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Thousands of stone statues stay in the dust,
The civilization of the islands has passed away.
Success or failure, rise and fall, turn heads.
The sun and the moon are still there, with ups and downs.
How far is it?
Easter Island(Easter Island), also known as Rapa Nui Island(Rapa Nui), is an island in the South Pacific. Today it belongs to Chile, but it is still 3,700 kilometers away from the westernmost point of the South American continent. What is the concept? The straight-line distance from Harbin to Guangzhou is only 3,000 kilometers.
It is also the most isolated island, 2075 kilometers away from the nearest settled Pitcairn Islands, that is, the distance from Beijing to Guangzhou.
For the Chinese people, a trip to Easter Island requires at least two transfers and at least more than 30 hours on the plane. Moreover, in order to control the flow of people, Only one flight from Santiago, the capital of Chile, is accepted on the island every day. This ticket must be purchased several months in advance. Coupled with the various visa procedures, all Chinese tourists who are “undecided” will give up on their own.
True, toss, this is a more reasonable flight route for a Chinese tourist
It should be noted that if you have a U.S. visa for more than half a year, you can enter Chile without a visa. Taking advantage of my one-year study tour in the United States, I was fortunate to seize the opportunity to see the wonders of the island.
Unsolvable mystery
Easter Island is actually very small, only 163.6 square kilometers, less than two-fifths of the Haidian District of Beijing.
The entire Easter Island has now become a national park. Tickets are 54,000 pesos (approximately 480 yuan), valid for up to two weeks. Rent a car and you can travel the whole island in less than three days. Today, there are about 6,000 residents on the island, and more than half are of Rapa Nui descent.
As for the history of the enigmatic Easter Island, scholars in various fields have not yet come to firm conclusions, and most of them are still unresolved speculations.
According to the results of current linguistic and biological research, the earliest Polynesians who are famous for their superb navigation skills came to Easter Island in a canoe. It is estimated that the time is between 300 and 1200 AD, corresponding to China’s Wei Jin to Song Dynasty.
The Austronesian peoples put science and technology on the sea, and it spreads to the entire Pacific Ocean in a simple but practical way. Easter may be the furthest among them. One of the endpoints
The same thing that cannot be deciphered is Lang, who was discovered on the island in the 1860s.Grunge wood board (Rongorongo). There are some words engraved on it, and archaeologists guess it is Gulapanui (a Polynesian language). Later, Christian missionaries destroyed a large number of Langerange planks, and now only 24 are left.
According to the analysis of Hungarian linguists, there are 175 characters on the Langrangian planks that exactly match the Indus Valley characters from 2500 BC. So, what was the civilization on the island for a long time before the Polynesians came to Easter Island? Source: imaginaisladepascua.com
Years of aphasia, only stone can speak
The symbol of Easter Island is nearly 900 Moais scattered all over the island (Moai, the “stone statue” Meaning). Most of the stone statues are 7 to 10 meters high and weigh 20 to 90 tons, with the heaviest being 200 tons. They were mainly manufactured between about 1100 and 1600. Most of the stone statues seen today face the land and back to the sea.
Archaeologists are still unable to determine what these stone statues represent. They only speculate that they may symbolize the dead tribal chiefs or family ancestors. They are made by political missions to establish great men and show loyalty, and they also look forward to the leaders. The soul blesses the people of the world to eat and drink well, and to have long-term stability.
The transportation and erection of stone statues is another technical task that consumes resources and manpower. There is a kind on the island called Hau Hau (Hauhau) tree can be used to make ropes; there is also a large palm tree, which is an excellent material for making transportation tools.
In previous years, archaeological discoveries showed that in addition to the large heads exposed on the ground, some stone statues have huge bodies hidden underground. Source: Easter Island Statue Project, Jessica Wolf, UCLA
The stone statues on the island mainly have the following highlights:
1. Tahai
Located on the western coast of the island, very close to the commercial area, it is a great place to watch the sunset.
Tahai is characterized by a single stone statue with a red hat on its head. It is also the only stone statue on the island with white and eyeballs painted. The finishing touch is lifelike.
but every evening, the sky on the west side of the island is very cloudy and sunset is rare. Tahai was swallowed by the shot.
2. Ahu Akivi
Located deep in the west of the island. There are seven stone statues in this group. The special feature is that they are the only stone statues facing the sea on the island. Therefore, they are also given other meanings: It is said that they symbolize seven warriors who are going to explore the sea.
The stone statue itself has no bright spots. It is recommended to arrange a visit in the afternoon.This kind of special effect of strong light on the stage is extremely conducive to taking pictures.
This is because it faces the sea, so spring flowers are blooming.
3. Anakena
Located in the northeastern part of the island, there is a palm grove near by the sea.
This row of stone statues was eroded by the sea breeze, so there is a feeling of broken walls. There is also a village ruins not far away.
4. Tongariki
Located in the east of the island, it is a great place to watch the sunrise. This group of stone statues is large in number and large, so it looks particularly mighty and magnificent.
Located on an empty grass by the sea, there are 15 buildings in total, which can be called the landmarks of Easter Island.
You can see this view from a nearby quarry.
The volume ratio of a man to the Tongariki stone statue. Source: bradshawfoundation.com
5. Rano Raraku(quarry)
Located near Tongariki, it is the most exciting area on Easter Island, called the quarry. It is actually a big mountain. The Rapa Nui quarried and carved stones on the mountain, and finally transported the stone statues to other places on the island.
The stone statues all over the mountains are of different shapes and sizes. It is said that more than half of the stone statues on the island are in quarries.
Behind us is an unsuccessful carved stone statue still embedded in the mountain. The quarry has a large number of unfinished stone statues in various stages of carving.
The stone statues in the quarry are so close that they are within reach.
The stone statue has a rich expression and a blue sky and white cloudsIn the middle of the green grass and distant sea, as if in an illusion, it is easy to reach an intracranial orgasm. The visit time can be arranged for three hours.
This is the back mountain of the quarry. It is said that people dug a large pit in the middle of the valley in search of stone materials. Now it is covered with reeds. , Konggu is quiet.
In fact, in addition to the above highlights, there are many places on the island with connotative stone statues. They have been corroded by sea breeze and rain for hundreds of years and have witnessed the prosperity of human civilization. And shocking savage absurdity. Listen, they are talking about it.
Fate that can’t escape? -Splurge and bullying
About Easter Island, the unsolved mystery full of gimmicks has earned enough attention, it is enough to place the curiosity of countless people for generations, including the imagination of extraterrestrial civilization, prehistoric civilization, Mu continent, etc. One possibility remains.
But to the world today, the determined part of Easter Island’s history is more like an accusation or warning record.
First crime: profligacy
According to the analysis of the geology and botany of Easter Island, when the Polynesians first arrived, the island was a subtropical broad-leaved forest with excellent natural ecology. But as the population grows, people begin to consume resources uncontrollably. Especially during the period when stone statues were concentrated, people fell a lot of trees in order to open plantations, make boats for fishing, transport and erect stone statues.
About 1200, the forest began to disappear; about 1400, all palm trees became extinct. People have no raw materials to make ships, and food on the island has begun to be scarce.
People’s short-sightedness and profligacy against selfThe body caused irreversible damage. In order to snatch limited resources, different tribes can only fight each other. Archaeological evidence shows that in order to survive, the inhabitants of the island even began to eat human flesh.
In the war, each tribe takes pride in tearing down each other’s stone statues or cutting off the head of the other tribe’s stone statues.
Many stone statues have even been pushed into the sea. When Western explorers discovered Easter Island, there was not a single stone statue standing on the island.
On Easter Day in 1722, Dutch explorers discovered Easter Island. There were only 2,000 people left on the island, about one-tenth of the population during its heyday. It can be seen that the war on the island was extremely fierce. The ecological conditions on the island at that time were even more horrible: only sparse shrubs no higher than three meters were left, the land was barren, and the wild animals only left rats and a small lizard, making the scene desolate.
In fact, it is precisely because of the excessive fanatical construction of stone statues by the Rapa Nui that they squandered a large amount of natural resources and manpower, leading to unsustainable normal life. Therefore, any form of religious and spiritual belief activities must be built on a sufficient material basis.
Second crime: bullying
The plundering of the weak seems to be human nature.Since the Western colonists discovered Easter Island in 1722, they have done utter conscience to the Rapa Nui in the following time.
First, the religious invasion burned down the original cultural relics on the island; then, the residents of the island were arrested and sold as slaves, and the smallpox virus was indirectly introduced into the island, causing a large number of Rapa Nui to die. By 1877, there were only 111 Rapa Nui on the island.
A portrait of a Rapa Nui male on the island in 1774. Source: bradshawfoundation.com
The absurdity of mankind is that for the purpose of grabbing resources or benefits, powerful populations will oppress, plunder, and kill weak groups until their civilization is completely wiped out, and then stigmatize the weak or dead, rationalize the strong or triumph To construct the so-called “history” with a narrative that is conducive to the strong.
In the era of great voyages, Western colonists who regarded themselves as higher civilizations carried out a more barbaric “cleansing” of many so-called low-level and barbaric civilizations. The biggest tragedy was the extinction of the Native Indians on North American soil.
In contrast to Easter Island, this isolated island still cannot avoid the law of the weak and the strong, which is really sad.
In fact, the fate of Easter Island and the Rapa Nui reflects the plight of the earth and the fate of mankind. It poses two essential questions to people:
1. How to deal with the relationship between humans and natural ecology? How to consume natural resources sustainably? How to reasonably allocate resources and manpower to religious, ideological, and political activities?
2. How to treat other races or civilizations? In the context of fighting for limited resources, can the strong not kill the weak?
Although the tragedy of “squandering and bullying” is still out of sight of the stone statueIt keeps happening on this planet, but they seem to prophesy to the world with a firm expression: mankind will find a way out.
This article is from WeChat official account:Ring planetary ball (ID: huanxingxingqiu)< span class = "text-remarks">, of: a Liang Su, reviewer: Sun green