Infrastructure projects play an important role in the development of a country. In the process of China's modernization and development, from highways to railways and high-speed railways. To the Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge, which has been completed today, or the "Tianyan" project, etc., these huge projects have not only driven the rapid development of the economy, but also made China's projects win the honor of "infrastructure demon" in the world's construction industry.
However, in fact, the gene of this "infrastructure demon" has been deeply embedded in the genes of the Chinese nation for thousands of years. Among them, the Great Wall, the Jinhang Grand Canal or the Houyi Shooting Sun, Yugong Moving Mountains, Dayu Zhishui and other deeds reflect the wisdom and courage of the ancient Chinese. During the Qin Dynasty, China had many great architectural wonders. The most typical are the four major buildings of Afang Palace, Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, Qin Zhidao, and The Great Wall, and are called the "Four Major Projects of the Qin Dynasty".
Among them, there is a building, imposing, but due to the change of dynasties, it has become the largest "rotten tail building" in history. This is the Afang Palace, which covers an area of more than 600,000 square kilometers, and the stone and wood used are difficult to estimate, but due to the death of Qin Shi Huang and the collapse of the Qin Empire, the project had to be stopped.
Later, after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, the Afang Palace was preserved until the Song Dynasty. Although there are folk records that in the Chu-Han war, Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, faced the gorgeous Afang Palace, was furious and burned it with a fire. However, according to the records of the zhengshi, Xiang Yu burned the palace of the Qin Dynasty, not the Afang Palace.
Although in the late Tang Dynasty, the famous poet Du Mu wrote a thousand years of singing about Afang Palace, "Afang Palace Endowment", which deeply reflected on the damage caused by this project to the world at that time, but today, people have to sigh that this project is undoubtedly a splendid treasure of the Chinese nation in the historical development.
In 2002, archaeologists conducted an in-depth exploration of the Afang Palace and found that only a few of the bricks and stones that had been burned by fire were destroyed by time and physical damage. This also proves from the side that what Xiang Yu burned was the Xianyang Palace. For this unfinished project, UNESCO has also traveled thousands of miles to China to investigate, and through the restoration of computer technology, they found that this building, which has long been buried under the dirt, can be called one of the "wonders of the world" of mankind.