The “Atlantis of China” is a term in some cases used to depict submerged ruins in Qiandao Lake in Zhejiang Region, Eastern China. These remains are not connected with the legendary Atlantis but instead address old lowered structures. They are accepted to be the remainders of an old city or settlement from quite a while back.
The submerged remains in Qiandao Lake are entrancing to archeologists and antiquarians since they offer a brief look into a piece of history that was lowered because of the production of the lake after the development of the Xin’an Waterway Hydroelectric Dam in 1959. This lowered city gives important bits of knowledge into the design and day to day existence of individuals who lived there during old times.
Somewhere down in Qiandao Lake, between China’s Five Lion Mountains, lie the strange remains of two old urban communities, tracing all the way back to the Han and Tang traditions. Known as the ‘Atlantis of China,’ the spot is generally protected unblemished even after hundreds of years.
Qiandao Lake, otherwise called Thousand Island Lake, is a rambling group of new water, covering 573 sq. km. The name comes from the way that there are north of 1,000 islands in the lake.
The submerged city of Shicheng is a brilliant, puzzling time container of Magnificent China. Shi Cheng – and that implies Lion City in Mandarin – was deliberately overwhelmed in 1959 to clear a path for the Xin’an Dam and its connecting hydroelectric station.
This was a monstrous government project that constrained 300,000 individuals to migrate their homes as in excess of 1,300 towns and a huge number of sections of land of farmland were overwhelmed and lowered. Notwithstanding the immediate effect on the neighborhood occupants, two antiquated urban communities situated in the valley at the foot of the mountain were additionally lowered into the lake.
The city was “rediscovered” in 2001 when the Chinese government coordinated an undertaking to see what could survive from the lost city.
The early jumpers viewed Shi Cheng as to a great extent unblemished, with a significant number of the designs, carvings, watchman lions, curves actually protected. There have been endeavors to plan and report Shi Cheng by jumpers and scientists, as well as investigating defensive measures to forestall harm to it. In January of 2011, the urban communities were proclaimed authentic relics under the assurance of the Zhejiang Region.
Shi Cheng was once the focal point of governmental issues and financial matters in the eastern provision of Zhejiang. It is accepted the city of Shi Cheng was worked during the Tang Line in 621 Promotion. In view of records of the locale’s set of experiences, it is believed to be very huge, perhaps more than 60 football fields, and highlighting 265 curves all through the city.
Shi Cheng was additionally strange in that it was developed with 5 city doors and pinnacles, rather than the standard of 4. The city of He Cheng is accepted to go back much further to the Han Dong tradition (25 – 200 Promotion).
The city accomplished the peak of its greatness from 1368-1644 when the Ming tradition managed China. The current walls of the city date to the sixteenth hundred years.
In 2014, after the specialists understood that the city was unblemished underneath water, they permitted vacationers to visit the region by plunging. Guests can savor the 1,400-year-old compositional stands amazed at the plunging site. Be that as it may, just master jumpers are permitted.
Today, high level jumpers can get up near the remains with plunge administrators, for example, Enormous Blue and Zi Ao Jumping Club, which run standard jumps among April and November. Since the remains presently can’t seem to be completely planned, the jump is as yet thought of “Exploratory”.
