The 61 headless stone people in front of Wu Zetian's tomb have been difficult to explain for thousands of years, and finally they were unraveled by 2 farmers
The place where Wu Zetian was buried was called Qianling. The only imperial tomb in the history of Qianling Chinese feudal society where both husband and wife are emperors is located in Liangshan, north of Qianxian County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. Since Wu Zetian died in 706 AD and was buried in the underground palace, it has a history of more than 1300 years. The scale of the historical Qianling is very large, after thousands of years of ups and downs, only some stone carvings are left on the ground, but the underground palace is still intact.
It is said that over the years, groups of tomb robbers have spent years digging tombs from all directions and trying to invade this sacred place, but to no avail. There were also soldiers who shelled the burial chamber with artillery, but the burial chamber remained unscathed. More and more people believe that there is a mysterious force protecting Wu Zetian, the protector of this sacred place, and the folk have begun to circulate various mysterious ghost legends about Qianling. The 61 "headless stone men" standing in front of Wu Zetian's tomb with different shapes and expressions are considered by the local people to be possessed by the Holy Spirit to guard Wu Zetian's soul.
In 1974, when two farmers in Shaanxi were working in the fields, they dug up strange things, they dug out a lot of stones in the ground, and the shape of these stones looked like human heads, because the number was relatively large, and it was more strange, so the two farmers did not dare to easily dispose of it, they both immediately reported it, and then the local cultural relics bureau immediately sent experts to identify. After identification, these stone heads are the headless stone people in front of Wu Zetian's tomb, the mystery that no one has solved for thousands of years has been revealed by the two old farmers, it turned out that these stone people were complete at the beginning, but later they were artificially destroyed, and after destroying the stone people, the heads were buried in the ground, if it was not dug out by this old farmer, at this time it would be more and more evil.
Originally, these sixty-one stone statues represented the vassals of the Tang Dynasty, symbolizing their nation's reverence for the Tang Dynasty and respect for Wu Cao. So why is the head of the stone statue missing? In this regard, there is a lot of discussion in the academic circles, and some scholars have pointed out that natural disasters may have caused the separation of the first body of the stone statue, after all, during the Ming Dynasty, there was a huge earthquake in the local area, and Qianling happened to be in the epicenter. Some scholars have speculated that the first body of these stone statues is not naturally separated, but because of human beings, perhaps in the Tang Dynasty war, there were people who hated Wu Zetian who sneaked into the mausoleum and damaged these stone statues, after all, during the reign of Wu Zetian, there were indeed many enemies.
Wu Zetian has already pushed the achievements and glory of Datang to a new height, and has also realized the glory of his life. After her death, she asked future generations to erect a wordless monument for herself, and perhaps she herself knew that her life was mixed and difficult to be defined and judged in a black and white way.