene, then the lamps hanging from the ceiling are clearly electric. But here it is east and the 19th century, before the generators of electricity were very far away.
Pagoda in Hue, Annam province, Vietnam, 2nd half of the 19th century.
Wow … Very interesting bulbs are at the top of the pagoda (earlier this photo was also shown here). Oddly enough, above each lightbulb is attached an artistic piece of metal from which the figures on the roof ridge are made. There is no doubt that this is an ordinary lantern of a single-wire electrical circuit, which are now safely forgotten or forgotten because at one time they were demolished and / or classified - it does not matter. The luminous elements here were ordinary metal flowers placed in a glass flask. The glow was achieved not by heating a metal thread or by burning carbon electrodes, but by the usual release of cold electricity, about which quite a lot and many have already written. Under certain conditions, the release of cold electricity on such colors was accompanied by the release of light, and quite bright,able to illuminate a large volume of the room. And there are a lot of such lanterns on the eastern structures, and not only hanging on the corners of the roofs of palaces and pagodas.
Korea, gate of the temple complex, 19th century.
As you can see, everything is the same. Electric lighting of temple complexes existed long before the penetration of objects of machine energy generation into these places.
Vietnam, Tonkin, 19th century.
As you can see, there were a lot of forgotten electric lamps in the east.
Cambodia, Phnom Penh, late 19th century.
And these are even found on European engravings, where they glow, and very brightly. Surprisingly, in the east they were even made on bamboo poles.
All this, of course, is good, but still, where can there be that same oriental oil, you ask? We return to the 19th century Buryatia again.
Russian Empire, Buryatia, 19th century.
Russian Empire, Buryatia, 19th century.
What are the items in these photos? In modern Buddhist temples, these are ordinary stylized electric lamps for the 220 V network, which were riveted all over the world in China. What was that in the 19th century?
Russian Empire, Buryatia, 19th century.
As you can see, the reserves of the Buryat datsan contain both our large lamps and those very small lamps. A kerosene lamp hanging from the ceiling by its shape clearly rejects the belonging of these vessels to lamps of this type. Then what is it?
Lamps, Tibet, Lhasa, 19th century.
In the annotation, such lamps are designated as "opium smoking lamps." What can you do, it's east, but only for opium? All the same metal objects inside the flask.
Sheli Pagoda, China, 19th century.
Wow … Here it is. As if an Orthodox church was again adapted to the Eastern faith. And it is mined in the same way as in Europe - with the help of an electric field and a special substance, which in Europe is called oil. And what, according to history textbooks, did merchants always carry from east to west with us? Spices and incense. Stop. And what is incense? The word itself speaks for itself. If we discard the second part that everyone understands, then the good remains. So this is what the blessing turned out in the pagodas and not only in them, but everywhere where buildings and structures were equipped with systems for generating atmospheric electricity. In terms of the variety of oils produced, the east has always been ahead of the west, and, as we can see, the west even imported it with might and main. There were even versions that the campaigns of the crusaders against Jerusalem were not caused by any religious feelings,and the banal blocking of the routes of delivery of the very incense through the Middle East, which healed a person in the church during worship (if such a term was at all appropriate at that time). And all of our oil oils used in Orthodox churches are most likely a product of the East, and not olive oil, as modern sources say. As for opium and other potions, which could also be used in churches along with incense, then this is most likely speculation of historians (although I do not presume to deny this fact at all). The use of such substances is too unlike the collective use, regardless of gender and age, and without consequences for the nation. Here, most likely, everything went individually and outside the temples.which healed a person in the temple during worship (if such a term was at all appropriate at that time). And all of our oil oils used in Orthodox churches are most likely a product of the East, and not olive oil, as modern sources say. As for opium and other potions, which could also be used in churches along with incense, then this is most likely speculation of historians (although I do not presume to deny this fact at all). The use of such substances is too unlike the collective use, regardless of gender and age, and without consequences for the nation. Here, most likely, everything went individually and outside the temples.which healed a person in the temple during worship (if such a term was at all appropriate at that time). And all of our oil oils used in Orthodox churches are most likely a product of the East, and not olive oil, as modern sources say. As for opium and other potions, which could also be used in churches along with incense, then this is most likely speculation of historians (although I do not presume to deny this fact at all). The use of such substances is too unlike the collective use, regardless of gender and age, and without consequences for the nation. Here, most likely, everything went individually and outside the temples. As for opium and other potions, which could also be used in churches along with incense, then this is most likely speculation of historians (although I do not presume to deny this fact at all). The use of such substances is too unlike the collective use, regardless of gender and age, and without consequences for the nation. Here, most likely, everything went individually and outside the temples. As for opium and other potions, which could also be used in churches along with incense, then this is most likely speculation of historians (although I do not presume to deny this fact at all). The use of such substances is too unlike the collective use, regardless of gender and age, and without consequences for the nation. Here, most likely, everything went individually and outside the temples.
Use. China, 19th century.
Currently, no one uses real incense in the east. It is difficult to explain the reason for all this, but east is east. It is possible that due to the destruction of installations for generating atmospheric electricity, it makes no sense to use incense. And from all this economy, only incense sticks remained, which are set on fire during services. And at first glance, structures remained completely incomprehensible, if they were preserved at all.
Well, if we imagine that this is all for incense, then the picture in general becomes clearer. The missing puzzles fall into place, and several secrets of the east cease to exist. But do not forget that somewhere very close a different world began, in which the oil was mined somewhat differently.
Vladivostok, 1904
Here the oil has been replaced with incense, and it is as if nothing is happening. But in general, it was only about the east, and here is a topic for a new story.
Author: tech_dancer
