Why has no one dared to dig up the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang until now? There are several important reasons why you must not dig
In 1974, the tomb of the legendary monarch of the Qin Emperor was finally discovered by modern experts, but until today, 2019, the Tomb of the Qin Emperor is still deep underground, and the experts have not planned to open a tomb, so why until today, no one dares to dig up the mausoleum, in fact, there are several important reasons that determine that this mausoleum cannot be excavated.
Insufficient technology to discover and protect
The existing excavation and protection technology is actually not enough for professionals to open the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, or it can be opened by various methods, but it will cause irreparable damage to the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum underground. After all, as early as modern times, Sun Dianying, a great warlord, had stolen Cixi's tomb, and countless tomb robbers in history had moved on the tombs of ancestors buried in the ground, but most of them relied on brute force, which caused great damage to cultural relics and ancient tombs. If digging it out is destruction, it is better to continue to bury him in the ground, otherwise many precious cultural relics will be damaged in the hands of contemporary people.
In the history of modern China, there are also many examples of cultural relics being damaged due to lack of experience and technology. The rescue of the Mawangdui Han Tomb is a bitter lesson. At that time, due to the digging of the air raid shelter to dig this ancient tomb, so in order to rescue, the cultural security personnel had to dig it. However, the social conditions at that time were poor, and there was also a political rejection of the mining of ancient tombs, so a large number of precious cultural relics were lost in this excavation. Many of them are likely to have difficulty seeing a full existence for our descendants.
Protection is more important than excavation
One of the principles of contemporary archaeology is that basically do not take the initiative to excavate, that is, unless the tomb has to be excavated, let him stay underground. The protection is mainly to deal with those tomb robbers, although in history, the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum has suffered countless tomb robbers, but due to the perfection of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum itself, it has not suffered too much loss. So, what archaeologists have to do now is basically maintain security.
It requires huge material and financial resources
Every excavation of the ancient tomb requires huge material resources and financial resources, and tomb robbers are not the same, archaeologists are for the protection of cultural relics and excavation of ancient tombs, which naturally need to protect every part of the ancient tomb, these need money and manpower, and spend such a large price, but mining the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, may take more than three years to complete the excavation of the Qin Emperor's Tomb, which can certainly develop cultural wealth and tourism value. The amount of money and manpower needed is also unimaginable.
Mercury and structure inside the Tomb of the Qin Emperor
In fact, the reason why so many people pay attention to the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, hoping that one day they can excavate it and appreciate its style, probably lies in the description of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum in the "History", Sima Qian, in his own writings, said that the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum "uses mercury as a hundred rivers and seas" This is not a simple imagination, but a real internal structure of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum. Such a magnificent ancient tomb naturally gives people unlimited reverie.
However, these mercury also determines the huge danger behind this tomb, under long-term closed conditions, mercury has evaporated into steam, if it is really as recorded in the history books, it means that once these vapors are released, they will spread everywhere, and mercury is poisonous, naturally can not let it volatilize in nature. At the same time, there must be many organs in the structure of the underground palace itself, and even with the courage of the Qin Emperor, the decision of someone to invade the underground palace will be directly buried, which naturally makes the mining of the Qin Emperor's mausoleum more difficult.
If one day the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum is mined, Xiaobian believes that it will become the focus of the world, then in everyone's opinion, will this day be far away?
Reference: Chronicle of History