Archaeology disentombs had proved, in the ancients grave, see mercury occasionally.
For instance Inner Mongolia tells state of distant of Er radical hill aristocratic grave (grave advocate for the female, the identity is not affirmatory, have saying is distant country of the princess, have saying is Sa full sacerdotal) , arranging the dead (female) when the dress, discovered a few mercury that submit drip form.
(in the dress drape that mercury bead places greatly smally in the dead / imperial asymmetry I)
Common the mercury of our bring into contact with, close in the thermometer. The common that mercury is mercury says, it is normal temperature often controls next metals that exist exclusively with liquid state. Mercuric and virulent, and easy volatilize, because accidental meeting is come up against in archaic grave, so archaeology worker is when osculatory body, must wear glove and guaze mask (it is respirator even) , in case the enroach on of volatile toxic substance.
From the point of the circumstance that disentombs at present, the mercury inside ancient body (or because the body is cankered, spill over outside body, in be being placed in the dress) , the volume is average not big, the likelihood is in the dead before one's death (commit suicide) or after reason, inside fill entrance.
The ancients believes mercury has anticorrosive effect (can saying only is partial the ancients, what mercury discovers in grave after all is local phenomenon only) ; Because mercury is in what natural condition falls to put,measure less, everyman home gets it in great quantities without the condition, this also may be ancient time a mercuric and anticorrosive circumstance is relatively scarce main reason is used in grave.
Imperial home uses mercury conditionally absolutely, but in light of the circumstance with respect to archaeology discovery and document account, mercuric and anticorrosive case is used after dying after archaic emperor also see rarely.
Visible, anticorrosive to mercury, ancient time does not have unanimous opinion. Otherwise, emperors won't need not.
(because mercury is had virulent, tall volatile wait for a characteristic, let a person very easily think of, the cloth in the grave sets mercuric pool to be able to have burglarproof effect effectively, not only in archaic story such, move quite in contemporary spirit overflow and also compare in novel of rob a tomb common / imperial asymmetry I)
Sima Qianzai " history write down " in, account of imperial tomb of Qin Shi emperor costly, used " go up an astronomy, geography is provided below " view, say only then stars mountains and rivers-land was imitated in Huang Ling, among them river uses mercuric perfusion namely.
This kind of view gets test and verify now, classics instrument detects, the quantity containing mercury of soil of area of imperial tomb of Qin Shi emperor exceeds bid apparently, pass around other area far high. OK and affirmative, qin Shi used mercury in emperor imperial tomb, and the amount is not small still.
This is not strange to appearing for Qin Shi emperor, well-known, qin Shi Huang Haoxian, surround beside getting together to make much necromancer, and mercury serves as a kind of chemical material, be ancient time " home of make pills of immortality " or " refine gold person " people one of 3 kinds of the most commonly used elements.
(Qin Shi emperor lived 49 years old only, deplorable, his " hobby " closed to his birthday / imperial asymmetry I)
These mercury are like account of minister change place impossibly, it is to be used only then decorate in Huang Ling " astronomy is geographical " . Empty interlocution of my Ceng Zaiwu will answered to be inscribed last year in September " why to disentomb Qin Huangling " , large to existence of imperial tomb of Qin Shi emperor palace gave negative. Main viewpoint is:
First Qin Damu, include the Di Ling of Chinese generation, Wang Ling, do not have a palace having the land. The form of mausolem is made in those days, dig a tremendous Fu to fight form coffin pit toward underground namely, put inner and outer coffins, next earthy backfill, again above build have a lofty land (can consult the ancestral Qin Jing of Qin Shi emperor's fair big grave) .
(Qin Gong a big grave, its host is Qin Jing fair. This grave is allegedly assuming " appearance of the emperor bury " , so Zhou Tianzi also is such bury / imperial asymmetry I)
I think:
Although dimensions of imperial tomb of Qin Shi emperor is not had 2, but regard a monarch as hill, with respect to its system character, also should be " inheritance is orderly " . That is to say, it does what be built like the extraterrestrial to earthly person impossibly, as irrelevant as fine long hair of mausolem of around monarch class.The book that use up a letter is inferior to having a book. " history write down " although have " astronomy is geographical " record and narrate, but this account makes clear only, it is early when the Western Han Dynasty, about only then Huang Ling already had a lot of magical fokelore, by minister change " according to the facts " the record comes down; However, " solid " , it is at that time hearsay namely such, is not to say, imperial tomb of Qin Shi emperor " ground palace " such really.
So, is the mercury in Qin Huangling to be used anticorrosive?
Saw Guan Mo forget, same ground " history write down " account, on the road that Qin Shi emperor swims in make one's rounds to death (dune, be in today Heibei Han Dan) , the day of sweltering summer heat, the body is very fast smell, zhao expensive plan is seized, decide secret does not send funeral, to cover dead body smelly, one car abalone procrastinated after imperial a small tinkling bell carriages (of course " abalone " story also may not is true) .
When Qin Shi emperor enters bury, already rotted washed-uply for certain, anticorrosive why to use?
If " dead emperor " had not rotted so neatly, lever his mouth, toward inside one spoon mercury pours strong fill is not not to have a likelihood absolutely, but be necessary, be his bubble likely in mercury?
This does not have a likelihood absolutely namely.
Above all, the ancients of that times builds a so many mercury without ability, even if is built piece, they also store without ability this kind virulent and not stable material. And bury of Qin Shi emperor should comparative brash, through put-up ascend which have Qin Ershi idle affection will do these playing meaning (make a large number of mercury, and appropriate is added store, carry next Huang Ling, its process is quite time-consuming) .
Moreover, if why is imperial remains handled, oneself its country is made, informal assume sth as a matter of course does not make creation, "Only then imperial bubble is in mercury " , arrival is not had after unprecedented, itself is suspect.
If we the science from history is rigorous, is not the gout from taletelling, will study some issue, that cannot a powerful and unconstrained style, separated some work bombastic, and must be particular about of some kind of system causal reach its inheritance pedigree. Of imperial tomb of Qin Shi emperor alleged " ground palace " , be passed to get fantastic, broke this kind of inheritance, became " outside the star is civilized " , whats may have. (imperial asymmetry I / Hu Dan answering question)
