Let history speak for itself. Why can't 400,000 people dig the dry tomb of Wu Zetian?
Since its completion, Ganling has been cared for by countless grave robbers and visited by countless gold captains. In the cold weapon era, only knives and axes were left in the mausoleum, while in the hot weapon era, artillery and machine guns bombed in turn. According to historical records alone, there are as many grave robbers with names as 17, not to mention those without names and records.
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In Huang Chao, 400,000 people dug, and once dug half of the ridge of Liangshan (where Ganling is located), because of thunder and lightning, it was impossible to dig. Thousands of years later, it still stands there, like a giant. Why was the Zhaoling Tomb of Emperor Taizong swept away, the body of Emperor Kangxi separated and the body of Empress Dowager Cixi thrown away? Why can only Wu Zetian's dry tomb be independent and not fall down?
The cause of the incident also began with the construction of Ganling. Ganling is located in Liangshan, 6 kilometers north of Ganxian County, Shaanxi Province. Its construction began in 684 AD, and it took 23 years for the project to be basically completed. The beam is a naturally formed limestone mountain range with three peaks, of which the northern peak is the highest, with an altitude of1047.3m, and the southern peak is lower. But facing east and west, the locals gave it a nickname-"Nitou Mountain".
Standing in the east of Liangshan and looking west, the whole Liangshan looks like the body of a woman lying on her back. Its north peak is the head, and the south two peaks are the chest. At that time, people said it was a wonderful symbol of Wu Zetian. Moreover, Mr. Feng Shui said that this place was beneficial to the hostess, so Empress Wu Zetian chose this place as the burial place for herself and her husband Tang Gaozong a hundred years later.
It is said that after his death, Wu Zetian summoned Yuan Tiangang and Li, two famous geomancers at that time, to help him choose the address of the imperial tomb in order to comply with the emperor's last wish of "returning to Chang 'an and dying without complaint". Two people traveled all over the earth, and when they came back, the answer was Liangshan. Later, the envoy took two people to Liangshan to make sure. As a result, the nail planted by Li was stuck in the square hole of copper coins buried by Yuan Tiangang, and Wu Zetian chose this place.
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When Ganling was built, it was the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. At that time, the national strength was strong, and the cemeteries built around the country were large in scale and magnificent in architecture. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, initiated the burial system of "Because the mountain is the mausoleum", which was later widely circulated. So the construction of Ganling is also because of the mountain, which almost hollowed out Liangshan.
In fact, Wu Zetian and Tang Gaozong were not the only ones buried in Ganling. There are Li Xian, the Chinese emperor, and some royal figures who were executed by Wu Zetian's coup, all of whom were buried in Ganling. Therefore, it can be said that there are countless jewels in Ganling. One of the most interesting and legendary is Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, which makes people worry. Although it is not certain that it is in Ganling, it does not hinder people's fantasy about it.
Three of them who are going to steal Ganling are the most famous.
1, after the uprising in Huang Chao, he was told that there were a lot of gravel buried in the loess on the west side of Liangshan. This means that the entrance to Ganling may be on the west side. So Huang Chao led more than 400,000 peasant rebels, almost dug half of Liangshan, leaving a 40-meter-deep "Huang Chao ditch". But I didn't see a brick in Ganling. In fact, those rubble blocks were deliberately made by the builders, just to confuse future generations. Actually, Huang Chao just dug in the wrong direction.
2. Wen Tao, our ambassador to Yaozhou in the Five Dynasties, had excavated 17 Tang tombs before planning to attack Ganling. Unexpectedly, as soon as his tens of thousands of troops approached Ganling, it was stormy and nothing happened after they left. Wen Tao reluctantly chose to stop.
3, * * * * General Sun Lianzhong with one of his BGF division, under the slogan of training, with artillery, machine guns and other countless firepower to dig. They blasted the three-story pyramid-shaped mound with black powder and erected stone strips. When I was about to enter, suddenly there was a black wind, flying sand and stones, and seven soldiers in Shanxi died strangely at once. The others started running. It is said that Wu Zetian is from Shanxi, so she hates fellow villagers from Shanxi to dig her grave.
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1958, several local farmers in Liangshan shot and blew stones, and accidentally blew out the tomb door. On April 3rd 1960, the excavation of the mausoleum was officially started. The excavation shows that the tomb of Ganling underground palace is located on the southeast mountainside of Liangshan main peak, and consists of trenches and caves. The trench depth is 17m, and all of them are filled with stone strips with a length of 1.25m and a width of 0.4-0.6m The pyramid-shaped mound has a slope shape, with a total length of 63. 1 m and an average width of 3.9m..
The stone strips are overlapped along the slope from south to north. On the plane, there are ***39 floors * * 410, and there are 8000 stones for the 39 floors. The stone bar is fastened with dovetail-shaped thin waist iron bolt plate, and the hole between the upper and lower parts passes through with iron bar, and molten tin-iron juice is poured to blend with the stone bar. The excavation situation is the same as that recorded in the Biography of Yanshan Temple in the Old Tang Dynasty, "The gate of Ganling Xuanque is blocked with stone, and the stone gap is fixed with cast iron". With the approval of Premier Zhou, the excavation stopped. Many experts believe that Ganling is the only tomb among the eighteen tombs in the Tang Dynasty that has not been excavated, because the tunnel in Ganling was found to be complete and no new stolen caves were found.
Wu Zetian used time to tell people everything. It can be said that she conquered the world before her death and history after her death, and she is worthy of being a generation of female emperors!