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Tang Shunzong Feng Mausoleum

Tang Shunzong Feng Mausoleum

Today I went to Fuping Cao Village to see persimmons, and as a result, I climbed the Golden Urn Mountain of Tang Shunzong's Li Shufeng Mausoleum.

Tang Shunzong Feng Mausoleum
Tang Shunzong Feng Mausoleum

There are few imperial tombs in Western history, but China's imperial tombs have always had names and surnames, and the burial of empresses and concubines is strictly hierarchical, reflecting the strong clan family concept of Chinese culture, and is also the main reason why China's history and culture have lasted for thousands of years.

Tang Shunzong Feng Mausoleum

Since the Qin Dynasty unified the Six Kingdoms and established the capital of Xianyang, Shaanxi's unique geographical location has always been favored by successive rulers. There are a total of 72 imperial tombs in Shaanxi, a total of 73 emperors are buried, and the extra one is Wu Zetian, who was buried with Li Zhi.

Tang Shunzong Feng Mausoleum

Of the 21 emperors of the Tang Dynasty, five were buried in Fuping, including the Tang Dynasty Emperor Yuanling, Tang Shunzong Fengling, Tang Wenzong Zhangling, Tang Yizong Jian Mausoleum, Fuping seems to be good feng shui! The surface cultural relics of Dingling are majestic and magnificent, showing the majesty of the strongest era of the Tang Dynasty, Yuan, Feng, Zhang, simple and low-key, which is a portrayal of the political turmoil and national strength decline in the middle and late Tang Dynasty.

Fengling Cemetery is about 1500 meters long from north to south, about 1850 meters from east to west, and has a gate on each side. Outside the Suzaku Gate on the south side, there used to be a Shinto shrine flanked by a pair of Huabiao, a pair of winged horses, a pair of ostriches, 5 pairs of stone horses, 10 pairs of stone men, and a pair of stone lions. Today, only 1 Chinese watch remains, and the other stone carvings are gone.

Tang Shunzong Feng Mausoleum

Jin'ou Mountain is 851 meters above sea level, and the Fengling Underground Palace is excavated at the southern foot of the mountain. In the 1960s, the entrance to the Fengling Underground Palace was discovered, and the locals excavated more than 10 meters into it, exposing the tomb passage and not backfilling for a long time. In recent years, in order to protect the safety of the underground palace, the cultural relics department has backfilled the tomb passage.

In 2019, the Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology discovered a well-preserved rammed earth building at the Xi'an Pass site of Fengling Cemetery.

Tang Shunzong Feng Mausoleum
Tang Shunzong Feng Mausoleum

Que Lou is a special form of ancient Chinese architecture, generally refers to the symmetrical platform outside the palace gate, "three out of the que" is the triple que lou, today, the preservation of the complete "three out of the que" is very rare.

Tang Shunzong Feng Mausoleum

In addition to the newly discovered site of Xi'erque, archaeologists also found a gatehouse structure with three wide and two deep rooms outside the south gate of the lower palace of the cemetery, and at present, the building structures such as the doorway, the stampede, the pillar foundation, and the wall site have been cleaned up, and a large number of building materials have been excavated, including plate tiles, barrel tiles, lotus tiles, square bricks, etc. This excavation provides important information for studying the development and evolution of the tomb system in the Tang Dynasty. Tang bricks, old value.

Emperor Shunzong of Tang (761-806), the eldest son of Emperor Dezong of Tang, was the tenth emperor of the Tang Dynasty. In the fourteenth year of the Gregorian calendar (779), after Emperor Dezong of Tang ascended the throne, Li Xuan was crowned King Xuan. Soon after, he was made crown prince.

He has been the crown prince for more than 20 years, and he is known for his great ambitions. In September of the twentieth year of Zhenyuan (804), Li Shu fell ill and could not speak. In the twenty-first year of Zhenyuan (805), Tang Dezong died of illness, and Tang Shunzong took the throne.

After Tang Shunzong ascended the throne, he appointed Wang Shuwen and others to change the law, which was called "Yongzhen Reform" in history. For violating the interests of eunuchs and emissaries, Shunzong was forced to give the throne to the crown prince Li Chun, who reigned for less than a year and was honored as "Emperor Taishang". In the first month of the first year of yuan and the first year (806), Shunzong died of illness at the age of 46.

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