Have you found the tomb of Wu Zetian?

The tomb of Wu Zetian is called Ganling, which is located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Ganxian County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. It is the burial tomb of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, covering an area of 40 square kilometers.

Ganling was built in the first year of Tang Guangzhai and completed in the second year of Shenlong. Taking the mountain as the mausoleum, the mausoleum area is modeled after Chang 'an, the capital of Beijing. In addition to the main tomb, there are seventeen small tombs buried in Ganling with other royal family members and heroes.

Ganling is the best preserved of the eighteen tombs in the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the only tomb in the Tang Dynasty that has not been excavated. 196 1 On March 4th, Ganling was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

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Many tombs of noble emperors were buried in Ganling, which has been almost hollowed out for thousands of years, but the cemetery of Wu Zetian has never been opened. This is the name of Wu Zetian's Yin House.

According to records, in thousands of years, in fact, many famous grave robbers have been to Wanshou domain, but they have tried their best to open it. Even in modern times, some troops can't open the door with artillery, and 400 thousand people were dispatched for a grave robbery.

The result was fruitless. After Wu Zetian ascended the throne, she began to look for her century-old belonging. At that time, a Mr. Feng Shui told her that Liangshan looks like a woman's body from a distance, which is an excellent cemetery for her birth, so she decided to bury herself here.

After the decision, she spent a lot of manpower and financial resources to build Ganling in Liangshan for 23 years, because the national treasury was full at that time, and the construction of Ganling can be said to start from the details without any flaws.

At that time, the most famous masters of art, architecture and geomantic omen all participated in the construction of Ganling. Considering that all emperors robbed tombs, she ordered absolute strictness in the art of anti-theft.

This tomb uses various anti-theft technologies to seal the entrance with molten iron, which is a costly project. The so-called hot metal sealing is to find a few big stones suitable for the hole, and then add hot metal in the middle of each stone.

After the stone solidifies, it will pile up layer by layer, so even a cannon is difficult to explode. It is precisely because of this that grave robbers can't enter it to find out.

This is how the light cave is designed, and the danger in the tomb is even more unknowable. It can be said that as long as the tomb is opened, the anti-theft technique of ancient cemetery can be better interpreted.

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