Every 30 years, a mountain in China lays stone eggs (8 photos)

Hello trypophobes! It's a little creepy to watch, but very interesting. There is an extremely interesting mountain in China. They say she lays stone eggs every 30 years. Really smooth and oval, as if sculptors sculpted them. But they didn't sculpt.





The “oviparous” mountain is called “Chan Da Ya” (egg-laying rock) in Mandarin. Not only the scientists of past centuries could not solve its riddle, but even modern geologists spent several decades trying to unravel its mystery.



Local residents in national costumes next to lucky eggs

Residents of the local Qiannan Bui province go to the rock to touch the eggs for good luck. Believing that they have divine origin.

Each of the local old residents has at least one such egg that has fallen off the wall. It is considered a talisman and is passed on to children so that the “eggs of the mountain” can keep them.

In my opinion, this is very unusual, but it looks as trypophobic as possible (and I feel uncomfortable even in the photo, let alone looking at it in reality).





Trypophobia - fear of holes (sometimes boils) lives in our subcortex. Because there could be a dangerous parasite living inside it.

So where do these strange, man-made “eggs” come from on the mountain slope?

Geologists were able to explain the phenomenon only after several months of research directly on the mountain itself.

It turned out that most of the mountain consists of dense sediments. And one slope, the most interesting, consists of more calcareous rock.



Someone threw stones into the lime a million years ago?

Therefore it is easier to erode. This erosional layer easily falls off from wind and precipitation, but it contains pieces of the main, harder rock.

It turns out that the soft rock is slowly eroding, exposing oval “eggs” of hard rock. They gradually arrive more and more, changing the pattern of the mysterious slope year after year.

The period of appearance and fall of each such egg from the rock is 30 years, depending on the location inside the rock, of course.

The mystery is half solved



Arrogant tourists sometimes wonder if such an egg will fall into their hands?

This does not explain at all why such beautiful oval pieces of dense rock are hidden inside the semi-limestone slope.

According to scientists, the layer was formed 500 million years ago. But it was hidden for a long time, otherwise it would have become thinner from the wind and sun a very long time ago. We live simultaneously with a unique “moment” in the life of this mountain.



Local resident shows off family heirlooms

The sad thing is that when everyone learned about the egg-laying mountain online, everyone wanted to buy one for themselves. And since the rock rarely rushes, tourists began visiting families’ homes and offering money for their family heirlooms.

Most of them were sold sooner or later. And the eggs left their native region. They dispersed throughout China and their traces were lost. Now there are about 70 left in the village.



An exhibition with an explanatory sign; some residents gave stones for it.

You even have to count the eggs on the rock. Some are already ripe, so particularly insidious tourists try to force them out and kidnap them.

It is noteworthy that eggs also fall from other parts of the mountain, it’s just that this is the most famous place with a wide wall. That is, the most obvious thing, but in other areas it happens in narrow crevices or inconvenient, inconspicuous places.

We are sitting here, and somewhere there is a mountain rushing by.



It's like human boils on a mountain, brrr