"Forceful and powerful". This sentence to people often used to describe the year of the West Chu hegemony - Xiang Yu . In history, there is an incident about Xiang Yu burning the Afang Palace. Whether this incident is true or not, today to say a few words.
Afang Palace was a palace of the Qin Dynasty, which was built in 212 BC, according to historical records. The site is in the present-day Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, 15 kilometers west of the suburb of Afang Village area, for the national key cultural relics protection units.? Afang Palace is known as "the first palace in the world". However, according to the Records of the Grand Historian, because Emperor Qin Shi Huang died before the completion of the palace, the palace was not yet completed, and the construction was forced to stop. Then went to build the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. After a seven-month stoppage, Qin Ershi, in order to fulfill the late emperor's last wish, sent people to build the Alhambra Palace again. Then a war broke out, and the Afang Palace could no longer be built. It was not completed until after Qin Ershi's death. Although the palace was not fully completed, some of its outbuildings, such as the "A City", remained for a long time.
The story of Xiang Yu's burning of the Alhambra Palace is a good one. In fact, Xiang Yu didn't actually burn down the palace.
Xi'an cultural relics and gardening bureau deputy director of the Qin AFang Palace archaeological team deputy leader Sun Fuxi said: a year's time, archaeologists explored an area of more than 200,000 square meters, excavation area of 1,000 square meters, but the discovery of the red-hot soil is only a small amount of a few pieces. If it is a large area of fire for three months (which is contained in the historical data), the red-hot soil should be everywhere. In addition to the red-hot soil, there should also be a large amount of grass ash.
What Xiang Yu burned was the Qin Xianyang Palace. This is confirmed by later archaeological excavations, the site of Qin Xianyang Palace had found a large area of red-hot soil remains. The reason why Afang Palace was not burned is explained, Afang Palace 14 square kilometers within more than sixty rammed earth base site, some places were built, some places have not yet been built, including this front hall is also doubtful whether it is built." Sun Fuxi said. It is understood that the Afang Palace consists of two major building complexes, one is the Afang Palace building complex, the "Historical Records" recorded that its "East and West 500 paces, North and South 50 zhang, on which can be sitting ten thousand people, under the five zhang flag can be built. Zhou Chi Court Road, from the Temple straight to the South Mountain. Table of the South Mountain upside as Que." Another is on the roof of the building complex, because of its serious damage, archaeologists have investigated its exploration, but not much significant findings.