Qin Shihuang’s nickname was Qin Zheng, and his birth name was Ying Zheng.
The First Emperor of Qin was born in 259 BC. His birthplace was in the Wenming Hall ruins of Kuocheng, Handan at that time, and the Zhujia Lane area south of Congtai and southwest of Congtai. He is the middle son of King Zhuangxiang of Qin, and the 35th grandson of Erai, an important minister of the Shang Dynasty. His surname is Zhao, and he has a famous political name.
After King Qin annihilated the six kingdoms in 221 BC, the title of king was not enough to show his career, so he was called emperor. And continued to implement Shang Yang's Legalist policies since the Xiaogong Reform, strengthening the monarchy, weakening the power of the old aristocrats, and promoting the aristocrats who rose to prominence with military merit.
From 219 BC to 215 BC, Qin Shi Huang continuously toured the eastern coast, the Jianghuai River basin and the north. Wherever he went, he carved stones to praise his merits. In the later period, Qin Shihuang was obsessed with the art of immortality and believed in destiny. It is also said that there are three islands in the sea: Penglai, Fangzhang and Yingzhou, where gods live.
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The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang
The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang is located at the northern foot of Lishan Mountain, 5 kilometers east of Lintong District, Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province. The Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang took 39 years to build from 246 BC to 208 BC. It is the first very large-scale and perfectly designed imperial mausoleum in Chinese history. Lishan Tomb is built with 700,000 workers every year. The remaining tomb has a circumference of 2,000 meters from the outside and a height of more than 55 meters. The interior decoration is extremely luxurious, with a copper roof, mercury as the rivers, lakes and seas, and there are mechanisms all around, with the sun, moon and stars made of pearls on the top.
The Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang built two inner and outer cities, symbolizing the imperial city and palace city of the capital. Located in the south of the city center, it is in the shape of an overturned bucket. It is now 51 meters high and has a base circumference of more than 1,700 meters. Just looking at the terracotta warriors and horses in the Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang, we can see the heavy burden of the people who built this mausoleum. In addition, the craftsmen who built the mausoleum by Qin II were all buried after the mausoleum was completed.
Handan City also built the Qin Shi Huang Birthplace Memorial Hall in his birthplace Chuancheng Street in 2014, which displays local cultural relics unearthed from the Warring States Period and historical materials, academic treatises and literary works about Qin Shi Huang.
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