The mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor buried 30 gold silkworm. Why did you do that?

The reason why Qin Shihuang buried gold silkworm with 30 foils at that time was that he still had silk clothes to wear after his death. Gold silkworm is recorded in Li Shizhen's Compendium of Materia Medica. Gold silkworm is native to Yunnan, and its whole body is golden yellow. It can not only spin silk, but also is a very expensive medicinal material. As we all know, the emperor likes golden things very much. Therefore, it was later used as a prototype to make gold silkworm in Tibet.

In fact, in Shaanxi History Museum, there is a gold silkworm about 5.6 cm long. It is as big as a human thumb and is very well preserved. There is also a gold-plated copper silkworm of Han dynasty in the retrospective museum. 1987 was discovered by a collector in Beijing antique market. It is said that it cost a lot of money at that time. This shows that gold silkworm's historical records are correct, and gold silkworm was indeed a rare treasure in ancient times.

According to the diameter of circular silkworm foil is 100 cm, the gold silkworm area of thirty foils in Qin Shihuang Mausoleum is 7850 cm 2. Generally speaking, a gold silkworm covers an area of 6 square centimeters, so a gold silkworm foil can hold 1300 gold silkworm, and 30 gold silkworm foils can hold nearly 40,000 gold silkworm. With so many gold silkworm buried with him, people can't help sighing about the luxury of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum. What is the concept of funeral in ancient times? Things die as they happen? .

In other words, what kind of life a person lived before, then his life after death must be the same as before. Therefore, it is precisely because Qin Shihuang had many gorgeous clothes before his death that he will certainly keep them after his death. That's why we put more gold silkworm, and use the silk they spit out to make him many gorgeous clothes. From this little gold silkworm, experts can find out why Qin Shihuang was buried with so many gold silkworm foils, just to put on silk clothes after his death.