What was discovered in the tomb of Wu Zetian?

What was discovered in the tomb of Wu Zetian?

The relevant discovery time is as follows. In fact, this is not a secret, but there is no exact time of discovery.

1957, the government of China announced Ganling as "the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in Shaanxi Province". 196 1 year, the State Council was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the peasants revolted, and Huang Chao had a huge momentum. He used 400,000 rebels to dig mountains in the west of Liangshan. A 40-meter-deep "Huang Chao" ditch was dug straight and half a mountain was dug away. Because there are no knowledgeable people in the army, they don't understand the structural characteristics of Ganling block facing south. As a result, they dug in the wrong direction and failed.

Wen Tao, the secretariat of Yaozhou in the Five Dynasties, was an official grave robber. He led soldiers to dig more than a dozen tombs of the Tang Dynasty and made a windfall. Tens of thousands of people were driven to dig Ganling in broad daylight because of the money in hand. Unexpectedly, the excavation process was very bad and the weather was always stormy. Wen Tao was frightened and gave up the idea of digging Ganling.

In the early years of the Republic of China, Sun Lianzhong, a general of the Kuomintang, led a group of troops to learn from Sun Dianying's bombing of Cixi and Qianlong's tomb. He buried pots in Liangshan to cook and set up camp. Under the cover of military exercises, he blasted three layers of rocks next to the tomb, but ultimately failed to get any benefits.

At present, many experts believe that Ganling is the only tomb among the eighteen tombs in the Tang Dynasty that has not been excavated. The reason is that the dry tomb road is complete, but it is very difficult to dig a new hole from the abdomen of the stone mountain into the underground palace instead of the tomb road. At present, no new stolen holes have been found. As for whether the facts are as people wish, we can only know when the underground palace is opened.

Why is it so hot recently?

As early as the early liberation, Mr. Guo Moruo, then president of the Academy of Sciences, once said to Premier Zhou Enlai, "There is no doubt that there are many calligraphy and painting books in the tomb! Open the dry mausoleum, and perhaps Wu Zetian's 100-volume Hanging Arch Collection and 10-volume Golden Wheel Collection can be seen again! Maybe the portrait of Wuhou, the handwriting of Shangguan Waner and others can be seen! Rock-breaking, it must be a rock-breaking event! "

Guo Moruo only talked about calligraphy and painting, but there may be a room full of gold, silver, jewelry, silks and satins in the tomb, and even the small porcelain inadvertently placed inside may be worth millions of yuan. Some cultural relics workers have estimated that there are at least 500 tons of precious cultural relics in it! This does not include the stones in the pyramid-shaped mound, but stones with different shapes and engraved words are also priceless cultural relics.

Mr. Shi Xingbang, honorary director of Shaanxi Institute of Archaeology and director of the research office of Tang Mausoleum, has been studying Ganling for decades. After years of exploration and investigation, Shi Xingbang said that at least 70% of the funerary objects in the tomb can now be inferred, and the underground palace of Ganling should be filled with the most valuable treasures of the Tang Dynasty. It is understood that Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian were buried in Ganling, while Emperor Gaozong and Wu Zetian were in the most prosperous period of the Tang Dynasty, with developed economy and strong country. When Tang Gaozong was buried, the value of funerary objects accounted for13 of the national finance. More than 20 years later, Wu Zetian died, and the national gold and silver jewelry 1/3 was brought into Ganling. The cost is huge and the burial is rich. In addition, it is clearly recorded in the history books that when Tang Gaozong died, he deliberately left a suicide note and buried all his favorite calligraphy and painting. Many experts also speculate that Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, a top national treasure, is also likely to be hidden in Ganling.

According to Shi Xingbang, besides countless treasures and jades buried in Ganling during the prosperous Tang Dynasty, there may be a large number of treasures from all over the world. In the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, there were countless envoys and worshippers from various countries, and all the tributes to the emperor of the Tang Dynasty were national treasures. Shi Xingbang believes that there must be a dazzling array of treasures from West Asia, South Asia, East Asia, Northern Europe and other countries in the dry mausoleum. "It is no exaggeration to say that Ganling is the World Treasure Museum!"

It is understood that many large mausoleums in China are robbed of tombs, but according to historical records and actual investigations by experts, Ganling has not been stolen so far. In other words, once Fuling is opened, the "World Treasure Museum" will be fully displayed in front of people.