"In modern times, those who have established the frontier are only the Qin Emperor and Han Wu. The First Emperor was tyrannical and died to his son. Han Wu was arrogant and extravagant, and the country was absolutely extraordinary. --Tang Taizong Li Shimin
Recently, this meme has been popular on the Internet, and in the TV series "Great Qin Fu", someone said: "The bullet screen of Qin Shi Huang's unification of the Six Kingdoms is a spoiler." This small matter made many netizens laugh, which shows that in fact, many people are quite concerned about the destruction of the Six Kingdoms, the unification of the world, and the expansion of the frontier.
In addition, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has also attracted much attention, in 1973 found the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, when it was just excavated, the terracotta warriors were vivid and colorful, 7,000 pieces of samurai maids were about 1.8 meters tall, each terracotta warrior was restored according to the real soldiers of Great Qin, and soon after the mausoleum was opened, they lost their color. For a variety of reasons, people have been afraid to dig deeper for decades.
Although it is impossible to excavate the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, it almost restores the real Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, thanks to Sima Qian's record, which once said: "The first emperor took the throne at the beginning of his reign, wore the Li Mountain, and merged with the world, and the disciples under the world sent more than 700,000 people... Mercury is a hundred rivers and seas, organic phase instilling, upper astronomy, lower geography, mermaid paste as a candle, the degree of immortality for a long time. ”
That is to say, Qin Shi Huang succeeded to the throne at the age of 13, and in that year, he began to build the imperial mausoleum, which has been built for 39 years, when 700,000 people were mobilized, the Lishan Mountain was dug up, and an underground palace was built inside, and the palace made rivers and lakes with mercury, boiled into lamp oil with the corpse oil of the mermaid, made into a long lamp, and immortalized for a thousand years... A school of luxury and magic that people can hardly imagine.
In addition, it is also recorded that in order not to divulge the secrets of the imperial tomb, the craftsmen who built this palace have also become martyrs, and the concubines of Qin Shi Huang have also been martyred. There is a saying in the Book of Rites: "Death is like life, death is like survival, filial piety is also." "Among the emperors of the past, the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is one of the largest, most peculiar structure and richest connotation of the imperial tombs.
However, in order not to divulge the secret, didn't Qin Shi Huang kill all the craftsmen inside? So how did Sima Qian know so much about the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum? These bizarre stories, I am afraid, come from folk tales. In the folk, the first emperor was famous, and his records were full of magical things, such as the corpse oil of the fish people. But there is no mention of the terracotta warriors, which is strange.
The world has not really seen the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, but it is very good to imagine that as the emperor who unified the 6 countries, he has changed more than those kings in the past, and achieved real unification, in the hearts of the people, this emperor is naturally different from the past, it is inevitable to add some absurd and magical words, because in their hearts, it is determined that the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is luxurious and golden, all of which comes from the imagination of the people.
Sima Qian was born in 145 BC, while Qin Shi Huang died in 210 BC, more than half a century away. But he is not without the opportunity to contact the real inside story of the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, when the emperors of all generations built their own mausoleums, they will leave samples for reference to future generations, the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang used 700,000 people, such a huge project, how can no one know?
However, if the craftsmen say that when they went to build a mausoleum for the Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin, they were burning pottery and making terracotta warriors every day, so they said it, and people would only think that this was possible, but when some people said that they used exaggerated techniques to tell everything that happened inside, was it more interesting to hear?
Over time, the true story has been felt, but the folklore has become more magical after being circulated, and even some people have given reasonable explanations to these legends, and the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has become a legend in the folk story, when Sima Qian once again recorded the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the true story could not be excavated, and could only listen to the existing statements. Undoubtedly, there are many treasures in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and even treasures such as the Yue King's Gou Jian Sword are collected, but there is no such god as the legend. There has been no mining of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, a kind of protection for the cultural relics of the Imperial Tomb.