As we all know, ancient emperors are pursuing immortality, so many people want to refine Dan medicine to make themselves immortal, that is, immortal medicine, as we all know, the first emperor in China's history to pursue immortality should be Qin Shi Huang, Qin Shi Huang as the first unified emperor of our country, for their own life expectancy is very important, not only to gather the country's alchemists to refine medicine for themselves, but also let Xu Fu take people and horses to go to find Penglai Immortal Island, and later everyone knows that Qin Shi Huang did not live long, Xu Fu also did not bring back the elixir to Qin Shi Huang. This history also covers this elixir with a layer of fog, making it more mysterious.
Qin Shi Huang
In fact, in recent years, our national archaeology has found a lot of such "elixirs", so what is the composition of such elixirs? Can it play a role in immortality? We all know that Xu Fu may have not returned to the Qin Dynasty because he did not find the elixir of immortality, so would someone discover this elixir in the later dynasties? Let's take a look at these archaeological discoveries.
In 1965, China's archaeologists found a kind of dark red, about the size of rice grains, and evenly shaped "pills" in the ancient tombs of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in Xiangshan, such pills were found in this tomb a total of more than 200, and some of them have been ground into powder, these "red pills" are all placed in the lacquer box, placed in the position of the head of the tomb owner, it can be seen how important this red pill is to the tomb owner. After identification, the owner of the tomb was Wang Bin's eldest daughter, who was 58 years old at the time of her death, and she did not marry in her life, so she was buried next to her parents.
Alchemist Xu Fu
Although the red pills unearthed have a history of 1600 years, they are still very well preserved, so they can be taken to the Academy of Sciences to study, and finally determined that this small red pill is the "elixir" sought after by people in the Eastern Jin Dynasty.
"Elixir of Immortality"
Later, China's archaeologists in the tomb of the King of Nanyue, found a lot of five-color medicinal stones in the physical object, in addition to the discovery of a lot of lead pills and Dansha, after many investigations, confirmed that these lead pills and Dansha are the ancients used to take the "Jindan", which is a kind of Elixir refined by the alchemist, at that time it was mainly to give people calm and calm the gods, the tomb owner woman unearthed in Mawangdui was because of eating these Dan medicines caused a large amount of mercury and lead poisoning in the body to die.
The ancients refined medicine
Later, archaeologists in our country speculated that the so-called elixir in ancient times, the main ingredients are mercury and lead, and accompanied by some other refreshing drugs, at first taking it is exciting, but after long-term use will be poisoned, so the elixir can not be immortal, but can make yourself dead, such a "elixir" is what you have in mind?
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History of Chinese Archaeology