If you are very interested in topics such as archaeology and tomb robbery, you must be familiar with changming lanterns, right? In the film and television works with themes such as tomb robbery adventures, we can often see such a scene, when the protagonist painstakingly opens the door of the ancient tomb, it is not a piece of black paint, on the wall of the tomb, there are two rows of long lamps burning in the shadows, and the atmosphere seems very strange and terrifying. As the name suggests, changming lamp means that it is a lamp that will never go out.
It is said that the Changming Lantern is specially used to be placed in the ancient tomb, so how long the history of the ancient tomb is, how long the Changming Lantern can burn. In addition to the mainland, there are also many legends about the Changming Lantern in the West. Everyone says it so godly, so, does the long light really exist?
So far, the mainland has not found the existence of changming lanterns for the time being. Archaeologists have found some long lanterns in ancient tombs, but they are not veritable long lights, and they have been extinguished for a long time when they are found. Some experts speculate that the long light simply cannot exist. Because the production of fire requires oxygen, and the ancient tomb is a closed place, oxygen is limited, there is always a day that is exhausted, without oxygen, the lamp will be extinguished.
However, there are still some people who truly believe in the existence of the Changming Lantern. According to historical records, in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, there are real Changming lanterns, which are called mermaid lamps. The fuel of the mermaid lamp is made of mermaid oil, because mermaids are creatures with aura, so their oil can burn for thousands of years without disappearing.
Unlike Western legends, the image of the mermaid in mainland legends is not very good. The ancients called the mermaids the mackerel, who were considered evil monsters, cruel in temperament, and liked to harm people. In many myths on the mainland, you can see the figure of the fish people. Like mermaids, the upper body resembles a human being, and the lower body has a fish tail. However, the fish people are far worse than the mermaids. The ancients believed that although the fish people were fierce, their value was great, and legend said that eating their flesh could lead to immortality, their blood could cure all diseases, their tears would turn into pearls, and the oil could burn without disappearing.
However, the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has not been seen to this day, and we do not know whether there is a mermaid lamp that has burned for thousands of years inside. However, the legend of the Changming Lantern has been circulating for so long, presumably there must be a certain factual basis. Do you believe in the existence of mermaid lamps?
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