唐代诗人李白在《扫六合》诗中写道:“秦王扫六合,虎视何雄哉。收兵铸金人,函谷正东开……”其中“收兵铸金人”一句是指秦始皇完成统一大业后,又收缴天下兵器聚之咸阳,销毁后铸成十二个金人一事。实际上这十二个“金人”并非用纯金铸成。当时的兵器主要用铜所铸,古人又把青铜称为金,所以这些青铜人就被 Tang Dynasty poet Li Bai in the “sweep Liuhe” poem wrote: “Qin Wang sweep Liuhe, Hu Shizuo Xiongzai. Recruit gold people, letter Valley Zhengdong open ... ” Which After the great cause of reunification, they also seized the Xianyang, the world’s weapons, and cast them into twelve gold people after the destruction. In fact, these twelve “gold men” are not made of pure gold. At that time, the weapons were mostly made of copper, and the ancients called the bronze gold again, so these bronze people were