Text/Blue Dream Island original article, has opened the whole network to protect rights, plagiarism will be investigated! Ying Zheng, the first Qin Emperor, swept the six countries, unified the world and completed the unification of China. He was the first monarch in China and the most worthy monarch in ancient times. For Qin Shihuang, a figure standing at the top of history, there are countless unsolved mysteries around him, such as the mystery of his father, the mystery of his death, the mystery of his succession and so on. Among them, the most unsolved mystery is the mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, such as his strange orientation mystery. The mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is located 5 kilometers east of Lintong District, Xi City, Shaanxi Province, with Lishan Mountain in the south and Weishui in the north. It is an excellent land of geomantic omen. However, the orientation of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is very inconsistent with Feng Shui, and it is really puzzling to sit west facing east. According to modern archaeological findings, as early as the primitive society, China ancestors began to build villages and houses facing south, which was beneficial to lighting and shelter from the wind, in line with the ancient geomantic concept of China. Throughout the history of the feudal dynasty of more than 2,000 years, most of the tombs of emperors in previous dynasties sat facing south to show that they still enjoyed the supreme imperial honor after their death, and they were in the Ninth Five-Year Plan before their death, and they still wanted to dominate the world after their death. Then, why doesn't the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor sit facing south, but sitting west to east? As early as when Ying Zheng was the king of Qin, he had already started a huge mausoleum construction project, so first of all, it was Qin Shihuang's own intention to sit west to east. The specific reasons for Qin Shihuang's unconventional are as follows. If there are any inadequacies or deficiencies, please criticize and correct them. Reason 1: As we all know, Qin Shihuang had better seek immortality. His lifelong wish is immortality and enlightenment. In order to get what he wanted, he even sent Xu Fudong, a physician, to Japan to find a prescription for immortality. Unfortunately, he didn't do this until his death. The ancients thought that fairyland was located in the east, and one of the reasons why Qin Shihuang's mausoleum sat west facing east was that he hoped to look east after his death, so that the immortals could extradite the celestial fairyland and fulfill his unfinished wish. The second reason: Sima Qian's article "Hongmen Banquet" wrote: "Wang Xiang and Xiang Bo sit in the east; Father sits south-father, Fan Zeng also; Pei Gong sits in the north and Sean waits in the west. " So, at the hongmen banquet, master xiang yu and elder Xiang Bo sat from west to east. During the Qin Dynasty, sitting west facing east was respected, and archaeological findings can prove that most of the 9 17 Qin tombs excavated in Shaanxi Province also sat east facing west. Qin Shihuang was the master of the world before his death, and his position must be maintained after his death. So his mausoleum faces west and east, probably to emphasize his master status and the respect of the emperor. Reason 3: Qin Shihuang/Kloc-succeeded to the throne at the age of 0/3 and was officially crowned at the age of 22. He was a visionary and ambitious monarch since he was a child, and he had a great desire to sweep the six countries and unify the world from an early age. In the nearly ten years from 230 BC to 22 1 BC, Qin Shihuang destroyed the six countries of Korea, Zhao, Wei, Chu, Yan and Qi successively, and at the age of 39, he completed the historic cause of unifying the world, and established a powerful centralized country with the Han nationality as the main body, the Qin Dynasty, which laid a vast territory of China and has influenced it to this day. Qin Shihuang had such great achievements before his death, and he should look down on the world after his death, so as to protect the Daqin Empire from generation to generation. Geographically, the State of Qin is located in the westernmost part of the Seven Heroes of the Warring States, and the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang sits west to east, which is convenient for him to occupy the west after his death, overlook the six eastern countries and keep an eye on his kingdom and his world at all times. To sum up, it is no coincidence that Qin Shihuang's mausoleum chose to sit west facing east, which violates the routine of imperial tombs, but it is intentional, which implies Qin Shihuang's wishes and ideals and also reflects his hegemonic ambitions of emperors in previous dynasties. Of course, all of the above are just guesses. Only he knows the real reason why Qin Shihuang's mausoleum sits west to east. References:
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