Why didn't Qin Shihuang's tomb be dug? What is the reason?

The first imperial tomb is a magical underground? Kingdom? . The deep underground palace is full of mystery, which has aroused many speculations and reverie of literati for thousands of years. But experts don't dig the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang either. Why on earth is this? I'll tell you why Qin Shihuang's tomb was not dug. Let's have a look!

The reason why Qin Shihuang's tomb was not excavated

1, Qin Shihuang's mausoleum contains a lot of mercury. Although thousands of years have passed, geologists have tested the soil in the mausoleum and still found that the soil contains a lot of mercury. If we rush to dig, it will do great harm to the environment, the staff and the people around us.

2. The power of the state to protect cultural relics is not enough. Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is very huge. Once excavated, it will involve a lot of capital injection and manpower investment. Moreover, a large number of unearthed cultural relics also need corresponding facilities and conditions for restoration and preservation, which is a big burden for developing China. Therefore, instead of not being well protected after excavation, it is better to let it continue to sleep underground until the country has certain strength to excavate it.

Excavation of Qin Shihuang's tomb

1. Can you build a greenhouse with a span of more than 500 meters?

Let's look at the first premise that we can't dig, that is, how big is the land seal of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum, that is, the tomb that the people say? Hanshu? Biography of King Chu Yuan? Attached to the biography of Liu Xiang says: It is fifty feet high and more than five miles a week. ? In the Qin Dynasty, one foot was about 23 centimeters in modern times, and fifty feet was about 1 15 meters. The first Li in Qin Dynasty is 4 14 meters, and the fifth Li is 2070 meters, which is probably the original scale of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum. However, after more than 2000 years of natural erosion and artificial exploitation, the existing fenced land is smaller than the original fenced land. A few years ago, the Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses Archaeological Team conducted drilling in order to understand the actual size of the original sealed soil accumulation. It is found that the original foundation part of the earth seal is approximately square. Zhou Wei and Han Shu said? More than five miles a week? The data is almost the same, 2000 meters, 5 15 meters long from north to south and 485 meters wide from east to west. In this case, a protective shed with a span of not less than 500 meters should be built before excavation. If you can't build a shed with a span of 500 meters, it is impossible to dig the Qin Mausoleum.

As we all know, the structure of the Qin Mausoleum is composed of underground palaces and tombs on the ground. People are most concerned about the underground palace where treasures are buried first. If you can dig out the underground palace, you have to dig out the grave on the ground first. If you dig a grave, you can neither blast it with explosives nor push it with bulldozers, let alone dig it with excavators. Just can't dig quickly, you can only dig slowly, otherwise whose cultural relics are broken? It takes a long time to dig a little, and it will go through spring, summer, autumn and winter. It is necessary to shelter from the wind and rain. Just like digging a pit of terracotta warriors and horses, it is necessary to build a shed first, which is conducive to excavation and protection of unearthed objects. Otherwise, even if people can work in the open air, what about the excavated underground palace? Should winter be buried by heavy snow? Summer is soaked in heavy rain again and again?

Can the shed be made smaller? Is it possible to erect a few columns on the enclosure to reduce the problem of crossing warping that cannot be solved technically? The answer is no, the pillar stands on the grave, how to remove all the sealing soil? Even if you take 10 thousand steps back, you can still stand. After the underground palace is dug up, there are big pillars everywhere. How to ensure the plane integrity of the underground palace? What's more, does the soil condition under the existing grave meet the requirements of the column? So it is necessary to build a shed with a span of more than 500 meters. Are there any houses in the world that span 500 meters at present? I am not so sure. However, there are not a few bridges with a single span of more than 500 meters, such as Shanghai Lupu Bridge with 550 meters and Chongqing Chaotianmen Bridge with 552 meters. All these show that modern technology has been able to build long-span beam frames. The question is, if such a greenhouse can be built, even if the goal of building the whole grave into a greenhouse is achieved, will the soil be dug out?

Second, robbing the tomb will make the ground landscape of Qin tomb disappear.

The most direct problem is that the ground landscape of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum will disappear after the tomb above the ground is dug up. Without graves, how can people feel the magnificent panorama of the Qin tombs? How can people feel the hardship and greatness of building such a project? Instead of digging graves, put the Qin tombs in greenhouses? Bags? Get up, then how does this new greenhouse coordinate with the cemetery landscape and the surrounding mountains? Some people say that since it is difficult to build a greenhouse on sealed soil, why not find a tomb door on the mausoleum, dig a hole down and dig directly into the underground palace? So, where is the underground palace? How deep is it? Two years ago, archaeological exploration found that the large-scale underground palace was located below the top of the mound, about 35 meters deep from the ground, and the underground palace was about the size of a quasi-football field.

Regardless of whether this detection is the actual situation of the Qin mausoleum underground palace? Even so, is the location of the underground palace located where it has been detected? What if it is misplaced? There is an introduction about the depth of the underground palace of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum in the historical materials "Nine Meanings of Han Dynasty", to the effect that in 2 10 BC, Prime Minister Lisi reported to Qin Shihuang that he had built the Mount Li with 720,000 people, and it had been dug deep, as if it were underground. Qin Shihuang ordered it after listening? Another 300 feet or more? . Throw it away? 300 feet next to it? Regardless of the authenticity of this historical data or the accuracy of the conversion scale, our psychological preparation can withstand it. What if the results of excavation are different from those of detection? Because the location of the underground palace is as confusing as the vague image of Qin Shihuang in our hearts.

Third, how to get up and down the underground palace?

If the underground palace is 35 meters deep from the present surface, it is equivalent to a high-rise building with about 15 floors. If the vertical wall is made of stone or even earth and stone, it is still very strong. If it's just stone walls and earth walls like terracotta warriors and horses pits, will it lead to collapse? To say the least, if reinforced, wouldn't it change the original form of the vertical wall itself and become a modern man-made product? Also, the terracotta warriors and horses pit is about 3 to 5 meters from the surface, and you can see it clearly without going down, but the underground palace is more than ten times deeper, and a fence can't let it go down. Can't tourists see with binoculars? If the passage is covered with stairs, escalators and elevators, wouldn't it destroy the structural landscape inside the underground palace?

Estimated excavation completion time of Qin tomb.

If we use the most mechanical algorithm, which can be said to be almost a joke, we do not calculate the time cost, nor consider the actual burial situation, nor consider the investment of manpower, material resources and financial resources, but only calculate the excavation area, and we can see the following conversion process and results:

Transformation 1: Qin Jinggong No.1 Tomb in Fengxiang, Shaanxi Province is the largest pre-Qin tomb excavated in China at present, with a total area of 5,334 square meters and a depth of 24 meters. The Qin Mausoleum covers an area of 250,000 square meters, about 50 times larger than it. Qin cemetery was discovered in 1976, cleaned in 1986 and dug in 10. So, is the Qin Mausoleum going to dig 400 yuan? 500 years? Conversion 2: The total area of Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit is about 20,780 square meters, and the area of Qin Mausoleum is about 13 times weaker than the total area of Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit, with a depth of 6? Seven times. After 30 years of excavation, the total excavation area accounts for about 215 of the total site area, and about 4,500 square meters have been excavated. According to the actual excavation method of Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit, the area of Qin Mausoleum is 50 times of the total excavation area of Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit. How many years will it take to dig?