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Lion city still retains its stable position even after being submerged under Lake Qiandao since 1959.
In February
2013, exquisite pictures were published by the Chinese National
Geographic Magazine showing Shicheng City (Lion City). The city is
nearly 1339 years of age and located in Zhejiang Province, East China.
In 1959, the city was submerged under Lake Qiandao so that the Xin’an
River Hydropower Station could be constructed.
The city was
named ‘time capsule’ by international archeologists. It has been able to
maintain its stable condition since it’s shielded from erosion by rain,
wind and sun. This makes it a virtual time vessel. As seen from the
pictures, shicheng city walls, stairs, ancient houses, wooden beams and
memorial arches are still in the same condition they were a thousand
years ago.
The city was
named after Wu Shi Mountain (Five Lion Mountain) and was at one time the
center of economics, politics and culture of the Sui’an County. Sui’an
county history writes that there was a total of 265 arches submerged
under the Qiandao lake. Some of this have the fine Jie Xiao Memorial
Arch carvings still preserved.
The restored
map of the city shows five gates in all directions. Each of the city
gates has a city gate tower and every corner of the Lion city is
connected by six streets. Stone roads that are typical in this city have
been tidily paved with pebbles and flagstone
Archaeologists
who rediscovered Shicheng (Lion City) dubbed it as “Atlantis
rediscovered’. The city location is now about 26-40 meters (85 -131
feet) beneath Qiandao Lake. The valley had to be submerged in water so
that a dam could be constructed. Scattered around the lake are some
large and small islands that are man-made. Shicheng city is
approximately 62 football fields in size.
According to Our World,
“It was decided to make an underwater city accessible to tourists.
Special submarine height of 3.8 meters and a length of 23 meters with a
capacity of 48 passengers, was built over six million U.S. dollars to
bring everyone in the underwater kingdom, but it was unsuccessful”
According to Wikipedia “Big
Blue dive operator based in Shanghai, runs weekend trips twice a month
throughout the year to the city and has started to uncover parts of the
lost city.”
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