The Great Wall of China has stood for more than 2,000 years. The Great Wall was originally built in the Qin Dynasty, a very distant time when houses were built not in the same way as the reinforced concrete used by modern people. Modern buildings, on the other hand, are made of reinforced concrete, which makes the houses stronger and last longer.
So what materials did Qin Shi Huang add to the Great Wall to make the Great Wall stand for more than 2,000 years?
The military defense works of the King of Qin
Qin Shi Huang was the first veritable emperor in the history of the mainland, and he single-handedly established the first centralized feudal dynasty on the mainland, leaving a strong mark in Chinese history. During the reign of Qin Shi Huang, although his rule was relatively brutal, he was also a man of political vision and military ambition. For example, in terms of military defense, he built the Great Wall, when the Qin Dynasty had just been unified and its internal affairs were not yet completely stable, and at such a moment, the nomads in the north of the mainland began to harass the borders of the Qin Dynasty.
For example, the Huns. The Xiongnu fought many battles with the Qin army, and although there were losses and wins, the Qin Dynasty did not fundamentally defend against the Xiongnu invasion. Later, Qin Shi Huang came up with a plan, which was to build the Great Wall that stretched for thousands of miles as a defense of the northern frontier of the mainland, and appointed Qin soldiers to guard each beacon tower.
It is precisely because of the protective effect of the Great Wall that for a long time, the northern nomads did not interfere with the border areas of the mainland, so that the common people of the Qin Dynasty could live in peace and happiness without being harassed by foreign peoples. The construction of the Great Wall demanded by Qin Shi Huang was very laborious, and many people worked hard every day to build the Great Wall.
According to the records of historical data, Qin Shi Huang spent a total of 9 years to build the Great Wall, and the amount of work of the Great Wall is very huge, which is rare in ancient and modern times. In modern society, the Great Wall has also become one of the symbols of China and a symbol of Chinese civilization. The Great Wall was built from the Qin Dynasty, and now it has gone through more than 2,000 years of baptism, in these 2,000 years, history has undergone earth-shattering changes.
Glutinous rice juice is used as a building material
What exactly are the building materials used in the Great Wall?
This is permeated with the profound wisdom and strategy of Qin Shi Huang. According to relevant documents, the material used to build the Great Wall was glutinous rice juice. Of course, glutinous rice juice does not refer to the kind of drink made purely from glutinous rice, but its essence is to boil glutinous rice into a sauce, and then mix it with cement, and the mixing ratio is also a certain particular.
When the two are combined, the building material is very well cohesive. The sturdiness of its material can be compared with modern reinforced concrete, and there are many families in contemporary life who use glutinous rice to glue couplets or couplets during the Spring Festival. How much glutinous rice raw materials were needed to build the Great Wall? At that time, the social productivity of the Qin Dynasty was relatively low on the whole, and the world had just been unified, and the problem of people's food and clothing had not been fundamentally solved. In such a situation, will the use of a large amount of glutinous rice raw materials to build the Great Wall be criticized by the people?
Even in contemporary China, where the productive forces are more developed, the use of glutinous rice juice to build materials will incur huge costs, and its price is also astronomical, I believe that no one wants to use glutinous rice juice to build houses. But in the Qin Dynasty, the building materials used in the construction of the Great Wall are indeed glutinous rice juice, which requires a large amount of glutinous rice raw materials, the living conditions of the people at that time were very bad, even if even food and clothing could not be solved, in such difficult conditions, Qin Shi Huang still insisted on using a large number of glutinous rice materials to build the Great Wall, which caused a great burden to the people, but Qin Shi Huang still insisted on his own ideas.
According to relevant historical documents, Qin Shi Huang asked people all over the country to grow glutinous rice in large quantities and use the large amount of glutinous rice to build the Great Wall against foreign enemies. Although the construction of the Great Wall caused a lot of mental pain and a lot of energy to the people, we now have the opportunity to see the great Great Wall, which is still the credit of Qin Shi Huang, and Qin Shi Huang's foresight can be seen from this. He spared no expense to build a unique Great Wall. Another ingenious method used in the construction of the Great Wall in the Qin Dynasty was to use local materials.
Locally sourced and chemically built the city
The construction of the Great Wall requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and various accidents may occur on the way to the construction site, so the builders at that time tried to choose local materials and make full use of the materials of the existing site to carry out the construction of the Great Wall. For example, people often mix sand and reeds to build the Great Wall.
Reeds contain a lot of salt, and in gravel they contain a lot of alkali. When salts and alkalis are mixed with each other, a chemical reaction occurs, resulting in new chemicals that are strongly adhesive. This is a proper practical example of ancient chemical theory! As a result, new building materials made by blending reeds and gravel could make buildings stronger, and people today have to admire their ingenuity and ingenuity when mentioning that the working people of the Qin Dynasty used this method to build the Great Wall.
In the field of military protection in the later generations of the Qin Dynasty, the Great Wall played a unique role. The Great Wall is very high, and there are many opportunities to monitor the enemy's every move. Even if the enemy attacks suddenly, it can have plenty of time to defend, and the beacon tower on the Great Wall is even more imposing and has a very practical military function. In addition, the Great Wall also plays an important role in hoarding weapons and food, which can cope with long-term military battles, and can also provide soldiers with sufficient food and grass to cope with difficult battles.
The Great Wall built by Qin Shi Huang is a great symbol of Chinese civilization. As far as modern society is concerned, Qin Shi Huang has become an important symbol of Chinese civilization, which has increased the patriotic enthusiasm and self-confidence of the sons and daughters of all ethnic groups on the mainland. The Great Wall of China is unique in the world, and when people see this majestic and magnificent Great Wall, they think of the diligence and wisdom of the ancient Chinese people. This Great Wall has now become a symbol of China, a great symbol, which embodies the wisdom and courage of the Chinese people and the great spirit of the Chinese people