Where is the tomb of Wu Zetian?
In the first year of Hongdao, Tang Gaozong (683), Wu Zetian appointed Wei Daijia, an official of the official department, to be in charge of the Fuling project, and Li Zhi was buried in August the following year. Since then, the Fuling project has continued. In May of the second year of Tang Zhongzong Shenlong (706), Emperor Li Xian was buried.
The year before last, Tang Zhongzong also pardoned the royal family who were persecuted to death because of political problems during the reign of Wu Zetian, and reburied them, including Princess Li Xianhui of Yongtai, Prince Li Zhongrun of Yide and Prince Li Xian of Zhang Huai. In addition, in the second year of Shenlong (706), the tombs of Li, Li and Yiyang Princess Li were built.
Gan Ling is the representative work of the memorial architectural project of "taking mountains as the mausoleum" in Tang Dynasty, and it is the burial tomb of Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, the emperor and queen were not buried together, but the "double saints" tomb of the Ganling couple was unique.
Ganling is the only double-walled tomb found in the imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty. The inner city symbolizes the imperial city of Chang 'an, the capital, and the outer city is equivalent to Guo Cheng where officials and natives live, reflecting the overall pattern of the ancient capital of China at that time.
Ganling is also the only imperial mausoleum in the Tang Dynasty that has not been stolen for thousands of years. Its underground tunnel number lettering masonry has been found, and thin waist iron bolts and tin iron ingots have been unearthed, which has unique value that ordinary tombs do not have.
There is no tablet in Ganling, which was erected by Wu Zetian. Ganling, located 50 kilometers northwest of Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, is on the east side of Sima Road in Ganling, adjacent to Tuque in the north, Weng Zhong in the south and the sacred monument in the west. Magnificent, magnificent.
Ganling is the burial tomb of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian. Two huge stone tablets stand side by side in front of the tomb. The one in the west is called "sacred monument", and the one in the east is Wu Zetian's wordless monument. The "memorial tablet" is a tablet erected by Wu Zetian to praise Gao Zong. She also personally wrote more than 5,000 words of inscriptions, blacked out and filled with gold powder. On the east side is Wu Zetian's wordless tablet.
The wordless tablet is carved with complete giant stone carvings, which is a great system in China, giving people a dignified and heavy aesthetic feeling.
There is no inscription on the tablet forehead, only eight dragons are carved at the head of the tablet, which are cleverly intertwined and row upon row, with bare bones and muscles, silent and full of vitality. On both sides of the monument, there are dragon figures, each with a dragon, and the lines are carved and lifelike.
On the front of the monument, there is also a line carved lion horse figure (or lion horse fighting figure), whose horse bends its hoof and bows its head, which is gentle and lovely; The lion held his head high, his eyes bright, and he was very dignified.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Gan Ling (Tomb of Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian)