This world is a colorful world, and it is precisely because of biodiversity that such a brilliant earth is formed. Nature's miraculous craftsmanship often amazes people, because the natural things that appear are more exquisite and wonderful than the materials that many people have carved, and many craftsmen have surrendered to the miraculous work of nature.
Amber is a substance that people like and respect very much, "Lanling wine tulips, jade bowls fill with amber light." In ancient times, amber has become a very popular substance of the literati and inkers, it can be made into a lot of crafts, and its own characteristics are that after wrapping things can not be incorrupted for ten thousand years, so why not use amber to prevent embalming after the emperor dies?
First, immortality and incorruptibility of the body
For thousands of years, immortality has always been something that people pursue and yearn for, especially in ancient China, which was something that rulers were very eager for. In particular, those emperors who wielded all the ways liked to "borrow another 500 years from heaven" to prolong their lifespan and thus better manage the country and their subjects.
But mortals are mortal after all, and such a situation is only often seen in film and television works. There's a movie called Myth, in which the protagonists find a dungeon filled with mercury, so that everyone inside can live forever. The principle is that mercury fills the ground, isolating the outside air, so that the living inside can live forever, and the corpses will not decay for thousands of years.
This shows how strong people's desire for immortality is, and in the hearts of many emperors of the ages, they want to use the power in their hands to obtain this impossible thing. For example, Qin Shi Huang once sent Xu Fudong to Japan to find the medicine for immortality. But he still didn't wait for this thing, and he died on the road.
For example, Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, as the promoter of the great unification of the Chinese nation and also an emperor with outstanding merits, had the same enigmatic idea as Qin Shi Huang in the pursuit of immortality, that is, to devote his life's ability to obtain a longer life. But he didn't get it in the end, and then he was ended by time.
Since they cannot live forever, so many emperors choose to retreat to the second place, hoping that they can come back from the dead, Qin Shi Huang has such a bold conjecture, that is, to make his body immortal, if his descendants find a drug that can revive the dead, they can resurrect their own corpse, then it is very important to find a substance that can preserve the body.
Second, magical amber
It is difficult to achieve at present that the human body is permanently preserved and does not decay, unless an organic life is placed in a vacuum.
In ancient Egypt, many mummies were formed according to such a principle as the gourd painting scoop. The Egyptian pharaohs built pyramids to preserve their intact bodies and mummified themselves.
The mummy is to soak a person's body in water, then air-dried and wrapped in linen cloth and thrown into the pyramid. So what other ways to preserve the body?
In fact, in nature, it is often seen that amber has some microorganisms or insects, and even some plants can be well preserved in it.
It can be seen that amber also has such an effect on protecting the body. In 2011, some ancient artifacts unearthed in Australia appeared a lot of amber, this amber inside there are two flies are pairing, at that time, amber just poured on the two flies, it quickly wrapped the two flies, just like this, the posture of the two flies was also recorded in this way.
Therefore, the way amber can wrap the body has surprised many people. In ancient China, amber has been known to many people for its good effect of preserving the corpses of animals and plants, and in some verses, they have also been able to detect that amber has a very faint aroma. For example, "Once a god of old porphyry, it was originally a cold pine liquid." Mosquitoes fall into it, and the millennium can still be seen."
This sentence of Wei Yingwu illustrates the two major effects of amber, the first of which can be used as a source of aroma. Many amberjourns used by the emperor will add some amber to harmonize the aroma. The second effect of amber is that, as the poem says, if a mosquito falls into amber, it can still be seen even after a thousand years.
Why amber can't wrap a person's body
So, how is the body of the mosquito wrapped in amber formed? In fact, amber is a lipid substance that is dripped from a specific plant. In essence, it is a fossil that has not been bad for many years. In the process of the pine resin dripping down from the tree, it can wrap some small insects or small leaves next to it.
This process is very short, the insects will be surrounded by the north instantaneously, and the amber will form immediately. After it is formed, it is slowly formed at a specific pressure and temperature on the surface. If the appearance and posture of insects before they were born are very regular and legitimate, then after a long process, natural fossil specimens will be formed.
If amber does have the effect of wrapping the body and keeping it from decaying for a thousand years, why didn't the ancient emperors use it that way?
In fact, if the emperor really wants to do this, it is theoretically feasible, but it is really not desirable in real life. Because amber is in the process of formation, it is falling drop by drop, not like a flood pouring down.
Therefore, it is not only short-lived, but also very small in number, it is lipids that drip from trees. Therefore, the traffic is relatively small, but even if it is large, it is impossible to completely envelop an adult's body. So this method can be learned in theory, but it is very difficult to operate in practice.
Many people want to imitate the rubber collection method to collect amber, and then through the day after tomorrow's smelting, amber becomes a special material for preserving corpses.
Such a method was well received by many people as soon as it was proposed, but experts pointed out that this method is even more unlikely to be realized, because the value of amber lies in its natural ingredient.
If it is processed the day after tomorrow, amber will naturally lose its natural effect of preserving corpses, so if you add a series of procedures such as quenching, fire roasting, smelting, etc., then amber is no different from ordinary things.
Naturally, amber cannot preserve a person's body, not even the corpses of some small insects.
Therefore, those emperors who want to use amber to preserve their corpses cannot be realized after all, and they can only work harder on the road of pursuing their own immortality. Regrettably, this path does not seem to be completed, because the emperors who have pursued immortality throughout the ages have invariably reached the end of their lives.