Since Qin Shi Huang unified the Six Kingdoms and became the first emperor in China's history, the emperor system has been used for more than two thousand years, until the imperial system that ruled most of China's history during the Qing Dynasty was officially eliminated. As the first emperor in the history of our country, Qin Shi Huang not only unified the six kingdoms during his lifetime, but also created many miracles for future generations after his death, and his first miracle was the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
March 1974, Villagers in Lishan Town, Lintong County, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, in the village 1.5 kilometers away from the village of Lingdong well, accidentally found several broken clay figurines fired from pottery figurines, as grown in this city with the most excavated cultural relics, the villagers saw at a glance that this is a cultural relic, it is likely that there is an ancient tomb near here, in order to determine the authenticity of this speculation, the villagers immediately contacted the city's Cultural Relics Bureau, archaeologists learned of this information and rushed to the scene to study, and then dug out a lot of terracotta warriors and carriages and other cultural relics, this time the reputation is world-renowned The Qin Terracotta Warriors, known as one of the Eight Wonders of the World, were thus unearthed. Originally, the experts wanted to continue excavation, but for various reasons, the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has not been excavated until now.
Originally, experts thought that this miracle could no longer be seen, but what was surprising was that in a funerary pit 20 meters west of the qin shi huang mausoleum, two carriages were unearthed, and these two carriages were actually not as intact as they are now when they were just unearthed, but had been fragmented, and now the complete carriages that people see are repaired by experts in 8 years. This Qin Shi Huang bronze carriage can be said to be the largest and most complex ancient carriage excavated in China's cultural relics, known as the "crown of bronze", which has become the treasure of the museum, and cannot be copied by all science and technology. Why? Isn't this carriage just a relic?
As the funerary product of Qin Shi Huang, the value of this carriage is no less than that of the Terracotta Warriors, this carriage has been broken into 1555 pieces when it was just excavated, weighing 1241 kilograms, composed of 3462 parts, its structure is complex and stunning, and the superb craftsmanship of the ancients is vividly reflected. What is even more incredible is the umbrella on the carriage, if it is not seen with their own eyes, many people may not believe that the wisdom and creativity of the ancients have advanced to such a level, it can be said that it is a very anti-heavenly design, so what kind of umbrella is this? This copper umbrella seems to be no different from the ordinary umbrella, but in fact, it has a very precise mechanism, the umbrella seat, the umbrella handle is a self-locking locking structure, the umbrella seat is set with a live hinge, crank and other dark grooves, you can lock the umbrella, you can also easily open it.
Not only that, at the top of the umbrella in the part where the umbrella cover is connected, there is a bronze gear, and the role of the gear is to undertake the umbrella cover, connected to the umbrella bone, play a role in ensuring that the umbrella cover pressure is evenly borne, it is said that this gear is the first gear in Chinese history, which has high historical research value. But why set up such a complicated umbrella? It is said that because Qin Shi Huang was assassinated many times before his death, in order to travel safely, he turned all the umbrellas on the carriage into weapons, and after opening the umbrella, this was a shield, but after closing it, it became a spear, which had a dual effect.
If the most expensive car in the world is a car, perhaps this carriage is the most expensive, not only because of its high price in the cultural relics market, but also because this carriage has a high research value, providing a lot of historical information for China's study of Qin Dynasty cultural relics. Not only that, this carriage also integrates the wisdom of the ancients and the super high craftsmanship, which fully reflects the advanced civilization of the ancients, which is incomparable to how much money.