is the only orthodox female emperor in Chinese history. Wu Zetian left people with too many stories and legends, even if she died, with a wordless monument , it brought future generations into doubts, and there is still no solution. With all the speculations of future generations, today Wang Laowu came to tell you about the wordless monument erected by Wu Zetian.
Wu Zetian's journey is like a successful history of contemporary entrepreneurs. She slowly climbed from the palace to the throne of the queen, and later ascended the throne to establish Wu Zhou. In the feudal society, it is truly legendary that a woman can be the emperor. During this period of Wu Zetian's rule, he knew people well and paid attention to talents. At the same time, it created the palace examination, martial arts and examination officer system to reward farmers and mulberry in farming. Her series of measures are not lost to many male emperors who were also during the Tang Dynasty. Until his later years, Wu Zetian began to be extravagant and arbitrary, and his political performance declined. During Wu Zetian's reign, she had two magic weapons. The first is to eliminate dissidents, and the second is to make efforts to rule.
In the first year of Shenlong, Wu Zetian fell ill. At this time, Wu Zetian was 82 years old. Soon, Wu Zetian died in Shangyang Palace . After Wu Zetian's death, he was buried together with Tang Gaozong and Li Zhi, and was buried in the Qianling Mausoleum. The Qianling Mausoleum is located on the Liangshan Mountain in what is now Qianxian County, Xianyang City. Why did the dignified emperor choose the tomb here? According to legend, Wu Zetian recruited Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, and asked them to find a feng shui treasure as their home to build a mausoleum. Coincidentally, after the two of them carefully calculated their fortunes and found this place at the same time, Wu Zetian did not immediately recognize it, but ordered batch after batch of ministers to investigate. The ministers who came to investigate were all stunned. It is a place with excellent feng shui, and immediately organized people and horses to build it.
From the current point of view, the cemetery is magnificent in scale and still has the momentum of an emperor and an emperor. It consists of two inner and outer city walls. The inner city wall is 1450 meters long from north to south, the east city wall is 1583 meters long, and the west city wall is 1438 meters long. In front of the tomb, there are two steles with a height of more than six or seven meters. The inscription on the "Shusheng Stele" in the west mainly praises Tang Gaozong . It is said that the inscription was written by Wu Zetian, and the east is Wu Zetian's "wordless stele". The wordless stele is carved from a complete boulder, 2.1 meters wide, 1.49 meters thick, and weighs nearly 100 tons. The head of the stele is engraved with 8 intertwined dragons, and the base of the stele is made of horses drinking water, lions and clouds, etc. Compared with other emperors' tombstones, although there is no large-scale inscription, this carving method has been used in the tombs of the emperors of the past dynasties. are extremely rare.
However, it is this rare wordless monument, which leaves people with infinite speculation. There are three main folk sayings about the wordless monument.
The first is to say that Wu Zetian knew that he was guilty and that writing the inscription would be more scolded by future generations. Later, the country was returned to the Li family, but because of her experience of seizing the throne and becoming emperor, she had no confidence in her situation after her death, and she was even more afraid that the world would condemn her for usurping the throne and scold her, so she left a wordless monument to redeem herself. .
However, another way of saying is that Wu Zetian believed that her merits and virtues could not be expressed in words. During her reign, the politics was clear, the society was stable, and the people lived and worked in peace and contentment. This should be regarded as her great political achievement.In Wu Zetian's view, although she is a woman, her talent is definitely higher than that of Tang Gaozong, but at that time, many people thought that Tang Dynasty belonged to the Li family, and Wu Zetian robbed the Li family of the country and took the She regarded her as a traitor and thief, but turned a blind eye to her credits , so Wu Zetian asked future generations to comment on and record her credits, so there was a wordless monument.
The last statement is also very reasonable. Wu Zetian wants future generations to comment on her life. This statement is the exact opposite of the previous statement. Wu Zetian is quite proud of his life. She stood out in the political struggle and reached the pinnacle of power. She wanted future generations to evaluate her achievements objectively, and her son Li Xian had a sharp conflict of interest with herself. He will definitely not make an objective and fair evaluation. Wu Zetian wants to pass the merits and demerits of his life to future generations, that is, let people make an evaluation of his life.
These three statements seem to have some truth, but no one knows which statement is her original intention, and it is possible that her original intention is not among these three statements, because there is no way to verify it now. Which statement do you think is Wu Zetian's intention?
The Qianling Mausoleum is the best-preserved one of the main tombs in the Eighteen Tombs of the Tang Dynasty , and it is also the only tomb that has not been stolen. Qianling is a godlike existence, which made many tomb robbers stop. Even Huangchao, the originator of tomb robbers in history, suffered a dumb loss here. He once organized an army of 400,000 to attempt to rob Qianling. On the west side, a 50-meter-deep ditch was dug, and the entrance to the tomb was not found. However, just as he was about to find a new entrance, there were suddenly many women's miserable mourning, and these tomb robbers were instantly scared away.Another tomb robber, Wen Tao, did not taste the sweetness when he tried to steal the Qianling Mausoleum. How powerful is Wen Tao's tomb robbery? There were 18 imperial tombs in the Tang Dynasty, 17 of which were stolen by Wen Tao. The warlord Sun Lianzhong during the Republic of China also had the idea of Qianling. He personally led an army of hundreds of thousands of people to prepare for a mighty sack of Qianling. After the manual excavation failed, he directly switched to explosives. After many times, there was no trace of the entrance to the tomb, and in the end it was unsuccessful.
Later, people began to fill in a lot on the wordless monument. Until now, there are 13 paragraphs of text on it. Among these 13 paragraphs, there is a paragraph of text that no one has known for a long time. It is said that this is the early Khitan script, with the rapid demise of the Khitan. Descendants almost do not know these words, and can only be preserved as a precious historical document.
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