Mystery of Wu Zetian's Tomb: A Millennium Tomb that 4, troops can't dig.
The dry mausoleum is located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Ganxian County, Shaanxi Province, and 76 kilometers away from the ancient city of Xi 'an. It was built in 684 AD, and it took 23 years for the project to be basically completed. Liangshan is a naturally formed limestone mountain peak, with three peaks towering, the northern peak is the highest, with an altitude of 147.3 meters, and the southern peak is lower, facing east and west. At that time, the masses called it "Nitou Mountain". Looking from the east of Ganling to the west, Liangshan looks like a woman's body lying on her back, with the north peak as her head and the south two peaks as her chest. People often say that it is a wonderful symbol of Empress Wu Zetian.
As the only mausoleum in the world where two generations of emperors, a husband and wife, were buried, it miraculously escaped successive catastrophes, preserved the charm of thousands of years ago, and stood out above Liangshan. This makes the dry mausoleum be rendered with layers of mysterious colors.
As the owner of Ganling and the only female emperor in China, Wu Zetian seems to have a better name than her husband Tang Gaozong. It is said that Wu Zetian was out of phase when she was a child. At that time, Yuan Tiangang, a famous astrologer in the world, went to the Wu family for dinner. During the dinner, the samurai η η η gave his family a face-to-face meeting. After seeing his wife Yang, Yuan Tiangang said, "My wife has a very good bone method, and she will have a baby!" After reading Wu's second sons, Yuan Qing and Yuan Shuang, he said, "These two sons can achieve three things, but they are not rich for life!" At this time, the wet nurse came out with Wu Zetian in a boy's clothes.
Yuan Tiangang stepped forward to examine it for a while and said, "This little husband has an extraordinary look and is not easy to know. Let him have a look." So the wet nurse put her on the ground. The child took a few steps, and Yuan Tiangang asked her to look up again. She was frightened and said, "This son has a dragon's eyes and a phoenix's neck, and the appearance of Fuxi will be extremely noble!" Yuan Tiangang looked at the child from the side for a while, and said with surprise and regret: "It's a pity that it's a husband. If it's a girl, it's the master of the world!"
Wu Zetian was ambitious all her life, and she didn't want a man. How could she willingly give up her imperial name and be buried with Tang Gaozong after her death? This is not only her wise move, but also her last choice. In order to compete for the throne, Wu Zetian exhausted all tactics, which almost made the entire Lee Dynasty disappear. Once Wu Zetian sets up another mausoleum, the story of Wu Zixu's revenge by whipping the corpse is likely to repeat itself. If she chooses to be buried with Emperor Gaozong, she can not only avoid being humiliated behind her, but also accompany Emperor Gaozong and enjoy the incense sacrifice for future generations forever < P >. The location of Ganling is also related to the queen's administration. There is an interesting legend about the location of Ganling: Shortly after Tang Gaozong ascended the throne, he sent his uncle Changsun Wuji and Taishi, who was in charge of astronomical calendar, to make Li Chunfeng choose the mausoleum for himself. One day, when they looked for Liangshan Mountain, they saw that the three peaks of this mountain were towering, and the main peak was straight into the sky. Wushui in the east is worse than Jiujiu, and lacquer water is connected with Loujingshan and Qishan in the west.
Wu and Qi embraced in front of the mountain, forming a water wall, which surrounded the dragon air in the ground. Liangshan is a rare "Holy Land of Long Mai" in the world. Changsun Wuji and Li Chunfeng, after choosing the mausoleum site, returned to Beijing to report to Emperor Gaozong. When Yuan Tiangang heard about it, he strongly opposed it. It turned out that he had been to Liangshan for the high-impedance mausoleum and knew the advantages and disadvantages of this mountain's geomantic omen. He said to Emperor Gaozong: "From the outside, Liangshan is a treasure trove of geomantic omen, but there are many shortcomings when we look closely. First, although Liangshan is surrounded by water on both sides, it can surround the dragon spirit, but it is cut off from Long Mai, Emperor Taizong. If the people choose their ancestors here, they can prosper for three generations. However, as the mausoleum of the emperor, Houjiang Mountain will be in danger for three generations. Long Mai, a branch of the Tang Dynasty, crossed the Yellow River from Kunlun Mountain, and when it entered the pass, it spread eastward to Jiujiu Jian, Jianjian, Jianjian and Jianjian
Today, Taizong has buried Jiujiu Jian as the dragon head. Your majesty can't be in the front, and Liangshan is not the dragon head, but the tail of the dragon vein in the Zhou Dynasty, and the tail gas will decline, so your majesty is powerless to govern the country. Second, the northern peak of Liangshan Mountain is high, with two peaks like female breasts, and the whole mountain shape looks like lying flat from a distance. Your majesty chose the mausoleum here, lest she be controlled by women from now on. Third, the main peak of Liangshan is straight, which belongs to wooden lattice, and the second peak of South is round and profitable, which belongs to golden lattice. Although the three peaks are tall and straight, they look flat from a distance and are earthy. Gold can make wood, soil can make gold, and the whole mountain dragon helps gold. Under the main peak of the underground palace camp, your majesty will be controlled by the people of Jinge.
In my humble opinion, if the mausoleum is located in this mountain, your majesty will be injured by women in the future! " However, Emperor Gaozong resolutely chose to build a mausoleum in Liangshan. When Yuan Tiangang heard this, he looked up and sighed: "Those who replace the Tang Dynasty must be martial." Afraid of being implicated in the future, he quit his job and went out for a trip.
However, the legend is a legend after all. According to the literature, after the death of Emperor Gaozong in the first year of Hongdao, Chen Ziang and others strongly advocated setting up a mausoleum in Luoyang. However, Wu Zetian followed Emperor Gaozong's last wish to "return Chang 'an" and chose Jidi in the Weibei Plateau of Guanzhong, and ordered Wei Daiwei, the official minister of the official department, to be the envoy of the mountain, and Wei Taizhen, the doctor of the household department, to be a master, and to use more than 2, soldiers and migrant workers. According to the principle of " New Tang Book? The Biography of Chen Ziang states: "When the mountains and tombs are restored, they will be forced to serve as servants, lead the masses who are ill-treated, raise tens of thousands of troops, mobilize the near capital, supervise the young and help the old, shovel the rocks on the back of the mountains, and drive them to make achievements."
after Wu Zetian died in the first year of Shenlong, Emperor Zhongzong fulfilled his mother's last wish of "returning to the tomb", and urged people to dig the envy road of Ganling and open the tomb door. In May of the second year of Shenlong, Wu Zetian was buried in the Xuangong Palace of Ganling. Since then, Ganling, as the only mausoleum in China where two emperors were buried in one mausoleum, has stood on Liangshan, and the dusty wooden door has never been opened to the world. Exploring the underground palace
The door of Ganling Underground Palace has been sealed for more than 1,3 years, and many unknown secrets have been locked in the door ... For thousands of years, I don't know how many people have dreamed of finding out the mystery, but due to the lack of written records and archaeological materials, people still don't know much about Ganling Underground Palace. There is no doubt that it is impossible to completely uncover the mystery of Ganling underground palace before scientific excavation. However, we can make some useful explorations based on the clues disclosed in literature and archaeological materials.
According to the existing literature records, there is an "admiring road" outside Ganling which communicates with the underground palace, also called "Birthday Road". It is what we usually call a tunnel. This tunnel consists of trench and cave. The junction of the two sections is where the underground palace gate is located. From 1959 to 196, archaeologists conducted exploration and trial excavation of Ganling Tunnel twice, especially in March 196, when a large area of the tunnel was exposed.
The exposed situation shows that the open-air part of this tunnel in Ganling is 63.1m in length and 3.9m in width. Located in the south of the main peak of Liangshan, east of the waist spine. In the shape of a slope. The internal structure is stacked with rectangular stone strips weighing one to two tons, and 39 layers are stacked. There are about 41 stone strips on the surface, and the stone strips are hung up and down, left and right with iron waist hanging plates and iron bars, and then iron slurry is poured between them, so that the stone strips can not move and become a whole.
go through the tunnel and enter the palace gate. According to the literature, there are as many as five stone gates in Zhaoling of Emperor Taizong. It is unknown how many stone gates there are in Ganling, but it is certain that the stone gates in the underground palace must be solid and reliable. Entering the palace gate, you can reach the tomb
The tomb is the main root of the underground palace. It is speculated that the tomb of Prince Yide, whose No.1 tomb is the mausoleum, has at least three rooms: the front, middle and back. According to the world view of the Tang Dynasty and the excavated tombs of princes, ministers, relatives and relatives, the structure of the tomb should be under the Shangyuan Garden, with a dome-shaped top and a square bottom. As for the size of the tomb, there is no specific material to explain it. It can be imagined that it is much larger than the tombs of Princess Yongtai and Prince Yide.
What's in the underground palace? This is what people are most concerned about. From the Six Classics of Tang Dynasty? We can get some information from the literature of Notes on the Tombs of the Yuan Dynasty in the Tang Dynasty. First of all, there is a "coffin bed" in the middle room or middle part of the underground palace, and the emperor's "shrine", namely the coffin, is placed on the "coffin bed". There are moisture-proof materials and treasures at the bottom of the coffin. Add a "seven-star board" on it, with seats and mattresses, clothes and "six jade" such as silicon, Zhang, wall, Hu and Huang beside it.
The emperor was dressed in 12 sets of big clothes, with jade in his mouth, lying on his back on the mattress, facing the coffin lid. The inside of the coffin cover is inlaid with yellow silk, on which are painted the sun, moon, stars and arowana. Secondly, there is a stone bed in the back room or the back, and clothes, swords, snacks and things that the deceased played with before his death are placed around the stone bed. Third, there is a "treasure account" in the front room or front part, and there is a shrine in the account. To the west of the shrine, there are jade "Bao Huan", "Shi Juan" and "Mourning". Some "jade coins" are placed in the east of the shrine.
In addition, there are "Bai Pei", "Su Fan" and "Ming Qi" in the underground palace. Textual research from the inscription on the Monument to the Holy Monument written by Wu Zeda shows that there are many precious books and celebrity calligraphy and painting in the underground palace. What interests the world most is the top national treasure-Preface to the Lanting Pavilion. According to historical records, the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion was said in Li Shimin's testamentary edict to be placed under his head.
That is to say, this treasure should be in Zhaoling, not Ganling. However, Wen Tao, the secretariat of Yaozhou in the Five Dynasties, stole Zhaoling, but there is no Preface to Lanting in his list of unearthed treasures, so nine times out of ten, the Preface to Lanting is hidden in Ganling. Among the folk rumors around Ganling, there has long been a saying that the preface to Lanting was buried with Wu Zetian.
More experienced cultural relics workers estimate that, conservatively speaking, there are at least 5 tons of treasures in the underground palace of Ganling! According to historical records, when Tang Gaozong was buried, the value of funerary objects accounted for one third of the national fiscal revenue. More than 2 years later, Wu Zetian died, and her son brought one-third of the country's gold and silver jewelry with her into Ganling. In addition, it is clearly recorded in the history books that when Tang Gaozong died, he deliberately left a last note, demanding that all his favorite calligraphy and painting be buried with him. It can be inferred that it is not impossible to unearth 5 tons of cultural relics in the underground palace of Ganling.