The Chinese version of "Atlantis"-The Thousand-year old city submerged under the lake

Who had thought, the vast blue water under the Qiandaohu lake, unexpectedly quietly "latent" two have thousands of years of history of the ancient city, they are in the quiet depth of the lake flow, has been silent for more than half a century. Under the photographer's persistent efforts, the mysterious veil of the underwater ancient city was removed, and the quiet years of calm were broken again ...

The two ancient cities were flooded from the construction of the Xin ' Anjiang hydropower station in 1959. In the course of the clearance of the year, The Lion Lake, Chenhe due to the lack of time to relocate, began to disappear in Lake rising water. It is said that there are about 62 football pitches in the ancient city, as many as 265 well-preserved stone arches. Instead of "disappearing" for a specific sacrifice, the two towns were quietly sleeping and slowly becoming specimens, like coral reefs, under 100 feet of water.

Like J.G Ballard in the classic novel "Submerged World" described in the ancient Chinese changes, the drama is, now these two Han Dynasty city but in a blessing in disguise is intact preserved.

But is this also the fate of all coastal cities in an era of rising sea levels, first disappearing, and how many years later to become a fancy tourist destination for future travellers? The ruins of the global coastal civilization are to become the background wall of silt on the seabed? If all is unavoidable, at least our ruins remain brisance.

Qiandaohu Underwater Ancient City _ Interactive Encyclopedia

1959, in order to build the then largest water conservancy project Xin ' Anjiang hydropower station, Zhejiang Province, the original Chunan County, the county of two counties merged into the present Chunan County, 290,000 people from their homes, the city, Chenhe two consecutive thousand years of Old Town, together with 27 townships, more than 1000 villages, 300,000 acres of fertile farmland and thousands of houses, Quietly sank into the bottom of the vast Qiandaohu.