After Qin Shihuang unified the world, he considered himself to be the first person since the founding of the world. The three emperors and the five emperors could not compare with him, so he took the emperor of the three emperors and the emperor of the five emperors and called him the first emperor. During his lifetime, he was a unique emperor. He sat on a high imperial throne and directed the country. After his death, he must build a grand imperial mausoleum that is unprecedented and unprecedented, and he can overlook the mountains and small mountains!
After Qin Shi Huang established the Qin Dynasty, he began to build a large-scale construction project, including the Great Wall, Afang Palace, and his Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. After using hundreds of thousands of people and spending 40 years, the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang was finally completed. But the location of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum is a bit confusing. Why did he build the mausoleum in "Lishan"?
Most of Qin Shihuang’s ancestors were buried in the Zhiyang area to the west of Linzhang County. In the ancient burial system, the West was respected. As a junior, Qin Shihuang could only be buried in Lishan Mountain to the east of Zhiyang. < /p>
But looking back at history, what happened here was not very auspicious. On the anniversary of the Western Zhou Dynasty, King You of the Zhou Dynasty and his beloved concubine Bao Si directed and performed a historical tragedy here, which involved the beacon fire drama among the princes, thereby ruining the Western Zhou Dynasty. Later, Qin Shihuang built a mausoleum here, which led to the tragedy of his death. So, is Lishan a blessed place or a source of disaster? Since there was a historical tragedy of the Western Zhou Dynasty before Qin Shihuang, why did Qin Shihuang insist on building a mausoleum here?
With the deepening of archaeological exploration, someone put forward a point of view. Experts believe that Qin Shihuang's choice of Lishan should be closely related to the funeral system at that time. Specifically, people have different generations, especially in ancient times. There is a strict patriarchal etiquette between elders and juniors. Even after death, the mausoleum remains in a position of superiority and inferiority.
Judging from the location of the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, it is backed by Lishan Mountain and faces the Weishui River. Lishan Mountain has undulating mountains and overlapping peaks, like a huge screen, standing behind the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, making it an ideal cemetery. Of course, this statement is not the final conclusion. However, this view is by far the most scientific and rigorous.