Did Xiang Yu steal a tomb?
"The First Tomb of a Thousand Ages" - The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin is an underground kingdom full of mysteries, although more than 2,000 years have passed, it is still full of many appalling unsolved mysteries.
In history, many people who fought the idea of qin shi huang's mausoleum, from Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu, to Guo Moruo in modern times, all wanted to unveil its veil, but they failed to hurt it in the slightest.
Later, in the process of exploring the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, modern experts actually found the bodies of two tomb robbers, who were full of arrows, and the death was shocking, making people "think about it and be extremely afraid".
What are the secrets in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang?
Was it really stolen?
To talk about why all the generations have been indispensable to people who have made suggestions about the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, first of all, let's understand what is in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
The year Qin Shi Huang ascended the throne, he began to order the construction of the imperial mausoleum, which took 39 years and cost 700,000 laborers to build, you know, the total population at that time was only about 7 million.
The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin stretches for 25 kilometers from east to west and 7 kilometers from north to south, which is about the size of 80 Forbidden Cities.
As for the funerary items after the death of Qin Shi Huang, it is recorded in the "Records of History": The Palace View Hundred Officials Strange Instrument Rare and Strange Migration Zang Manzhi.
That is to say, there are countless rare treasures in it, not only jade jadeite, pearl faience pottery, but even the famous Heshi Bi that has been passed down through the ages is also in the funerary items.
Legend has it that when Yingzheng was buried, the transport of these funerary goods alone was enough to transport for several months, and even the "golden jade clothes" that appeared in various suspense novels were also worn on the body of Qin Shi Huang.
The golden jade garment is made of special jade and gold thread, and it is said that wearing it on the body can make the body incorruptible for thousands of years, and even in many fantasy novels, it can still bring people back to life.
Since we know that there are so many treasures in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, how can future generations not be red-eyed?
The first person to pay attention to the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was Xiang Yu.
According to the "Story of the Three Auxiliaries", after Xiang Yu led his troops into the pass, he first killed the Qin princes and infants and other nobles of the Qin Dynasty, and then took 300,000 soldiers and horses to steal the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin.
After Xiang Yu ordered the people to dig up the imperial tomb, they pulled away all the things they could see in a carriage, and the 300,000 soldiers and horses transporting the treasures at that time were transported for 30 days and nights, which was enough to show the richness of the treasures in the imperial tombs.
Later, there were still some that had not been transported, Xiang Yu simply set a fire to burn it to the essence, if this was true, then this should be the biggest trauma that qin shi huang mausoleum had suffered in thousands of years.
Later, when Cao Cao was vying for world domination, in order to steal the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, he also specially formed a team of lieutenants who touched the gold, and even Huang Chao, who rebelled during the Tang Dynasty, and Guo Moruo in the Republic of China, had once thought about the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
But without exception, they all ended up failing.
The death of the grave robber is "extremely frightening"
In the historical materials of successive dynasties, there are records of the theft of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Shi Huang, among which there are data showing that the Tomb of the First Qin Shi Huang was stolen during the Song Dynasty.
However, the strange thing is that there is a special space in the "Records of History" to talk about Qin Shi Huang, but there is no mention of the theft of Qin Shi Huang's mausoleum.
Of course, so far, whether Xiang Yu has stolen the Tomb of The First Emperor of Qin, and even whether people in later generations have really opened the Tomb of the First Emperor of Qin, there are still many opinions, and many people have also come up with ironclad evidence to prove that Xiang Yu's tomb robbery is a rumor.
In modern society more than 2,000 years later, archaeologists have made some discoveries that prove the truth about Xiang Yu's tomb robbery.
In 1980, there was a tomb on the west side of the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and two "copper carriages" from the Qin Dynasty were found in the tomb road, and the two copper carriages were restored according to the real size 1:2.
The bronze carriage was lifelike, and there was no sign of being destroyed or burned, since this was found in the tomb passage, if Xiang Yu really entered the tomb to rob the tomb, it was impossible to ignore such a huge cultural relic.
In addition, after investigation, experts found that the sealed soil on the underground palace did not show any signs of sinking and loosening, and for more than 2,000 years, many robbery holes were indeed found around the underground palace.
The specific time of the robbery cave is no longer speculative, but no matter what era of the robbery cave, the sealing layer of the underground palace has no trace of being destroyed, which means that no tomb robber has really succeeded.
For decades, archaeologists have been trying to excavate the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and tens of thousands of exploration holes have been drilled around the underground palace.
According to the current research findings, the entire Mausoleum of the First Qin Shi Huang is surrounded by a 4-meter-thick palace wall, and the palace wall is also wrapped in stone bricks, which is hard from the inside to the outside.
There are several Yongdao in the Imperial Tomb, and when experts surveyed with instruments, 2 remains were found in the Yongdao outside the Mausoleum of the First Qin Shi Huang, and these two remains have been completely weathered into white bones, and the age is unpredictable.
The two remains were filled with arrows, apparently dead from random arrows, which archaeologists speculate should have been caused by tomb robbers trying to break into the imperial tomb and trigger the mechanism.
What is shocking is that the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has a history of more than 2,000 years, and after thousands of years, the organs in the mausoleum can still function, and this is only the periphery of the imperial tomb, which is enough to see how big Qin Shi Huang's handwriting was at that time.
In Sima Qian's "Records of History", it was recorded that the craftsman made a crossbow arrow, and those who penetrated it shot it.
That is to say, the craftsman made a mechanism, as long as someone is close, it will trigger the mechanism, and the arrow will shoot out.
There is this legendary mechanism at the entrance of the underground palace alone, and the interior of the underground palace does not know what kind of scene it is.
Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is the first royal mausoleum in Chinese history, because people in ancient feudal society believe that "things die as if they were born", so in fact, qin shi huang mausoleum was built according to the capital of the Qin state - Xianyang.
The entire Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is in the shape of a "Hui" character, and the middle is the core of the entire underground palace, that is to say, the entire Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is wrapped in the central position from the inside to the outside layer.
Don't say whether Xiang Yu ever stole the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, even if he really succeeded, he only stole the periphery of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, and the real core part had never really entered it.
Later generations of archaeologists have used remote sensing and geophysical exploration to explore the entire imperial tomb, and found that the core underground palace is under the sealed mound, about 35 meters deep from the ground.
The burial chamber is right in the middle of the dungeon, about the size of a playground.
According to the probe, the entire burial chamber is well preserved, no collapse, no water, enough to see how strong the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin is.
So many people ask, since they know that it is well preserved, and the location of the burial chamber can be accurately detected, once excavated, it will definitely bring a huge turning point to the study of human history.
Why not dig for it?
In fact, it is not that people do not want to dig, but they cannot dig.
The "Water Galaxy" is full of dungeons
In different historical sources, the behavior of a Qin Shi Huang is recorded, that is, Qin Shi Huang once let people fill the underground palace with mercury.
During the construction of the imperial tomb, Qin Shi Huang once gathered more than 400 tons of mercury from all over the country and let the workers pour it into the underground palace, and the passage in the underground palace became a river, and they were all filled with mercury.
If excavated forcibly, the mercury in the underground palace will leak and volatilize, and the consequences will be unimaginable, although people are not close to the mausoleum of the first emperor of Qin, the surrounding soil, air, water resources, etc. will also be destroyed.
Although for thousands of years, whether the underground palace was filled with mercury is still debated, but according to experts on the soil quality testing of the periphery of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, it was found that the mercury content around the area did exceed the standard.
That is to say, it is very likely that the depths of the dungeon will really be filled with mercury, so that only the soil around the periphery has been contaminated.
These mercury not only protected the mausoleum from being stolen so far, but also made it impossible for posterity to excavate it, which is enough to show that qin shi huang did hollow out his mind in order to build this mausoleum at that time.
In addition, even if the imperial tomb has really been successfully excavated with today's technology, people cannot guarantee that the cultural relics in the imperial tomb can be protected for the first time.
As we all know, when the original terracotta warriors were unearthed, because of the problem of oxidation, the color endangered appearance was instantaneously, and the underground palace was isolated from the world for more than 2,000 years, if it contained inorganic substances, a chemical reaction would inevitably occur when it came into contact with the air.
There is even speculation that they have been isolated from the world for so long, whether they have given birth to some kind of virus in the dungeon is not easy to say, once these become a reality, whether human beings can cope with it is the biggest question.
In addition, what is less known is that around the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, there are also tomb keepers, who have guarded this place for generations, and after Liu Bang established the Western Han Dynasty, he once sent more than 20 families to be the tomb keepers.
Since then, many emperors of various dynasties have issued orders to protect the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and even during the Song Dynasty, the emperor ordered the repair of the imperial tomb.
During the Qing Dynasty, some people also erected monuments for the Mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin, which is enough to see the weight of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin in the hearts of people in all dynasties.
Today, although our science and technology have been relatively developed, under the premise of not being able to carry out the greatest protection of the Mausoleum of The First Qin Shi Huang, the state has decided to protect the Mausoleum of the First Qin Shi Huang mainly.
After all, The purpose of Building the Imperial Tomb was to prevent future generations from disturbing him.
So far, among the 100 archaeological discoveries in the world, the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is listed among them, and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of qin Shi Huang Mausoleum have also been shortlisted for the "Top Ten Archaeological Selections of Mankind".
For the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, although excavation can have a profound impact on human civilization, not excavating is the greatest protection for it.
Maybe one day, we can find a glimpse of the scene in the underground palace without destroying the mausoleum of The First Emperor of Qin, or discover many treasures, which will provide a huge turning point for us to study human civilization.