Wu Zetian was the first and only female emperor of the Chinese dynasty.
Although her success is full of all kinds of killing and cunning, to a certain extent, she has consolidated the foundation of Datang and did not cause chaos in the country.
She is a figure full of legends in the entire Tang Dynasty, and she still leaves countless puzzles for people to solve.
The most famous is the wordless monument she erected, which has elicited the infinite reverie of posterity for thousands of years, and the thoughts of a generation of empresses are not easy to be guessed.
Also enigmatic is the 61 headless stone people in front of Wu Zetian's tomb, which cannot be explained for thousands of years, but finally two peasants have solved the historical mystery of this thousand years.
Empress Wu Zetian
In the succession of Chinese dynasties, all of them adopt the method of "father and son succession" and "brother to brother", to pass on the "family world" of the dynasty, and the rules formulated from the beginning of the Zhou Li have been passed down for thousands of years.
So why is the "patrilineal" culture so long-standing? Because the "patrilineal line" can achieve good inheritance of property.
A man, no matter how many women he has sex with, his descendants can firmly know where they come from.
Women cannot do this, resulting in property and resources can not be well inherited, so in the end, most countries in the world are almost "patrilineal", as the main cultural inheritance concept.
With the evolution of dynasticization, many problems gradually arose, of course, in most cases, there was no problem in the case of fathers dying and sons succeeding each other.
But in rare cases, when the father dies, the crown prince is too young, which will lead to the fall of the regime.
For example, the reign of Lü Hou in the Han Dynasty, the early reign of Wu Zetian, and the later Empress Xiaozhuang and Cixi listening to the government, etc., were all because the crown prince was too young or in poor health, resulting in the power falling into the hands of the empress.
Empress Wu Zetian was also the empress, but Wu Zetian not only controlled the government, but also went further and became an emperor, which is unique in Chinese history.
Wu Zetian was born very well, she was herself a concubine of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, but Tang Taizong did not spoil him very much, and what made her appear more passive was that when she was elected to the harem, Tang Taizong was already very old and could die at any time.
After Tang Taizong's death, she had to enter the imperial tomb, guard the spirit of Tang Taizong, and then spend her life alone.
In order to change this situation, so Wu Zetian had to find a way, she fell in love with Tang Taizong's son, Tang Gaozong.
When Tang Taizong was seriously ill, Wu Zetian found a way to establish a relationship with Tang Gaozong.
After Tang Zhenguan's death of Li Shimin in the twenty-third year, Wu Zetian, in accordance with the old practice, and his concubines without children entered the Chang'an Ganye Temple to become a nun, and in the stage of becoming a nun, Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian had been disconnected.
Subsequently, Emperor Gaozong of Tang put her in the palace, and with Wu Zetian's favor in the harem, coupled with her extremely good at playing tricks, she finally succeeded in becoming the "lord of the harem" step by step.
As Emperor Gaozong of Tang's body weakened step by step, Li Zhi became more and more dependent on Wu Zetian, and later there was the "Second Holy Dynasty" incident.
After Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian's power further became the empress dowager of the Tang Dynasty, and she immediately vacated Li Xian, emperor of Tang Zhongzong, and began to take charge of the imperial government herself.
Her advent to the throne naturally caused dissatisfaction among the Li nobles, so she began to use her power to continuously massacre the Li nobles.
As her rights became higher and higher, he was not satisfied with and controlled the rights but had no name, and began to bless herself with phenomena such as the "Wonders of Luoshui", and finally became emperor.
She reigned for fifteen years, the state name of The Great Zhou, in her later years, favored Zhang Zongchang and Zhang Yizhi, two heads of the face, did not want to "change the dragon", and was forced to return to the government of the prince.
In his old age, he ordered the erection of a wordless monument, and finally died in 705 at the age of eighty-two.
Headless stone statue in front of Qianling
The place where Wu Zetian was buried was Qianling, the ancients superstitious feng shui, the location of the tombs of the emperors of the past generations, will find some warlocks to study whether it belongs to a good place, that is, the legendary "dragon vein" land.
Although they are superstitious, they are also a beautiful hope for future generations to live forever.
The Qianling tomb where Wu Zetian was buried was actually the mausoleum of Emperor Gaozong of Tang, Li Zhi, and according to the burial habits of that era, there must be a large number of treasures, which were buried in the Qianling together with Wu Zetian's body.
However, strangely enough, a thousand years later, Wu Zetian's tomb is still very intact and has not been excavated by tomb robbers.
It is not that the tomb robbers have faith, but during the millennium, many tomb robbers want to steal this tomb, all without success, so this tomb is more and more magically legendary.
In particular, the 61 "headless stone people" standing in front of qianling made the tombs of Wu Zetian and Tang Gaozong full of strangeness and strangeness.
The local people believe that this is the guardian of the tomb of Wu Zetian.
Modern archaeologists have no reasonable explanation for these headless stone statues, and the events are becoming more and more confusing.
What is the mystery of the headless statue?
These headless stone statues have produced various strange legends in the folk, and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, many experts came here to investigate, and did not give a very clear and clear explanation, which made the folklore more abundant.
At a time when experts and scholars are at a loss, the appearance of two farmers unexpectedly gives us the opportunity to unveil the mystery of the millennium.
In 1974, when two farmers in Xianyang, Shaanxi Province, were farming in their family's field, they carried hoes as usual and hoeed in the fields.
When they hoeed the ground, they suddenly hoeed a very hard thing, and when they dug it up, it was a big rock.
When the dirt was removed, but a human head made of stone was revealed, they immediately handed the head to the cultural relics department, which was identified as a cultural relics of the Tang Dynasty.
Then they searched around and finally determined that this head was the head of the headless stone statue in front of Wu Zetian's tomb.
According to the identification and analysis of experts, it is preliminarily believed that during the Ming Dynasty, a huge earthquake broke out at the site of wu zetian's cemetery, which caused these stone statues to be in different places, of course, some people say that they were stolen.
In short, the secret of the headless statue has been revealed, and how this situation was caused is still unknown.
epilogue
Wu Zetian's wordless monument, headless waiter, and her legendary experience left to posterity have indeed made her a generation of empresses in Chinese history that must not be ignored.
We can't imagine that in the era of the Tang Dynasty, there would be such a generation of empresses, and the coexistence of romance and killing in that era was really a wonderful presentation of another kind of history, causing people to have unlimited reverie and thinking.
The Tang Dynasty is a magical era, a generation of empresses has left a lot of legends, and the charm of Tang Dynasty culture is very brilliant.
In short, in that romantic and cruel era, it was the heyday of the Tang Dynasty that countless people wanted to pursue.