The Longyou County boasts a time-honored history, and many an ancient stoneware was once excavated here. Its location along the river and back against a hill resembles the environment of Neolithic relics in China.

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  Mausoleums?

If these grottoes were not designed for the living, then is it possible that they were built for the dead? Because the building of the mausoleums only considers the magnificence, but not the living conditions.

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  Drill Ground

However, he has opened a new window to deal with this problem: Since the Longyou Grottoes are such an extraordinary project, then it had to be a special endeavor in a special time and thus we cannot handle the problem and its reasonability with only common sense.

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Whenever the experts raise their theories on the basis of reality, they are simply faced with more questions. But what if the reasonable parts of these theories are combined? Will there then be a satisfactory answer?

For instance, some experts argue that it is possible that the Longyou Grottoes were not built in the same period, but was rather a an ongoing historical project, much like the Great Wall . They may well have been quarries in the beginning; then people later found those quarries useful and then reshaped and decorated them into cave dwellings or storehouses.

Nonetheless, all of the theories have a common doubt: Why is there absolutely no written or oral record about such a project of tremendous grandeur?

The ancient people have left us a great project, but together with innumerable mysteries. Although no reasonable explanation has been made so far, the exploration of it is still being continued.

(Author: Jeff)

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