What priceless treasures are there in Wu Zetian’s tomb?
The Qianling Mausoleum is located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Qian County, Shaanxi Province, and 76 kilometers away from the ancient city of Xi'an. It was built in 684 AD. It took 23 years for the project to be basically completed. Liangshan is a naturally formed limestone peak with three towering peaks. The north peak is the highest, with an altitude of 1047.3 meters. The second south peak is lower, facing east and west. At that time, the people called it "Nipple Mountain". Looking west from the east side of Qianling Mausoleum, Liangshan Mountain looks like a female body lying on its back on the earth, with the north peak as the head and the two southern peaks as the chest. People often say that it is a wonderful symbol of Empress Wu Zetian. Kanyu masters (feng shui masters) in the Tang Dynasty believed that Liangshan was beneficial to the heroine. Therefore, Empress Wu Zetian chose Liangshan as the "Ten Thousand Years Life Domain" for her husband Tang Gaozong and herself a hundred years later.
When the Qianling Mausoleum was built, it was at the height of the Tang Dynasty and the country was full of power. The mausoleum was large in scale and the architecture was majestic and magnificent. It can be called "the crown of all imperial mausoleums in the past." At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Taizong Li Shimin learned the historical lesson that no country is immortal and no tomb has been dug. Starting from the Zhaoling Mausoleum of him and Queen Changsun, he created the burial system of "making the mountain a mausoleum", which was famous at the time. The masters of art, Yan Lide and Yan Liben brothers, presided over the design. The mausoleum is a combination of architectural groups and sculpture groups, and is arranged on the mountains with the momentum of "dragons circling and phoenixes". The Qianling Mausoleum of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty developed and improved the shape of the Zhaoling Mausoleum. The mausoleum was built after the layout of Chang'an City, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, and was divided into the imperial city, the palace city and the outer city. Its north-south main axis is 4.9 kilometers long. As for the treasure inside, after years of exploration and investigation, a cultural relics worker estimated that it was at least 500 tons! On both sides of the front and rear passages, there are four stone caves on each side. The caves are filled with the most valuable treasures of the Tang Dynasty. On both sides of the nearly 100-meter aisle leading to the Vajra Wall are various gold and silver sacrificial vessels. What interests the world the most is the top national treasure - "Preface to Orchid Pavilion". Among the folk rumors around the Qianling Mausoleum, there has long been a theory that Wu Zetian was buried with him in the "Lanting Preface".