The original text is: Qianqiu Gongan turns clouds and rain, and hundreds of hectares of fertile land turn into soil. Who can recognize the ancient Kun Yuan if the head of the wordless monument is full of characters?

From Guo Moruo's "Ode to the Qianling Mausoleum", it describes Wu Zetian's wordless stele. "The merits and demerits will be judged by future generations" is said by later generations, which means that the merits and demerits will have their own descendants. Comment.

The meaning of the original sentence is:

Thousands of years of public cases have turned the clouds and rain, and hundreds of hectares of fertile land have turned into dirt fields. The wordless monument is covered with words, and no one can recognize the original words.

The wordless stele got its name because there was not a single word engraved on the stele at first. Since the Qin and Han Dynasties, emperors, generals and prime ministers all hoped to erect a stele after their death, but the stele of the only orthodox female emperor in Chinese history did not. Carve a word.

Extended information:

We know that Wu Zetian is the first and only empress in Chinese history. After her death, she was buried in Qianling, buried together with Tang Gaozong Li Zhi, and Wu Zetian was her own A "wordless monument" was erected, with not a single word on it.

There are already many words on the once wordless monument. Regarding this matter, three things have been recorded in history:

1. After the Jin Kingdom occupied the north, someone once carved a few lines of Khitan inscriptions on it. At that time, the Jin Dynasty used Khitan script, and Jin script had not yet been created.

2. During the Jin Dynasty's war to destroy the Northern Song Dynasty, Wanyan Salihe, who captured the two emperors of Huiqin and Qin Dynasty, carved inscriptions on a wordless monument to commemorate this when he was stationed in Shaanxi. The content of the engraving is "The Travels of the Emperor's Disciple Du Tong Jing Lue Lang Jun". The Hu people who originally trembled in front of Wu Zetian later carved the character "Hu" on her monument.

3. According to statistics, there are thirteen paragraphs of inscriptions written by later generations on the wordless stele, mainly in Khitan, Jurchen and Chinese character translations.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Qianling Monument without Words