When it comes to tourism, the ancient city of Xi'an is a check-in place in the minds of many people, and you can feel the thick history of the mainland when you come here, the history of Xi'an can be traced back to ancient times, and 13 dynasties have set this place as the capital.
The paragraph of Xi'an Metro is also widely circulated on the Internet: don't wonder why the Xi'an Metro is built so slowly, because the construction unit of the subway is an archaeological team, and other cities repair the subway are shield machines plus various advanced machines, only Xi'an is relying on archaeologists to take a small shovel to dig one by one, to say the reason, it is not because Xi'an has dug too many ancient tombs out, and finally can only let the archaeological team out.
Although the jokes on the Internet have a certain element of banter, the situation reflected is true, and Xi'an has really dug up many mausoleums of great value. But to say that the most famous is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. The owner of this imperial tomb was the first emperor in the history of the mainland, and according to historical records, it took a total of 39 years to repair.
The Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor can be said to be one of the most concerned events in the country and even the world, after all, a terracotta army excavated with a burial pit has become famous all over the world.
The terracotta army, discovered in 1974, can be called an underground military museum, and former French Prime Minister Jacques Chirac, who visited in 1978, admired the terracotta army as a miracle in human history. Its advent made people full of reverie about the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
According to historical records, nearly 800,000 people were recruited when the mausoleum was built, and it was repaired for nearly 40 years, and it was not repaired until Qin Shi Huang's death, until Qin II succeeded to the throne and built it for more than a year before it was finally completed. The mausoleum displays countless valuable treasures, and more than 400 burial pits and tombs have been discovered.
The ancients paid the most attention to feng shui, and the imperial tomb should choose a place with excellent feng shui. This mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is bordered by Lishan Mountain to the south and Weishui to the north. Located in the arms of Mount Li, the mausoleum is integrated with the mountain and resembles the stamen of a lotus flower, making it an excellent choice for setting up a mausoleum even from a modern perspective. According to ancient books, the mausoleum of the first emperor is surrounded by mountains in the south and surrounded by water on three sides, and the geographical location is very superior.
Judging from the satellite cloud image, the location of the mausoleum is like the dragon's eye of this dragon-shaped mountain range, such a location for the ancients who believe in feng shui, the imperial mausoleum is located here, which is destined to make many tomb robbers daunted.
However, there are still many written records, from ancient times to the present, almost all historical periods have tried to open the imperial tomb and peek into its secrets. The most well-known destroyer should be Xiang Yu.
After Xiang Yu entered Guanzhong , he destroyed and excavated the imperial tomb, while Liu Bang, after gaining the world, ordered the imperial tomb to be properly protected to win the hearts of the people.
The Book of Han also records the story of a shepherd child accidentally crashing into the imperial tomb underground palace in order to find a lost sheep, and accidentally causing a fire.
The Chimei Army during the Wang Mang period, Huang Chao in the Tang Dynasty, and Wen Tao in the Fifth Dynasty all have records of their attacks on the imperial tomb because they raised military salaries. In the Republican period, there were more warlords who coveted the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
So seeing this, it is estimated that everyone has a question in their hearts, these tomb robbers of previous generations, did they really attack the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang as recorded in the history books? And to what extent? The relevant departments of the mainland have used modern technology and synthesized all data and materials to analyze, first determined that the underground palace is real, and the main body of the tomb has not collapsed and flooded, and secondly, the tomb robbers have also been really stolen, but these tomb robbers have not dug into the underground palace, that is to say, the treasures in the underground palace have not been robbed.
Since we all know that the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang may have many rare treasures, why is it not touched by tomb thieves? This is mainly related to one substance, which is mercury.
There has always been a legend that in order to indicate that the first emperor sat on the world and ruled the rivers and mountains, a large amount of mercury was used to represent the currents of the rivers and rivers.
In order to verify this legend, the geological department also found an abnormal distribution of mercury levels after measuring the soil of the mound of the imperial tomb. Proving that the legend should be true, there is indeed a large amount of mercury in the underground palace, which can reach hundreds of tons.
The ancients believed that mercury had the effect of warding off evil spirits, but also repelling ghosts, and the mercury in the tomb also played a protective role in the mausoleum, if there were tomb robbers sneaking in, there was no gas mask in ancient times, and the toxins of mercury alone were enough to kill them, perhaps this is the greatest contribution to the preservation of the imperial tomb!
Due to the limitations of archaeological technology, let this ancient emperor's mausoleum sleep quietly until there is no way to preserve the tomb, and hope that in the future we will see the day when the answer is revealed!