The designer of the Qin Mausoleum Project not only carefully selected a geomantic treasure site, but also designed the overall layout of the cemetery with originality! The Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin is centered on a tall tomb. Outside the tomb, there are two rammed-earth city walls in the shape of a backbone, and a gate on each side of the outer city wall. Except for the two gates on the north wall of the inner city, there is one gate on each of the other three sides. In particular, the Juemen ruins at the south gate of the inner city still stand in a tomb, which is spectacular!
On March 29, 1974, when several villagers from the Xiyang Village Production Team of Xiahe Brigade discovered the sleeping terracotta warriors and horses, the news shocked the world and also lifted the mysterious veil of Qin Mausoleum.
Neither the farmers who dug the wells nor the archaeological scientists could have imagined that the Terracotta Warriors and Horses pit would be of such scale. Shortly after the comprehensive survey and excavation of Pit No. 1, Pit No. 2 and Pit No. 3 and a large A-shaped tomb were discovered 20 meters north of Pit No. 1. As for the terracotta warriors and horses burial pit alone, it covers an area of ??more than 20,000 square meters and contains more than 8,000 terracotta warriors and horses that look like real horses, as well as hundreds of thousands of bronze weapons. This large-scale burial pit is unprecedented not only in China, but also in the history of world mausoleums.
In the following 20 years, archaeological discoveries in Qin Shi Huang’s Mausoleum continued one after another. More than a hundred stable burial pits and 17 companion tombs were discovered on the east side of the cemetery. On the west side of the cemetery, 31 burial pits for rare birds and animals, 1 square-shaped stable burial pit and 61 small burial pits were discovered. Ten large-scale painted bronze chariots and horses and wooden chariots and horses are located in the west of the underground palace, under the original soil. In recent years, a larger animal burial pit has been discovered in the north of the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum, and an armor pit and a hundred opera terracotta pits have been discovered between the inner and outer city walls in the east. . Aren’t all the carefully designed and arranged things above and below the cemetery an ideal underground kingdom?