According to legend, there is a water galaxy in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, and mercury is placed in

Qin Shi Huang was the first person in history to create an "emperor". At the same time, he is also a famous tyrant in history, in addition to building the Great Wall, according to the data, he alone built the mausoleum of the first emperor, which cost nearly one-third of the country's manpower and material resources. <>

But even so, his dream of immortality still failed to come true. The Great Qin Empire lasted only 15 years before it collapsed. Under the call of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, the angry common people overthrew the Great Qin regime, and at the same time destroyed the eternal dream of Qin Shi Huang's celebrity.

Although the Qin Dynasty perished in the long river of history, but the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang still aroused the interest of many later generations, according to legend, the terracotta warriors and horses are only the tip of the iceberg of the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, so what does the complete mausoleum of the first emperor look like?

The historical records say: "The height of the tomb is more than 50 zhang", that is to say, the overall height is about 120 meters, and the overall altitude is removed, that is, the tomb is 43 meters underground. The reason why the tomb of Qin Shi Huang is intact seems to be inseparable from the terrain, after all, it is not an ordinary difficulty for ordinary people to dig dozens of meters into the ground, even if Cao Cao, who is good at robbing tombs, is struggling.

According to legend, Xiang Yu, the overlord of Chu, in order to expand his military spending, has been thinking about the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and he has been thinking about it. But the result was that he took an army of more than 100,000 people, dug for a long time but returned empty-handed, and it was not until modern times that his true face was revealed. <>

A farmer in Shaanxi accidentally "woke up" the terracotta warriors and horses when he was plowing the land, and then under the exploration of relevant experts, the mystery of the tomb of Qin Shi Huang was gradually revealed. Many people are curious about what was in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang after his death. Because even in the historical records, there are not many records about this, but there is still a piece of information that says so:

Take mercury as a hundred rivers, rivers and seas, and instill the machine".

Later, in order to verify the authenticity, experts specially surveyed the soil of the mausoleum and found that there was indeed an abnormal phenomenon of mercury. In layman's terms, it contains mercury, and it is a lot of mercury. In other words, what is recorded in the historical records is true.

So why did Qin Shi Huang put mercury in the mausoleum? First of all, the density of mercury is relatively large, if the mercury content in the underground palace is too much, it can effectively protect the coffin of Qin Shi Huang from oxygen oxidation, and can also protect the bricks and tiles of the entire tomb from the influence of groundwater moisture.

Secondly, mercury contains highly poisonous, once the tomb robbers enter the underground palace by chance, then the poisonous gas volatilized by mercury can effectively trap the tomb robbers in the tomb and protect the location of the tomb from leakage. <>

Of course, there are also many folk rumors that the reason why Qin Shi Huang poured a large amount of mercury into the tomb and then made a lot of terracotta figurines was because he wanted to continue to live in another form after death. Then there were all kinds of terracotta warriors and horses, which were the Great Qin soldiers who protected him and drove him.

But in any case, to be dead is to be dead, and it is commendable that Qin Shi Huang's idea of injecting a large amount of mercury into the mausoleum would have collapsed if he had not had such foresight in the first place.

The water galaxy in the cemetery of Qin Shi Huang is that in order to make himself peaceful after death, he did not let outsiders enter his mausoleum. Second, in order to sterilize and insulate heat, mercury dreams form a good thermal insulation layer.

According to legend, there is a water galaxy in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, and mercury is placed in the mausoleum, and Qin Shi Huang wants to build his empire in the mausoleum, use mercury as a river, and build a world that belongs to him!

First, Qin Shi Huang accomplished the goal of unifying the country, and the Water Galaxy represents his great goal.

Second, mercury is poisonous and can not only prevent the body from decomposing, but also prevent tomb robbers from robbing the tomb.

I believe that mercury is volatile, that is, it can turn into a toxic gas to prevent others from entering his tomb.

Put mercury in the mausoleum The first Qin Shi Huang thought that he would be a person who unified the mountains and rivers after his death, so he regarded the mercury as his own country, the second is the effect of anti-theft, mercury volatilization is highly toxic, and the third mausoleum also has a lot of organs, and mercury also has the purpose of triggering mechanisms.

First of all, mercury can be preserved. Secondly, mercury and its vapor are highly toxic and can prevent the invasion of tomb robbers. Qin Shi Huang may also have wanted to create a setting for a large river, but no water could be put in the tomb, so mercury was used instead.

To prevent tomb robbers from robbing his tomb. Because mercury is highly poisonous, if a tomb robber touches it, he will die.

Qin Shi Huang did this to protect his tomb from damage caused by tomb robbers after his death.

In ancient times, the antiseptic technology was not advanced, and mercury was commonly used, and the ancients believed that mercury was incorruptible, and it was unchanged for thousands of years to use it as a mechanism. Moreover, mercury is not easy to mine, and only emperors can use it in large quantities.

The mercury in the underground palace of the Qin Imperial Shen First Emperor should not flow now.

According to the record of "Water Jing Note", Qin Shi Huang deliberately chose the northeast of Lishan when he chose the site for the mausoleum, and the river originally flowed in the northeast direction, but Qin Shi Huang let people build a dam, which is more than 1,000 meters long, more than 40 meters wide, and more than 70 meters high.

The water flows out of the northeast of Lishan Mountain, the source of this guide flows north, after Qin Shi Huang is buried in the north of the mountain, the water passes and meanders, the east notes the north turns, the first emperor builds the mausoleum to take the soil, its ground is deep, the water accumulates into a pool, and the fish pond is also ......The pond flows northwest through the north of the First Emperor's Tomb.

Due to the artificial intervention in the direction of the river, a huge pool was formed next to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which was called the fish pond by the ancients. Some scholars speculate that in addition to feng shui considerations, Qin Shi Huang also had another important purpose, that is, to let water power the machinery in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

Although this is just speculation, we will not think this is too unusual, after all, the wisdom of our ancestors is beyond our imagination, and it is not without success cases to use water power to promote mechanical movement, the ancients invented the water turning and overturning car is a good example.

Therefore, if the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang did use water as the power of mechanical movement, then it was indeed necessary to use artificial input as a power input, and the constant flow of mercury could be realized.

Moreover, if the direction of the water flow is mastered, it will not cause damage to the mausoleum, because the water only needs to come into contact with machinery, such as culverts. But after all, more than 2,000 years have passed, and the original river has long since disappeared, so there is no power to support the machinery to propel the mercury flow. Therefore, the fact that the mercury in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang can no longer flow should not be much of a problem.

Introduction to the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor

The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the mausoleum of the first emperor Ying Zheng (259-210 BC) in Chinese history, is the first batch of world cultural heritage in China, the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and the national AAAAA-level tourist attraction, located at the northern foot of Lishan Mountain, 5 kilometers east of Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. The town is reverent.

Mercury has the effect of embalming and sterilization, and the reason why so much mercury is placed in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is mainly to preserve the corpse of Qin Shi Huang.

Mercury can be used for a variety of purposes, firstly, to create a magnificent landscape, secondly, to keep the corpse from decaying for a long time, and thirdly, to prevent the theft of the mausoleum. Mercury is highly toxic and can be poisoned by the mercury gas that permeates the burial chamber if someone invades. As early as the 7th century B.C., our ancestors had access to mercury, which was also discovered to keep corpses from decaying.

The huge amount of mercury in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang is very strange, and so much mercury is placed in the mausoleum because he is afraid that someone will rob the tomb.

In this way, the corpse can be prevented from decomposing, and there will be no particularly smelly smell, and the embalming effect can also be achieved.

The record of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor using mercury as a river and sea is found in the "Historical Records", and there is a similar text in the "Book of Han". However, the exact presence of mercury in the mausoleum remains a mystery.

The development of modern science and technology provides the necessary prerequisites for verifying the ancient unsolved case of buried mercury in the Qinling underground palace. Geologists Chang Yong and Mr. Li Tong have come to the Mausoleum of the First Emperor twice for sampling. After repeated tests, it was found that there was indeed a "mercury anomaly" in the soil samples of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.

In contrast, soil samples from other places contain little to no mercury. Scientists have concluded that the record of a large amount of mercury buried in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor in the Records of the First Emperor is reliable.

Modern technology has finally solved the eternal mystery of burying "mercury" in the underground palace.

As for why the underground palace is buried with a large amount of mercury?

The Northern Wei Dynasty scholar Li Daoyuan's explanation is that "the mercury is the river and the sea, and the mercury is used as the four rivers, the hundred rivers, the five mountains and nine states, which has a geographical trend." Originally, mercury was used to symbolize the geography of mountains and rivers, which corresponded to "Shanggu astronomy".

History uses mercury as a river and jewels everywhere. In the 1980s, Chinese archaeologists tested the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Xianyang and found that the mercury reaction was very strong.

According to the survey data, there are signs of mercury.