The legend of the Maya Empire

Like the 5,000-year-old history of civilization in China today, Maya culture is one of the world's most important ancient cultures and one of the most important in the Americas.

It's the pride of the American people! According to the examination, the Americas were a reckless wilderness and jungle with no ancient human footprint.

About 30,000 years ago, around 30,000 years ago, some ethnic Mongolian Asians from the north-eastern corner of Asia passed through the “corridor” of ice in the middle of the Bering Strait, reaching Alaska in the Americas and spreading from north to south throughout the Americas to become the masters of the Americas.

At the end of the 15th century, when the explorer Columbus discovered the American continent, the local population was called Indians.

The Mayans are an Indian and settled in today ' s Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras around 1,000 B.C., living in a primitive communal system, with wisdom and hands to create a maze culture.

The fourth to ninth centuries A.D.

was a period of Mayan culture.

The Maya are hard-working farmers.

They produce machetes made of sharp wooden rods and quarries, they burn grass in the forest, they plant them in wasteland, and they cultivate crops such as maize, tomatoes, pumpkins, beans, potatoes, cocoa, tobacco and cotton.

In recent years, the Mayan network of canals and “Taitan” have been found in the tropical rainforest of Guatemala.

The network of canals intersected with nearby river sheds in order to drain the water, while the earth from the canals was piled up on a field of land in a long strip of “tai fields”, and the Mayans worked well on it and received a high level of agricultural production at the time.

The high architectural arts are one of the great achievements of the Marion.

Before and after the A.D., the Maya built more than 100 cities in Central America, as the centre of political and religious culture, with golden Zeus, magnificent palaces and high monuments, with roads connected between the cities and commercial relations with other regions where cocoa beans are often used as currency in trade relations.

As a result of the need for agricultural production, the Mayans have built a number of observatories in different shapes in the cities, using the naked eye to observe the operation of the sun, the moon and Venus and to calculate the timing of the eclipse and the moon.

They calculated the year of Venus, with more than a thousand years of error of no more than one day, which is more accurate than the timing of our national period.

They use the solar calendar, which divides the year into 18 months, 20 days per month, plus 5 days as a taboo day for 365 days, plus 1 day per year.

The name of the month is mostly related to natural objects and farming, such as “sowning month”, “harvest month”, “sun month”, etc.

Their count is based on a 20-digit digit system with 20 fingers of hands and feet, with three symbols for numbers: “points”, “twice”, “twice”, “shell”, “shell”, “O”, and the Mayan using zero symbols 800 years earlier than Europeans.

The temples built in accordance with precise visions and calendars are also one of the masterpieces of the Maya.

The most typical of these is the famous temple of Chiitua on the Yucatán peninsula.

It is a pyramid 55 metres on the bottom and 23 metres high, with an altar at the top.

91 steps of the four sides, plus a ring platform totalling 365, is exactly one yearDays.

Each side consists of 18 steps, which correspond to the month of the Sun calendar, except for the middle steps.

Snake head with feathers engraved on the wall of the northern middle steps.

A big tongue out of his mouth.

Surprisingly, every year after two days of midday, spring and autumn, as a result of the light of the slopes, the phantom of the snakes rises on the northern steps, as if a giant python had crawled down the tower.

The Maya believe in the sun God, and believe that the python is the incarnation of the sun, so they sing and dance whenever a glimpse of the snake appears on the pyramid.

The Maya are not only great architects, but also talented painters.

They left us in the world with drawings of all colors and beautiful carvings.

In the depths of Pernam Pakmi forest in Mexico, an ancient temple built in the eighth century was discovered.

Called the painting house.

The murals of the three temples, which depict the meeting of the Mayan chief to prepare for the march, reflect the scene of the Mayan attack, the sacrifice of the prisoners of war and the re-emergence of the Mayan singing and dancing after the victory of the war, constitute a whole story.

The entire picture line is smooth, colourful, tactful, character-imaged and highly artistic, not only as an art treasure unprecedented in Latin American ancient culture, but also as one of the famous treasures of the world ' s mural art.

The Maya people have created their own hieroglyphics in a rich language, with more than 800 written symbols and 30,000 words, usually inscribed on altars, pyramids, pottery and stones.

In Mayan cities, stone poles are created every 20 years, with the inscriptions and dates of important events, so Mayan culture is the only one in the ancient history of the Americas with a clear chronology.

`The Maya people have also written books of their ancestral history, scientific inventions, astronomical laws, myths and customs on the bark of trees and deer.

The book is folded, and each page is about 8 hours long, about 6 hours wide, and the next two pages are accompanied by a sheet of wood as a sheet of paper, all of which is several metres long.

This is the first book in the Americas.

The books, written by the full-time priests in red, blue, yellow, green, black and several different colours, show us a rich picture of Mayan society.

Unfortunately, in the bloody siege of the Spanish colonizer “Sword and Cross”, the Catholic missionaries, on the basis of the eradication of heresy and heresy, destroyed all but four of these “demons” that survived.

It is surprising, however, that, at the end of the ninth century A.D., 600 years before the Spanish colonizers invaded the Americas, the Mayan culture suddenly stalled and disappeared for some reason.

Buildings were destroyed, ancient cities abandoned and forests closed.

With the passing of the years, some of the ancients of that time, some of them sleeping in the earth, some of them gnawed in the thick, unpopular depths of the earth, some of them razed by the wind, have become ruins in the desert of the beaches.

For many years, people have been thinking, exploring: how can Maya live? In the rainforest, they don't know how to make iron or make itWith vehicles and large livestock, but with their own great pools and pyramids, with their own precise histories and wonderful words, how does this incredible thing happen and develop? How can Maya culture be so brilliant? Why is it suddenly and mysteriously interrupted? However, this chain of questions remains unsolved by the fact that people have not yet been able to decipher the full text of Maya.

However, despite the many magical colours of Mayan culture, it is true that the Maya have made an indelible contribution to the human culture from the available excavation materials.

Maya culture is a cradle of Amerindian culture, and it has had a tremendous impact on the Mexican culture that followed.

If you ask, "Greeks of the New Continent," who? There's only one answer: Maya。