Since the cultural relics of the Ming Ding Mausoleum were greatly damaged, China's archaeological community has an unwritten rule: do not take the initiative to excavate the imperial tombs, but since the excavation of the Terracotta Warriors, whether to excavate the Qin Emperor's Tombs has been debated continuously, some experts agree with the excavation, and some people oppose it, because in terms of modern science and technology, it seems that it is not enough to protect the cultural relics inside.
Since 1962 has been the task of exploring the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, in the first comprehensive archaeological survey, the cemetery area of 56.25 square kilometers, equivalent to 78 Forbidden City, Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum has also become the world's largest mausoleum, with the development of science and technology, the exploration task of the cemetery has become simpler.
In 2010, archaeologists drilled into the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and discovered a huge complex of rectangular ten-step courtyards in the northwest of the mausoleum, with a total area of 170,000 square meters, including three groups of large palace complex sites, and the larger sites were distributed in a straight line, gradually increasing from east to west.
According to some documents, the ruins of these palaces should be sleeping palaces, which are recorded in the "Dictatorship": the ancient tomb sacrifice, until the Qin Shi Huang came out of the bed, from the side of the tomb, the Han did not change, so the tomb is called the sleeping hall. It can also be seen from here that the large-scale construction of the palace in the mausoleum began in the era of Qin Shi Huang.
In 2016, a large number of funerary pits were found, there are more than 400 large and small funerary pits, the funerary products are mainly pottery products, and the area of the funerary pit even reached several thousand square meters, the current location of the terracotta warriors found is only the outer army of the mausoleum, there should be a larger army group in the mausoleum.
Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum in the design is in accordance with the ancient etiquette system "death as a matter of life" requirements specially designed, Qin Shi Huang succeeded to the throne, personally led thousands of troops to march south to the north, unified the world, in order to show his merits, the army burial is necessary, in more than two thousand years, Qin Shi Huang has never been stolen.
However, in the Song Dynasty", the "Yongle Canon" mentioned that the tomb of The First Qin Shi Huang was stolen, but there are only a few cross records, and the latest drilling data shows that there is a palace wall nearly 4 meters thick outside the underground palace, and there is a sealing layer outside the palace wall, although a robbery cave of nearly 9 meters deep was found, but it is far from the inside of the imperial tomb.
More importantly, there is a large amount of mercury in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, if it is stolen, mercury will volatilize, but the mercury in the underground palace has not decreased, as for how much mercury is 2000 years old is a mystery, but the mercury reaction of the underground palace is strong in the southeast, southwest, northeast and northwest, if according to the distribution of the river and sea, the water galaxy is consistent with the location of china's Bohai Sea and the Yellow River.
As for how much mercury there is, experts have made an inference based on the pomegranate tree on the mountain of Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, it is reasonable to say that it is difficult to survive plants where there is mercury, since it can survive, it must have absorbed a lot of mercury, and it is currently speculated that it may be more than 100 tons, and the only person who can provide so much mercury at that time is Ba Widow Qing.
How much mercury is buried in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang? Expert: Look at the pomegranate tree on the mountain, and you will understand