Three springs pass, copper drops, and the palace is full of treasures. Qin Shihuang ordered people to dig a tunnel from the surface to the surface, then sealed it with copper, and finally put the coffin in it, and copied the palace built by Qin Shihuang before his death, and then hid all kinds of rare treasures in it.
It means that Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is full of organs. If anyone dares to approach, they will automatically fire crossbows and shoot at those who break into the tomb.
Sima Qian
Taking mercury as a hundred rivers and seas, the machine instills astronomy and geography, and the mermaid cream is a candle, which lasts for a long time. This sentence will be even more amazing. It is said that the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum painted rivers and seas with mercury, and then filled them with mechanical circulation, including astronomy and geography, and mermaid fat made candles, which lasted for a long time.
Judging from Sima Qian's works, is that another bustling small-scale mausoleum in Qin Shihuang's mausoleum? This world? Didn't Sima Qian really go there?
Why did Sima Qian know the structure of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum?
Has Sima Qian been to the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor? Obviously, he didn't. Not to mention before, even now, the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is still foggy and can't see its true colors clearly. The proper preservation of the Terracotta Warriors and Horses in Qin Shihuang Mausoleum is puzzling, which is also the reason why the Terracotta Warriors and Horses have not been excavated on a large scale.
In fact, Sima Qian can know the structure of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum for several reasons. First, Sima Qian lived in an era close to that of Qin Shihuang. It is natural to know something about the previous generation.
Site map of the construction of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum
Secondly, the construction of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor lasted for more than 40 years, during which people would flow. After all, it is impossible to let them work for more than 40 years with only one person, and those who are eliminated first still have a chance to survive. Of course, they will not remain silent when they see such a grand occasion, so that people around them or future generations can have a clearer understanding of the internal structure of the Qin Tombs.
Finally, at the beginning of the construction of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum, it was not blind. There must be drawings for such a large-scale construction. For some important documents of the Qin Shihuang period, Xiao He in the early Western Han Dynasty ordered that all kinds of important documents of the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum should be strictly protected. Among them, there may be drawings about the design and construction of the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, and Sima Qian also had access to these documents.
Is Sima Qian's description of the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor accurate?
Because Sima Qian has never seen the internal structure of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum with his own eyes, that is to say, Sima Qian's description of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is completely accurate, and it is very normal to mix some personal imagination into these descriptions. After all, there are many omissions in historical records.
However, despite this, it cannot be denied that Sima Qian's description of the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor is all his own imagination. In the era of Sima Qian's life, the wind of reburial was still prevalent, and it was also common to build a mausoleum for the emperor of the Western Han Dynasty.
Royal mausoleum
However, the construction of the imperial tombs in the Western Han Dynasty was largely inherited from the Qin system, so it is not necessary for Sima Qian to see the internal structure of the imperial tombs in the Western Han Dynasty and infer the structure of the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor.
As a historian, Sima Qian is rigorous. Although he has never really been to the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, in order to write down the description of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, he must have read many classics and visited many people who participated in the construction of the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, but were not dead, or their descendants were still alive.