Why can't the tomb of Qin Shi Huang be opened? Because once in the archaeological community, there was a tragedy. More than 60 years ago, a man named Wu Han, together with another person named Guo Moruo, jumped on his feet to dig dingling tombs, and repeatedly assured the state that this excavation mission would be successful and would not cause damage to dingling.
As a result, this excavation has become the biggest tragedy in the history of Archaeology in China, due to lack of experience, as well as technical reasons, almost all the excavated cultural relics were destroyed, and the golden wire column coffin of the Wanli Emperor was even abandoned in the wild, and was picked up by farmers as firewood.
With this bitter lesson, the archaeological community has a rule: never take the initiative to excavate ancient tombs, never take the initiative to excavate ancient tombs, never take the initiative to excavate ancient tombs - important things are said three times.
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Seriously, I feel that people in the Chinese archaeological community are not worth it, because there is always a group of idiots who are at the bottom of society and have high anti-intellectual sentiments, who describe archaeology as tomb robbery.
This group of fools, who have no idea about the value of archaeology to human history, have nothing to do when they are full, sit in front of the computer while cutting their feet and spraying powder, emitting the stench of the walking dead.
In the professional and formal archaeological community, it is never necessary to take the initiative to dig other people's graves, in addition to the Dingling Tomb, so far the ancient tombs excavated by the Chinese archaeological community are for the following reasons:
1. Due to natural reasons, the ancient tomb was damaged;
2. The tomb has been stolen by lawbreakers;
3. Due to the construction, the ancient tomb was excavated.
For example, the Mawangdui Han Tomb, which shocked China and foreign countries, was discovered during the construction of war projects; for example, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses were inadvertently discovered by farmers when digging wells.
In these cases, it must be excavated, otherwise the tomb will be more seriously damaged, so it is called "rescue excavation" or "protective excavation".
History of the theft of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin
The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin is very large, including Lintong, Lishan and other places, with an area of more than 56 square kilometers, equivalent to 78 Forbidden City, after all, 700,000 laborers were used that year, and the project could not be strengthened.
According to Sima Qian's "Records of History", the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was indeed filled with a large number of rare treasures, and in order to prevent theft, there were many elaborately designed organs.
However, no matter how exquisite and dangerous those organs are, they cannot stop the greed of mankind, and there are indeed many people in history who covet the treasures in the tomb of The First Emperor of Qin:
Xiang Yu had destroyed the palaces and mausoleums of the Qin Dynasty that year, the more famous such as Afang Palace was burned down by him, and the funeral pit of Qin Shi Huang also had signs of being destroyed, such as the No. 2 Terracotta Warriors pit, which may have been damaged by Xiang Yu.
Since the Qin Dynasty, whenever the world is in chaos, warlords are fighting, in order to raise soldiers, all forces will focus on ancient tombs, such as the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Han Dynasty, the tomb robbery group already had a national team, Cao Cao is a good hand; the Yellow Nest of the Tang Dynasty also seems to covet the treasures in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang; until the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang also attracted the attention of many warlords, and Liu Zhenhua stole the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in the name of building a military construction site.
This is a formal tomb robbery group organized into a climate, and as for the examples of those non-governmental tomb robbery organizations, there are too many to count.
Qin Shi Huang Underground Palace
The scope of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is very wide, such as the Terracotta Warriors, which is part of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, so it is not rigorous to say that the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum has not been excavated.
The place where our eyes are gathered now should be precise: the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin.
The underground palace is the location of the coffin of Qin Shi Huang, it should also be the most cultural relics, the most precious, the most luxurious place to build, fortunately, although the qin shi huang mausoleum in history has been stolen many times, but the qin shi huang underground palace is still very likely to be complete, China has launched the 863 plan, the qin shi huang mausoleum has been explored, the main purpose is to determine whether there is really a dungeon, determine the location of the underground palace, and whether the underground palace is intact.
Later, we used a more advanced and more scientific way to explore the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Underground Palace many times, and the existing results show that the qin shi huang mausoleum has been destroyed on a large scale, and many robbery holes have been found, but the soil layer superimposed relationship is clear, and there is a strong mercury reaction in the underground palace, but it is concentrated and regular, which can show that the Qin Shi Huang underground palace has not been artificially destroyed.
So we don't have to worry at all that the Qin Shi Huang Underground Palace has been stolen.
Why not dig?
Since the dungeon has been explored, and it is highly likely that the dungeon is intact and not stolen, why not dig it first?
In addition to the main reason for "not actively excavating ancient tombs" mentioned earlier, there are also practical technical problems in front of us:
1. Excavation problems
The scale of the Qin Shi Huang Underground Palace is unique in the whole world, and the underground building of civil structures, China has no precedent for excavation, and there is no such experience in the world. In other areas, a failure is nothing more than a lesson for a little money, but ancient cultural heritage is a non-renewable, non-replicable resource, and if it goes wrong, it will not be saved.
2. The protection of cultural relics
The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin has a history of thousands of years, and the cultural relics in it are quite fragile, and if the protection measures are not careful in the excavation process, they will be damaged or even weathered, which has been taught when excavating the Dingling Tomb. Moreover, even if all preparations are made during excavation, a large number of excavated cultural relics are another problem in subsequent maintenance.
When the terracotta warriors were unearthed, they were colored, very now, because the technology did not meet the protection requirements at that time, the current terracotta warriors are like the earth and the earth, there is no color, very regrettable. But the terracotta warriors are protective excavations, which is beyond reproach.
The problem of protection and maintenance is not solved, and it is obviously unwise to blindly excavate the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
3, the investment is too large
The investment in excavating the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Underground Palace is not only the cost of excavation, but also the cost of protection and maintenance after excavation, the construction cost of the museum, etc., and the specific tens of billions of yuan is not something I can calculate.
How much manpower is required for such large-scale excavation, as well as post-maintenance, is also unknown.
Excavation time must also be very large, the library is a very precise work, each piece of cultural relics unearthed must be careful, nothing else, on the terracotta army is only a small part of the entire Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, China has been excavating for decades, if you want to excavate the underground palace, the time consumption can be imagined.
There are many other reasons why I will not enumerate them all.
brief summary
Because of its grand scale and rich cultural relics, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has attracted the attention of all Chinese for thousands of years, people are full of curiosity about it, and it has suffered many large-scale destructions, but fortunately, the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum Underground Palace is still intact.
What our generation has to do is to protect the mausoleum and the underground palace of Qin Shi Huang, and when it does not encounter risks, it should not be blindly excavated, and, in terms of manpower, material resources, financial resources, and time, it is also unwise to excavate the qin shi huang underground palace today.
The legacy left by the ancestors can no longer be excavated by our generation, we have all done it, what will future generations do?