What is in the tomb of the First Empress Wu Zetian, and why has no one been able to enter it in the past hundred years?
Speaking of Wu Zetian, the first impression that people have is the first female emperor in Chinese history, and the wordless monument erected after Wu Zetian's death.
Throughout the 5,000-year history of China, many emperors would build their own mausoleums immediately after ascending the throne, which cost a lot of manpower and money, and after the emperor passed away, there were many burials inside. Taste.
Because of this, most emperors’ tombs were often stolen, but Wu Zetian’s tomb was an exception. It was chopped by swords in the cold weapon age, swept by machine guns and bombarded by artillery in the hot weapon age. Yes, but so far many people want to come but can’t get in?
So what is it about Wu Zetian’s mausoleum that makes it so impregnable that no one can enter?
In China’s 5,000-year history, men have dominated politics. However, a female politician relied on historical conditions, a specific marriage, personal talent and wisdom to write a story of her own. The history of a glorious generation of queens, she is Wu Zetian.
It is an indisputable fact that Wu Zetian had male favors after she ascended the throne, but few people thought about how many men she had favored.
If you ask which emperor's tomb is the most difficult to dig in the world, then there is no doubt that it is Wu Zetian's "Ten Thousand Years Life Domain" - Qianling.
However, to this day, the Maoling Mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has been evacuated, the Zhaoling Mausoleum of Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty has also been raided, and Emperor Kangxi cannot even collect his bones. Only the work of Empress Wu Zetian But the mausoleum is alone?
This matter must start with the construction of Qianling Mausoleum.
The Qianling Mausoleum is located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Qian County, Shaanxi Province, and only 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 and faces east and west. The local people call it "Nipple Mountain".
Looking from the east to the west of the Qianling Mausoleum, Liangshan looks like a female body lying on its back on the earth, with the northern peak as the head and the second southern peak as the chest. Local people often say that it is a wonderful symbol of Empress Wu Zetian.
Feng Shui masters in the Tang Dynasty believed that Liangshan was conducive to the heroine.
So Empress Wu Zetian chose Liangshan as the "ten thousand year life domain" for her husband Tang Gaozong and herself a hundred years from now.
When the Qianling Mausoleum was built, it was in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the country was full of power. The cemetery was large in scale and the architecture was majestic and magnificent. It can be called "the crown of all imperial mausoleums in the past" and unparalleled in strength.
At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Taizong Li Shimin learned the historical lesson that no country has ever been destroyed and no country has ever dug its own tomb. From the Zhaoling Mausoleum of him and Empress Changsun, he created the "mountain as mausoleum" burial system. The mausoleum was designed by two brothers, Yan Lide and Yan Liben, who were famous art masters at that time. The mausoleum is a combination of buildings and sculptures, and is staggeredly arranged on the mountains in the shape of a "dragon circling a phoenix and a phoenix".
The Qianling Mausoleum of Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty developed and improved the shape of the Zhaoling Mausoleum in later generations. The cemetery was built imitating 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, with the main north-south axis being the longest. It reaches 4.9 kilometers.
As for the value of the treasure inside, after many years of exploration and investigation by archaeologists, a cultural relics worker estimated that it is at least 500 tons!
On both sides of the front and rear passages, there are There are 4 stone caves 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 circulating around the Qianling Mausoleum, there has long been a theory in the "Lanting Preface" that Wu Zetian was buried with him.
Wu Zetian is a person who defeats everything with time. From the time she entered the palace at the age of 14, she first became the queen in 18 years, and then became the first empress in Chinese history in 35 years. The empress took 1,200 years after her death to prove the sturdiness of her mausoleum and the immortality of its charm.
It can be said that Wu Ze conquered the world before she was born and conquered history after her death.