We all know that the rotten tail project will not give people a good impression, whether it is ancient history or modern history, there have been rotten tail projects, such as collapsed buildings in Hainan, collapsed elevated roads and roads... After all, this may cause some casualties and property damage.
However, there is a big rotten project in history, which has not been successfully repaired so far, abandoned for thousands of years, and now it has become a national key protection object and has been further selected by the United Nations as a miracle in world history, which is the site of Afang Palace.
Afang Palace was built during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, when in order to build Afang Palace, Qin Shi Huang used a lot of manpower and material resources, and at the peak of the project, a total of more than 700,000 laborers participated in the construction.
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In order to show his pioneering efforts to unify China, Qin Shi Huang decided to build a palace that attracted the attention of the world
In 212 BC, the Qin Dynasty rose rapidly to unify China. In order to create a deterrent to other countries and highlight the strong national strength of our country, Qin Shi Huang thought of changing the political center, so he began to choose a site to establish Afang Palace. In history, dynasties always did not consider the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people, and they could only accept it silently in fear of imperial power. Therefore, Qin Shi Huang ordered the collection of strong labor from all over the country for the establishment of the Afang Palace.
Forced recruitment of migrant workers was used to build the Afang Palace
In ancient times, we know that the tyranny of kings, especially the construction of large-scale projects such as the construction of palaces, took a lot of time and effort, and perhaps many ordinary laborers lost their names because they could not withstand the enormous intensity of work in the process of construction. Even if the name is saved after it is built, but a long period of hard work can always bring them a wound, and time cannot repair it. In addition, this kind of project will generally have an imperial tomb, and the emperor will have a lot of funerary goods when he is buried, so there will generally be a secret passage and a mechanism, and it is often difficult for people involved in the construction of the imperial tomb to keep their lives.
Is the Afang Palace completed or is it a "rotten tail building" project?
Unexpectedly, Qin Shi Huang had just ordered the establishment of Afang Palace as his political center, and died the following year. As a result, this huge project was forced to stop construction, and by the time of Qin II, it had been stopped for more than Seven months. Later, with the change of dynasties, some dynasties built temples on the site of the Afang Palace building, and later became a large farmland, and since then, the ruins of the Afang Palace have slowly flooded in everyone's eyes. We can vaguely understand the situation at that time from Du Mu's "A Fang Gong Fu". Therefore, archaeologists for a while thought that the Afang Palace was built.
The area is equivalent to 20 Forbidden City! Named a Wonder of the World by the United Nations!
It was not until the 1950s that the ruins of the Afang Palace were slowly discovered by archaeologists. However, due to various problems, the excavation of the site did not officially begin until the 1970s. In 2002, the state sent a new archaeological team to investigate the Afang Palace with the latest science and technology.
Five years later, the historical truth behind Afang Palace was further revealed, and the scope of Afang Palace was also clarified. There are seven major districts in the ruins of Afang Palace, an area equivalent to the sum of the total area of the twenty Forbidden Cities. Experts further found that the Afang Palace was indeed not built two thousand years ago. In 1961, Afang Palace was listed by the state as the first batch of key cultural relics protection objects, and in 1991, it was rated by the United Nations as the world's largest palace site, which became a miracle in world history!