Wu Zetian’s Qianling Mausoleum was invulnerable for 1,300 years. What kind of cool tricks did it have in its design?
Wu Zetian’s Qianling Mausoleum contains the remains of Wu Zetian and her husband Li Zhi, but after more than 1,300 years, his Qianling Mausoleum has not been excavated. Although they are all royal mausoleums, the Maoling Mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty and the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty were dug up by tomb robbers, but only Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum is still intact.
Wu Zetian’s Qianling Mausoleum is located on Liangshan Mountain in Qian County, Xianyang City. Her Qianling Mausoleum imitated the layout of Chang'an at that time, and then divided it into the inner city, the palace city and the outer city. The scale was also very large. First of all, the location of Qianling Mausoleum was very particular. Wu Zetian asked two Feng Shui masters, Li Chunfeng and Yuan Tiangang, to choose the treasure land for her. After receiving this order, the two people very carefully and cautiously searched for such a feng shui treasure land for Wu Zetian, so they believed that this place not only had good feng shui, but also solved safety issues. For example, there will be problems such as tomb robbers who will easily find the tomb and dig it up. Later, after a long field investigation, the current Liangshan Mountain was selected as the Qianling Mausoleum.
It can be said that the topography of Liangshan is very perfect, and the yin and yang, heaven and earth cooperate very well. Therefore, this is why Wu Zetian agreed to build a mausoleum here. The terrain of the entire Liangshan Mountain is very complex, and there will be rolling gravel. As a result, those who later wanted to excavate Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum were unable to find the entrance to the underground palace. It was destined from the beginning that these people would not be able to dig up Wu Zetian's Qianling Mausoleum.
From the moment Wu Zetian lay down in Qianling Mausoleum, Liangshan never stopped. The first person is Huang Chao. It is said that almost half of Liangshan was dug. The structure of Qianling Mausoleum is so strong that no one can know the internal structure of Qianling Mausoleum. But in the end, only a 40-meter-deep "Huangchao ditch" was dug. The second person is Wen Tao, the governor of Yaozhou in the Five Dynasties. This person seemed to be born to cause trouble for the emperor's tomb of the Li Tang Dynasty. Before the Qianling Mausoleum, 17 Tang imperial tombs had been excavated, and only the Qianling Mausoleum remained. The third time, it was a 400,000-strong army, a modern integrated division, and the tools for tomb robbing were no longer hoes and shovels, but machine guns and cannons. Under the guise of a military exercise, black explosives blasted open the three-story stone slabs of the tomb passage. Just as they were about to enter, a plume of thick smoke suddenly appeared, and the sky was darkened.