Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor
In the Qin Dynasty, organ art was widely used. It is not only used in daily production and labor, but also plays an important role in the military. After Qin Shihuang established his mausoleum, he was afraid that grave robbers would destroy it in order to steal the treasures from it, so he recruited many celebrities to set up institutional obstacles for his mausoleum.
A common organ in Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is the crossbow, which first appeared in the Spring and Autumn Period. This mechanism is not only simple to set up, but also has a long range and great lethality. The crossbow in Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is installed at the entrance of the passage. Once the grave robbers enter the tomb, the mechanism of connecting crossbows will be activated. Interlocking valve is also a very distinctive organ in the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. It is located in the pyramid-shaped mound with a sharp knife under it. If a grave robber enters the tomb and steps on the board, one end of the board will be turned upside down, and the person on the board will fall onto the sharp knife under the board.
In addition to these two organs, there are other more exquisite organs in Qin Shihuang's mausoleum. Although the structure and principle of each organ are different, it can kill grave robbers. From these wares, we can see not only the extensive use of wares in Qin dynasty and the mastery of wares by Qin people, but also the importance Qin Shihuang attached to his mausoleum.
The cultural relics unearthed from the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor have been attracting people's attention since their discovery, because this royal cemetery has brought us great surprises, among which the most famous is the unearthed cultural relics, which showed the exquisite skills and splendid culture of our people at that time.
Photos of Qin Shihuang's cultural relics
Archaeologists have never stopped digging and investigating the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor since it was discovered. Over the past decades, more than 50,000 cultural relics have been unearthed and more than 600 tombs have been excavated. Many of these unearthed cultural relics are now on display.
Among these cultural relics, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses are the most familiar to our people and even world-famous. Terracotta warriors and horses were pottery figurines fired by people at that time, many of which were colored sculptures. These terracotta figures are composed of soldiers, chariots and horses, and their lineup is huge and shocking. This is what we know best, and there are many cultural relics that we don't know.
One of the cultural relics is quite interesting. This is a dice. We have all seen it, but you certainly haven't, because it has fourteen faces instead of the traditional six. Even archaeologists find it novel and don't know how to use it.
There is also a more important bronze ware, which is known as Ding. In ancient times, the tripod was a ceremonial instrument and a symbol of power. It was very big, about 200 kilograms, and it was the largest tripod in the Qin tombs. But this tripod was unearthed strangely, because it was unearthed with the juggling pottery figurines, which was incredible.
A large number of cultural relics have been unearthed in the Qin Mausoleum, including many exquisite objects. Now the archaeological work of the Qin Mausoleum is still going on. I believe that many cultural relics will be unearthed in the future and will bring us more surprises.
Mercury in the Underground Palace of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum People who have seen the movie Myth may remember a scene in which the character played by Tony Leung Ka Fai was finally pinned down by a huge stone and slowly fell into some silvery white liquid, that is, mercury. It is said that there is a lot of mercury in the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, which has been confirmed at present.
Photo of Mercury Palace of Qin Shihuang
According to the current scientific investigation results, there is not only mercury in the underground palace of the Qin Mausoleum, but also the storage of mercury in it is very large, and some even speculate that the quantity may be several tons or hundreds of tons. Such a huge amount of mercury is amazing, so it does not exist for mercury for no reason, but for its own use.
Because according to the research of relevant experts, the mercury in the underground palace has certain distribution characteristics, and the detected map is consistent with the territory map of the Qin Dynasty after Qin Shihuang unified China, that is to say, the mercury in it constitutes the territory of the Qin Dynasty.
But the function of these mercury is not only to reflect these, because mercury is toxic, so it can prevent theft; At the same time, mercury can form heat insulation and play the role of sterilization, so it can play the role of anti-corrosion, so the mercury inside has many uses.
Tribute is the basic material of an alchemist. After the unification of the six countries, Qin Shihuang soon became fascinated with immortality, so he began to ask the immortals. Mercury is very useful to him, so it is normal for his tomb to use so much mercury.
The source of so much mercury was a problem in ancient times, but with the national strength of Qin at that time, it should be possible to collect so much mercury, so it is not difficult for Qin Shihuang's mausoleum to have so much mercury.
Structure map of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Qin Shihuang Mausoleum is a huge mausoleum. On the whole, the whole mausoleum was built according to a city, so that after Qin Shihuang's death, he could live in an underground palace and enjoy all the distinguished privileges brought to him by imperial power.
Photos of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum
Judging from the overall layout of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum, it can be divided into inner city and outer city. Both the inner city and the outer city have walls as high as ten meters, as well as sleeping rooms, breeding officer's offices, exotic animal pits, stable pits and so on. Everything that can be used in real life is buried with it, and the scale is huge, and the number of funerary objects is also very large.
Different from many imperial tombs, Qin Shihuang's mausoleum has no queen's mausoleum so far, only Qin Shihuang's own mausoleum. Many people speculate that the reason for this situation is that the queen was still alive at that time, and the Qin Dynasty died too quickly, so the queen did not enter the mausoleum.
The whole mausoleum is rectangular, which is the most traditional symmetrical distribution in China. The whole mausoleum is a huge rectangle, and so is the inner city. There are a large number of burial pits in the infield, which contain a large number of rare treasures. There are also a considerable number of daily necessities burial pits between the outer city and the inner city. Both cities have walls of about 8- 10 meters, but they are no longer there, only some ruins.
The whole mausoleum was designed by Li Si, the prime minister of Qin State, according to ancient books, which also reflected the will of Qin Shihuang. It took 37 years for the supreme imperial power to form such a huge mausoleum. It can be said that this is an extremely luxurious underground palace, and its purpose is to let Qin Shihuang sleep here after his death and rule here after his death.