Above Lishan Mountain, the magnificent mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang still stands. Its existence not only represents the course of a dynasty, but also expounds the extremely important burial culture in our country. In the past, depending on the status of the person, the treatment of the mausoleum that people could get was also different. Especially in the royal family, each rank was strictly divided. But there are exceptions to everything, for example, there is a very special existence in the imperial tombs of the Tang Dynasty.
On the jiushan mountain in Shaanxi, the Zhaoling Tomb, the resting place of Emperor Taizong of Tang and Empress Changsun, is located here. It was built in 636 and completed in 107 years, and it also buried many children and famous courtiers such as Wei Zheng. In the 1990s, the team conducted a tentative excavation, but this time it gave them a very unexpected discovery.
Inside the ZhaoLing, there is actually a tomb like a "Queen's Tomb", which everyone did not expect. Due to the limitations of etiquette, this is a complete transgression, which in the past was a great disrespect. And when the experts went deeper into it, they finally found that behind this was a sad and disgraceful story.
In 634, Li Shimin ushered in the birth of his youngest daughter, Princess Xincheng. Among all the children, she can be said to be Tang Taizong's favorite child, on the one hand, because she is extremely intelligent, on the other hand, she is touched by the hardships of the empress's fertility. In 642, at the age of 8, she was awarded the title of Princess of Hengshan County by her father to break the restrictions of the Tang Six Classics, and was given the actual fief and a lot of rewards.
Since she is the daughter of the royal family, the princess of the new city will naturally have to find a family affair. Li Shimin can be said to be extremely strict about this, personally selecting good sons-in-law. In 643, Wei Zheng was critically ill, and on his deathbed, Emperor Taizong of Tang promised his daughter to this courtier. But unfortunately, within a few months, a change in the court directly affected the Wei family, and the emperor under the anger did not hesitate to tear up the in-laws, and the relationship ended without a problem.
After that, Li Shimin paid more attention to the marriage of his precious daughter. Finally, after much deliberation, in 649 he was promised to the eldest grandson of the eldest grandson of the family. After being the founding hero, he gave absolute trust, but he did not wait for this grand wedding, and Tang Taizong died halfway through. But after this, Emperor Gaozong, who ascended the throne, was an older brother who loved the princess even more.
In 652, after the completion of Shou Xiaoxiao, Li Zhi did not hesitate to hold the marriage of his sister. After Princess Xincheng married her eldest grandson, according to the New Book of Tang, the husband and wife lived happily and harmoniously, which made others envious. This was a great joy, but the good times were not long, and in 659 the eldest son Wuji was framed, and the eldest grandson died in exile. This incident directly led to a conflict between the brothers and sisters, and the grief-stricken princess has not dressed since.
Seeing that his sister was so miserable, Li Zhi also regretted it. He arranged another marriage with the Webster family for princess Xincheng, but he was never able to have a happy life because of the depth of the previous relationship. She has been depressed all day ever since, sometimes washing her face with tears, and Merriam-Webster has nothing to do about it. In 663, the depressed princess suddenly fell ill and went to another world with sadness.
At this time, Li Zhi, who was building a blessing temple for his sister, heard this bad news and immediately collapsed. He did not hesitate to take the horse for questioning, and did not give it a chance to justify it, but directly killed it in anger. Those palace ladies who served the princess also all died, which, according to the "Yuangui of the Book", this caused a huge unjust case at that time.
After the incident, Li Zhicai recovered from the advice of the group of courtiers and realized that he had killed more innocent people by mistake. In this regard, he could only mournfully bury the Princess of Xincheng with the etiquette of an empress, and restore the reputation of the horse to be buried with her. In the end, the "Queen's Tomb" was left with a sad story. The twists and sorrows of the red face and the thin life, as well as the death of the innocent under the anger, these add up to a real disgrace as the experts said after studying the burial chamber.