The mystery of Wu Zetian's dry tomb, the most mysterious tomb: the grave robber died on the spot.

There is only one real female emperor in the history of China-Wu Zetian, who promoted the development of China during her reign, so people's comments on her are mostly positive. After her death, she was buried in Ganling, which is also the most mysterious one among the imperial tombs in China.

The gate of Ganling Underground Palace has a history of 1300 years, and many unknown secrets have been locked in the gate ... For thousands of years, I don't know how many people dream of finding out the mystery, but due to the lack of written records and archaeological materials, people still don't know much about Ganling Underground Palace.

Ganling is located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Ganxian County, xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, and 76 kilometers away from the ancient city of Xi 'an. This is the tomb of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian. It was built in 684 AD, and it took 23 years for the project to be basically completed. Liangshan is a naturally formed limestone mountain, with three peaks towering into the sky, the northern peak is the highest, with an altitude of 1047.3 meters, and the southern peak is lower, east-west. At that time, the masses called it "Nitou Mountain". Looking from east to west of Ganling, Liangshan is like a woman lying on her back, with the north peak as the head and the south two peaks as the chest. People often say that it is a wonderful symbol of Empress Wu Zetian.

As the only mausoleum in the world where two generations of emperors and their wives were buried, it miraculously escaped successive catastrophes, preserved the charm of thousands of years ago, and stood out from the crowd on Liangshan. This makes the dry mausoleum be rendered with layers of mysterious colors.

Wu Zetian is a person who is good at conquering everything with time. She/kloc-entered the palace at the age of 0/4,/kloc-became queen in 0/8 and emperor in 35 years. After her death, it took her 1200 years to prove the firmness of her grave and the immortality of its charm.

Even before Guo Moruo's death, he remembered that the central authorities approved the excavation of Ganling. It can be said that Wu Zetian conquered the world before his death and history after his death.

If you ask which emperor's mausoleum is the most difficult to dig in the world, then there is no doubt that it is Wu Zetian's "eternal life domain"-Ganling. Her mausoleum was hacked by the sword of the cold weapon era and shelled by the machine gun of the hot weapon era.

1300 years, there were as many grave robbers with names as 17. Today, however, the mausoleum of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has been emptied, the Zhaoling Tomb of Emperor Taizong has been swept away, and the bones of Emperor Kangxi have been repaired. Why can Wu Zetian's dry mausoleum be immune?

When Ganling was built, it was in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, with strong national strength, grand cemetery scale and magnificent architecture, and was called "the crown of emperors' tombs in past dynasties". At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, learned from historical lessons that there is no immortal country, and there is no grave that will not be dug. Starting from Zhaoling, he and his eldest grandson created a burial system with mountains as the tomb, which was designed by famous artists Yan Lide and Yan Brothers at that time. Tombs are made up of buildings and sculptures, and they are scattered on the mountains with the trend of "Dragon Board Phoenix".

The dry tombs of Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian developed and perfected the shape of Zhaoling. The cemetery is modeled after Chang 'an, Tang Dou, and is divided into Imperial City, Miyagi City and Outer Guo Cheng. The north-south main axis is 4.9 kilometers long. As for the treasure inside, after years of exploration and investigation, a cultural relic worker estimates that there are at least 500 tons! On both sides of the front and rear passages, there are four caves filled with the most valuable treasures of the Tang Dynasty. On both sides of the nearly 100-meter corridor leading to the King Kong Wall, there are various gold and silver ritual vessels. What interests the world most is the Preface to the Lanting Pavilion, a top national treasure. In the folk rumors around Ganling, it has long been said that the preface to Lanting was buried with Wu Zetian.

Such a rich treasure makes Ganling attract professional grave robbers, government officials, bandits, warlords and even peasant rebels, who come to dig with shovels and hoes. From the moment Wu Zetian lay in Ganling, Liangshan never stopped.

In the history of our country, digging dry graves has a long history. 1200 For more than 200 years, there has never been a grave robber in Liangshan. Thieves are a dime a dozen There is no official record, and unofficial history is too lazy to write. In history, there were thieves with the surname 17, and there were three large poaching activities. But they all gave up halfway for various reasons and failed to steal it.

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.

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.

Not surprisingly, many people have been to the Ganling of Wu Zetian, but strangely, Ganling has never been driven by these people in the era of cold weapons or modern machine guns.

So why is Wu Zetian's dry mausoleum so strong? Let's talk about construction first. Ganling is located in Liangshan, 6 kilometers north of Ganxian County, Shaanxi Province. The construction of Ganling began in 684 AD, and it took 23 years to be basically completed. The construction time is very long, which shows that the project is huge.

Liangshan, as its name implies, is a mountain, and building a mausoleum in the mountain was also a major feature of the Tang Dynasty. Liangshan is made of limestone, which is hard. It is said that the whole Liangshan Mountain looks like a woman's body in shape, which is very beneficial to Wu Zetian, so it was chosen as the resting place by Wu Zetian.

Ganling was built in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty. First of all, the national strength is strong, followed by talented people. This is why the cemetery is built on such a large scale, and the whole mausoleum is magnificent. The use of talents also laid the foundation for the stability of Ganling. The wisdom of the ancients is often beyond our modern imagination and understanding.

There are many treasures in Ganling, and it is normal to attract grave robbers. These grave robbers include professional grave robbers, government officials, bandits, warlords and peasant rebels, but no matter who they are, they can't open Ganling anyway.

The most famous is Huang Chao, where they dug a 40-meter-deep "Huang Chao ditch". But no matter how they look for it, they can't find the entrance to Ganling, and they can't dig the ancient tomb. Later, Sun Lianzhong also led 400,000 soldiers to come here, trying to blow up Ganling, but when it hit a stone, it was about to go in. Suddenly, a puff of smoke came out and turned into a tornado. Seven soldiers vomited blood and died on the spot. Up to now, Ganling still stands intact on Liangshan Mountain.