{"id":130846,"date":"2025-06-10T09:03:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130846"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:03:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T09:03:03","slug":"did-chinas-first-emperor-launch-westwards-mission-to-find-elixir-of-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=130846","title":{"rendered":"Did China\u2019s first emperor launch westwards mission to find \u2018elixir of life\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHistory records the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang as sending the alchemist Xu Fu eastwards towards Japan on a quest for the elixir of immortality. However, the ancient texts make no mention of any similar expedition heading West.<br \/>\nBut according to a state media report, findings by Chinese archaeologists suggest that a Western expedition for the \u201celixir of life\u201d may indeed have been launched during the reign of Qin Shi Huang.<br \/>\nQin Shi Huang, or the \u201cfirst emperor of China\u201d, was so named because he&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3313846\/did-chinas-first-emperor-send-expedition-towards-west-quest-elixir-life?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostHistory records the Chinese emperor Qin Shi Huang as sending the alchemist Xu Fu eastwards towards Japan on a quest for the elixir of&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130846"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}