There was a joke on the Internet before, if all the emperors of China for hundreds of years were pulled into a group, what would happen?
At the bottom are all the netizens' various whimsical brain answers, one of which is "I don't know what will happen, but what I know is that Wu Zetian is definitely a group favorite." ”
Indeed, as the only female emperor of our Country, Wu Zetian's life has left us with too many mysteries, and the world knows that there is no word monument, but we do not know about Wu Zetian's tomb, and we have explored the secret for a long time.
History is a couple
Wu Zetian was born in a family similar to a "big landlord" at that time, because his father was the founding father of the Tang Dynasty, and the family's economic environment was quite good, so Wu Zetian also had a good learning environment.
Perhaps because of his father's indulgence, Wu Zetian was not as good as other women since he was a child, hiding all day at home without leaving the door, not stepping through the second door, and occasionally doing female red, playing the piano, etc.
Wu Zetian has been very active since childhood, and can even say that it is wild and difficult to tame, and his daily behavior is basically no different from that of boys.
When he was 14 years old, when he reached the marriageable age, he was sent to the imperial palace for the draft, and then he was named a five-pin talent, so he lived peacefully and steadily for 12 years before being noticed by Tang Taizong because of a horse training incident.
After this, Wu Zetian seemed to have suddenly awakened, step by step on the road of emperor, and finally died in 705 AD, becoming the only female emperor in these thousands of years.
After Wu Zetian's death, the wordless monument and the cemetery are things that posterity has talked about many times, and the story of the wordless monument we will not talk about for the time being, to know that the emperor is buried, the cemetery and pomp are naturally very exquisite.
Whether it is ill-intentioned people or experts who study history, everyone wants to find out whether we can still spy some secrets about history in the tomb of the female emperor.
To say that this most famous cemetery, everyone may think of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, but if it is difficult to "rob the tomb", in fact, the cemetery of Wu Zetian is even more difficult than the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin, at least so far, no one has been able to enter the cemetery of Wu Zetian.
This tomb city is called Qianling, also known as Wannian Shoucheng, located in Shaanxi Province, Qianxian County north of Liangshan, only 76 kilometers away from the ancient city of Xi'an, see here there will be many people wondering, even the detailed address has, why can not dig into it?
There are indeed other doorways, the tomb robbery notes must have been read by everyone, finding the location also means that you may only know where to start, how to get in is still a huge problem, and the cunning rabbit also has three caves, the emperor's cemetery, and there are dozens of true and false.
Wannian Shoucheng was built in 684 AD, and at that time it was the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the national strength was abundant, And Wu Zetai was not at all soft when building his own cemetery, and in terms of scale and construction skills, he made twelve points of effort.
The City of Longevity
After Wu Zetian's death, the treasures buried with Wu Zetian are innumerable, and our legendary top national treasure "Orchid Pavilion Preface" is also one of Wu Zetian's funerary products, and such a rich "material" naturally attracts the covetousness of many people.
From professional tomb robbers to peasants and ordinary people, everyone wants to come here to try their luck, and the land around Liangshan is about to be flattened, but no one can really take things from here.
And the most sensational of these was the Huang Chao, who led the rebellion of the late Tang Dynasty, and after occupying Chang'an, the Huang Chao began to burn and rob it wantonly.
But after such a big fuss, Huang Chao felt as if he hadn't found any special treasure, and after thinking about it, he hit the idea on Wu Zetian's mausoleum.
After making up his mind, Huang Chao mobilized his 400,000 troops and rushed to the west side of Liangshan to start digging.
Huang Chao thought very simply, it was too much of a waste of time to find the entrance, instead of this, it was better to directly hollow out Liangshan, and he could always find what he wanted.
Under such a huge manpower, Liangshan also quickly saw a 40-meter-deep gap, which is what we later called "Huangchaogou", but this half of the mountain was almost flattened, and not a corner of the mausoleum was seen.
It is rumored that the north and south walls of Wu Zetian's Qianling Tomb are each 1450 meters long, and the east and west walls are also about 1500 meters, with a total area of 2.3 million square meters.
However, before Huang Chao could come up with a reason, the Tang Dynasty's army launched a counterattack, the enemy was about to fight, and the tomb robbery had to rest, even if he was unwilling in his heart, Huang Chao could only return empty-handed with his men.
And this period of history has also been corrected in later generations, Liangshan is indeed the location of Qianling, and the reason why Huang Chao did not see the cemetery was because he dug in the wrong direction.
Half of the choice, Huang Chao chose a wrong one, digging so far, if it is not the right time, maybe Huang Chao may really dig qianling.
Explore Qianling again
In the process of "robbing tombs", someone always has to come and try and make mistakes, and since Huang Chao showed us one of these statements, then the rest of the people should always have a chance to go to Qianling to have a look.
So the second wave of people began to set off, this person is the temperance of Wen Tao, to say that this Wen Tao can also be regarded as a small expert in digging graves.
Prior to this, Wen Tao also lifted 17 Tang Dynasty imperial tombs, and thought that Qianling was also handy, but he did not want to encounter various problems on the way to digging tombs.
Fighting for his own identity, Wen Tao dug a tomb that was called a blatant, and the work began in the daytime, but the weather was still unusually clear when he set out, and as soon as he arrived at the place where he went up the mountain, he immediately began to have a tendency to rain heavily, three times in a row, almost as if the heavens were against him.
Perhaps it was because there were too many cemeteries dug over the years, wen Tao didn't know whether he was scared or how, and he actually gave up on not going up the mountain again.
If Huang Chao is because of bad luck and Wen Tao lost to his own superstition, then in modern times, these two situations should not be encountered.
In the final analysis, Qianling is also a historical and cultural heritage belonging to the country, and if we dig our own, naturally no one else will come to interfere.
And superstition and other such statements, it is even more impossible, now that science has developed qualitatively, we are digging graves today, and we advocate "scientific digging".
The third time the excavation of the grave was in the Republic of China period, this time Qianling was the most "dangerous" one, when the country was in a chaotic period, people's lives were also chaotic, and some gangsters could be seen everywhere blocking the road and robbing scenes.
Some people set their eyes on the living, and naturally some people put their minds on these mausoleums, and one of them, a general named Sun Lianzhong, in the name of protecting Qianling, began to want to darken Chen Cang and dig up the mausoleum.
Repeatedly missed
Although there were no hundreds of thousands of troops, the modern reorganized division team, coupled with the thermal weapons they possessed, was definitely not comparable to the team led by Huang Chao hundreds of years ago.
After everything was ready, the crowd came to the vicinity of Qianling to do "military exercises.", and after everything was ready, under the order of Sun Lianzhong, the stone pillars at the entrance of the tomb shattered in response to the sound, and black smoke suddenly rose all around, and the smell of gun smoke was everywhere.
Sun Lianzhong did not believe in evil, and in his opinion, Wen Tao's behavior of going back just because of the disadvantage of the teacher was undoubtedly stupid, it was just that the ancients did not understand the weather and climate, and they would not do it themselves.
However, not long after thinking like this, the sky suddenly darkened, and Sun Lianzhong's heart suddenly burst.
Enduring this fear that bubbled up in his heart, Sun Lianzhong still hardened his scalp to let people in, but something even more bizarre happened, and several soldiers in front of him, without any warning, suddenly vomited blood and died.
Such a situation obviously exceeded Sun Lianzhong's understanding of the world, and he was immediately a little scared, and did not dare to rush forward, coupled with the tense situation at that time, Sun Lianzhong thought that he could make a quick decision, but he did not want to encounter this situation.
Worried that the matter would be revealed, it was not necessarily pleasing to stay here, so he could only take the soldiers back to the ground in ashes, this time was also the closest we had to Qianling.
As early as 1958, some farmers set cannons to blow up stones and inadvertently found the grave crossing, but because of the equipment problems at that time, the country was in a period of development, and it was not necessarily a correct choice to rush to excavate such a large amount of wealth.
After solemn deliberation among the leaders, it was decided not to dig qianling first, because we can wait for future generations to complete this kind of historical wealth.
It was not until 1960 that our archaeologists once again arrived at Liangshan, and after preliminary surveys, they found that the imperial tomb still had no trace of being developed.
Perhaps the mausoleum is really spiritual, for these experts, there is no vision on the mausoleum, and the experts are simply understanding it.
The reason why Qianling is so indestructible is because there are 39 layers of stone strips in front of it alone, as many as 8,000 pieces, stacked from south to north, and there are fine iron bolts between the stone strips to strengthen, pouring molten iron into the iron strips, so that all the stone strips are integrated.
epilogue
In the year that followed, Qianling was included in the national key cultural relics protection object.
In 2012, people's awareness of protecting cultural relics increased, and the Shaanxi Provincial Cultural Relics Bureau issued an order that Qianling would not be developed for at least 50 years.
First, because the level of excavation is not enough, and second, because today's cultural relics protection technology may not be able to perfectly protect the excavated cultural relics, so simply do not move.
What the state can't do, the rest of the people don't think about it, plus it is still in the protection period, Qianling is still "safe and sound".
Resources
Baidu Encyclopedia - Qianling