How is mercury made in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang?

Mercury exists very little in nature, and if you want to live in such a large amount of mercury, you must rely on ore refining. This is also a common method used by the ancients to obtain mercuryThe ancients obtained it by smelting mercury-containing ores such as cinnabar. In the Spring and Autumn Period of China, there was already a process method for smelting mercury, and the technology was relatively mature during the Warring States Period.

This provides conditions for the construction of thousands of miles of rivers and mountains. <>

In the Spring and Autumn Period of our country, we already had the method of smelting mercury. By the Warring States period, its technology was already very mature. So as long as there are enough raw materials, mercury is naturally not a problem.

Qin Shi Huang's original method of obtaining mercury was to mine mercury ore on a large scale throughout the country.

The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang must have been heard by Chinese, and this is the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China. The magnificence of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang can be said to be unique and unparalleled in the world. In that year, Li Si, the prime minister of the Qin Dynasty, recruited as many as 800,000 people to build it.

The amount of manpower and material resources spent can be said to be quite staggering, reaching an appalling level. Not only that, but it took more than 20 years to complete the construction of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. The construction of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang began when Qin Shi Huang was still very young, when he was 13 years old, and was not completed until the second year of Qin Shi Huang's trend.

The building that has paid so much wisdom and sweat of the ancient people, and the grandeur and splendor of the scale, make people think about it. It is not an exaggeration to call it the ninth wonder of the world.

The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is magnificent on the surface, but secretly it is turbulent and full of dangers. In order to prevent tomb robbers from robbing tombs, ancient emperors would make many mechanisms in their own tombs. The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is no exception.

There is a miniature version of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which is built in imitation of the mountains and rivers of the Qin State, and there are mountains and rivers that can be said to be very ornamental. But the water is not really water, but is made up of a large amount of mercury。Mercury is a highly poisonous thing, and if you accidentally get into trouble, you will lose your skin.

There will be mercury in the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang because Qin Shi Huang did not want future tomb robbers to enter the tomb when he built the mausoleum, and once these thieves entered it, they would steal a lot of gold, silver and jewelry inside. Mercury is the main way to protect the mausoleum.

The mercury in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was extracted from ore, and such a substance was found in the refining of pills in ancient times. Moreover, mercury is highly toxic, so a large amount of mercury is stored in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang.

The mercury in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was not made by himself, but was collected from various other places.

The mercury in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is refined by ore, when Qin Shi Huang mined mercury ore on a large scale across the country, so that there was so much mercury in the underground palace of Qin Shi Huang, mercury is highly poisonous, we must not touch it

Xianyang, Shaanxi, a prefecture-level city in Xi'an, was also the capital of the Qin Dynasty at that time.

In 2002, China used the latest remote sensing technology to explore the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and found that there was a nine-layer ramming platform with a height of 30 meters, which had never been seen in all the explored imperial tombs, and at the same time, it also added a touch of mystery to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. It is said that there are many organs set up inside the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, so no one dares to fight against the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which is also the protection of cultural relics during the Qin Dynasty on the one hand.

"Mercury is a river, and ambergris is a candle"This is a summary of the mercury in the underground palace of the Qin Emperor's Mausoleum, and the mercury in the underground palace is as depicted by Sima Qian: it is based on hundreds of rivers, rivers, and the sea. Conservative estimates are at least 100 tons of mercury.

10,000 tons, right?? Oh, I don't know

1. The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has 100 tons of mercury, which is mercury. Mercury is a chemical element, commonly known as mercury, can also be written as Lu, chemical symbol Hg, atomic number 80, is a dense, silvery-white, liquid transition metal at room temperature, is a D block element.

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

Qin Shi Huang's underground palace mercury will not dry.

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.

Due to the artificial intervention of the river direction, a huge pool was formed next to the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, which is what the ancients called a fish pond. 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.

The role of mercury in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang:

The 100 tons of mercury in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang have an anti-theft function. Because mercury is a toxic metal and is highly toxic, it can also volatilize into the air at room temperature to poison people. The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was protected by a large amount of mercury, which prevented batch after batch of tomb robbers.

So that the mausoleum has been preserved in more than 2,000 years of history.

The antiseptic function of mercury has been around for a long time, and the mausoleum of Duke Qi Huan was embalmed with mercury. The use of mercury will not only slow down the decay of one's body, but also protect the treasure.

The investigation of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang began in the 60s of the 20th century. After careful exploration at that time, it was found that the area of the entire underground palace was very huge, and it might take nearly 80 forbidden cities to match it. After this result came out, the entire archaeological community was shocked, because the technique was immature, so everyone did not dare to act rashly.

A long time ago, researchers analyzed the soil composition of this land and found that the mercury content here was much higher than that of other nearby soils, so the rumor spread that the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was all mercury, but until now, this has not been confirmed.

Of course, there are also relevant records in some historical materials. In the A.D. annals, it is said that the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang was filled with a large amount of mercury. These texts, combined with modern technology, seem to be absolutely certain that mercury is here, because mercury does have the dual function of preventing corpses from decomposing and thieves entering.

So if this is true, it is very likely that Qin Shi Huang's body is preserved intact in the mausoleum, but this thing is still.

Because of the rapid development of China's industry since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the mercury content in the soil may come from many different directions, such as industrial wastewater, spraying pesticides, etc. Wasn't there widespread mercury poisoning in China before? So it's entirely possible that mercury in the soil comes from a larger part of the base.

Assuming that the mausoleum does contain a large amount of mercury, then the ** of mercury can be analyzed. At that time, the processing of mercury was mainly based on heating cinnabar, and in addition to that, it was a natural mineral, but natural minerals were a minority after all. At that time, the main production area of cinnabar was the Bashu region.

After the field investigation of scientists, it was determined that during the Qin Dynasty, the mercury transported to the mausoleum should have come from southern Shaanxi, and the amount of mercury detected by scientists was at least hundreds of tons. It's hard to believe that such a large amount of mercury was transported here.

In addition, some people have asked, if there is so much mercury in the underground palace, why is the life of the people nearby not affected? It is a highly toxic substance. Therefore, under these doubts, if scientists really want to determine the existence of mercury, they must test the mercury content from the nearby waters, and take out the sealed soil of the catacombs layer by layer for testing.

If the results show a lower and higher content, then it is proof that the mercury came from the underground palace.

Of course, in addition to the ** of mercury, there is also the process. How did such a large amount of mercury pour in? However, these will not be revealed until the technology matures.