Guo Moruo's suggestion to excavate the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was rejected because the authorities were heavy.

Let me talk about Guo Moruo first. I don't deny his accomplishments in poetry and literature, but he is still an avid political speculator. When the Great Revolution broke out, he showed vacillating clown behavior in the face of turbulent domestic political situation. 1926, he personally joined a nationalist group and had a heated debate with the Kuomintang Rightists, but he soon joined the Kuomintang again. Later, he twice asked to join the * * * production party. 1927 announced his resignation in less than half a year after it was really approved. And during his exile in Japan, he almost never expressed his political support for * *. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Guo Moruo has completely become Mao Zedong's personal spokesman and imperial scholar. He racked his brains to try to cater to Mao's hobby. On one occasion, he accompanied Mao to inspect by plane. On the plane, as soon as the sun shone into the cabin, he was so excited that he immediately recited: there are two suns inside and outside the cabin ... isn't that disgusting? He knew that Mao had been suppressing Du Yang and Li, so he wrote a paper that belittled Du Fu. According to Du Fu's Autumn Wind Breaking the Cottage, Du Fu was furious when the poor children picked up a little thatch. From this point of view, Du Fu must be a big landlord.

Before he proposed to excavate the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, he proposed and participated in the excavation of Dingling by Emperor Wanli. In our country, such excavation conditions are not yet available, which has caused immeasurable losses to Dingling. After that, the state decided not to take the initiative to dig the mausoleum.