10. Terracotta warriors and horses are all single eyelids
Although all the terracotta warriors and horses have different costumes and attitudes, there are many kinds of hair styles, their gestures are also different, and the facial expressions are even more different. But the world is surprised to find: all the terracotta warriors and horses turned out to be single eyelids! Is it because the ancients at that time were single eyelids? Or did the ancients use single eyelid beauties as the standard? Or the craftsmen thought that double eyelids consumed time for carving, so they unified in order to save finishing time Carved into a single eyelid? There are many opinions, and even archaeologists and historians cannot fully explain this phenomenon accurately!
Nine, Terracotta Warriors and Horses Kill Xiang Yu
In the chaos of the end of the Qin Dynasty, the whereabouts of the Qin Jingshi Army, the prototype of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang, is unknown. This issue involves not only the nature of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Corps, but also the movements of the entire empire’s Qin army, and even the demise of the Qin Empire, the defeat of the Chu Overlord, and the victory of the Han Empire. According to unofficial records, the king of Chu, Xiang Yu, who once defeated the Qin Empire, died at the hands of the terracotta warriors and horses. In the end, the five cavalry soldiers who killed Xiang Yu by the Wujiang River were all Qin people from the Guanzhong area, and they were all soldiers of the old Qin army, and they were all prototypes of the Qin terracotta warriors and horses.
The battle of Gaixia, the Han army 600,000, Yang Xi, Yang Wu, Lu Sheng, Wang Yi, Lu Matong, five knights can leave their names, it is already a miracle. The five people who stood out with a probability of one in 120,000 were 100% of the soldiers of the old Qin army, and it was no accident that they all belonged to the Qin Jing's army. The so-called historical events are linked together closely, and finally they found the historical link between Xiang Yu's death and the terracotta warriors and horses, leading to the fact that the terracotta warriors and horses killed Xiang Yu, making people feel the depth and wonder of history.
8. There is a waterproof dam in the underground palace of Qinling
The underground palace of the Qinling Mausoleum can be preserved, so I have to mention a waterproof dam, that is, the huge underground drainage canal. The blocking drainage channel is actually a wall. The bottom is rammed with 17-meter-thick water-repellent clearing mud, and the upper part is rammed with 84-meter-wide loess, which just blocked the groundwater from high to low infiltration, effectively protecting the tomb. Flooded. This set of blocking drainage canals is comparable to Dujiangyan and Lingqu. The Beijing National Grand Theater also used this method to solve the flooding problem.
The completion of the underground palace itself illustrates the success of the drainage system, and the water blocking system has undergone more than 2,200 years of testing. Measured by the natural electric field method and nuclear magnetic resonance method, the inferred tomb and underground palace are non-water areas, and the same depth measured outside the blocking drainage channel is the water-containing area, which confirms that the underground water blocking and drainage project is still working so far. effect. This should be the three springs that Ban Gu said in the "Han Shu".
Seven, the Qinling Underground Palace is equipped with triple anti-theft doors
Everyone on earth knows that there is an anti-theft mechanism in the underground palace of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin. But to ask which anti-theft mechanism is there, no one can say clearly. According to legend, the surrounding area of Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum was filled with a thick layer of sand, forming a sea of sand. This sand sea is the first line of defense of the underground palace of the Qinling Mausoleum, preventing tomb robbers from digging into the tomb. If Shahai is just a legend, then the dark crossbow has a clear record.
Sima Qian affirmed in the "Historical Records": There is a dark crossbow in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, and this trigger weapon is placed in the tomb gate, passageway, and other places. When the thief enters the Qin Ling to touch the organ, he will be shot to death with a strong crossbow. There are traps and so on that cooperate with the dark crossbow. Even if the tomb raider is not shot to death, he will fall into a trap and fall to his death. The third line of defense in the underground palace is the water galaxy. A large amount of mercury circulates through mechanical motion like rivers, lakes and seas. On the one hand, it helps protect the corpse from decay. On the other hand, it makes the vapor vaporized by mercury poisonous and will also kill the tomb robbers.
6. The nine-story demon tower hidden in the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin
Sitting in an airplane looking down at the confinement of Qinling Mausoleum, he could clearly see a square cone, so the Americans called it the Loess Pyramid. In fact, the Americans were wrong. The Mausoleum of the First Emperor Qin Shi Huang was not a three-layered stepped bucket-shaped seal, but the Great Chinese Civil Pyramid built on nine layers of rammed earth, even larger than the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. Not only that, but the underground palace of the Qin Mausoleum is also an inverted pyramid of the same size. What is even more inexplicable is that the nine-story rammed earth of the Fengtutai seems to coincide with the nine-story demon tower, which is unique in the world.
There are demons and ghosts on every floor. Although it is a novel, it is groundless. "Laozi" talks about philosophy using architecture as a metaphor. There are nine-story terraces. It started with the theory of building soil. It can be seen that there were nine-story terraces in the Spring and Autumn Period. Unfortunately, the remains of the nine-story terraces of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty have not been discovered yet. Qin Shihuang was a weird man. He built a 30-meter-high building in the underground palace, just for the soul to travel to the underground palace. As for the mystery of the nine-story demon tower built on the surface, it seems that he asked to save the archaeological discovery.
Five, Qin terracotta warriors and horses pit shocked foreign workers 2,200 years ago
During the excavation of the terracotta warriors, in addition to a large number of bronze wares, a large number of bones were also found. By referring to the mitochondrial DNA data of some modern humans, the haplogroups of the samples studied by experts have been preliminarily determined. In the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit of Qin Shihuang, a human remains with characteristics of Western Europe and Asia was buried 2,200 years ago. The deceased was a laborer who built the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang. , Is a more typical Persian.
Foreign laborers came to the hinterland of China 2200 years ago, and its significance is like the discovery of Orientals among the pyramid builders. It is of great significance in the history of cultural exchanges between the East and the West.
Fourth, there really are flying geese in the underground palace of the Qinling Mausoleum
According to the "Sanfu Stories", after entering the customs, Emperor Xiang Yu, king of Chu, robbed the Qin Mausoleum with 300,000 people. During their digging process, suddenly a golden goose flew out of the tomb and flew southward. It has been hundreds of years since Dou Zhuanxing, one of the prefects of the Three Kingdoms, Zhang Shan, also saw this golden goose. Browsing the history books, we found that both Sima Qian and Ban Gu left gold as the theory of the mallard goose. As for Jin Yan, which is exquisitely made and can fly, it is also possible. Because in the Spring and Autumn Period, Lu Ban was able to create wooden geese, which could fly to the sky and all the way to the wall of Song State.
But a metal object flying in the air is as simple and easy as a kite or a light balloon. If there is no mechanical power and rely on natural wind power alone, let alone flying in the air, I am afraid that even taking off will be a problem. Further analysis, assuming that the Qin Dynasty has the ability to make flying golden geese, then the golden geese will continue to fly automatically after being buried in the underground palace, and have been flying in the underground palace for nearly a thousand days and nights. When Xiang Yu opened the tomb passage of the underground palace, the automatic flying golden goose flew smoothly out of the ground along the tomb passage, and then crossed the thousands-meter-high mountain on the south side of the Qin Mausoleum to fly to the far south. If this anecdote is not a legend, then Jin Yan's control and command system is probably beyond the reach of today's computers.
3. The mercury in the underground palace of Qinling Mausoleum comes from Xunyang
In recent years, archaeologists have used remote sensing technology to conduct underground surveys on the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin. It is preliminarily determined that the depth of the underground palace is 30 meters, and it penetrates three floors of underground water. The underground palace is equivalent to the height of a modern 4-story building. Archaeologists also discovered serious mercury anomalies on the mound. Some people speculate that the mercury reserves may be as much as hundreds of tons. This also confirms Sima Qian's description of using mercury as rivers and oceans. There are probably two reasons why Qin Shihuang injected a large amount of mercury into the underground palace. One is to kill the invading tomb robbers, and the other is to prevent the corpse from rotting.
The effect of mercury is obvious. The problem is that the source of mercury has always been a mystery. There is a Shuiyin Mountain in Xunyang County, Shaanxi, where geologists have discovered more than 700 ancient mines left by ancient mining. They are generally tens of meters deep. Large caves are surrounded by small caves, and small caves are connected with branch caves. Unearthed the relics of iron bars during the Qin and Han Dynasties. From these cultural relics and relics, it is shown that Xunyang in the Qin Dynasty was already a major mercury mining town, and the transportation of mercury can be along the ancient road through Zhen'an and Zhashui to Guanzhong. Although this is still a speculation and needs further confirmation, it is very likely that a large amount of mercury in the Qinling Mausoleum came from Xunyang from various factors.
2. The Mausoleum of the First Emperor Qin Shihuang was shocked by the underground state
China's first feudal emperor Qin Shihuang was buried with his underground treasury. The news is incredible. However, according to official reports, through MRI scans of Qin Shihuang’s mausoleum, Chinese and German archaeologists not only clearly grasped the structure of the tomb, but also found that a large number of coins were buried in the underground palace. Some experts even said that most of the coins were copper coins. There will be a small portion of silver coins.
The large number of coins placed in the tomb was undoubtedly the treasury of the Qin Dynasty. This discovery was so shocking. However, due to technical problems, we should not dig the tomb out of curiosity. The reason is simple. The terracotta warriors and horses have faded, the wet corpse of Mawangdui Xinchai has also dried up, and the lotus root slices dug up from the Ming Tombs in Beijing have turned to ashes. Excavation means destruction. If these treasures can be better protected underground, let us not disturb their thousand-year sleep.
1. The pit of terracotta warriors and horses will become coal pit in a hundred years
Due to air pollution, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum are slowly weathering. After these old antiques, buried in the ground for more than 2,200 years, began to live on the ground, they have been facing the threat of oxidation and water invasion, and now they have symptoms of inadequacy. Experts urge that if no measures are taken to protect them, the terracotta warriors and horses will be more severely corroded within 100 years, the nose and hairstyle may disappear, and the arms may fall off the body. At that time, the pits of terracotta warriors and horses look no different from coal fields and no longer have any aesthetic value.
According to relevant media reports, scientists from China and the United States have launched a short-term protection plan to study the impact of air pollutants in the museum on the terracotta warriors and horses, and strive to put forward control measures as soon as possible, and finally transform the current rescue protection into preventive protection. At the same time, experts revealed that if the rescue measures are proper, the aging process of the terracotta warriors and horses will definitely be delayed, but it is still unclear how many years the terracotta warriors can survive.
The above are the top ten unsolved mysteries of Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum. Of course, the unsolved mysteries in Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum are far more than these, and need to be discovered by talented people.
