Is it really impossible to surpass the millennium? Is it inevitable that some exaggerations are made, the times are developing, society is progressing, and our modern scientific and technological construction technology cannot be better than the Sui Dynasty? I don't quite agree with this statement.
However, with the technology at that time, it was indeed a miracle that a granary that could be made so large and stored so well was indeed a great miracle. As we all know, ancient craftsmen were always able to make some ingenious artifacts, and the wisdom and ingenuity of the ancients are indeed worth learning from future generations in many ways.
Why did the Sui Dynasty Emperor Yang Guang build such a granary of "high-tech technology"?
Speaking of granaries, we need to mention the Sui Emperor Yang Guang (a personal worship of the Sui Emperor, who is actually a great talent, comparable to the First Emperor) is a very controversial emperor.
During his term of office, he laid the imperial examination system (the way out for poor students), built the Grand Canal (the lifeblood of ancient north-south transportation), attacked Tuguhun, conquered the Khitan to expand the territory, and marched three expeditions to Goguryeo to promote our country's prestige. Unfortunately, all this requires a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, abuse of people's strength, resulting in chaos in the world, and peasant rebel armies have sprung up everywhere.
And the Sui Emperor himself was also hedonistic, extremely extravagant, absurd and indulgent, resulting in great chaos in the world, the Sui Dynasty was powerless to suppress, and finally let the Tang Dynasty pick peaches (in fact, it was more in violation of the interests of the Guanlong Clique, resulting in a reshuffle within the Guanlong Clique).?
The granaries are the accompanying products of the excavation of the Grand Canal, some are re-established, some are the previous granaries are renovated, a total of six, namely Hanjiacang, Huiluocang, Liyangcang, Guangtongcang, Heyangcang, and Changpingcang.
The size of the granary, the construction process, and the application for heritage
Ancient granaries were more for the use of emperors, generally close to the political center of the time, and the Sui Emperor moved the capital to Luoyang, so he focused on building Huiluocang and Xingluocang.
Huiluocang is the lifeblood of the Sui Dynasty, 1,000 meters long from east to west, 355 meters wide from north to south, about the size of 50 football fields, there are about 700 grain cellars of about the same size, each grain cellar can store about 500,000 kilograms of grain, so a total of 350 million kilograms of grain can be stored.
Storing grain requires a dry environment, so the grain cellars built by ancient craftsmen are all small and large, and the technology used is first to roast the walls of the warehouse, and then coated with green paste mud, laying wooden planks, and adding mats, and then they can be put into use, the project is huge.
The reason for the construction of the granary was mainly because there was a drought in Guanzhong at that time, and there were many people and little land, and the land was poor and difficult to cultivate. Therefore, the Sui Dynasty Emperor attached great importance to the granary, mainly to solve the grain problem in the Guanzhong region.
Every year, the harvest of grain in the south will be transported through the Sui and Tang Grand Canal to the six granaries, and the grain in the granaries will be changed once a year. Therefore, Huiluocang is also valued by major forces. The rapid establishment of the Tang Dynasty was also based on the reason why Li Shimin took the luocang first.
In January 2013, this thousand-year-old granary was revealed, and experts excavated it protectively (in fact, no matter how much you protect it, you just have to dig it up and destroy it). There is still a lot of grain left in it, some of which can also be used as seeds, and they still germinate after planting, which is a miracle, which shows the strong storage effect of the granary. With the efforts of experts from all sides, Huiluocang successfully applied for a world cultural heritage in 2014.
Although the wisdom of the ancients does make people sigh, many technologies are beyond our modern interpretation, and there are many places worth learning, but this granary, we are still in use in many places now, the difficulty of construction is not as difficult as imagined, we need to look at the problem dialectically.
We cannot blindly listen to the experts' modern technology cannot surpass the construction technology of the sui dynasty's thousand-year-old granary, as a Chinese engineering team known as the infrastructure demon, the world-class Three Gorges Hydropower Station with world-class technical content can be built, and the world's top Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macao Bridge can be built. This is obviously not possible.