Megalithic Marvels - Antonio Perez: Journey to China's Yangshan Quarry

Episode Date: October 30, 2020

In Part 2 of this 2 part exclusive interview, host Dee Olson interviews explorer Antonio Perez to find out about his experience at China’s mysterious Yangshan quarry. Follow us on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/megalithicmarvels/   Subscribe via email so that you never miss a post at https://megalithicmarvels.com/    Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/megalithicmarvels/    Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/MegMarvels   Music: Monitors by Silent Partner  Atlantis by Audionautix  The views are expressed opinions only. Please use the information found in these videos as a starting point for conducting your own research. All content used is in accordance with section 107 of the "Fair Use" doctrine of the Copyright Act. This video may contain some copyrighted material whose use has not been authorized by the copyright owners. We believe that this educational, and/or or commentary use constitutes a fair use of the copyrighted material (as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. Fair Use notwithstanding we will comply with any copyright owner who wants their material removed or modified.

Well, welcome, everyone. Dee Olson of Megalithic Marbles here to reconstruct the prehistoric past with you. And I'm excited to be interviewing Explorer Antonio Perez. And we're going to be talking about the megaliths and some ancient sites of Asia. Antonio, thank you so much for joining me today. Hey, Dee. What's up, bro? It's a real pleasure to cooperate with you, bro.

Well, let's talk about the Yangshun Quarry site in China because I remember seeing the first pictures of this years ago. And I mean, it almost looks like something out of a sci-fi movie, the way these massive stones are cut and there's knobs on them, kind of like we see at different places in Peru and Egypt. but it's really hard to find photos of these ancient giant cutouts in these rocks aside from Wikipedia. And so when I saw you posting photos and videos of the young Sean Quarry, I was like, this is incredible. And we've shared many of them on the Megalithic Marvels Instagram. So check that out. But tell us a little bit about how hard was it to actually get into China to see this site.

And tell us a little bit about what you can. experience there? I think your page, Melethic Marvels on Instagram, is one of the most accurate when it comes to putting together pieces of a possibly forgetting pass. When it comes to, you know, the archaeological, you know, buildings that we can see today and that they are actually really rare and people don't believe you can find polygonal walls in Greece or polygonal walls in Italy exactly than the ones in Peru or exactly that the ones in Egypt. So why are they? So why not in China? So I went there to make the whole research.

I mean, you go up hill and then you enter in the quarry. Then you see that all the bedrock, it's gone. You see that all the mountain, it's gone. They cut it away. And I mean, and giants, you know, pieces of rocks, they are all gone. Then you walk in this bedrock that has disappeared. And you arrive to the first and finish and biggest piece of rock, which is still attached to the bedrock on the left side.

And it's so big, a little bit upkill after like 200 meters, you will see those beautiful ones that we've been seeing on the internet, which is supposed to be the head of that tablet. There are 14 notches on the rock, 14 teeth. And in the left side, you have the biggest one on large and perfectly cut and shape, which was supposed to be the body of the tablet. I was just going to say it's that the one photograph you have of, I don't know what it's called, but it's the one structure or rock that you see most in photographs of Yen Shun Kori,

where it's literally kind of got knobs near the top, and then it's like rectangular cutouts, literally through the bottom, and you're like inside that, you're crawling through that. And I mean, what was that like? And how did they cut? what do you think they did to cut through rock that thick, that precise? Yeah, at first, you know, I just try to find out like, you know, tool marks all over the place. Like what type of tools did they use here? Why did they cut the rock this way?

Why do they have those notches? Why? And, you know, in my mind, it's still Egypt, is still Peru, is still all this, you know, and these really first moments. By history, it says that it was tried to be. cut 600 years ago and they've been there for 600 years of time erosion when it comes to rain and wind so any toolmark that it's been exposed to 600 years of you know rain and wind it may change a little bit too there are circular shapes that resembled for me as first like this was cut with a

giant machine you know some type of a giant so you know circular so was cut in the pet rock and, you know, those people they were using machines somehow. That was what I first thought and for actually weeks until I really got into researching more and researching more and I started to really think about it, like why and how and, you know, why I do believe that Jansan Quarry do not belong to that ancient prehistoric past we're looking for, forgotten one or whatever, why, and it will be amazing, you know, just to transfer information to people to say like, yes, guys, there is one more side

and it's in China. But it's a fascinating side when you compare like what was happening in Europe during the Middle Ages, like 600 years ago and what the Chinese were able to achieve. Yeah, I do believe that it was done 600 years ago on the 14th century ordered by Jong-Emperor. explain myself why it's because around Nanjing there is nothing ancient that you could transport these frogs not even a thousand kilometers or two thousand kilometers where you will implement this type of rocks or structures into a pyramid or into a tomb or into whatever because the structure was divided in three parts the the base steel body and the head

Exactly like in all mausoleums in China, you saw them. So that's what I know that the Johnson Quarry was, you know, was a place to build a mausoleum in Nanjing and other sites in Nanjid, but made the mausoleum, all the giant stones that they were moved to the mausoleum. I mean, this guy, Junkle, just to point a few of his remarkable achievements and white belief that the quarry belongs to him. He changed the capital of China from Nanjing to Beijing in 15 years, building the forbidden city of China, forbidden city of Beijing,

for anybody that has been in Beijing has been in the forbidden city, has seen the palaces. Just imagine that a guy decided to move the capital from one side to another one. Just within 15 years, he moved the capital using one million workers. Imagine the power of the power of the capital. of an emperor from the Ming Dynasty that can just do like this. And within days or weeks, he has a million workers from all over China

and river banks waiting to craft, carpentry to carve whatever its need for the emperor. This guy was fascinated by giant structures. Another thing that he ordered was a bronze belt. He wanted to have the biggest bronze bell ever. So they achieved to build a belt, made to mold a belt of 60 tons of bronze and it can be visible in forbidden city. Imagine the mold that the workers used to make the belt.

This guy, he has a really big ego. He has a really big ego. And those emperors did believe that there were some kind of gods on earth. His father was already dead. His mausoleo was halfway done. So he said, I'm not happy, you know, with a tablet that you're building for my dad. And I actually wanted at least 10 times bigger, 10 times bigger. And I have photos of everything in the mausoleum and the quarry.

And you can see that the head, the beautiful one from the Instagram, we all see. The work as they started to craft it. So those knots, they were important. perfect, you know, a line, like if you will make a scaffold, for example, from one to another, also one person could step on it and with the axe

picks, this is where they were doing it. All the tool marks resemble a person, so the height of a person, not more, like kind of Chinese, so that they are using the peaks. And there is a moment that they have to use the pigs in a circular way. If you want to work more, you will never work

this way. So the human shape is circular this way you will be able to do more and it was clear they were detaching the the the the the the rock with the hammers and on metal feathers or whatever it is called it you could see the marks one after one in line and jansan quarry's limestone so you could see how they were detaching big pieces of rock one after the other one it was really lavourious the job of many laborious industrious and endless Chinese people there. They said that many people died on the quarry, many were slaves. Actually, the workers of Jongle Emperor achieved to move a rock of 300 tons

that can be visible in Forbidden City as well. It stands as the largest tablet in the world, crafting one solid piece. It's all the way in the stairway up. And it's 300 tons. And the researchers from the Great Brit and that did the research said that the ancient Chinese waited for the winter to have frozen paths. They will add to the frozen pots also greases and oils. And then they will place the giant stocks or giant blocks into giant sledges.

They believe that that 300-ton rock that they move from 40 kilometers away from sight, to forbidden city, no more than 30, 40 men were needed to move the road because of the intelligent technique that they used, waiting for frozen winter paths and using the sledges, applying greases and oilless. It's really smart. And then it's when illogical comes to something actually logical, you know, because you know the power of the guy, he needs a thousand workers. He will put 2,000. He can put 10,000 if he needs. I also found out, when I was there, all the rocks, they had certain, they were, you know, certain inclination, all of them.

The way they were cutting them, always the back part was a little bit higher than the upper part. And then beneath, between the blocks, beneath the rocks, they were leaving those big pieces of rock, like to be able to detach one, the second one, and the third one, and the rock will collapse with inclination into the sledge. also Jansan quarry is down here if you apply the frozen pots with the greases and the oil the giant sledges if you have

bulls if you have manpower you have those giant robs this is why there was there was a notches beneath the rock beneath the rock the rock was supposed to be flat just to you know to to fit into the sledge

and all the notches they were just on the sides on the rock and on the back like if you will rob you know the rock this way to be able to slide it, you know. I wanted to tell you why did I start about explorations.

So once I met this man in Iceland, an old man, his name is Gaird and he lives in that village I talk about of the structure. And he introduced me to that book. I was talking to him because, you know, I think we all

always look, there is something missing. There is something missing. We all we are all looking for something like where are we going we don't know really where we come from there are so many mysteries in the past that they are totally worthy to look for because they are going to bring you

your own freedom and liberty somehow I had learned so much by going to ancient sites and explore this well this man introduced me to this book is called Atlantis and the kingdom of the Neanderthals 100,000 years of lost history and you know if somebody's interested into it he opened my mind into this subject maybe six or seven years ago and when I read wow 100,000 years of loss history and like I do believe I want to say that

my reflections about Jansang Quarry I think are accurate because I want to I want to believe there was there is something missing in our history I want to believe there are structures in earth but I more believe that our earth is way more ancient that they told us. Our history is way more old and beautiful that we have ever been told, you know. And I think it's worth it to find the real truth. That's why I like megalithic marvels, because you're accurate on finding really the right spots and not make this sensationalism that took me all the way to Jansan Quarry,

because that's what it took me to Jansan Quarry. You know, like, yeah, why, who it be that Johnson Quarry belongs to another? I end up there, and I end up fascinated by the real truth. And I recommend to everybody to go for, you know. No, that's well said, and that's what we want is the real truth. And I like that you can go explore this ancient site in China, and sure, it'd be fascinating to learn that it's megalithic, possibly, and 10,000 years old. but we want the truth. And if that's 600 years old, that's what we want.

And that's still amazing history. Antonio, thanks so much for your time today. And I really appreciate it. It's been awesome for me, just getting to know you more. And again, for everybody watching, listening, follow him on Instagram. He's got amazing videos, photos. Thanks, Antonio, so much. And let's do another show in the future, maybe about megaliths in Spain.

How's that sound? Yeah, I will be really cool, yeah.