Before Wu Zetian died, she made a special will, she confessed her sins to the world, and went to the emperor to be known as the Empress Zetian, that is to say, Wu Zetian was once again the empress of the Li family at the end of her life, not only that, she and her husband Li Zhi were buried in Qianling, and set up a wordless monument for herself.
In Wu Zetian's Qianling, in addition to the wordless stele attracting attention, there are sixty-one headless stone people are also very peculiar, these stone people have no record in the historical texts, so no one knows the identity of these stone people, why they will stand in front of Wu Zetian's tomb, so these headless stone people also added a lot of mysterious color to Qianling.
The height and stature of these headless stone people are no different from those of real people, but the strange thing is that the clothing on the stone people is different from that worn by the Tang people, so it is impossible to determine the origin of these stone people, and countless literati and scholars have wanted to solve the mystery of these stone people for thousands of years, so they also have many speculations and assumptions, but they are all empty and have no real evidence.
Wu Zetian is the only female emperor in the history of our country, she was able to reach the peak of power in the patriarchal society, in fact, it is very remarkable, but at that time her behavior was regarded as deviant, the world has always had many criticisms and attacks on her, so the history of Wu Zetian is very controversial, so everything about her naturally has a lot of mystery.
These stone people because they do not have a head, so some experts speculate that it is caused by the great earthquake that occurred during the Jiaqing period of the Ming Dynasty, but this hypothesis is simply untenable, if it is really because of the earthquake stone man's head is different, then the most important thing that should be destroyed should not be the head of the stone man but the body of the stone man first damaged, so the stone man must have been artificially destroyed.
In 1974, when two farmers in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, were cultivating the land, a hoe found a lot of stone heads under the ground, because there were too many of them, they felt that things were not simple, so they immediately reported to the relevant departments, and after expert identification, they found that these stone heads were exactly the same as the body material of the stone people in front of Wu Zetian's tomb, so these stone people were initially intact.
According to the appearance and clothing of the stone people, the identity of these stone people has long been determined, they should be the Eastern Turks of the Tang Dynasty, these people used to be officials and business in the Tang Dynasty, so they were also called vassals, but because of the war in the last years of the Tang Dynasty, these stone heads were destroyed, and from the identity of these vassals, it can also be seen that the Tang Dynasty was really a very powerful and open and inclusive dynasty.