Why has the tomb of Wu Zetian never been stolen for thousands of years?
Why has the tomb of Wu Zetian never been stolen for thousands of years?
Is it because people are afraid that she will not dare to rob the tomb? The answer is definitely not like this. Someone must have looked for it, but they all came back empty-handed. Her tomb is called Ganling, and many people have been spying on her tomb for a long time. After her death, some people even launched a collective grave digging activity, but they were not found in the end. You see how precise she built the tomb, and 400 thousand people couldn't find it together.
It can be seen that Wu Zetian made enough plans for herself before she died. She first thought that someone else might have stolen her tomb, so she specially asked someone to show her Feng Shui and found Yuan Tiangang and Li, the then Feng Shui masters. Both of them were top-notch in feng shui control at that time. Coincidentally, although the time was chosen successively, the same place was chosen, so Wu Zetian could better choose the location of her tomb.
This important project of building a tomb is also sloppy. Wu Zetian invited two brothers, Yan Lide and Yan Liben, whose skills are also first-class. In order to solve the problem of Wu Zetian's fear of future generations robbing tombs, he also invited the masters who robbed tombs at that time to fill in these places according to their frequent means of robbing tombs, and made full preparations. From the point of view of grave robbery, there is no way for future generations, which is why no one can find Wu Zetian's tomb yet.
What's in Wu Zetian's tomb?
More than ten years ago, Xi 'an media said that at the "Academic Seminar to Commemorate Wu Zetian's Burying in Ganling1300th Anniversary", relevant sources revealed that National Cultural Heritage Administration, Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau, Ganling Museum and other departments had already begun to prepare for a large-scale archaeological exploration of Ganling cultural relics. This news has aroused great concern at home and abroad. But then there was no news.
Tang Gaozong, Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were buried in Ganling. According to records, when Tang Gaozong died, his last words buried his favorite calligraphy and painting in the tomb. Besides, both Wu Zetian and Tang Gaozong were in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, so the funerary objects in the tombs are of great value.
Experts speculate that if it can be opened, Ganling will become the largest and most ornamental museum in the world. How many cultural relics are there in the underground palace of Ganling? A senior cultural relic worker calculated: conservatively speaking, at least 500 tons!
What interests the world most is the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, a top national treasure. According to historical records, The Preface to Lanting was said to have been placed under Li Shimin's head in the testamentary edict of Emperor Taizong. In other words, this treasure should be in Zhaoling, not Ganling. Wen Tao, the secretariat of Yaozhou in the Five Dynasties, stole Zhaoling, but there was no Preface to Lanting Collection in his list of unearthed treasures. Experts infer that nine times out of ten the Preface to Lanting Collection is hidden in Ganling.
Shaanxi wants to dig without permission.
Mr. Shi xingbang, the director of Shaanxi Archaeological Society, who presided over the excavation of Xi 'an Banpo site, insisted on the excavation of Ganling. He told reporters that Ganling is an imperial mausoleum that has not been stolen so far. Bones, all kinds of treasures, pottery, wood and silk in tombs are of high archaeological value. Although it may rot after being unearthed, it is better to dig these things out than put them in the grave!
According to reports, regarding the application for the excavation of Ganling, Shaanxi Province has reported to the State Council many times, and the State Council also specially organized experts to discuss it, but it was not approved in the end.
The most powerful thing about Wu Zetian's mausoleum is that no one could find the entrance to the mausoleum at that time. Regarding the tomb of Wu Zetian, we must first look at the tomb of Wu Zetian. It's actually the tombs of two emperors. In this way, the organs of the tomb are naturally very strict. After all, it is the tomb of two emperors. In this way, the things buried inside are naturally precious, and it takes a lot of thought to prevent the things inside from being stolen.
In fact, it was not that no one wanted to steal Wu Zetian's tomb at the beginning, but it was a pity that the group of people did not find the tomb door, so that the matter of robbing the tomb naturally went away. Therefore, it is not that there is any organ in Wu Zetian's tomb, but that the tomb was not stolen because the grave robbers at that time could not find the entrance to the tomb. This is also the safest point of Wu Zetian's tomb, that is, everyone can't find the tomb door. This will make everyone think that this is an evil grave and no one will dig it again.
The entrance to the mausoleum was not discovered until 1958, but due to a request of the government at that time, the mausoleum was not excavated. It can be said that Wu Zetian's mausoleum is very safe. At first, the grave robbers couldn't find the entrance to the tomb, but later they were protected. What I said is that I can't start. No wonder her tomb 1300 has never been stolen for more than 300 years.
Of course, I think there is also an element of luck. You know, many imperial tombs are basically excavated by grave robbers. There are also many troubles in digging Wu Zetian's tomb, which is why people are reluctant to dig now.