Is the historical Qin "Afang Palace" a folklore or a real existence? The Tang Dynasty poet Du Mu once wrote the poem "Afang Gongfu" (六王比, 四海一; 蜀山兀, Afang out.) Covered for more than 300 miles, isolated day and day. Lishan mountain is structured in the north and turned west, going straight to Xianyang. The two rivers dissolve and flow into the palace wall. Five steps on the first floor, ten steps and one pavilion; the porch waist is back, the eaves are high and pecked; each holds the terrain and hooks and corners. Pan pan, pan, beehive whirlpool, I don't know how many tens of millions of it falls! Long bridge lying wave, not cloud he long? The road is empty, not To Ji He Hong? High and low, do not know the west and east. The song stage is warm and the spring light is melting; the dance hall is cold sleeves, and the wind and rain are miserable. Within a day, between one house, and the climate is uneven. ] to render the magnificent architecture of Afang Palace to the best of its ability.
There is a passage in the "Chronicle of History": Thirty-five years of the first emperor,... Therefore, the imperial palace was built in the forest garden on the south bank of Weishui. First build the front hall in Afang, five hundred steps from east to west, fifty meters from north to south, ten thousand people can sit on the top, and a flag five meters high can be erected below. There is a sky bridge around it for walking,... Cross the Weishui River from Afang and connect with Xianyang,... Afang Palace has not yet been built, so for the time being, it will be called "Afang,... Because this palace was built in Afang, people called it AfangGong. At that time, the prisoners who built the Afang Palace were prisoners, and the work efficiency was very low. When the First Emperor died of illness in July of the 37th year, the Second Emperor sent all the disciples who built the Afang Palace to Lishan to repair the tomb, and the construction of the Afang Palace was stopped. The Chronicle of History also records a passage: In April of the first year of Qin II, the second emperor toured back to Xianyang and said: "... Now that the lishan tomb has been completed, now that the Afang Palace is put down and not built, it shows that the former emperor has made a mistake in doing things. So he began to build the Afang Palace again. In July of the first year of Qin II, Chen Sheng rebelled in the Chu state and established himself as king, and all localities responded and united to fight against the Qin Dynasty. The country was in chaos, and Qin II was forced to commit suicide in August of the third year.
From the above historical records, it can be seen that the construction of Afang Palace was intermittent, after the death of Qin Shi Huang, Hu Hai was extremely stupid, the Lishan Mausoleum had just been completed, and the Afang Palace was rebuilt to realize the plan of the first king, and the cruel tyranny accelerated his demise. The Afang Palace was not built in the end. In recent years, the re-excavation of the Institute of Archaeology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the use of advanced technology to once again prove that the historical Afang Palace does not actually exist, there is no evidence of a palace on the site of the Afang Palace, there is no evidence that the Afang Palace was burned, and also returned the innocence of xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu (folklore says that the Afang Palace was burned by Xiang Yu), the Afang Palace is just a nearly 10,000 square meters of earthen platform, there are more than one meter high buildings on the east and west sides, and the length is about several hundred meters. Archaeology has demonstrated the authenticity and reliability of the "History of The Chronicle" from the perspective of modern science, and restored the original face of history to the world through historical materials and modern high technology, and we have also seen the real history.