"There are terracotta warriors in the south, and there are Liye Qinjian in the north", when it comes to terracotta warriors, no one knows everyone, but when it comes to Liye Qinjian, most people have never heard of it, and these Qinjian were excavated in 2002 and 2005 in the ancient city of Liye in Longshan County, Hunan Province, with a total of more than 36,000 pieces.
The Qin Dynasty was the first feudal dynasty in China, but the Qin Dynasty was only unified in history for 15 years, and there are few records about the history of the Qin Dynasty, and these Qin Jian not only filled in the history of the Qin Dynasty, but also overturned the relevant history recorded in the main history.
Longshan County is located on the west side of the Wuling Mountains, located at the junction of Hunan, Hubei and Chongqing provinces, the ancient city of Liye belonged to the sphere of influence of "Wuling Man" in ancient times, due to inconvenient transportation, it has not been governed, but because of this, this batch of Qin Jian has been completely preserved.
The most famous in the ancient city of Liye is the ancient city wall, the city wall is 2 meters high, the bottom is 24 meters thick, the wall is made of large pebbles, the city wall has been built in the Warring States period, through the Chu and Qin dynasties, as for Qin Jian, it was excavated from an ancient well, archaeologists call it "the first well in China".
The ancient well is 14.28 meters deep, the well surface is 3 meters from the surface of the ground, it is stacked with 43 layers of tenon planks, the gap between the well walls is filled with green plaster mud, the bottom of the well is pebbles, this structure is also extremely rare in the Qin well, June 3, 2002 in the well found the first Qin Jian qi, since then a total of more than 30,000 pieces were found, there are more than 200,000 words of records, so why does this batch of Qin Jian appear here?
In the legend of Xiangxi, when Qin Shi Huang burned the book pit Confucianism, two old people could not bear the precious books that were burned, and even let the students transcribe the text overnight, and the two fled with Qin Jian all the way, 15 kilometers northwest of Yuanling, there was a Eryou Mountain, and at the cliff of the mountainside, there was a cave entrance, and the two old people hid in the cave.
So there is the idiom of "book through the two unitary, learn rich five cars", but in the mountains did not find any books, but the ancient well appeared, perhaps in the people word of mouth, in order to protect Qin Jian changed the location, the cave may refer to the ancient well.
Most of the texts of this batch of Qin Jian belong to Qin Li, which contains a variety of records, the most complete multiplication recipe table, this multiplication recipe is very similar to the modern multiplication recipe, which also shows that China's invention of multiplication is more than 600 years earlier than the West.
In the Qin Jian there is also a sentence "Qianling sent to Dongting by mail", which means "the mail of Qianling County is sent to Dongting County", but in the Western Han Dynasty Sima Qian's "History of the Qin Emperor Benji" records that Qin Shi Huang unified the world into 36 counties, but there is no Dongting County, just seven words overturned the 2000-year historical record.
There are many places that can be studied in this batch of Qin Jian, and if what it records is true, then the authenticity of the "Records of History" is questionable.