introduction
In Lishan Zhi'a, far from Xianyang, there is a huge mound of sealed earth, which is the famous Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, which has been standing there for more than 2,200 years and is the largest mausoleum in Chinese history. There is no shortage of records in the history books of the luxurious funerary items of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, but it is such an imperial tomb full of rare treasures that has been repeatedly excavated in the past 2200 years, why have the tomb robbers never succeeded?
Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
Located at the foot of Lishan Cape in Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin is a large-scale mausoleum covering an area of 56.25 square kilometers. The entire imperial tomb has two rammed earth walls, inside and outside, and hundreds of tombs and funerary pits have been built around the mausoleum. The mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is 51 meters high, the bottom circumference is more than 1700 meters, equivalent to the size of 5 standard football fields, and the mausoleum is in the shape of a bucket, which is a hill from a distance. Historical records record: "The first emperor took the throne at the beginning of the reign, wore the Lishan Mountains, and joined the world, and sent more than 700,000 disciples under the heavens, wearing three springs, and descending on copper and giving rise." At that time, more than 700,000 people were dispatched to build the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and the project began to be built from 247 BC when Qin Shi Huang ascended the throne, until the death of Qin Shi Huang, and it was not completed, and it was built for 39 years. This imperial tomb shows the world the great military, political and economic strength of the Great Qin Empire and is a symbol of the rise of the Qin State.
Since ancient times, the world has known that the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is full of rare treasures, especially Sima Qian's description of qin shi huang's mausoleum in the "History of Qin Shi Huang Benji": "The palace view of the hundred lawsuits of the strange and strange people are full of treasures... The upper has astronomy and the lower has geography. Take mermaid paste as a candle, and the degree of immortality will last a long time. "It also makes people full of reverie about this imperial tomb." If Sima Qian's writings are true, the Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin is simply a man-made underground wonderland with countless rare treasures. Has no one in the past 2,000 years wanted to steal this mausoleum?
In fact, in history, there were many people who stole the tomb of Qin Shi Huang. First, Xiang Yu burned the ground building of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, and then ordered the soldiers to dig up the Imperial Tomb; then the Chimei Army also stole the Qin Shi Huang to pay the army; and then Huang Chao and Wen Tao both stole the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum on a large scale. According to statistics, there are hundreds of large and small robbery caves left over from the past dynasties on the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, but these tomb robbers simply cannot dig into the mausoleum, even if the tomb robber legions with tens of thousands of people like Huang Chao and Wen Tao have not been able to shake the tomb of Qin Shi Huang.
Four reasons
So, why has the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang been repeatedly excavated in the past 2200 years, but the tomb robbers have never succeeded? Looking at history, fangyuan vision believes that there are four reasons.
First, the area of the Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin is too large to find the entrance to the underground palace. As we all know, the construction of the imperial tomb level tomb is very exquisite, in general, the tomb body of the mausoleum is made of boulders or cement copper wall iron wall, only through the entrance of the underground palace can enter the interior of the mausoleum, for tomb robbers, want to enter the interior of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum must first find the entrance to the underground palace of the imperial tomb. As can be seen from the satellite map, the cemetery area of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is 8 square kilometers, and the mound has the size of 5 football fields, in such a large area, if you want to find the entrance to the underground palace of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, no high-tech equipment is certainly impossible to achieve, and the ancient tomb robbers who have the current three-dimensional seismic scanning and other high-tech equipment, want to find the entrance to the underground palace is simply difficult to go to the sky, is tantamount to finding a needle in a haystack.
Second, there are many invisible organs in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang that are intimidating. In the historical record of the "History of Qin Shi Huang Benji", there is a rough record of the organs in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang: "Ling Smith made a crossbow arrow, and those who penetrated it shot it at any time." From this record, it can be seen that there are various dark crossbows in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, these dark crossbows are specially designed for preventing tomb robbers, and the mechanisms that cooperate with the dark crossbows also have traps and other fortifications, which kill people invisibly and are daunting.
Third, the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is full of toxic and harmful gases, and easily digging up the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang will cause ecological disasters. Sima Qian recorded in the historical record: "Mercury is used as a hundred rivers and seas, and the machine phase is instilled." This passage shows that the underground palace of qin shi huang mausoleum is full of mercury. Mercury is also "mercury", its chemical element symbol Hg, it is a silvery white shining heavy liquid, chemical properties are stable, mercury is insoluble in acid or alkali, its room temperature can be evaporated, mercury vapor and mercury compounds are highly toxic.
So, is it true that the underground palace of the Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin is full of mercury as Sima Qian said, "with mercury as a hundred rivers and rivers and seas, and machine phase instilling" full of mercury? With the development and progress of science and technology, scientists have used modern instruments to detect that the mercury content in the soil of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum exceeds the standard, which shows that there is indeed a huge amount of mercury in the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, which has evaporated in the past 2,000 years and has penetrated into the soil on the ground. The high concentration of mercury vapor contains high toxicity, even if you open the door of the underground palace and do not do a good job of detoxification and steam removal, you will not be able to enter the underground palace of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, and even a serious ecological disaster.
The fourth is the need to protect cultural relics. Cultural relics are precious cultural heritage left to us by our ancestors, and these heritages are not left to a certain dynasty or a certain person, but to the entire Chinese nation. After the failure of the archaeological excavation of Dingling in 1956, China's cultural relics department painstakingly thought about it and formulated a strict archaeological work system, and at present, China has explicitly prohibited the active excavation of imperial tombs.
epilogue
Regardless of whether the record in the "History of Qin Shi Huang Benji" is true or false, with the existing scientific and technological level of mankind, we dare not rush to open the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, once the level of science and technology cannot keep up, opening the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in a hurry will cause the destruction of thousands of years of treasures, triggering a tragedy in the history of human cultural relics. The archaeological work of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin has a long way to go, and perhaps the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin will be opened one day in the future, and all the mysteries will be revealed.