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Chapter 377 The huge mausoleum
......... After saying goodbye to Mr. Liu and his family, and being sent to the entrance of the village by the enthusiastic villagers, Liu Dong got on his motorcycle and rushed out towards the Guan family along the already very familiar and winding road.
Drive away.
After riding for more than ten minutes, we crossed the Ambergris River. After walking for another five or six minutes, we were still in sight of a short mountain with an altitude of about 200 meters, but a very gentle slope, covering an area of 28 square kilometers. This short mountain
There is no name, because there are a lot of exposed rocks on the mountain, which cannot be cultivated, so it is just an unknown barren hill. However, if you want to rush out from the Guan family, you must go around here, and then walk up Fenglong Mountain, bypassing the drop to reach
The 30-meter Longya Waterfall.
Looking at the low hills in front of him and the exposed rocks washed out of the ground by water, Liu Dong couldn't help but have a thought in his mind, could Prince Zhuang's tomb be here?
However, despite this suspicion, Liu Dong also knew that the possibility was unlikely because the nameless hill was too high. Generally, during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were detailed regulations on how high the sealing soil of tombs could be piled. Just like bronzes, the Emperor's Jiuding
The eight guis and the seven dings and six guis of the princes have the same etiquette.
Moreover, the seals of large tombs in the pre-Qin period, even at the imperial level, rarely exceed 100 meters. The seals of the famous Mausoleum of the First Emperor are only 120 meters long. After more than two thousand years of wind and rain erosion, it is now early
It's less than a hundred meters away.
Therefore, when Liu Dong looked around for the tomb of King Zhuang in Guanjiachong, he had no doubts about this place at all.
However, now that Liu Dong was about to leave here, and he happened to be here, he naturally wanted to find out. Therefore, with a thought, the relic Yuanguang naturally moved. With him as the center of the circle, within a radius of 100 meters
, everything inside this spherical space was clearly displayed in Liu Dong's mind.
"Woo...dong...click...gudong!"
Accompanied by this series of noises, when he looked again, Liu Dong was already lying on the ground, and the new Jialing motorcycle he had just bought for more than half a month had its front wheel tilted to the ground, and the reflection on the front of the car was
Mirrors, panniers, the plastic panels on the motorcycle that protect the engine, and the water shields behind the wheels were all scattered from the car.
As for the drawing board and easel behind Liu Dong's car seat and the half of the mountain goods in the snakeskin bag, they were even more rotten and flying, and no one was intact anymore.
"Uh!" Liu Dong turned over and sat up from the ground, grinning, and patted the dirt on his body. Although he was hit hard just now, he was not seriously injured due to his strong physique.
Liu Dong stood up and did not help his motorcycle, but immediately released his relic Yuanguang. After realizing everything inside the relic Yuanguang, Liu Dong's face immediately became extremely shocked.
Terracotta Warriors!
A large number of terracotta warriors and horses holding weapons and wearing armor with majestic expressions appeared in Liu Dong's mind.
Liu Dong is already very familiar with the Terracotta Warriors and Horses. In addition to the famous Qinling Terracotta Warriors and Horses, which is known as the "eighth wonder of the world", there are also the pits of the Hanyang Mausoleum of Emperor Jingdi in Shaanxi and Western Han Dynasty, Zhou Bo and Zhou Yafu in Yangjiawan, Shaanxi and Western Han Dynasties.
There are 7 sites including the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit in the Tomb of Father and Son, the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit in the Changling Mausoleum of Liu Bang in Western Shaanxi, and the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Pit in Lion Mountain in Xuzhou, Jiangsu Province.
However, except for the terracotta warriors and horses in the Qinling Mountains that fit the human body, the terracotta warriors in the remaining seven terracotta warriors and horses pits are only half the height of real people, or even smaller.
But even so, these pottery figurines are still an unreplicable miracle in the archaeological world.
Now, the terracotta warriors and horses that appeared in Liu Dong's mind were no different from the terracotta warriors and horses in the Qinling Mountains. They were all warriors with human body proportions. They were all about 1.7 meters tall. Of course, there were also tall ones. Moreover, the firing process of these pottery warriors was not the same at all.
Second to the Qin Terracotta Warriors, they also have the characteristics of "thousands of people with thousands of faces, thousands of people with thousands of colors".
At this time, Liu Dong no longer cared about the motorcycle. Instead, he circled the entire nameless hill and examined it carefully with the relic Yuan Guang.
By the time Liu Dong sat on a white boulder at the top of an unknown hill, nearly three hours had passed.
"It's really amazing!" After taking a few deep breaths to calm down his mood, Liu Dong still said these words with his whole body trembling slightly.
He had never seen the famous Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang with his own eyes. Although he had learned about its grand scale from books, he naturally did not have a deep impression of it since he could not see it in person.
But this time was different. The scale of King Chuzhuang's underground tomb was so huge that Liu Dong couldn't believe that beneath this inconspicuous hill beneath his feet, there was actually an archaeological excavation that could shock the world.
Eight huge pits of terracotta warriors and horses are arranged in a neat and orderly battle formation, forming a trigram shape to guard the central main tomb, attached tomb, chariot and horse pits, burial pits and sacrificial pits.
Among the terracotta warriors and horses, there are nearly 5,000 terracotta warriors of real life and similar size to real horses. They are also divided into chariots, cavalry and infantry. There are kneeling and standing postures.
However, compared to the terracotta warriors and horses holding bronze weapons in the Qinling Mausoleum, these terracotta warriors and horses are all made of pottery weapons, and many are even made of wood. It is obvious that in the hands of King Xiong Lun of Chuzhuang, the financial resources of Chu State, which was pushed to hegemony, are still
It cannot be compared with the First Emperor who unified the world. But even so, it is extremely amazing.
In addition to these terracotta warriors and horses, there are 21 chariot and horse pits buried with them. The largest one is more than 300 meters long and 200 meters wide, and all real chariots and horses are buried there. The smallest one is more than 8,000 square meters, and the burial pits are more than 8,000 square meters long.
There are more than three hundred chariots and horses.
In addition, there are also three burial pits. Although Liu Dong did not count too carefully, he thought it would not be less than five hundred.
"" records, "The emperor killed hundreds of people and dozens of people." Obviously, in the tomb of King Chuzhuang, the number of people who died was no less than that of the emperor, and even exceeded it.
Moreover, most of the burial pits contain a small amount of bronze, jade, and lacquerware. If these burial pits were really excavated, there would probably be no less than 20,000 cultural relics alone.
Among the entire tomb, what surprised Liu Dong the most was the main tomb!
It's really too big!
Moreover, the tomb of King Chuzhuang is a rare ‘Ya’-shaped tomb!
The sub-shaped tomb, also known as the sub-shaped tomb, is one of the ancient Chinese tomb shapes. The tomb chamber of the sub-shaped tomb is a huge square or sub-shaped vertical pit, with a tomb passage on each side. Its shape is grand in scale and imposing.
extraordinary.
The tombs of higher-level nobles in ancient China have tomb passages around the tomb chambers. According to the number of tomb passages, they can be divided into sub-shaped tombs, Zhong-shaped tombs and A-shaped tombs. These names are based on the shape of the tomb chamber plane.
It comes from the word "中", the word "中" and the word "A".
The number of tomb passages represents the level of class status. The sub-shaped tomb with four tomb passages is the highest grade and belongs to the imperial-level tomb scale; followed by the Z-shaped tomb with two tomb passages and the A-shaped tomb with one tomb passage. Used by princes and nobles.
With a total length of 300 meters and an area of 5,334 square meters, its scale is far larger than the tombs of kings of various vassal states known in the pre-Qin Dynasty. It is 10 times larger than the tomb of King Shang in He-Nan'an-Yang, and larger than the Tomb of King Ma in Changsha, Hu-Nan Dui No. 1 Han Tomb is 20 times the size of the treasure - Ji Qin Gong No. 1 Tomb is a "中" tomb.
At this moment, the tomb of King Chuzhuang under the observation of Liu Dong's relic Yuanguang is even more magnificent than the No. 1 Tomb of Qin Gong. The central coffin chamber alone is 90 meters long, 75 meters wide, and nearly 20 meters high. meters, its area reaches 6,700 square meters, which is larger than the entire Tomb of Qin Gong No. 1 and 30 times that of the famous Tomb of Zeng Hou Yi.
In addition to the coffin chamber in the center, there are 8 ear chambers distributed on both sides of the four surrounding tomb passages. The two largest ear chambers, the longest tomb passage on the south side, have a combined area of 800 square meters. The smallest of the eight ear chambers is more than 200 square meters.
In addition, this building is located 35 meters underground and is covered by a heavy mixed soil layer of nearly 200 meters high, mixed with stone, sand and soil. The reason why it has not been crushed after 2500 years of vicissitudes is that Because this huge tomb of King Chuzhuang is not simply a wooden coffin like other pre-Qin ancient tombs, but a stone coffin like the Mausoleum of the First Emperor.
This super luxurious tomb, including the tomb passage and ear chambers, has a total area of more than 10,000 square meters. The floor, wall panels, and cover of the entire coffin chamber are made of more than 7,500 giant rectangular wooden mats, with 25,000 pieces of mature nanmu used. Many cubic meters. All the nanmu coffin boards are connected with 'sanhe soil' which is a mixture of lime, clay and glutinous rice.
The four walls of the nanmu coffin board are surrounded by stones with a height and width of more than fifty centimeters, a length of two meters, and a weight of nearly three tons. There are three layers of stones built in this way, but the thickness of two layers of rocks is only More than 150 centimeters.
In addition to the bottom, there are also two layers of the same large stone bars under the floor of the coffin. However, the length of these stone bars reaches 15 meters, but the weight of one such stone bar reaches 15 tons, which is almost no worse than the Pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. I don’t know how these heavy stone bars were placed at the bottom of the tomb under the backward productivity conditions of the pre-Qin period.
And this is not the most exaggerated. The three-layer stone strips that actually serve as the cover are even heavier, especially the outermost layer. The length and width are even more amazing. Almost each piece weighs no less than 20 tons. Liu Dong After a brief guess, there were more than 500 heavy stone bars that were ten meters long and eighty centimeters wide. I really don’t know how much manpower and material resources King Chuzhuang spent on polishing these huge stones.
Of course, in addition to these wooden coffins and huge stone strips, the outside, especially the top of the tomb, is also covered with three layers of bamboo mats. On the bamboo mats, there are as many as three meters of plaster mud. There are also three meters of plaster mud underground. , but the green paste on the walls of the tomb is more than six meters, which is really too thick. Perhaps only the tomb of Qin Shihuang is more exaggerated than this.
In addition, in order to fully prevent moisture, thick charcoal is placed between the bamboo mats, boulder strips and the innermost coffin board.
It is precisely because of such an extremely strong tomb that the majestic King Chuzhuang can withstand the nearly two hundred meters of heavy earth above his head. (To be continued)