Review
Feudal dynasties are the main carriers of Chinese and knowledge inheritance in the process of China's historical development, and in the 5,000-year-long Chinese historical civilization, an unknown number of dynasties have risen and grown in this land, and formed their unique dynastic culture and etiquette.
But if you want to pass on these cultures, it is inevitable to use some materials as the basic carrier, perhaps calligraphy and painting, perhaps literary play, or perhaps architecture, these things are collectively called historical relics by modern people, which record the rise and fall of the dynasty, reflect the social history of the time, and make people admire and yearn.
As the first absolute monarchical feudal dynasty in Chinese history, the Qin Dynasty is naturally also the main research object of future generations, and it is not known how many precious cultural relics are buried in the imperial tombs built by Qin Shi Huang for himself, if they can be excavated, it is bound to be of great help to future generations in studying the history of the Qin Dynasty.
But do you know that even in today's technological means are so developed, it is impossible to successfully excavate the imperial tomb of Qin Shi Huang, which is 2228 years away from the emperor's residence, which seems to be hiding an unsolvable mystery.
The tomb is used to show the noble status of the owner
The construction of the imperial tomb originated in the Spring and Autumn Warring States period, when the family clan often buried the deceased in a specially built tomb to show its noble status to the outside world, the size of the tomb depends on the ability of the family clan, and some high-powered people will put the rare treasures collected before they died in the tomb, which is the funerary product for the tomb owner.
We can't judge whether this burial culture in ancient China is right or wrong, but the development of many things often deviates from its original trajectory in history.
Originally, the thick burial was built by the tomb owner to highlight the noble status, but I did not expect that with the development of the times, there were tomb robbers who specialized in stealing the tomb during the Three Kingdoms period, and the more noble people were, the more rare treasures in the tomb, the easier it was to attract the attention of the tomb robbers.
Because of the low threshold for entry, most of these tomb robbers do not have any principles to speak of, they have worked hard to finally dig through the ancient tomb, naturally thinking is to remove all the antiques that can be seen in front of them, as for whether to damage the tomb structure in the process of tomb robbery, they do not care so much; what cannot be taken away will be smashed, just like the modern British and French coalition forces invaded the Yuanmingyuan.
Some people may say how this is completely different from the tomb robbery novel we see, after all, the novel is a novel, how many tomb robbers in reality will follow the rules that do not necessarily exist?
Those tufuzi did not have any sense of cultural relics protection at all, and their unscrupulous hands sliding funerary products, often causing serious damage to the tomb.
The Tomb of the Qin Emperor is buried with countless secrets
As the first emperor in Chinese history, Qin Shi Huang naturally built a magnificent imperial tomb for himself, and it has been recorded that the first emperor began to build the imperial tomb in 247 AD, when he was just a 13-year-old young tianzi.
However, due to the scale of the imperial mausoleum, it was not until the death of the First Emperor and the succession of Qin II two years after the imperial tomb was truly completed.
We can imagine what a spectacular project it would be to spend 39 years and recruit more than 800,000 people from all over the country.
There are not only countless gold and silver treasures in the imperial tomb, but also the orderly terracotta warriors and horses to care for the family and nursing home; then how big is the scale of the Qin Emperor's mausoleum?
According to modern archaeological data, it covers an area of about 56.25 square kilometers, if you use the current Forbidden City as a reference, the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum is about 78 forbidden cities as large, perhaps only such a ghostly workmanship can truly be worthy of the identity of the First Emperor.
In the face of this ancient and modern first tomb, I don't know how many tomb robbers want to go in to visit one or two, of course, the visit is fake, if you can go in and get some antiques, I am afraid that I will directly turn over the serfs and sing, and I will not have to worry about the second half of my life.
But unfortunately, with the level and technology of the tomb robbers, he did not support him to pry open the Qin Emperor's mausoleum, and Qin Shi Huang had already thought of the possibility of theft when building the mausoleum, and his tomb was heavily organized, and outsiders could not enter at all. Even today, with the development of modern technology, it is still difficult for us to open the emperor's residence in 2228.
There are too many secrets circulating in this imperial tomb, and these secrets are deeply attracted to us, such as in the speculation of the size of the imperial tomb, the Old Book of Han once recorded a conversation between Li Si, the minister of state, and Qin Shi Huang.
LiSi reported: "I and 700,000 craftsmen have dug deep into the ground, even the torches can not be lit, the axe when the ground makes a banging sound, as if there is nothing below, should go to the deepest part of the ground." Qin Shi Huang was very happy to hear this, and asked the craftsmen to dig three hundred zhang on both sides before stopping.
According to the measurements of archaeologists, the actual depth of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum is about 1,000 to 2,000 meters, but some people have also rumored that the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum has been dug to a depth of 5,000 meters, which is really unimaginable, what is in the depths of the underground? Perhaps Qin Shi Huang knew thousands of years earlier than modern people.
Then there are the rare treasures in the imperial tomb. According to the history of the Qin Dynasty, there are long lanterns made of mackerel oil in the tombs of the Qin Emperor, which can burn for thousands of years without extinction; these treasures are only legendary things even today, attracting us like perpetual motion machines.
But this is only one of thousands of rare treasures in the imperial tomb, and the countless jadeite, pearls, and agate are probably the most common decorations here.
epilogue
The secrets of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum have always attracted us, in fact, with the continuous development of modern science and technology, we have been able to peek into the mysterious corner of this imperial tomb.
In the nearly 600 funerary pits opened by archaeologists, we saw the heavily lined terracotta warriors and saw the painted art of a thousand years ago, all of which deeply attracted us to explore.
The biggest difference between archaeologists and tomb robbers is that we pay attention to protection as the mainstay, supplemented by excavation, in fact, it is not that posterity cannot open the Qin Emperor's mausoleum, but the destruction of that brute force will cause the entire mausoleum to collapse, and the final result is not worth the loss.