Legend of Zhaoling Feng Shui,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

Zhaoling built its mausoleum by chiseling the mountain according to the nine peaks, which set a precedent for the feudal emperors in the Tang Dynasty to rely on the mountain as their mausoleum. It is said that when Empress Wende died in the tenth year of Zhenguan, she told Emperor Taizong to be frugal, "Please be buried because of the mountain, and there is no need to raise a grave". (Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, Volume V) Empress Wende was buried in Zhaoling after her death. Regarding the reasons for the system of taking the mountain as the mausoleum, after the burial of Empress Wende in November of the same year, the stone tablet written by Emperor Taizong said: "The king takes the world as his home, why should things be in the mausoleum? They are his own. Today, because Jiuzhang Mountain is the mausoleum, there are no treasures, horses and utensils, but only civil tools, so it's easy to steal your heart and keep it. " It is more appropriate to say that because the mountains are the tombs, you don't hide gold and jade, not so much for frugality, but for "stealing your heart"; When Yu Shinan wrote to Emperor Taizong, he said, "From ancient times to the present, ... there is no tomb that will not be dug." Therefore, the purpose of taking mountains as tombs in the early Tang Dynasty was nothing more than to take advantage of the majestic situation of mountains and to prevent theft.

The Zhaoling Project was carefully designed by Yan Lide and Yan Liben, famous craftsmen and artists in the Tang Dynasty. Its plane layout is different from sitting west to east since Qin and Han dynasties, nor is it a "hidden burial" system in the Southern and Northern Dynasties, but it is designed according to the organizational system of Chang 'an City in Tang Dynasty. Chang 'an is composed of Miyagi, Imperial City and Outer Profile City. Miyagi is located in the northern center of the city, where the emperor lived. The imperial city is located in the south of Miyagi, which is a baiguan yamen (that is, a political institution). The outer contour city guards the imperial city and Miyagi from the east, south and north, and is a residential area.

The mausoleum of Zhaoling is located in the northernmost part of the cemetery, which is equivalent to Miyagi in Chang 'an and comparable to the inner palace of the Imperial Palace. Underground is the Xuan Palace.

On the ground, it is built into a square town around the top of the mountain. There are four walls around the city and one door on each side. According to historical records, the Xuangong Palace in Zhaoling was built at the southern foot of the mountainside. When it was first built, a plank road was set up. The plank road was 4 meters long, that is, 23 steps. Empress Wende was buried in the Xuan Palace first, but the plank road was not demolished. Houses were built on the side of the plank road for the imperial palace to live in, and the queen was treated like a living person. After Taizong was buried, the plank road was dismantled, so that the mausoleum was isolated from the outside world. The Xuan Palace is 75 feet deep, with five stone gates, with a main bed in the middle, where coffins are parked, and stone beds are arranged in the east and west compartments. There are many stone letters on the bed, which contain sacrifices. The passage from the tomb to the mouth of the tomb is made of three dry stones, each weighing two tons, and the stones are riveted to each other. According to "History of the Old Five Dynasties. Biography of Wen Tao", "the palace system is beautiful and not different from the world", and a gorgeous palace, pines and cypresses, giant Huai and long Yang, has been built outside the mausoleum. Du Fu said in the poem "Re-emphasizing the Zhaoling Mausoleum": "The spiritual bed is empty, and the bear is guarding the jade. Look at Songbai Road again and see Wu Yunfei. " On the Shan Zhinan side of the main peak underground palace, there is Zhuquemen, the main entrance of the inner city. Within Zhuquemen, there is a memorial hall, which is a place for worshipping and offering sacrifices. It is very close to the gate que. The whole site is about 1 meters square, and the site about 2 meters square to the south of Jiamenque is still a narrow site. There was a remnant tail unearthed here, which was 1.5 meters high, .6 meters wide and 11 meters long after restoration. Based on the height of this piece, it is inferred that the roof of the temple should be more than 1 meters high, and it should be nine double eaves in order to be in proportion. About 5 meters between the gates, just in the middle of the offering hall. The site 2 meters south of Xiandian is a horizontal deep ditch, which proves that there can be no other stone carvings and no other buildings here.

There are many wooden buildings outside the underground palace, including houses and temples. Due to the steep scraggy mountain around the front of the underground palace, it is inconvenient to travel.

It is also "a plank road with a beam on the edge of the mountain and a rock, which is absolutely suspended for 23 steps around the mountain before reaching the Yuan Palace Gate". Use the plank road to connect the upper, lower, left and right sides to reach the underground palace. However, the plank road building on the mountain can't go up and down vertically, and it must rotate around, which is proved by Du Fu's poem "Re-Jing Zhaoling" and "The Tomb is Empty". Although these records of predecessors may not be absolutely reliable, we can see the magnificence of its scale and the degree of engineering difficulties. According to Song Minqiu's Chronicle of Chang 'an, the buildings around Zhaoling at that time were recorded as follows: "Taking the bedroom under the peak of Jiuzhang Mountain as the center, it is surrounded by walls, and pavilions are built in four corners, with Xuanwu Gate in the north and Zhuquemen in the south, with a circumference of 12 miles".

To the north of the main peak, the underground palace mountain is the Xuanwu Gate, the north gate of the inner city. It is equipped with an altar, which is close to the northern foot of Jiuzhang Mountain, high in the south and low in the north, and is composed of five steps. The farther north it stretches, the wider it is, and it is flat and slightly trapezoidal. On the south three floors, there are sleeping halls, east and west bedrooms, que buildings and doorways. In the middle, Longwei Road leads to the sleeping hall, which is Zhaoling. In Sima Gate, there are stone statues of the princes of fourteen countries: Jie Li and Tu Li Erkhan of Turkic, Ashnasher, Lisimo, Tubo Songzangambu, Gaochang, Yanqi and Yutian, leaders of Xue Yantuo and Tuguhun, Silla Wang Jindezhen, Yi Lin Wang Fantouli, and Brahman Di Nayou Di. These stone statues were carved in the early years of Emperor Gaozong, reflecting the great unity of all ethnic groups in the country during the Zhenguan period, the development of the western regions in the Tang Dynasty and the grand occasion of relations with neighboring countries. These stone statues were destroyed in the early years. Today, there are seven statues, several human remains and several pieces of broken heads. The predecessors once said that these stone statues are "taller than normal, with deep eyes and big noses, and their bows and knives are mixed. They are strong and different!" Judging from the remains found, the stone statue is only six feet high, and the seat is about nine feet high, which does not exceed the normal shape. It can be seen from the remains of the head that there are indeed those with deep eyes and high nose, those with curly hair, those with braided hair wrapped around their heads, those with hair split back, and those with pockets, but there are no people with bows and knives. There are two kinds of clothes: lapels and lapels, and the rest are uncertain. Only from these circumstances can we see that these stone carvings should also belong to realism.