Why is there so much mercury in the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang?

In order to prevent moisture and embalming, in order to still have the rivers and mountains after death (mercury represents rivers), in order to protect the royal tomb. But it's hard to believe that so much mercury was produced more than 2,000 years ago.

Mercury is fake, because the excavation is afraid of being bad for the country.

If in the process of a person's infusion, how should a person pull out the needle, how to change the medicine bottle, and what should be done if the air is accidentally injected into the body!

I have a mine at home, do I still need to ask?

I feel that the era can keep the mercury is also to do waterproofing, I don't understand what waterproof was used at that time, and besides, the ever-bright lamp has been on, there is no air at the bottom of the lamp can be lit, if there are ventilation holes around, you are not afraid of rain flooding the mausoleum, and if there are ventilation holes, why didn't you find it, and then the earth palace ventilation holes are small and useless, and there is a thing, if there are ventilation holes, Qin Shi Huang's body should have been rotten.

It looks like the Milky Way in the sky, and after evaporation, it is toxic and anti-theft

It's the mercury I stored in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang, how do you know?

Probably from the earth to practice the drop of battery energy.

Legend has it that deterred tomb robbers.

Legend has it that the tomb of Qin Shi Huang used mercury as a river to build a magnificent man-made landscape. So how much mercury is in it? A full 100 tons. Although the tomb of the First Emperor has not been fully completed, it has been confirmed that the mercury content in it is abnormal through equipment testing.

Such a large amount of mercury, let alone in ancient times, is not easy to do in modern times. Because mercury is volatile, it can also poison people, and if it is not handled well, it will kill many people. From another point of view, Qin Shi Huang invested so much money to protect his tomb, and he also invested enough money.

Where does so much mercury come from? "Historical Records: The Biography of the Goods and Colonies" is a biography of Sima Qian's special account of outstanding people engaged in commercial activities, and Ba Widow Qing is the only one selected for the operation of Dansha, Bayu culture expert Li Yongming believes that at that time, the only person who could provide more than 100 tons of mercury was Ba Widow Qing.

The role of mercury in the tomb of the First Emperor.

There are two main functions of mercury in the tomb of Qin Shi Huang: disinfection and sterilization; Prevent tomb robbing.

If from a scientific point of view, the chemical properties of mercury are very unstable, the sterilization performance is very good, and it is not breathable, what does the combination of these characteristics represent, it means that it can make a set of insurance measures for the entire underground palace, a thick layer of mercury covers the surface, which can effectively prevent water molecules in the air from coming in, further control the rust and decay of the treasures in the underground palace, and also make the body of Qin Shi Huang festering more slowly.

In addition, this layer of mercury is still a very powerful protective layer, because mercury is highly toxic, and it can also enter the human body along the pores.

The Tomb of the First Emperor has evidence of mercury.

According to the records of the First Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, there is a similar text in the Book of Han, and the underground palace "takes mercury as a hundred rivers and seas". Liu Shiyi, a researcher at the China Institute of Geological Survey, said that geophysical exploration proved that there were indeed obvious mercury anomalies in the underground palace, and the mercury distribution was strong in the southeast and southwest, and weak in the northeast and northwest. If the distribution of mercury represents the rivers and seas, this is exactly consistent with the distribution of the Bohai Sea and the Yellow Sea in China.

Qin Shi Huang had personally visited Bohai Bay, so it is likely that he had drawn Bohai into his underground palace. If this is confirmed, it means that the Qin Dynasty had a survey and study of Chinese geography, which is also a new discovery. Liu Shiyi said.

Qin Shi Huang used mercury as a river and sea, not only to create a magnificent natural landscape, but also to keep the buried corpses and burial goods from decaying for a long time. Moreover, mercury is a highly toxic substance, and inhaling large amounts can lead to death, so the mercury in the underground palace can also poison tomb robbers.

At the same time, geophysical exploration also found the existence of stone burial chambers in the underground palace.

The first phase of the remote sensing exploration of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has been completed, and the Geological Survey Bureau of the Ministry of Land and Resources and other relevant departments have used the results of remote sensing and geophysical comprehensive detection technology to confirm for the first time that there are indeed underground palaces and tombs under the Qin Tombs, and have determined the location of the underground palace. A person in charge of the Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Cultural Relics said yesterday that the exploration of the Qinling Tombs was mainly for the purpose of formulating a protection plan and had nothing to do with the excavation. Geophysical exploration found that the tomb chamber and palace wall in the underground palace are stone structures, the underground palace is about 30 meters below the sealed mound, and the tomb boundary in the underground palace is about 170 meters long from east to west, and about 145 meters wide from north to south.

This is the first form of tomb found so far, in the process of geophysical archaeology, experts also found a wide range, strong anomaly mercury content, preliminarily confirmed the "historical records" recorded in the "mercury for a hundred rivers, rivers, sea" authenticity. The Qinling Tombs are huge in scale and rich in underground cultural relics, and the archaeological discoveries over the past 40 years are only the tip of the iceberg. If the traditional method of exploration is still used in Luoyang shovel, it will take at least a few hundred years to figure out the Qin Tomb.

In order to speed up the pace of underground archaeological exploration of Qinling, the state included the comprehensive exploration technology of archaeological geophysics in Qinling at the end of last year in the national 863 plan. The first phase of the project is mainly in the technical verification stage, to see which method is most suitable for exploring the underground cultural relics of the Qinling Tombs, and at least half of the more than 20 methods in the current experiment have been verified to be ineffective. Does the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang really exist in the Milky Way Current???

It's true.

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

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.

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.

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.