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The most complete and magnificent royal mausoleum in China: Gan Tang Mausoleum,
Ganling is the burial place of Emperor Gaozong Li Zhi (628-683 AD) in China in the Tang Dynasty and the only female emperor Wu Zetian (624-705 AD) in China history. It is the only couple's tomb in China and even in the world. The mausoleum is 80 kilometers away from Xi 'an, the ancient capital of central and western China, and lives in Liangshan. Three peaks soar into the sky with beautiful scenery. From a distance, it looks like a woman lying on her back, and is called "Sleeping Beauty". Ganling is built by using natural mountains, and the cemetery occupies the whole Liangshan. The main peak at an altitude of 1047.9 meters is as high as the top of the head, and the east-west south peak is like its milk, commonly known as Nitou Mountain.

The surrounding area of Ganling Cemetery is about 40 kilometers. The buildings in the park are modeled after Chang 'an City in Tang Dynasty, and Miyagi, Imperial City and Waikuo City are in good order. When it was first built, ancestral halls, pavilions and pavilions in the palace were all over Shan Ye, and the buildings were magnificent. There are more than 20 large stone carvings 120 in the cemetery, such as huabiao, winged horse, ostrich, Wuzi brand, monument, stone lion and sixty-one Chen Fan statue, which are arranged neatly and orderly on both sides of Sima Road from Zhuquemen to Naitou Mountain. They are magnificent and are known as "the open-air exhibition hall of stone carving art in the prosperous Tang Dynasty". According to historical documents, Gong Xuan Palace in Ganling is very rich in connotation, and there are a lot of rare treasures buried with it, such as gold and silver, jewelry and jade, bronze and iron, glass, ceramics, silk, lacquerware, stone carving, food, murals, calligraphy and painting, Mo Bao and so on.

Among the 0/8 imperial tombs in Tang Dynasty/KLOC-0, Gan Tang Mausoleum is the only one that has not been excavated, and it is also the most complete and magnificent, and it is rare for two emperors to be buried together in the world. Since the 1960s, five tombs, including Yongtai, Zhang Huai and Yide, have been excavated successively, and precious cultural relics of more than 4,300 years have been unearthed. More than 65438+100000 colorful tomb murals are magnificent underground art galleries in the Tang Dynasty.