As mentioned earlier, the second-class bus driver who can't speak English but is very responsible, sent Nalan Shiqi to Teotihuacan, the Sun Pyramid Scenic Area. The so-called green space is almost all planted with cactus plants.

The sun and moon pyramids are in a scenic area, and it takes about 2-3 hours to visit. Note that Mexico's climate is dry, and when climbing the pyramids, it is not blocked by the scorching sun. Although there are many small vendors in the scenic area, they only sell souvenirs and only drinks are sold at the entrance. So you must buy two bottles of water before entering the tour, otherwise you will climb halfway up the pyramid like clouds, before turning back to buy water.

Let me say, the water here is very expensive. A bottle of 600ml of pure water costs 15 pesos, which is 7-10 yuan (the RMB exchange rate fluctuates greatly recently), while a bottle of 600ml of sports drink costs 25 pesos. However, the things in this kind of small stall are not expensive. A T-shirt costs only 30 pesos, which is 15-20 yuan, which is cheaper than in China!

The tickets for the Sun and Moon Pyramids are n$48. RMB 2 to 30 yuan. Yunluo has always believed that tickets for domestic attractions are too expensive, and they have been verified in Mexico again. Because of this Sun and Moon Pyramids’ status among Mexican tourist attractions is no less than that of the Great Wall of China. The ticket price of 20 to 30 yuan is really affordable.

However, if you bring a camera, you will charge an additional n$35, and the camera will not be added (there are such a ridiculous rule in India). Will Yunluo charge money if he brings the Invincible Rabbit? Haha. This car with a Volkswagen and two Mercedes logos looks very awesome.

Cactus is more than one person tall. Therefore, Mexico's parks and houses do not need to be isolated by building walls, but only a circle of cactus is planted. The sun shines on the ground with tender yellow leaves, as if it represents the hope that this country has nurtured.

There are many such three or four-story high platforms around the pyramid. There are stone stairs around it. After turning over some historical materials, I didn’t find out what this is for. Yunluo guessed that when the boss was holding major commemorative activities on the pyramid, the small leader should probably stand on these platforms to command the public, haha. Even ancient civilizations are of very strict level.

The family of three who came to visit. I don’t know which country it was. A group of local students came to visit the ruins. I don’t know if it was considered to be patriotic education in Mexico. This child is very tall. The platform behind is even higher. The ladder on this platform is quite steep.

There was nothing to go up. But when we came down, everyone had to move down step by step like crabs. When we got up on this high platform, we didn't see anything special, except for this human-faced statue, and another destroyed pyramid behind... The scene in front of us reminded Nalan Seqi of the Arrow Knock Great Wall.

The Teotihuacán civilization began around 200 BC. It was an ancient Indian civilization that was born after the demise of the Olmec civilization, about the same period as the Maya civilization. The origin of the Theotihuacán people is still an unclearable puzzle, and no one can confirm that the civilization once had written and left behind records. Today, Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi knew about the existence of this civilization, in addition to the huge remains they left for analysis and proof, some other surrounding civilizations of the same period mentioned the matters about the Theotihuacán people in classics or paintings, which is also another key to reference.

This map should be a map of the ancient city of Teotihuacán. It is necessary to introduce this history here. Mexican civilization is very different from the single Chinese nation (Chinese nation) throughout the entire history: countless civilizations have appeared on this land of Mexico. The history of Mexico is the revolutionary history of one civilization over another. Due to the replacement and discontinuity of civilizations, the details of those disappearing civilizations have not been fully recorded, so the entire history of Mexico seems to be lost and mysterious.

All tourists need to walk from this avenue to the pyramid. This avenue is the way of the dead - the Road to the Dead. This is the avenue of the ancient city of Teotihuacán, and it is also the center line of the city. The reason why it is called this is because when the Spanish came here, they saw groups of pyramids. Because the Spanish had seen pyramids in ancient Egypt, they believed that all pyramids were tombs, so they named the avenue in this group of pyramids. In fact, the pyramids of the Indians were not mausoleums, but for sacrifices or divination and measurements.

Of course, this is just one statement. Another saying is that the Aztecs here call this place the "road to the dead".

Sunosanjuan-sanjuan (Sanjuan?) looks like the pinyin, and Yunluo found it very interesting, so he took a look. However, it was a bit difficult to find out what this means. This is in Spanish. However, in Wikipedia, there were dozens of disambiguations. Even in Mexico, there were three meanings. It was so awesome. One of the meanings that could be understood was a river called Sanjuan. In the Mexican Basin.

Haha, this is one of the few water flows that clouds fall in dry Mexico. Maybe this is the famous Sanjuan River?!

The Theottihuacans appeared in central Mexico in 200 BC, and between the first year of the US and 150 years, they built a city with a population of about 50,000. It is the earliest settlement of urban hierarchy in the entire Americas.

During this period, they established a primary city centered on the north-south "Road to the Dead" (the central axis of the ruins of Theotihuacan). The buildings are mainly pyramids and temples. After that, the city gradually grew and various buildings used by civilians were also completed.

The development of the entire city and civilization reached its peak in 450 years. According to the scale of the remains, the population of Theotihuacan City may be between 125,000 and 200,000 people at that time, with huge buildings, exquisite murals and other cultural achievements.

But it declined between 650 and 750 due to unknown reasons. Finally approached the pyramid of the sun. It felt desolate.

The Pyramid of the Sun (Spanish: pirá dedelsol), is the largest building in the ruins of Teotihuacán, Mexico, and one of the largest buildings in Central America. It is located on the east side of the middle section of the "Road to the Dead", and is far away from the Pyramid of the Moon (Spanish: pirá dedelsol), and is also part of the huge complex of the core of Teotihuacán.

The name of the Sun Pyramid was taken by the Aztecs when archaeologists visited the ruins group after the Teotihuacan civilization disappeared, because it was impossible to know the name given by the Teotihuacan people for the pyramid. It was built in two stages. The first stage was built about 100 years, expanding the pyramid to a scale close to its current level; after the second stage was completed, the base of the Sun Pyramid was about 225 meters and a height of 64 meters. The second stage was also built an altar on the top of the tower, but it is no longer visible now.

The staircase leading to the top of the Sun Pyramid. The staircase is very steep. There is a 60-degree angle in some places, so the love pattern of people walking sideways in the previous episode appears.

The Sun Pyramid is magnificent. It is trapezoidal, facing east and west, with hundreds of steps directly to the top on the front. 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 equal to the Khufu Pyramid in Egypt, basically square, and it is just in the four directions of east, south, west and north. The four sides of the tower are also in an equilateral triangle with the character "Gold". The ratio of the bottom edge to the height of the tower is exactly the ratio of the circumference to the radius.

The top of the pyramid was built in the early 3rd century, which was approximately the same time as the temple of Quetzalcoatl. According to Spanish historians in the 18th century, the temple was magnificent, with a tall statue of the sun god standing in the center of the altar, facing the east, dignified and serious. He wore countless gold and silver ornaments on his chest. When the sunlight shone into the temple, dazzling light flashed around his body, making people feel respectful. Pedrodosal discovered bones in four corners of the foundation of the temple in 1925. He believed that this was the place where people were killed and sacrificed to the sun god in the temple.

The inside of the pyramid is built with soil and sand. From the bottom to the top, the outside of each step is inlaid with huge stone slabs, and colorful patterns are carved on the stone slabs. Interestingly, the surface of the pyramid is not completely flat. Instead, it is deliberately evenly inlaid with many protruding stones, which still stand on the surface of the pyramid after years of wind and rain.

Climb the top of the sun pyramid and look out over the Central American land.

The orientation of this pyramid may have some anthropological importance. The pyramid of the Sun is slightly tilted to the northwest of the sunset horizontal point on April 29 and August 12, which are for the Divination of the Theotihuacans. The day of August 12 is important because it marks the beginning of the Mayan long-term astrological calendar. In addition, there are many important astronomical and astrological activities that can be observed at the pyramid site. These information are very important to the agricultural and religious systems of ancient society.

The pyramids are also closely related to astronomy: the light of Sirius, passing through the airflow channel on the south wall, can directly reach the head of the dead who is sleeping in the upper hall; and the light of the North Star, passing through the airflow channel on the north wall, can directly reach the lower hall. There are 91 steps on one side of the tower, reaching the top of the tower. There are 364 steps on all sides, plus the tower top platform, which is not much or no, and 365 levels. This is exactly the number of days in a year. The stairs on the nine-story tower are divided into 18 parts. This is exactly the number of months in the Mayan calendar.

From the Sun Pyramid, the moon pyramid surrounded by the Cerrogordo Mountains. Since the Sun Pyramid is much higher, the moon pyramid looks small and cute.

From the Pyramid of the Sun, continue to walk along the Road to the Dead, at the end is the Temple of the Moon. This theavenue of the Dead has multiple translations in Chinese. "The Road to the Dead" is a relatively American Western style translation. "The Way of the Dead" is a very Chinese translation. In fact, it is not necessary to translate it into "a dead end".

The Road to the Dead is 4 kilometers long and 45 meters wide, running through the city from north to south. A man named Hugh Halleston claimed that he found a unit of measurement in Teowakan that suits all its buildings and streets. After calculation using electronic computers, the unit is 1.059 meters in length. For example, the height of the Phoenix Temple in Teowakan, the Moon Pyramid and the Sun Pyramid are 21, 42, and 63 "units" respectively, with a ratio of 1:2:3. Halleston used "units" to measure the ruins of gods and pyramids on both sides of the Road to the Dead, and found a more amazing situation. The distance between these ruins on the Road to the Dead, which just represents 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" is a canal excavated by the Teotihuacans, and the central axis of the canal castle is 288 "units", which is exactly the distance between the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.

There is a ruin of an unknown temple at the 520 "units" on the axis, which is equivalent to the distance from the sun to Jupiter. After another 945 "units", there is another temple ruin. This is the distance from Saturn to the sun. After another 1,845 "units" you will reach the center of the Moon Pyramid at the end of the Road to the Dead, which is exactly the orbit data of Uranus.

If you extend the straight line of the Road to the Dead, you will reach the top of Mount Serovagodo, where there is a small temple and a tower, and the foundation is still there.

The distances are 2880 and 3780 "units" respectively, which is the distance between Neptune and Pluto orbits. In the prehistoric era when chaos first opened, which invisible hand pointed out all this to the people who built Teotihuacan?

During the construction of the pyramid, lime and gypsum were imported from the surrounding areas as the raw materials for the bright murals created by the Teotihuacans. However, due to the age of time, these mural decorations and gypsum are completely invisible. Now only a few images on the sides of the pyramid are considered to be part of the pyramid mural decoration, including the head, claws, stars and snakes of the jaguar.
Chapter completed!