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As mentioned earlier, the second-class bus driver, who did not speak English but was very responsible, sent Nalan Shiqi to Teotihuacan, a scenic spot in the Pyramid of the Sun, where the so-called green space is almost entirely planted with cactus-like plants. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info + ◆

The Pyramid of the Sun and Moon is in a scenic area, and the tour takes about 2-3 hours. Note that Mexico has a dry climate, and when you climb the pyramids, you can climb the pyramids under the scorching sun, and although there are many small traders and vendors in the scenic area, they only sell souvenirs, and only drinks are sold at the entrance. So be sure to buy two bottles of water before entering the tour, otherwise you will climb halfway to the pyramid like a cloud before going back to buy water.

Speaking of which, water here is expensive. A 600ml bottle of purified water costs 15 pesos, which is 7-10 yuan (the exchange rate of the renminbi has fluctuated a lot recently), while a 600ml bottle of sports drink costs 25 pesos. However, this kind of stall is not expensive, and the price of a T-shirt is only 30 pesos, which is 15-20 yuan, which is cheaper than in China!

Tickets for the Pyramids of the Sun and Moon are N35, while cameras are not added (there is also such a ridiculous rule in India). Then the invincible rabbit on the cloud fall belt does not collect money? Ha. This car with a Volkswagen and two Mercedes logos looks awesome.

The cactus is more than one person tall. So, parks and houses in Mexico don't need to be fenced off at all, but only need to be planted with a circle of cacti. The sun shines on the ground through its yellow leaves, as if to represent the hope that this country has nurtured.

Around the pyramids, there are many such three- or four-story platforms. There are stone stairs to climb all around. I looked through some historical materials and couldn't find out what this was for. Yunluo guessed that when the boss held a major commemorative event on the pyramid, maybe the small boss should stand on these platforms and command the public, hehe. Even in ancient civilizations, the hierarchy was very strict.

A family of 3 who came to visit. I don't know which country it is. A group of local students came to visit the site. I don't know if it counts as patriotic education in Mexico. This kid is so tall. The platform at the back is higher. The ladder on this high platform is quite steep.

It's not much to go up. But when they came down, all the people had to move sideways like crabs. On this high platform. Didn't see anything special, except for this humanoid statue. There is another ruined pyramid in the back...... The scene in front of him reminded Nalan Shiqi of the Great Wall of Jiankou.

The Teotihuacán civilization began around 200 BC as an ancient Indian civilization that was born after the demise of the Olmec civilization and was about the same time as the Mayan civilization. The origins of the Theotihuakans remain a mystery that has not yet been clarified, and no one has been able to confirm that the civilization was ever written and documented. In addition to the fact that Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi are aware of the existence of this civilization today, in addition to the huge ruins they left behind to analyze, some other surrounding civilizations of their time mentioned about the Theotihuakans in their texts or paintings, which is also another key reference.

This map is supposed to be a map of the ancient city of Teotihuacán. Here it is necessary to tell a little about this history. The civilization of Mexico is very different from that of the Chinese mononation (the Chinese nation) throughout history: there have been countless civilizations in the land of Mexico. And the history of Mexico. The history of revolutions from one civilization to another. Due to the succession and discontinuity of civilizations, the details of those civilizations that disappeared were not fully recorded, so that the entire history of Mexico appeared lost and mysterious.

All visitors need to walk from this avenue to the pyramids. The avenue is called theavenueofthedead. This is the avenue in the ancient city of Teotihuacán and the central line of the city. It is so named because when the Spaniards came here, they saw the pyramids. Because the Spaniards had seen the pyramids of ancient Egypt and thought that all the pyramids were mausoleums, they named the avenue in the pyramid complex. In fact, the pyramids of the Indians were not mausoleums. It is used for rituals or divination.

Of course, this is just one way of saying this. Another theory is that the Aztecs here called this place the "Road of the Dead".

Day osanjuan-sanjuan (tripodoo?) It looks like pinyin, and Yunluo thought it was funny, so he took a photo. However, it can be a bit of a struggle to find out what this means. It's Spanish. But typing the word into Spanish on Wikipedia shows dozens of disambiguations, even in Mexico, which have three meanings. It's awesome. One of the meanings that can be understood is a river called the Three Juan. in the Mexican Basin.

Haha, this is one of the few streams of water that clouds have captured in dry Mexico, maybe this is the famous Three Juans River?!

The Theotihuacans appeared in central Mexico around 200 BC and built a city with a population of about 50,000 between 150 BC. It can be said to be the earliest city-level settlement in the entire Americas.

During this period, they established a rudimentary-scale city centered on the north-south "Road of the Dead" (the central axis of the ruins of Theotivacan), with buildings mainly pyramids and temples, and then the city gradually grew and various buildings for civilian use were completed.

The development of the city and civilization reached its peak in 450, when the population of Theotihuacan was estimated to be between 125,000 and 200,000 people, according to the size of the ruins, with huge architecture, elaborate frescoes and other cultural achievements.

But it declined between 650 and 750 for unknown reasons. Finally approaching the Pyramid of the Sun. A sense of desolation.

The Pyramid of the Sun (Spanish: pirá dedelsol), is the largest structure in the ruins of Teotihuacán, Mexico, and one of the largest in Central America. It is located on the east side of the middle section of the "Road of the Dead", opposite the Pyramid of the Moon (Spanish: pirá dedela) and is part of the monumental complex at the heart of the ruins of Teotihuacan.

The name Pyramid of the Sun was given when archaeologists visited the group of ruins after the Aztecs disappeared from the Teotihuacan civilization, as it is not known what the Teotihuacáns named the pyramids. It was built in two phases. The first phase was built around 100 years ago and expanded the pyramid to near its current size; After the completion of the second stage, the base of the Pyramid of the Sun will be about 225 meters and the height will be 64 meters. The second phase also saw the construction of an altar on top of the tower, but it is no longer visible.

The staircase to the top of the Pyramid of the Sun. The stairs are very steep. In some places, there is a 60-degree angle, which is why there is a situation in the previous album where people straddle sideways.

The Pyramid of the Sun is architecturally magnificent. It is trapezoidal, sitting east and facing west, and there are hundreds of steps in front to the top. The base of the tower is 225 meters long, 222 meters wide, 66 meters high, with a total of 5 floors and a volume of 1 million cubic meters. It is roughly the same as the pyramid of Khufu in Egypt, which is basically a square and also faces exactly four directions: south, east, west, and west. The four sides of the tower are also equilateral triangles with the word "gold", and the ratio of the bottom edge to the height of the tower is just equal to the ratio of the circumference to the radius.

The top of the pyramid was built in the form of a temple-like structure in the early 3rd century, around the same time as the temple of Quetzalcoatl. According to the research of Spanish historians in the 18th century, the temple was originally a splendid and tall statue of the sun god standing in the center of the altar, facing the east, dignified and solemn. He wore countless ornaments of gold, silver, and precious stones on his chest, when the sun shone into the temple. The dazzling light shining all around the body makes people awe-inspired. Pedrodosal found the skeletons in 1925 in the 4 corners of the temple foundation, which he believed was the place where the murder was carried out in the temple to the sun god.

The inside of the pyramid is made of earth and sand, and the steps from the bottom to the top are inlaid with huge stone slabs carved with colorful patterns. Interestingly, the surface of the pyramid is not completely flat. Rather, it was deliberately evenly inlaid with a number of protruding stones, which remained on the surface of the pyramid after years of wind and rain.

Climb to the top of the Pyramid of the Sun and see the land of Central America.

The orientation of this pyramid may have some anthropological importance. The Pyramid of the Sun is slightly northwest of the sunset horizon on April 29 and August 12, which are the days of the Theotivan divination calendar year. The date of August 12 is important because it marks the beginning of the Mayan long-term cumulative calendar. In addition to this, there are many important astronomical astrological activities that can be observed at this location of the pyramids. This information was important for both the agricultural and religious systems of ancient societies.

The pyramids are also closely associated with astronomy: the rays of Sirius, passing through the airflow channels on the south wall, can reach the heads of the dead who sleep in the upper halls; The light of the North Star, passing through the airflow channel on the north wall, can reach the lower hall. There are 91 steps on one side of the tower, which lead to the top of the tower. There are a total of 364 levels on all sides, plus the platform at the top of the tower, no more, no less, 365 levels, which is exactly the number of days in a year. The staircase of the nine-story tower base is further divided into 18 sections. This is again exactly the number of months of the year in the Mayan calendar.

From the Pyramid of the Sun, you can see the Pyramid of the Moon, surrounded by the Cerrogordo Mountains. Since the Pyramid of the Sun is much taller, the Pyramid of the Moon appears small and cute.

Descend from the Pyramid of the Sun and continue along the Road of the Dead, ending at the Temple of the Moon. There are several translations of theavenueofthedead in Chinese, and "Road of the Dead" is a translation of the American West. And "Huangquan Avenue" is a very Chinese translation. In fact, it is not impossible to translate it as "a dead end".

The Road of the Dead is 4 kilometers long and 45 meters wide, running through the city from north to south. A man named Hugh Halreston claimed that he had found a unit of measurement in Teohuacán that fit all of its buildings and streets. The length of the unit was calculated using an electronic computer to be 1059 meters. For example, Teotihuacán's Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the Pyramid of the Moon, and the Pyramid of the Sun are 21, 42, and 63 "units" in height, respectively, with a ratio of 1:2:3. Harreston used "units" to measure the ruins of gods and pyramids on either side of the Road of the Dead, and found an even more striking circumstance, the distance of these ruins on the Road of the Dead, which happened to represent the orbital data of the planets in the solar system.

In the ruins of the city temple, the distance between the Earth and the Sun is 96 "units", Mercury is 36, Venus is 72, and Mars is 144. Behind the "castle" there is a canal dug by the Teotihuacans, and the central axis of the "Canal Fort" is 288 "units", which is exactly the distance of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

At 520 "units" of the axis there is the ruins of an unnamed temple, which corresponds to the distance from the Sun to Jupiter. After another 945 "units", there is another temple site, which is the distance from Saturn to the Sun, and another 1845 "units" will be to the center of the Moon Pyramid, the end of the Road of the Dead, which is precisely the orbital data of Uranus.

If you extend the road of the dead in a straight line, you will reach the top of Mount Cerovagoto, where there is a small temple and a tower, and the foundations are still there.

The distances are 2,880 and 3,780 "units", respectively, which is exactly the distance between the orbits of Neptune and Pluto. In the prehistoric era of chaos, which invisible hand pointed out all this for the people who built Teotihuacan?

During the construction of the pyramids, lime and gypsum were imported into Teotihuacan from the surrounding area as raw materials for the brightly colored murals created by the Teotihuacans. However, due to their age, these frescoes and plasters are completely invisible, and only a few images on the sides of the pyramid are thought to be part of the pyramidal frescoes, including the head of a jaguar, its claws, a star and a snake.

The fresco pictured above was discovered during an archaeological mission in 1963 as part of a building called 'thepumaplex' consisting of a platform and a temple. It was once widely present on the surfaces of buildings on both sides of the Road of the Dead. Above is an animal figure resembling a jaguar. (To be continued.)

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