Qianling Mausoleum is the burial place where Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty Li Zhi (628-683 AD) and Wu Zetian (624-705 AD), the only female emperor in Chinese history, are buried together. It is the only one in the country and even the world. The mausoleum where the emperor and his wife are buried together is also one of the "Eighteen Tombs" of the Tang Dynasty emperors that has been relatively completely preserved in the Guanzhong area of ??Shaanxi Province. It is very representative.
The mausoleum is eighty kilometers away from Xi'an and located on Liangshan Mountain. The Qianling Mausoleum is built with a mountain as its mausoleum. It is majestic and large-scale. There is a poem describing the Qianling Mausoleum as "the corner corners of thousands of mountains, and the claws of thousands of trees deep". Qianling Mausoleum sits on three peaks and has beautiful scenery. From a distance, it looks like a woman lying on her back on the earth, so it is known as the "Sleeping Beauty". The main peak is 1047.9 meters above sea level. If you hold your head high, the south peak facing east and west looks like its breast. It is commonly known as Nipple Mountain.
The tomb passage of Qian's Mausoleum is located directly south of the tomb. It is entirely filled with stone strips and stacked from the entrance of the tomb passage to the tomb door. The stone strips are staggered and pressed, and the planes between the stone strips are fixed with iron bolts and poured with iron juice. Therefore, Qianling Mausoleum is the only one among the eighteen imperial tombs in the Tang Dynasty that has not been robbed.
The cemetery is about 40 kilometers around. The buildings in the park are built after the pattern of Chang'an City in the Tang Dynasty. The palace city, imperial city and outer city are in order. When it was first built, palaces, ancestral halls, pavilions and pavilions were spread all over the mountains and mausoleums, and the buildings were magnificent and magnificent. There are more than 120 large-scale stone carvings in the cemetery, such as Huabiao, winged horses, ostriches, wordless plaques, Shushengmei tablets, stone lions, and statues of sixty-one ministers. They are neatly arranged from Zhuque Gate to Naitoushan. Two miles away, the two sides of Sima Road are majestic, powerful and solemn, and are known as the "open-air exhibition hall of the stone carving art of the prosperous Tang Dynasty".
The "Wordless Monument" was erected by Wu Zetian for herself. Some people say that this is her expression of her "great achievements", which are difficult to express in words. Some people also say that in Wu Zetian's last words, her merits and demerits were left to be commented upon by future generations, so not a single word was engraved on them. Wu Zetian firmly believed in her own strength and believed that everything she did was more solid and eternal than the words inscribed on the stone, so there was no need to write anything for herself on the monument. This fully reflected Wu Zetian's true temperament.
After Wu Zetian entered the palace, there was a violent horse named Lion Cong in the palace. No one could subdue it. Wu Zetian said, I can subdue it, but I need three tools: one iron whip, two iron hammers, and three daggers. Beat it with an iron whip. If it refuses to obey, hit it on the head with a hammer. If it refuses to obey again, cut its throat with a dagger. After she came to power, she used the method of horse control to control the ministers, forming a strong rule and ensuring the consolidation and unity of the country.
According to historical documents, the Qianling Xuan Palace is very rich in connotation, and a large number of gold and silver wares, jewelry and jade wares, copper and iron wares, colored glaze, ceramics, silk fabrics, lacquered wood wares, stone carvings, food, murals and Rare treasures such as calligraphy, painting and calligraphy.