Qin Shihuang's mausoleum was under construction from his accession to the throne to his death. It took 37 years, but the mausoleum was not completed, so his son continued to build it, which lasted 39 years. The scale of the whole Qin Shihuang Mausoleum project, the perfection of internal structure and the number of exhibitions are amazing.
The mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was built at the northern foot of Mount Li in the east of Lintong District, Shaanxi Province, China, and was once the capital of Qin State. The whole cemetery covers an area of 56.25 square kilometers. Because it is an underground mausoleum, its sealing soil was originally 1 15 meters, but after thousands of years of environmental changes, it is only 76 meters high now. The whole cemetery is in the shape of "Hui", and there are two walls in the cemetery. The inner and outer city walls are 8 ~10m.
The underground palace, the main building of the mausoleum, is built in the inner city. Archaeologists not only found a large number of bronzes and pottery in the underground palace, but also found terracotta warriors and horses that shocked the world. These terracotta warriors and horses quietly guarded the tomb of the first emperor like real people, and their different arms and postures showed the heroic image of the first emperor's army to the fullest.
What is even more amazing is that there are rivers and seas made of mercury in this underground palace, which makes the whole underground palace full of magical colors. The whole Qin Shihuang Mausoleum has not been excavated yet, because people can't completely preserve the excavated cultural relics with modern archaeological technology, so the mystery of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum has not been completely lifted, and it is still quietly waiting for people to discover its uniqueness.
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The influence of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum;
The military content displayed by thousands of terracotta warriors and horses in the pit is undoubtedly one of the most important and vivid materials in the study of military history, and many materials enable people to further understand the ancient military field. These terracotta warriors and horses, grouped according to the military array at that time, provided vivid physical data for studying the military establishment, combat mode and cavalry equipment in the Qin Dynasty, and were hailed as "the eighth wonder of the world" and "one of the major discoveries in the archaeological history of the 20th century". ?
For example, there are valuable information about the composition, combination, organization, weapons, weapon configuration and armored protective equipment, military organizational structure and command system, and even the source of military soldiers.
The formation of the crossbowman in the No.2 pit, the formation and coordination of cavalry and light chariots are all unknown or unknown important materials before, and compared with Sun Bin's exposition on the principle of coordination of vehicles, steps and riding in Sun Tzu's Art of War, it is extremely impressive.
In ancient military works, the principle of mixing the length of weapons and saving the length of weapons is also intuitive in the weapon configuration of terracotta warriors and horses pits, and it also has its research value in military science. Therefore, some people call the Three Pits of Terracotta Warriors and Horses a rich military museum in the Qin Dynasty.
Historical influence:
History itself endows the Terracotta Warriors with various historical and cultural values. The historical levels reflected by Qin terracotta warriors are many and wide, and they have unique cognitive value in the history of architecture, clothing, system, especially in the history of tomb system.
Even the height, physique, costume bun and lettering, as well as the tools of production and traces of labor left by Qin people in the cave, can reflect the true image of social life in Qin Dynasty from different aspects, reflect the cultural characteristics of an era and reflect the historical essence of Qin's rise and fall.
The exquisiteness and richness of the cultural relics unearthed in the pit of Qin figurines is a direct witness to the material achievements of the Qin Dynasty. Let people know and evaluate the Qin Dynasty again, and at the same time put forward many historical topics worth discussing, such as the re-understanding of imperial power, the cultural characteristics of the Qin Dynasty, the position of the Qin Dynasty in the historical development of China and so on.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Qin Shihuang Mausoleum (Influence of Qin Shihuang Mausoleum)