Is Qinling really at the foot of Mount Li?

The real Qin Shihuang Mausoleum is located at the northern foot of Mount Li in the east of Linchong District, Xi City. In 246 BC, when Qin Shihuang ascended the throne, he began to build a mausoleum until he was buried in 2 10 BC. The construction of the mausoleum lasted for 37 years, with more than 700,000 workers participating at most. The seal of the mausoleum is a flat-topped square pyramid. The bottom is 515m long from north to south, 485m wide from east to west and115m high. After more than two thousand years of wind and rain erosion and man-made destruction, the bottom of the enclosure is 350 meters long from north to south, 345 meters wide from east to west and 76 meters high. There are two walls around the mausoleum, the inner city is 3875 meters and the outer city is 62 1O meters. There are doors on all sides of the inner and outer cities, and there are door net buildings. Through archaeological exploration, more than 500 burial pits, tombs and tombs of Xiuling people have been found inside and outside the cemetery. Among them, the more important tombs are: terracotta warriors, bronze chariots and horses, stables, rare birds and animals, and various burial pits. In addition, a large number of palace architectural sites such as sleeping halls, toilet halls and garden temples have been found inside and outside the cemetery. The whole cemetery is like a rich underground treasure house. It is the largest cemetery with the largest number of funerary objects in China Imperial Mausoleum.

To the south of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is Mount Li, and to the north is Lishui. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north, belonging to the alluvial fan area at the foot of the mountain. Li Daoyuan's "Water Mirror Wei Shui Zhu" says: Ashan "has more gold in yin and more jade in yang, and the first emperor was buried for his good name." Today, the mausoleum is surrounded by farmland and villages, and the fence of the mausoleum is covered with pomegranate trees. Every year, pomegranate flowers are like fire in early summer and fruitful in autumn, and tourists are like weaving.

In order to uncover the mystery of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum, archaeologists began to drill and investigate the cemetery gradually from the early 1960s. The mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor covers an area of 56.25 square kilometers. The base of the Qin Mausoleum is approximately square, shaped like a barrel and made of rammed earth. The existing mausoleum is 76 meters, the base is 345 meters wide from east to west and 350 meters long from north to south, which looks like a pyramid. Around the mound, there are two north-south rectangular walls on the ground. The inner city is1355m long from north to south, 580m wide from east to west and 3870m in circumference. The outer city is 2165m long from north to south, 580m wide from east to west and 62 10/0m in circumference. Most of the city walls collapsed, leaving only the wall base, about 8 meters wide. There are doors on all sides of the inner city and the outer city, one on all sides of the outer city, one on the east, west and south sides of the inner city, and two on the north. Some buildings have doors on their doors. There are turrets in the four corners of the inner city and the outer city. Several large palace architectural sites were also found between the inner city and the outer city. There are a large number of burial pits and tombs with different shapes and connotations around the mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, and more than 400 have been proved.

Among these tombs, there are bronze chariots and horses pits symbolizing the riding of the royal emperor; In recent years, more than 50,000 important historical relics have been unearthed in the mausoleum, many of which are priceless and rare treasures, such as bronze chariots and horses, sitting statues, Yuefu Bell and Kuiwen Wadang.

Judging from the connotation of these burial pits and the records of the Qin Mausoleum in the history books, mausoleum of the first qin emperor is the reappearance of the kingdom on the ground. Everything in the world is ready underground. In this shadowy underground kingdom, Qin Shihuang is still the supreme emperor who rules the world. Only three years after the death of Qin Shihuang, the Qin Dynasty was destroyed by waves of peasant uprisings. All the magnificent palaces on the ground of the Qin Mausoleum finally became "a torch of the Chu people, poor scorched earth!" Only the towering Qin Mausoleum, like a witness who has experienced vicissitudes, tells the later generations about the spring and autumn when the dynasty rose and fell alternately.