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From ancient times to the present, the word eternal life has been on the lips of many people.
Especially the rich and wealthy.
They have traversed the beauty of the world, are accustomed to all kinds of glory, and enjoy the blessings of all people.
How to live forever has become their pursuit at a higher level.
Among them, the most powerful and eager to realize this wish of immortality is the so-called "Son of Heaven".
For the sake of eternal power and status, their pursuit of the art of immortality has reached the point of obsession.
Among the emperors, Qin Shi Huang's desire to win the government was particularly strong in this regard.
After completing the great cause of reunification, he became obsessed with a kind of "yuan water" that claimed to be able to live forever.
But he could never have imagined that the thing he drank not only failed to help him live forever, but shortened his lifespan.
So much so that he only lived to be 49 years old and died screaming.
So, what exactly is Yuanshui?
Why did Qin Shi Huang die early?
Seeking immortality, repeatedly failing and seeking, seeking medicine and cultivating immortals for immortality
In the first half of Qin Shi Huang's life, he unified the six kingdoms and pacified the four seas, which was the existence of the first gear in the entire history of China.
China's culture, territory, system, etc., are unified under his orders.
Obviously, at that time, the position of the supreme in the world was none other than him.
It was precisely because he stood at the peak that he began to think about the question of life and death.
After defeating all enemies, Qin Shi Huang chose to fight for life and be the enemy of Yan King.
He wants to be the master of his own life, and does not want to be bound by birth, old age, illness and death.
He wants to be emperor forever.
So, Qin Shi Huang began to search for the elixir of life.
In 219 BC, just after the consecration ceremony, he came to Langya Tai and met a local priest named Xu Fu.
After some conversation, this Fangshi learned of Qin Shi Huang's intentions.
Therefore, he wrote to Qin Shi Huang: In the East China Sea, there are three islands: Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou.
It is inhabited by immortals, and there is immortal grass, which can live forever after taking it.
Hearing this news, Qin Shihuang was overjoyed and expectant, and immediately sent Xu Fu to take the boy and girl into the sea to seek immortals.
Soon after, Qin Shi Huang also learned that the name of the immortals on the island was Envy Gate and High Oath.
So, he sent Lu Sheng again and led a group of people down to the East China Sea, hoping to meet the immortals and ask for some elixirs.
If it is understandable to ask for medicine, then his behavior of cultivating immortals can be called strange.
In 212 BC, Qin Shi Huang adopted Lu Sheng's suggestion and began his great business of cultivating immortals.
He showed the "immortal" style in his life, and no longer called himself "Xuan", but changed to "real person".
The two hundred miles of palace views around Xianyang were all connected by him through underground passages.
He wants to hide his whereabouts, as mysterious as a fairy.
In this way, he came into contact with the immortals earlier and obtained the elixir of life.
After cultivating for a period of time, Qin Shi Huang toured the east again, and then went to Langya to summon Xu Fu, who had been looking for medicine here for a long time.
At this time, Xu Fu had already spent a large amount of silver taels on Ying Zheng, but he didn't even see the shadow of the magic medicine.
Fearing that Qin Shi Huang would punish him, he lied that there were big fish blocking him from reaching Immortal Island.
Qin Shi Huang was furious after hearing this.
He thought that he was the emperor who unified the world, and he was a "real person" who was diligent in cultivation, how could this fish dare to oppose him.
Perhaps, the people who ruled the world could no longer satisfy Qin Shi Huang's desires, or maybe Xiu Xian fell into madness, and Qin Shi Huang actually asked Big Fish to make him a subject.
Therefore, Qin Shi Huang gathered a group of fishing experts and personally went to sea, intending to kill this big fish together.
Coincidentally, he actually killed a big fish at that time.
In this way, Xu Fu's lie became a reality, and the obstruction of visiting the immortals became a smooth road.
Qin Shi Huang, who was impatient, sent Han Zhi and others to the sea again to seek medicine.
Alchemy medicine finally got the yuan water, and drinking the "miracle medicine" returned to heaven
According to historical records, Han Zhi not only knew how to find immortal medicine, but also studied how to refine elixir.
His research methods are recorded in the book "Holding Puzi": "And Han Zhi Dan Method, Qi Honey and Dan Frying Clothing, can prolong the long view." “
This Taoist master disciple has cultivated the great method of refining elixirs, and wants to borrow the resources of the first emperor from Qin Shi Huang and allocate materials from all over the empire for him to show his strength.
When batch after batch of messengers failed to obtain the elixir of immortality, Qin Shi Huang finally became impatient.
Instead of passively waiting, it is better to take your fate into your own hands.
In line with this principle, Qin Shi Huang focused on Han Zhi's alchemy technique, poured out Qin's material resources, and helped Taoist priests practice divine pills.
All in order to be promoted from emperor to immortal when the great achievement is completed.
During that time, he built a place for refining pills in the Xianyang Palace, and in the five lakes and seas, he transported white shadows, red copper and lead, and ordered Han to finally cast divine magic and use Danding to refine day and night.
Countless failures, countless times.
Han Zhi's efforts finally paid off in return.
A new liquid based on "chicken bloodstone" and other ores was born.
This immediately attracted great attention from Qin Shi Huang.
Qin Shi Huang wanted to inspect the goods, and the inspection equipment was a batch of corpses of death row prisoners.
He ordered the body to be given a little liquid.
Who expected that this batch of corpses was really not decomposed, it was simply the effect of immortality.
Hearing this result, the First Emperor was happy.
In order for the dragon body to not die, he named this divine water "Yuan Shui" and regularly took it according to strict dosage standards.
While drinking "Yuan Water", Qin Shi Huang did not slack off in the matter of searching for immortal grass.
He was originally prepared with both hands to get the maximum possible prolongation of life.
However, Qin Shi Huang never thought that with his "Yuanshui" protective body, death would come so quickly and urgently.
On the way to the third eastern tour, he suddenly fell seriously ill and could not get up after collapsing.
In the end, he died at the age of 49.
Reasonably, when exploring the cause of Qin Shi Huang's death, later generations focused on the "Yuan Water" that he must drink every day.
They found that it turned out that the elemental composition of Yuanshui's raw material chicken blood stone was not ordinary.
After it is refined, it is the famous poison - mercury.
This substance is indeed a good helper for antiseptic.
As a result, the bodies of those executed prisoners were able to remain intact.
But to be used on normal people, this is a dangerous product that poisons life.
It's just that Qin Shi Huang is worried that others will become the first person to live forever, and he doesn't want to use living people for experiments.
At that time, he only poured "yuan water" into the corpse.
In this way, he did not know until his death, antiseptic and highly toxic are the dual characteristics of "yuan water".
In other words, he poisons himself every day.
Dying like this, after so long to die of illness, is also a miracle.
However, there are also many descendants who believe that the alchemist Han finally knew the harm of this substance from the beginning.
However, in order to realize his ambition, he set the daily dose of "yuan water" at a very small dose.
What I want is not to poison Qin Shi Huang all at once.
When the first emperor's physical condition improved, Han could finally attribute this to Yuanshui's credit.
When the First Emperor's health deteriorated, he could explain that he had eaten something else.
No matter how it makes sense, Han is always in a favorable position.
But this can't help but make people wonder, the first emperor I is wise, really unaware of this matter?
Taking poison is not unwise to win the government, and it is believed that the rumors led to the early death of the emperor
Qin Shi Huang can unify the six countries, and his IQ must be a crushing level existence.
It's a pity that he was blinded by immortality.
And the reason why he took "Yuan Shui" was not only to witness the phenomenon of corpses not decaying, but also for an important reason.
That is, Han finally resounded throughout the country.
"Tangzi" Yun: "Immortal Han is finally Han Feng's brother, collecting medicine for the king of Song, but the king refused to take it, and finally because of it, he became an immortal."
"The Legend of the Immortals" cloud: "The king of Yan sent Han to finally take medicine, and the king first made Han finally take it, and his face was like gold."
That is to say, long before the reign of Yingzheng, the King of Song and the King of Yan sent Han to find medicine for them.
And after Han finally ate the medicine he found, his face was like gold, like an immortal.
With such strong qualifications, Han finally became a fairy language when he spoke.
What Han Chenglian was also bound to be an immortal medicine, and Qin Shihuang believed it.
summary
Death is something that everyone has to surpass.
Various figures, represented by Qin Shi Huang, tried their best, not only could not surpass the limitations of death, but faced death early because they did not understand science.
Fortunately, science, which was once unknown even to the emperor, has become common knowledge known to everyone.
The death that was once feared, because of the development of science, has been delayed as much as possible.
Under the protection of modern science, seventy years old is not ancient, and a hundred years old is increasingly common.
Therefore, from this point of view, prolonging life and transcending death does not rely on witchcraft, not fangshi, not fairy grass, but solid science.
One by one, the behind-the-scenes heroes hidden in the battlefield of science and technology, and the researchers buried in the laboratory represent mankind, using science and technology as a weapon to challenge death.
They want to prolong life, they want to defeat disease, they want to find a way to break people's fear of death for thousands of years.
Because of their efforts, many diseases that affect health have been overcome.
At the same time, they provide a vision for mankind to show the bright future of technological development:
For example, cloning technology, 3D printing technology.
The future can be created and is worth looking forward to.
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"Holding Puzi"
"History"
"Tangzi"
"The Legend of the Immortals"