The inferiority of men to women was the social keynote during the feudal imperial period.
This dooms women's lives to be full of tragedy in this era, they cannot control their own lives, let alone choose their own lives, the only thing they can do is to attach themselves to men and live hard.
It's just that under the ravages of society, sometimes, living is a luxury.
However, at any time, someone will be able to break the shackles imposed by society and write their own splendid chapter, and Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty is the most commendable woman under the feudal society.
Since Ying Zheng ascended the throne as emperor, there have been about 400 emperors in the next two thousand years, and if you count the figures who were added after their deaths, then this number will exceed the 500 mark.
Among these emperors, Wu Zetian was the only woman, and she ascended the throne at the age of 66, reigned for 15 years, and lived to the age of 82, which is enough to shame most men.
So success in life is not entirely limited by age, who can say that old age must end up alone in a nursing home?
And in any way, Wu Zetian's life is very brilliant, from a small talent into the palace, through several Li Tang emperors without falling, and finally cut off the Tang Dynasty, if her reign is longer, perhaps in historiography, the Tang Dynasty can only be called the Western Tang and the Eastern Tang.
Even if Wu Zetian lived long enough, she still could not jump out of this established circle, and after her death, she did not open another mausoleum as an emperor, but was buried in the Qianling Mausoleum of Emperor Gaozong of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi as an empress.
Qianling is one of the Eighteen Tang Tombs in the Guanzhong region of Shaanxi, located in the north of Qian County, Xianyang, Shaanxi, six kilometers from the county seat, on Liangshan Mountain, with a grand scale and majestic momentum.
Among the eighteen tombs of the Tang Dynasty, the Qianling Tomb is also the only mausoleum that has not been stolen.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, there was the Yellow Nest Rebellion, and after he attacked Chang'an, he used 400,000 people to rob Wu Zetian's tomb, but he was unsuccessful.
Actually, thanks to one person.
The Yellow Nest Rebellion
The limitations of feudal society determine that a dynasty cannot be passed on to all generations, and even if the founding emperor has calculated all possibilities, it will still fall apart after hundreds of years.
The radiant Tang Dynasty was naturally no exception, and the person who personally cut off its artery was Huang Chao.
Huang Chao was born into a family of salt merchants and his family was very wealthy, which made him fully capable of living according to his own preferences, which also cultivated his chivalrous heart.
In addition, Huang Chao is also very good at riding and shooting, and his achievements in poetry are also remarkable, and now, he is definitely a character who walks and pulls the wind.
It's just that in that troubled world, Huang Chao's character was destined to not be an ordinary person.
When Huang Chao became an adult, he failed to pass the imperial examination, which cut him off from becoming an official, and later coincided with the great drought in the Kanto, he actively collected refugees, and immediately responded after Wang Xianzhi's uprising, and threw himself into the wave of overthrowing the Tang Dynasty.
Huang Chao was indeed a very capable person, and his character also allowed him to have a large number of followers, and over time, Huang Chao became a climate, and in the first year of Guangming, he led the rebel army across the Yellow River and pointed directly at Luoyang.
After taking Luoyang, Huang Chao continued to advance towards Guanzhong, invincible all the way, and Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty, had become Huang Chao's bag.
From crossing the Yellow River to capturing Chang'an, Huang Chao took only three months, after which he usurped the throne and became emperor, and the state name was Daqi, but this emperor was not as majestic as imagined, and even the dragon robe was painted on the silk to act as a dragon.
Huang Chao was very aggrieved, so when he heard that Wu Zetian and Li Zhi's Qianling had heavy treasures buried in it, he didn't even think about it, so he ordered 400,000 people to be sent to steal the Qianling Tomb.
Stealing and digging the Qianling tomb
According to historical records, the Qianling Tomb was built in 684 AD and took 23 years to really complete.
At that time, it was the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, after the death of Tang Gaozong, he brought in a large number of funeral goods, and later after Wu Zetian's death, the scale of his funeral goods was naturally not smaller than Li Zhi, according to the calculations of relevant people, among which the precious cultural relics were even as high as 500 tons.
No matter who sees such treasures, this kind of treasure is a huge temptation, and Huang Chao will naturally blush.
In Huang Chao's view, the 400,000 army is not to mention Qianling, or even the entire Liangshan, but reality has given him a resounding slap.
These 400,000 people dug in Liangshan for more than 100 days, but they did not even find the entrance to Wu Zetian's tomb, leaving a deep ditch 40 meters deep.
This deep ditch still exists today, running on the west side of the main peak of Liangshan, and is now called "Huangchao Gou".
Huang Chao's heart was naturally extremely depressed, but the general trend of the world was changing rapidly, and although he was very unwilling, he could only do it in the end.
After the Yellow Nest, people who had ideas about Qianling did not disappear, and in the fifth dynasty, Wen Tao, the envoy of the Yaozhou Festival, also used tens of thousands of people to steal and dig Qianling, and as a result, he went three times in a row, all of which were stormy and stormy, and when he came down from Qianling, it was clear sky again, and Wen Tao was so frightened that he did not dare to dig anymore.
In the early years of the Republic of China, Sun Lianzhong also wanted to make a fortune to rob the tomb, so he used military exercises as a guise to dig up the Qianling Tomb, but as a result, a lot of explosives were used, but he still could not find the entrance, so he had to give up.
Standing tall
So why can Wu Zetian's Qianling Tomb stand tall in several large-scale excavations?
In fact, this is thanks to Yuan Tiangang, because the site for the construction of the Qianling Tomb was chosen by him, and when Tang Gaozong was seriously ill, Wu Zetian planned to choose a feng shui treasure land in Guan to build the mausoleum.
This task was given to two famous fangs, one of whom was Li Chunfeng, a taishi ling in charge of the yin and yang and astronomical calendars in the palace, and the other was the astrologer Yuan Tiangang.
After the two received the order, they immediately set out to search, Yuan Tiangang searched all over the banks of the Yellow River, but could not find a favorite place, and later when watching the sky at night in Guanzhong , he found a completely different mountain, which is now Liangshan.
He hurried to the palace to regain his life, and later Li Chunfeng found a place that was also here, and Wu Zetian ordered the construction of a mausoleum here.
So what's so strange about Liangshan?
Building a mausoleum in the mountains was a very big project, and the craftsmen at that time opened Liangshan Mountain halfway up the mountain, and then built the underground palace, and there were more than 2,000 stone pillars in the tomb alone, and these stone pillars were poured into one piece, and it was a fantasy to break them.
Outside the underground palace, there is a very complex structure, which is enough to discourage tomb thieves.
In addition, the stones brought out of the underground palace were not placed anywhere, but transported thousands of miles away, which made it impossible for tomb thieves to find the true entrance to the tomb according to the stones moved.
That is to say, people know that Wu Zetian's mausoleum is on Liangshan, but no one knows where it is in Liangshan.
Several large-scale tomb robberies have not succeeded, from the root point of view, it is because the place where to start is not right, so the place that Yuan Tiangang is looking for is an excellent place to build a mausoleum, and it is indeed smart enough to perfectly place the mausoleum in the mountain.
There are many treasures in the Qianling Tomb, if it is stolen and excavated by these people, it is really a great loss, then when will the Qianling Tomb be rebuilt?
The jury is still out, and all we can do is be patient...
References: Old Book of Tang, etc.
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