Walking into the Mysterious Yanqing Cliff Dwellings

The story of pygmy is an important part of western legends. The movie The Lord and Rings has presented us two kinds of dwarfs: one is the Dwarf with bad temper and the other is the Hobbits with mild manner. But could it be the truth that the pygmies exist in real world? The answer is almost certainly “yes”. In middle Africa lives a dwarf tribe called “Pygmy”. The average height of men there is 130cm and that of women is only 110 cm.

In China, there are few legend about dwarfs seems, but the discovery of Ancient Yanqing Cliff Dwellings makes archaeologists believe that there was a ancient dwarf tribe some time long before. The Ancient Cliff Dwellings is located at the northwestern mountainous area of Yanqing County in Beijing. There are totally 117 caves with various shapes and sizes — single rooms, suites and more complicated structure. The caves are provided with stone candlesticks, stone stove, all are perfectly arranged; chimneys, air vent and the trail of doorframe can be seen clearly.

People have no ideas The mountain which blocked in front of the caves collapsed and then reveals these stone dwellings. It is one of the most largest ancient cave relic discovered so far.