As an emperor, the location of the mausoleum must be the most important. The Tang Dynasty was the most prosperous dynasty in China's ancient history, and the emperors in this period paid more attention to the location and construction of tombs.
After Tang Gaozong's death, Wu Zetian decided to find the best place to bury Emperor Gaozong. The imperial court searched for geomantic magicians all over the country, and finally found two outstanding ones, namely Yuan Tiangang, a folk master, and Li, a minister of the DPRK.
Wu Zetian ordered them to find a treasure trove of geomantic omen to build Ganling within the specified time, and Yuan Tiangang and Li went to find it separately after receiving the order. These two men are among the best magicians, and finally two people from different roads took a fancy to the same piece of geomantic treasure. Wu Zetian was overjoyed when she saw it. She thinks this is the best place for geomantic omen in the world, and she was buried here after her death!
Finally, Ganling, the 18th Mausoleum in the Tang Dynasty, was built and Tang Gaozong Li Zhi was buried here. After Wu Zetian's death, she also gave up the title of emperor and was buried in Ganling with Gaozong as a queen. Presumably, the female emperor also thinks that the geomantic omen of Ganling is unique in this world. In addition, this may be related to her complicated feelings with Emperor Gaozong. When people are dying, their words are very good. At the last moment of her life, she still wanted to be the wife of Emperor Gaozong, not the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.
The tombs of two emperors were buried in one mausoleum at the same time, which is unique in history, and the treasures buried in the tombs are naturally doubled. From ancient times to the present, the dry tombs of Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian have always been the dream of many people.
Why was Wu Zetian buried in Ganling after her death? At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the Huang Chao Uprising broke out. Huang Chao heard that there were many treasures in Ganling, so he launched 400,000 troops to rob Ganling. But after digging and digging, only a big ditch 40 meters deep was dug, and even the entrance of Ganling was not found! In the end, Huang Chao can only give up the Fuling treasure. Times have changed, and the deep ditch dug by Huang Chao Army still exists, just to the west of Liangshan main peak, called Huang Chao ditch.
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, Wen Tao, the Chinese envoy in Chongzhou, Hou Liang, also took a fancy to Ganling, so he organized all the troops to explore the imperial tombs in the Tang Dynasty. According to historical records, the tombs of the Tang Dynasty were in its territory, so he learned to dig and take treasure from them. Only the dry wind and rain can't be sent. Of the eighteen tombs in the Tang Dynasty, only Ganling was not excavated. Tao Wen wants to dig, but he can't.
During the Republic of China, warlord separatist forces occupied all parts of the country, and grave robbery became a common practice. The most famous is that Sun Dianying stole the tomb of Cixi in Qing Dynasty. Sun Lianzhong, the general of the Kuomintang, robbed Ganling with the strength of a division under the guise of protecting Ganling. Helpless, maybe heaven has eyes. They bombed many places with explosives but failed to find the entrance to the tomb, and finally came back in vain.
However, to the surprise of the world, it is a miracle that Ganling was not ransacked by grave robbers after thousands of years.
Coincidentally, there is more than one dry mausoleum in history. The mausoleum of Yeluxian in Liao Dynasty is also called Ganling. Although it was built in Beining, Liaoning Province and Ganxian, Shaanxi Province, there are many striking similarities between the two.
For example, the emperor who was buried in two dry tombs was sick for a long time before his death and could not go to court, so the emperor acted as regent. For another example, the emperors of Ganling all died before the empress, and after the emperor's death, the empress was ruled by the imperial court, and all of them had an erotic history. For another example, the empresses of the two emperors were buried in Ganling after their deaths.
Gan Ling, how many secrets does it have?