Man is the creator of culture and the purpose of culture. - Gorky
Today, China's strength is getting stronger and stronger, and its development in various fields is also very successful. Our living standards have also kept pace with the times and have made a qualitative leap. Now people's lives can be described as very happy, not like the previous state of poverty and backwardness, the living environment is very bad, even normal food and clothing can not be solved. However, China is one of the ancient civilizations, with a profound and long-standing history and culture, in addition, the ancestors with their strong wisdom left us many historical relics and ancient buildings.
However, when it comes to the emperors of the past dynasties, most of them are men who inherit the throne and become the emperors who dominate the world. But this does not exactly mean that men can become emperors, although in ancient times the status of women is relatively low, but there is still a woman who became an emperor, and is the only female emperor in the history of our country, I do not say that I believe that everyone also knows that she is Wu Zetian, although she sits on the throne, but some aspects will still be restricted, after all, at that time the status of women was not high.
However, when Wu Zetian reigned, he was indeed very capable. At that time, Wu Zetian was even above male power. After Wu Zetian died, he was buried in Qianling, but there was a very strange phenomenon, that is, there were more than sixty headless stones outside Qianling. Originally, a wordless stele made by Wu Zetian made posterity feel very confused, and as a result, more than sixty headless stones appeared outside the Qianling Tomb, which made posterity feel even more confused. Just why don't these stones have heads? What are their identities? Let's take a closer look.
Rumors of the Headless Stone Man
When it comes to ancient tombs, the first thing that comes to mind should be some valuable burial items in ancient tombs. Of course, with the ancient tomb, tomb robbers will definitely appear, wanting to steal these precious things. After all, they are mainly tomb robbers, relying on this to maintain their lives. As long as they find out the existence of the ancient tomb, they will definitely remember the treasure in the ancient tomb. To say that Qianling is an imperial tomb after all, there are certainly countless treasures here. In the face of such an ancient tomb, the tomb robbers will definitely be very impressed by this.
But this is not what they want to steal, Qianling is very difficult for them, no matter what they do can not steal the treasure in the tomb, you know in the process of robbing the tomb they also encountered a very strange situation, for a long time, most of the tomb robbers gave up robbing Qianling. Because of this phenomenon, Qianling has also been covered with a veil of mystery. What is even more surprising is that there are more than sixty headless stone people in front of Wu Zetian's tomb, and the overall appearance is very penetrating and terrifying.
In front of Wu Zetian's tomb, these sixty headless stone people stood on the ground in an orderly manner, and the whole looked like a pair of loyal guardians, because they had no heads and faces, making people look like they were all dotted. On cloudy or rainy days, this feeling becomes even stronger. Because of this, most people think that these headless stone statues are actually tomb keepers with souls embedded in them. Among them, some people believe that these stone statues are not carved from ordinary stones, but are given to the soul, so the tomb robbers have no way to steal the treasures in the ancient tomb, mainly because of the more than sixty tomb keepers in front of the tomb.
Two farmers crack the headless man's secret
As we all know, these rumors will definitely arouse people's curiosity, as long as they are not confirmed by people's cracks, then this will always be just rumors. In fact, from another point of view, if no one can confirm these rumors, then no one can say that these rumors are pure nonsense. So this will also attract more and more people. Unlock the secrets of these sixty headless stone statues. Usually most of the people who can solve the mystery are relevant experts, if they can't solve it, then others should not have this ability, but the reality is not the case.
It should be said that these more than sixty headless stone statues were not unraveled by relevant experts, but were unveiled by two peasant friends. One day in 1974, two farmers from Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, were working in their own fields, and in the process they stumbled upon a large, hard stone. When they cleaned up the stone, a clear face appeared on it, and at that time the two farmers felt that the stone should not be an ordinary stone, so they reported the news to the relevant departments.
When the experts rushed to the scene to carefully inspect the stones, they judged that this was a stone from the Tang Dynasty, so some of the experts associated these stones with more than sixty headless stone statues in front of Wu Zetian's tomb, and after thinking about it, the experts organized people to start excavating around the stone where the stone was found, and sure enough, it did not take long for them to dig out a lot of such stones.
The secret of the headless stone statue
In fact, the stones they dug up were the heads of these headless stone people, and it should not be so difficult to unravel the secrets. Sure enough, after the experts had studied it themselves, they discovered the secret in it. First of all, these headless stone people were all Turkic vassals who submitted to Wu Zetian during the Tang Dynasty, and the characters on the stone statues are specifically introduced. Experts also found that the reason why these headless people did not have heads may be due to earthquakes.
But why were these headless stone people placed in front of Wu Zetian's tomb? This is related to Wu Zetian's identity. That's because Wu Zetian was the emperor, so her funeral must have been very solemn, and since these Turks had turned to her, in order to show respect and respect for her, they used stone statues instead of guarding her tomb, which was the most appropriate. Eventually the headless man's secret was finally solved.
Cultural heritage is an important part of advanced culture.
However, for this explanation, many netizens also have their own views. Among them, a netizen felt that the heads of these illustrated equations did not fall because of the earthquake, but because the descendants of these vassals a hundred years later, due to the invasion of the Central Plains, caused huge casualties and disasters to the Han people, and finally the Zhongyuan people were angry and smashed the heads of these vassals. But in any case, we must protect these precious historical relics, because they play an important role in the development of the country.