Explore Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum Complex
探秘秦始皇陵
Course Syllabus 课程章节
1Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum Site Museum is the largest on-site museum in China. It displays the Terracotta Warriors and Horses, which are known as the eighth wonder of the world, and the First Emperor’s Mausoleum Site Park. This is the Mausoleum of Emperor Qin Shihuang, the First Emperor of Chinese history. It is the best-preserved, largest, and richest buried mausoleum in Chinese history. The construction of the mausoleum lasted 38 years and more than 700,000 laborers were conscripted, and its scale far exceeds the mausoleums of the kings of the pre-Qin era. For more than half a century, over 300 burial pits, burial tombs, and sites of the buildings have been discovered by the archaeologists within the protection scope of Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum. These burial pits and burial tombs were constructed in strict accordance with the ritual system of “treating the dead as they were alive”. The total area of the mausoleum complex is 45.59 square kilometers, which fully embodies the features of Emperor Qin Shihuang’s Mausoleum: large in scale, rigorous in layout, and rich in burial objects.
秦始皇帝陵博物院是中国最大的遗址性专题博物馆,在这里展示着被誉为世界第八大奇迹的秦兵马俑和秦始皇陵遗址公园。这里是中国历史上第一个皇帝——秦始皇的陵墓,它是中国古代帝王陵墓中保存最好、规模最大、埋藏最丰富的一座陵园。陵园修建工作持续38年,动用劳动力最多时达到70余万人,其规模远远超过先秦时代诸王的陵墓。半个多世纪以来,考古工作者已经在秦始皇陵保护范围内发现各类陪葬坑、陪葬墓、大型地上建筑遗迹300多处,这些陪葬坑和陪葬墓是严格按照事死如事生的礼制建造而成,陵园占地面积足足有45.69平方公里,充分体现了规模宏大、布局严谨、埋藏丰富的特征。