Wu Zetian's life can be said to be very magical, her ability and fierce heart are famous, a woman against the pressure of the masses to become the emperor, in that era is already a miracle. However, she is also really cruel, she has harmed many relatives who are unfavorable to her for her own interests, and even killed her own children. And today we are going to talk about this is the granddaughter of Emperor Wu, she is the seventh daughter of Li Xian, she was loved by thousands of people in front of her, but she had a red face and a thin life, only lived for 17 years, and her death was also related to Emperor Wu.
Wu Zetian
Princess Yongtai was named Li Xianhui, who had grown up to be very beautiful and had a very clever mind, and Li Xian was very fond of this girl, and was named the lord of Yongtai County at a young age. When she grew up, she married Wu Zetian's nephew Wu Yanji, and the two lived happily after marriage, and became pregnant with a child the following year. However, before the child was born, Li Xianhui's husband Jun and brother Li Chongrun were killed by Emperor Wu because they were privately talking about Wu Zetian and her male favorite Zhang Yizhi, and Li Xianhui learned that her husband and brother had died, and she was alarmed and died of fetal gas.
Wu Yanji and Princess Yongtai
Li Xianhui was only 17 years old when she died, and Li Xian was distressed by her, so he posthumously awarded her the title of Princess of Yongtai, and she was a princess in history who had only one tomb as a mausoleum, and the size of the mausoleum was the same as that of the emperor, which showed how much Li Xian loved this daughter. The mausoleum of Princess Yongtai is in today's Qianling, Shaanxi, and her mausoleum was excavated in 1960, which belongs to the tomb of the sealed mound, the tomb is made of bricks, and the funerary products inside are even more precious. On the way to the tomb, there is a long tomb passage, and there are 6 small boxes in the holes in the walls on both sides of the tomb, which contain some Tang Sancai and ceramic utensils and other funerary items.
Princess Yongtai
After entering the tomb, you will also see many murals, the content of the murals is rich and colorful, including the court honor guard, the female figure and the celestial image. There is also a stone rafter in the burial chamber, on which 15 exquisite pictures of ladies are of different shapes and vivid, as if the original scene of court life in that year was reproduced. Unfortunately, on the 6th day of excavation, the archaeological team found a hole in the tomb, and under this cave there was a skeleton, next to which was an axe, and the bones lay in a pile of gold, silver and jade ornaments in the tomb.
Tomb of Princess Yongtai
Archaeologists believe that this is likely to be a gang of tomb robbers because of uneven sharing of the loot, so they have a bad heart and cut down the accomplice. Archaeologists have studied the time when the tomb was stolen and found that the mausoleum was stolen in the late Tang and early Song dynasties, more than 1,000 years ago. However, some people have different views on the skeleton in the tomb, from the skeleton point of view, the skeleton was originally a man in his 20s. When he was first found, he was still holding a turtle shell in his hand, and the turtle shell also read "Min Yongtai, Life and Death". Therefore, they felt that the person trapped in the tomb was Song Zhimin.
Song Zhimin and the Tang Dynasty poet Song Zhiqing were cousins, and Song Zhiqing and Zhang Yizhi had a good relationship, so they were very appreciated by Wu Zetian. With this relationship of his cousin, his acquaintance with the county lord was also reasonable, but at that time, Yongtai was a county lord, and Song Zhimin felt that he was not worthy of her, and he could only silently like her in his heart. Later, after learning that his beloved had died, he was heartbroken, found her mausoleum and dug a hole and jumped, and since then he has become the keeper of the tomb of Princess Yongtai. However, this statement is obviously a bit untenable, so everyone prefers to believe that the corpse is a simple tomb robber.
Mural of the tomb of Princess Yongtai
Although Yongtai's mausoleum has been stolen, it has excavated many precious historical relics, the most precious of which is the painting on the wall of the tomb, from which we can also understand a lot of etiquette culture during the Tang Dynasty. Princess Yongtai was only 17 years old when she died, originally a girl loved by her husband and loved by her parents, but in the end she died of fright and difficult childbirth, which really made people sigh at the impermanence of the world!