Everyone should have seen the movie "Myth".
Did you also go to Xi'an to see the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang?
When I was in Xi'an, I heard that the reason why the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has not been opened so far is because our existing technology cannot explore and develop the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and there are also legends that Qin Shi Huang practiced in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang and has been alive for thousands of years... 、
The latter is, of course, impractical. But the former statement alone is curious enough. A thousand-year-old grave, science and technology has been so developed thousands of years ago, so that future generations after a thousand years are still unable to start?
The Terracotta Warriors are spectacular, but the Terracotta Warriors and Horses are only the outermost guard legions of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum. The terracotta warriors and horses of Qin Shi Huang, which have been discovered, are generally believed to be located on the outskirts of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum, with the meaning of guarding the mausoleum, and are an organic part of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum.
Since 1976, scholars have continuously proposed the excavation of the Qinling Underground Palace, the main reasons are:
The Qinling Tombs are in the seismic zone and need to be excavated to protect underground artifacts.
Development of tourism resources
Prevent grave robbery
The opposite side believes that China's current level of technology cannot cope with the huge Qinling Underground Palace. On the issue of terracotta warriors, many mistakes have been made, such as not being able to protect the colored terracotta warriors, causing their paints to fall off quickly. And what kind of situation the underground palace is not clear, and it will bring huge losses to excavate.
At the same time, it is said that all the craftsmen who built the mausoleum at that time were buried in the mausoleum. If it took 37 years to build the mausoleum, then these craftsmen... We live together day and night at birth, and we are buried together for a thousand years after death...
The mystery of the "mercury" buried in the dungeon
The record of the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang using mercury as a river and sea is found in the "Records of History", and there is a similar text in the Book of Han. However, whether there is mercury in the mausoleum has always been a mystery. The development of modern science and technology provides the necessary pre-topic conditions for verifying the ancient hanging eucalyptus of mercury buried in the Qinling Underground Palace.
Mainland geology experts Chang Yong and Mr. Li Tong have twice come to the Shihuang Mausoleum to take samples. After repeated testing, it was found that "mercury anomalies" did appear in the soil samples of the Shi Huang Mausoleum. Conversely, soil samples elsewhere have almost no mercury content. Scientists have drawn a preliminary conclusion from this: the records in the Chronicle of History of the burial of large amounts of mercury in the tombs of the first emperors are reliable.
Modern technology has finally solved the age-old mystery of the burial of "mercury" in the dungeon. As for why the dungeon was buried with a large amount of mercury? The Northern Wei scholar Li Daoyuan explained that "the use of mercury as a river and sea lies in the use of mercury as the four provinces, the hundred rivers, and the five mountains and nine states, which have the geographical potential." Originally, mercury symbolized the geography of mountains and rivers, corresponding to "shangju astronomy".
The dungeon has several doors
On September 17, 2002, the world witnessed the process of archaeologists exploring the space inside the pyramid through live television. When archaeologists put the robot in from the opening of the first stone gate, they did not expect that the robot would encounter another stone door.
The world-renowned pyramid archaeological project had to be shelved. The pyramid dungeon may have more than two doors. So, how many tomb gates were built in the Qinling Underground Palace? The question of the number of doorways of the Qinling Underground Palace was actually answered in the "Records of History". It just didn't attract the attention of scholars.
The "Records of History" clearly records: "After the great events are completed, they have been hidden, and they are envied in the closed, and the doors are envied under the outer envy, and the craftsmen are hidden, and there is no comeback." The coffin and the burial items were all placed within the middle door. The craftsman was busy working inside the middle door, and suddenly "closed the envy door, and the outer envy door." The craftsman "no comeback" also became a funerary object.
Here it involves both the middle envy door and the outer envy door, of which the inner envy door is self-evident. The three gates of the underground palace seem to be irrefutable. It is worth noting that Sima Qian used a "closed" character in the envy door, and the outer envy door had a "down" word, indicating that the middle envy door is a movable door that can be opened and closed, and the outer envy door is placed from top to bottom.
The zhongxian door may be embedded horizontally in a slot between the two walls, and it is a large stone door that cannot be opened. The Inner Envy Gate may be similar to the Middle Envy Gate. The three envy doors are likely to be in a straight line.
Self-firing Dark Crossbow
Qin Shi Huang also took pains to prevent tomb robbery. The "Chronicle of History" records that the Qinling Underground Palace "ordered the craftsmen to make crossbow arrows, and those who penetrated it shot at it." Refers to a set of self-firing dark crossbows installed here.
When an external object touches the bow it fires automatically. How the Qin Dynasty produced such a superb automatic launcher more than 2,200 years ago is also a big mystery.
If the record is true, it is the earliest automatic anti-theft device in ancient China. In the Qin Dynasty, the crossbow with three consecutive arrows was produced. But the Dark Crossbow placed in the Dungeon was a set of automatically firing crossbows.
The "Story of the Three Auxiliaries" records that Xiang Yu, the king of Chu, entered the customs and once excavated the Qin Tombs with 300,000 people. During the excavation, suddenly a golden goose flew out of the tomb, and this magical flying goose flew all the way south. The Dou Zhuan Star moved hundreds of years, during the Three Kingdoms period, in the first year of Baoding, someone sent a golden goose to an official named Zhang Shan, who immediately judged from the writing on the golden goose that this object came from the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang...
This kind of magical legend has cast a mysterious color on the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.
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