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My name is Qin Ming, and I am a graduate student in the Department of Archaeology, and I have a deep understanding and love for the terracotta warriors and horses of the Qin State. A few months ago, I went with my team to the Xi'an Museum to inspect the Terracotta Warriors.

During this period, the theft of the terracotta warriors and horses occurred, and the museum called the police. I quietly investigated this matter, and some of the unearthed bamboo slips from the pre-Qin period in the museum that were not displayed caught my attention.

I researched the bamboo slips and found a record of the Qin tomb in the small seal script on the bamboo slips. My investigation team and I deduced the location of the tomb halfway up the mountain according to the five elements of yin and yang written in the bamboo slips, and then came to Lishan for investigation.

We found the entrance to a deep cave halfway up the mountain, and I went into the cave with the expedition team to investigate, and the cave was very wet, and when we went deep into the cave, it was pitch black and we couldn't see anything, so we lit the torches that we had prepared. We walked like this for a long time into the depths of the cave before we saw the light, and there was a tiger's head door. There are a lot of cobwebs on the tiger head door, and there are some strange shapes of amber on the door leaf.

We opened the mausoleum gate and walked in, one of the team members accidentally stepped on the mechanism, and the twelve dragon heads sent out poisoned arrows, but fortunately everyone reacted in time and was not injured. Later, we went through the trap of fireballs and mercury needles before we came to the dormitory, and everyone was amazed by the magnificent architecture of this mausoleum, where there are so many terracotta warriors and horses, several times more than the museum, which will be a very rich cultural heritage of our country.

At that time, everyone saw that the mausoleum was so majestic and thought that this mausoleum was the mausoleum of the first emperor. Only I noticed that entering the tomb is, the plaque at the mausoleum gate is written in seal style "Western Emperor Mausoleum", so the owner of this mausoleum is the Western Emperor, the Western Emperor is the thirty-six monarchs of the Qin State, Qin Zhaoxiang Wang, named Ying Ji, and his mother is the first Empress Dowager Xuan in Chinese history.

We found many frescoes and carved small seals on the walls of the tomb. The person in the mural was a woman, and the woman was a beautiful woman with a classical charm. has a goose egg show face, the heavenly court is full, the skin is ruddy and shiny, the nose bridge is delicate, the eyebrows are like green bamboo, a pair of big eyelids, and there are no muddy pupils. Just like the son of the proprietor written by the poet of Chu State, if you increase one point, it will be too long, if you subtract one point, it will be too white, if you wear powder, it will be too white, and if you Shi Zhu is too red.

In a mural, she rides a red leopard, in the mountains deep in the vanilla, dressed in white like snow, with scattered cloud hair, wearing a flower crown on her head, wearing a lily, and a female basket at her waist.

In another mural, she stands on top of a high hall, with a plump body and a demure temperament, wearing a beautiful dress like water plants, as if she has spread her emerald wings. The tassel hair bun hangs down from the waist, and she wears a gorgeous pearl hairpin, ruby hosta, and a golden phoenix on her head, but her bright eyes, clear and bright, seem to have infinite sadness and lovesickness.

The seal inscription on the wall reads, "The leaves are pale, the white dew is frost, the so-called Yi people, on the water side, trace back to it, the road is blocked and long, trace back to it, just like in the middle of the water." ”

It's just that this is the Mausoleum of the Western Emperor, why is there a mural of this woman? Who is this woman? We wanted to study deeply, but the mausoleum suddenly collapsed, and our team found that there was water flowing into the cave in time, so that it came out with the flow of water, was washed down the waterfall, and survived, and some team members did not escape in time and died in the mausoleum.

After we returned, we continued our investigation and research, and found that the woman on the mural was the goddess written by the Chu poet Song Yu, in an article called "Gao Tang Fu". And this goddess, as early as his master, China's first romantic poet Qu Yuan's literary work "Mountain Ghost" has been described, it turns out that this mountain ghost and the goddess are the same person, legend has it that this goddess is named Yao Ji, is the daughter of Dayu, was buried in Wushan after death, turned into a god.

The woman on the mural of the mausoleum is the prototype of the goddess, a sacrificial witch of the Chu State, named Bai Luyi. As for why her portrait appears in the tombs of the Qin State, we speculate that she may be the concubine of King Zhaoxiang of Qin. We would have liked to go back to the mausoleum and continue our research? But several times I came to the halfway point of Lishan Mountain, but I never found the entrance to the cave again, and I never entered the mausoleum again.

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