When you drive into the county seat of Lintong in Shaanxi Province, you will look far to the east and see a lush dirt bag like a small mountain, which is the mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, which has been noticed by the world and has existed for more than 2,000 years.
According to historical records, the construction of the mausoleum began in the following year after Qin Shi Huang ascended the throne. It was completed in 208 BC and took 39 years.
He reigned for 37 years, and the construction of a mausoleum for him lasted for 36 years;
At that time, the chancellor Li Si was the designer of the mausoleum, supervised by the general Zhang Handan. A total of 720,000 people were recruited, and the maximum number of people who used the tomb was nearly 800,000, almost equivalent to 8 times the number of people who built the Pyramid of Khufu.
The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin was the first imperial mausoleum in Chinese history. Its huge scale and rich funerary objects are the first of the imperial tombs of previous dynasties and the largest imperial mausoleum.
The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is located 5 kilometers east of Lincheng County, about 37 kilometers away from Xi'an City, leaning on Lishan Mountain in the south and Weishui in the north. The mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is approximately square, with a flat top and a slightly stepped waist, 76 meters high, 345 meters long from east to west, 350 meters wide from north to south, and covers an area of 120,750 square meters.
According to the preliminary investigation, the cemetery is divided into two parts: the inner city and the outer city. The inner city is square, with a circumference of about 3000 meters, 2 gates on the north wall, and 1 gate each on the east, west and south walls. The outer city is rectangular, with a circumference of more than 6200 meters, and a gate site in each of the four corners.
Between the inner and outer cities, there are burial pits, rare animal pits, and pottery bucket pits; Outside the mausoleum, there are more than 400 stable pits, human martyr pits, prisoners' pits, and tombs of tomb cultivators, covering a wide area of 56.25 square kilometers. The center of the mausoleum is the place where the coffin of Qin Shi Huang was placed.