Of the eighteen tombs of Tang emperors in Shaanxi, Ganling is the only one that has not been stolen. However, there are not a few grave robbers who tried to kill the tomb in history.
The most fundamental reason why the land of Ganling has not been stolen is that the crossing of Ganling is too secret and strong.
I'd better sort out this historical record.
Legend has it that at the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao led hundreds of thousands of troops to rob Ganling, but failed because of the wrong direction. There is still a ditch in Shimadao Village to the west of Ganling, which is called Huang Chao ditch by local people. It is said that it was left by Chao Huang's team.
"History of the Old Five Dynasties: Biography of Tao Wen" records: "Tao was in the town for seven years, and the tombs of the Tang Dynasty were found in his territory, so the storm of Ganling could not happen." The meaning of this sentence is that when Wen Tao was doing our time in Yaozhou, he dug the Tang tombs one by one in the area of Zhongbei Mountain, and when he dug the dry tombs, he didn't dig them because of the rainstorm.
During the Republic of China, Sun Lianzhong also led the troops to dig Ganling, but he still failed.
Legend belongs to legend, one thing is certain. For more than 1000 years, many people tried to rob Ganling. As for Wen Tao and Huang Chao, there is no scientific basis for their strange phenomena, which may be because people respect Wu Zetian too much and are emotionally unwilling to accept people's disrespect for Wu Zetian. Even today, the locals still call Ganling "Auntie Mausoleum", which shows the people's admiration for the Queen.
At the end of 1950s, local people accidentally discovered the crossing of Ganling while working. Later, someone proposed to dig Ganling, but it was rejected. I'm afraid it will be difficult to open Ganling in the future.
Comprehensive consideration, 1000 years, Ganling has not been stolen, the fundamental reason is that Ganling is too powerful. Ganling is built on the mountain, and the mausoleum and underground palace are hidden in the mountain. Finding the entrance to the ancient tomb is equivalent to a tiger eating the sky and having nowhere to claw. Obviously, it is impossible for anyone to dig up the whole Liangshan.
Then when building Ganling, Wu Zetian had fully considered the anti-theft factor. She knew Cao Cao's warning in those days: "Since ancient times and today, there is no grave that cannot be dug". When Wu Zetian built a mausoleum for Li Zhi, Tang Gaozong, she must have made preparations for theft prevention from the site selection and design. After she was buried and the tomb was sealed, the door of the underground palace was closed forever.
Wu Zetian's tomb is called Ganling. This tomb is very interesting. From the beginning, there was a story.
According to legend, this tomb was endowed by Feng Shui CP, Li and Yuan Tiangang, who made push-back pictures in Tang Dynasty.
Wu Zetian's husband, Tang Gaozong, was sickly. When he arrived at the back, he was dying after a long-term treatment. Wu Zetian was very anxious about the mausoleum, but many people were sent to find a suitable place.
At that time, someone recommended Yuan Tiangang to her.
Wu Zetian called Yuan Tiangang, gave him seven dollars and told him to go out and look for the mausoleum site. When he found it, he filled in the money according to the position of the Big Dipper, and then came back to report it. He must not tell anyone.
After seeing Yuan Tiangang off, Wu Zetian called Li again, gave him a jade phoenix hairpin and asked him to search the tomb site. After finding it, he put the jade phoenix hairpin in the ground as a symbol, and then returned it, not telling anyone.
They went separately and came back a month later to report that they had found a place with excellent geomantic omen. Yuan Tiangang said that he buried a dollar, and Li said that he inserted a phoenix.
Then who is looking for a better place?
Wu Zetian asked where it was and said it was Liangshan.
But finding dragons is easy, but acupuncture is difficult. They are all Liangshan heroes, but you should pay attention to where you are buried. Wu Zetian sent someone to have a look. When she saw it, she was startled and saw that the Hosta was inserted in Qian's eyes.
They found the same place.
Of course, I don't know if these two people communicate privately. But Ganling was solved.
What's so good about this place? Looking at the appearance, some people say that it looks like a woman's body, while the tomb mouth is like something drawn by the man in the physical health class. If you don't finish talking, you will blush.
This is the manufacture of graves. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, people began to dig dry tombs. The first one was Huang Chao, the leader of the rebel army who entered Chang 'an. Huang Chao sent hundreds of thousands of troops to dig for several months, but they didn't reach the tomb gate. It's a tragedy that straight men can't find the entrance.
In the end, only one ditch was left, also called Huang Chao ditch, to commemorate his failed gold panning career.
After Huang Chao, another master came. His name is Wen Tao, and he is a local envoy. Taking advantage of the chaos in the world, he dug up the tomb of the Tang Dynasty. But when I dug into Ganling, something strange happened suddenly. When digging, it thundered and thundered, and it was stormy. Frightened, Wen Tao thought that Ganling was blessed by a fairy, and never dared to dig again.
In the Republic of China, Sun Lianzhong was bombed with explosives, but as soon as it was bombed, black smoke came out. At that time, seven soldiers were killed, making no one dare to go.
No one in the back knows where the mouth of Ganling is. It was not until after New China that the stone strips were suddenly discovered because of road construction and taking stones from the mountains, which made Ganling show its true colors. It's easy to explore now. Where is the tomb door and how many treasures are there?
For example, there may be Preface to Lanting Collection, the best running script in the world. At that time, Guo Moruo thought of excavating the tomb of Wu Zetian after excavating Dingling in Ming Dynasty. Just want to see if there is any Lanting preface in it. He believes that Preface to Lanting is not a running script, but a regular script. However, Premier Zhou rejected this suggestion and put forward the policy of not excavating tombs illegally.
Today, there are still some voices calling for the excavation of the dry tomb of Wu Zetian. If nothing else, after the excavation, it is enough to set up a museum, collect tickets and make a windfall in the local area.
Finally, why can't Ganling be stolen for thousands of years? It is difficult to find a mountain as a mausoleum. Moreover, there are a large number of stone strips filled in the tomb, and the stone strips are reinforced with cast iron. So even if you know the place, don't try to blow it up easily with explosives.
When it comes to several famous women in history, Wu Zetian, Lv Hou, sourdrang queen and others are usually mentioned. They made great achievements during their lifetime, and of course they hope to be safe after death. To this end, they all built graves with heavy organs.
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However, a mountain is higher than a mountain, and there are always grave robbers who try their best to rob the tomb. However, after thousands of years, Wu Zetian's tomb has never been stolen. Why on earth?
After she ascended the throne, Wu Zetian began to plan for her death. She knows that she is unprecedented, and no woman has ever been an emperor. I don't know how many people will scold me after I die, and I may even dig my own grave. For a time, I worried about where to put my grave every day.
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So Wu Zetian invited two secular experts to choose a tomb for herself early. One is Li, and the other is Yuan Tiangang. They once co-authored "Pushing Cups", which predicted the great events of the Tang Dynasty in the next two thousand years. Most of these events will prove to be effective in the future. They were also asked by Wu Zetian to help her find the grave.
Li went one step ahead, searched for 81 days and put a copper coin on it. Then Yuan Tiangang searched hard for forty-nine days and put a hair clasp on it. Coincidentally, the hair clasp was inserted right out of the copper coin hole. Since the two agreed, they chose this place as the tomb. You need a famous designer after choosing the location.
Master architect Yan Lide not only helped Wu Zetian build Zhaoling. Prior to this, Tang Gaozu Mausoleum and some buildings of the Great Wall had been built. He was one of the top architects in the Tang Dynasty.
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After Yan Lide built Zhaoling, he also found a famous grave robber at that time to improve the anti-tomb-robbing measures. After a series of tests, it met the requirements of Wu Zetian, and she was buried with peace of mind after her death.
However, for thousands of years, it is not that no one has gone to rob the tomb. In fact, the number of times should be very large. The biggest one even mobilized 300,000 to 400,000 people, but these people all returned empty-handed. It can be seen that the safety factor of Zhaoling is high and the ancient people's anti-theft measures are complete, which has to be admired.
When it comes to ancient imperial tombs, we have to talk about Mount Li of Qin Shihuang and the dry mausoleum of Wu Zetian. Mount Li is the first imperial tomb in the history of China, and it is also the largest tomb discovered so far. Ganling is the first and only tomb of female emperor Wu Zetian in history, and Ganling is also the only tomb with two emperors buried.
Many people are curious. The Lishan Mausoleum of Qin Shihuang has not been stolen for thousands of years, because it is actually too big and complicated, so that no one can steal it, and the dry mausoleum is not very big. Why didn't anyone rob it, making it the only tomb among the eighteen tombs in the Tang Dynasty that was not stolen? In fact, this answer is complicated and simple.
According to legend, after Li Zhi fell ill, Wu Zetian began to worry about the location of the imperial tomb. After all, Wu Zetian wanted to be buried with Li Zhi in the future, so she chose a better place, which was good for Li Zhi and herself. Just when Wu Zetian was at a loss, she was introduced to two gods.
These two gods are Yuan Tiangang and Li, two famous people in the history of the Tang Dynasty. Wu Zetian has always been very clever, so she wants to let two people choose a land of feng shui as much as possible. What will happen? So Wu Zetian didn't tell Yuan Tiangang and Li, but privately arranged for them to find a treasure trove of geomantic omen. Among them, Yuan Tiangang was given a copper coin, saying that if he chose a good place, he would bury the copper coin there.
Li was given a jade hairpin. Wu Zetian told Li that after she found a treasure trove of geomantic omen, she put the Hosta there. Li and Yuan Tiangang didn't know in advance that Wu Zetian arranged for them to look for a treasure trove of geomantic omen at the same time, so they set out separately, with Yuan Tiangang first and Li last.
After a while, Yuan Tiangang came back and reported the situation to Wu Zetian first. Wu Zetian asked where Yuan Tiangang was chosen. Yuan Tiangang told Wu Zetian that this was Liangshan, and that the copper coins had been buried there. At this time, Li also came back. Wu Zetian asked Li where the land of Feng Shui was, and Li also told Wu Zetian that it was Liangshan.
Wu Zetian was very curious, so she took people to see the treasure house of Feng Shui they chose, and the result was shocked. Li's hairpin was actually inserted in the eyes of Yuan Tiangang's copper coins, so Wu Zetian decisively chose this place to build the imperial tomb, which was later the dry tomb.
Of course, this site selection is a legendary story, and it is enough for us to take a look at it as a story. There are countless legends about Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng. If we all take it seriously, we will lose, but from this story, we can at least see that Wu Zetian attaches importance to the location of the imperial tomb. As a generation of queen, it is absolutely no accident that she finally chose this place.
Why hasn't Ganling been stolen? After the site selection of Ganling was made, Li Zhi ordered people to start building Ganling according to the building standards of imperial tombs formulated by Li Shimin and the building method of taking mountains as the mausoleum. After several years of construction, it was finally completed. Li Zhixian died and was buried in Ganling. When Wu Zetian died, many people were reluctant to let Li Xian bury Wu Zetian in Ganling, but Li Xian insisted that his mother Wu Zetian and his father Li Zhi be buried in Ganling.
Since Wu Zetian was buried, Ganling has been completely closed, and no one knows where the entrance to Ganling is after that. In fact, it is not that no one has tried Ganling in history, but there are many. For example, Huang Chao, who was in the middle of Huang Chao in the late Tang Dynasty, led 400,000 troops to dig Ganling for a month. As a result, the entrance was not found, leaving only a Huang Chao ditch they dug, which is still there.
There are many legends about grave robbery in Huang Chao, but in my opinion, the main problem is that the entrance to Ganling has not been found. After all, this ancient tomb built on the mountain is still difficult to dig, and the complex terrain is even more difficult to dig. Besides, Wu Zetian is so smart that she must have done a lot of anti-theft measures in Ganling. Not ordinary people can rob a tomb successfully.
In addition to Huang Chao, Wen Tao in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period also tried to rob tombs. As a result, Wen Tao stole all the other tombs in the eighteen tombs of the Tang Dynasty. When he finally tried to steal Ganling, it suddenly became stormy, so Wen Tao stopped digging and didn't continue to rob the tomb.
Even if we escaped the intrusion of ancient grave robbers and came to the Republic of China, grave robbery was the most serious at that time. As a result, it was said that many people died, so Sun Lianzhong stopped robbing the tomb.
No matter what kind of folklore it is, in short, Ganling has never stopped for thousands of years. Many people still want to find the entrance, but they can't find it. As a result, in the 1950s, the local people accidentally discovered the entrance of Ganling at work, and later the state protected it. Although Guo Moruo and others later tried to dig Ganling, they thought that Ganling should have the original collection of Lanting, so,
Later, the country refused the request for excavation, and stipulated that unless the Mausoleum was seriously stolen, only protective excavation could be carried out, otherwise it was the main attitude we should adopt when facing the Mausoleum, and then no one said anything about excavating the Mausoleum.
Conclusion Ganling has not been stolen until today, and the entrance was not found in the early stage, and it was protected by the state in the later stage. In fact, in my opinion, we should be very cautious about such a tomb with special historical significance, and don't dig it easily, otherwise there may be incalculable losses and unpredictable consequences!
Except for the dry tombs, all the eighteen tombs in the Tang Dynasty were looted. If I have the ability to foresee the future, I believe all the people with the surname Wen will be eradicated, because it is this guy with the surname Wen who stole all the 18 imperial tombs in the Tang Dynasty. In short, he dug the ancestral grave of his hometown. This is Wen Tao.
How many tombs did Wen Tao steal? There is no specific number of records. Historical records are recorded in "The History of the Old Five Dynasties, Tao Wenchuan": "Everyone who lived in the Tang Dynasty knows it." "Zi Tong Zhi Jian" "Huayuan thief handsome Wen Tao gathered, and the tombs of Tang emperors were almost everywhere." "The History of the New Five Dynasties, Tao Wenchuan" says: "Tao lived in the town for seven years, and people living in the tomb of the Tang Dynasty found it. ..... but Ganling wind and rain can't be sent. " During the Huang Chao Uprising in the late Tang Dynasty, almost all the imperial tombs around Chang 'an were excavated.
Although there was social unrest during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, grave robbery was still a social taboo. Visible Wen Tao is unscrupulous, dare to take the world by storm. At that time, Zhaoling in Li Shimin was stolen, and Wen Tao's income was deprived, just like a hungry wolf entering the flock. Among them, the whereabouts of the Chinese civilization treasure "Preface to Lanting Collection" is still a mystery. According to folklore, Wen Tao couldn't read this treasure, so he just tore off the silk and threw it away. Obviously, this is illogical. Wen Tao, no matter how stupid he is, should know where the funerary objects of the emperor are. Most experts put their hopes on Li Zhi and put this article into Zhaoling despite his father's wishes.
The history of Zhaoling's theft is recorded as follows: "Tao was in the town for seven years, and the people of the Tang tomb were aware of the excavation and took the treasures they had hidden. Zhaoling was the most solid, and Tao Xundao walked, seeing the beauty of the palace, no different from the world. The middle was the right bed, and there were stone beds in the east and west compartments. There were iron boxes in the stone letter on the bed, and there were books, bells and bells in the previous life.
After stealing seventeen ancestral graves from his hometown, Wen Tao had no intention of living. He also set his sights on the Double Imperial Tombs and the Dry Tombs, but just as he was about to organize human excavation, it began to rain heavily and thundered several times in a row. Because he was as strong as Wen Tao, he had to give up.
Why do many grave robbers in Ganling want to dig? Because the collection is so rich, it can be said that it is second only to the first imperial tomb, and even the quality of the collection in many places is much higher than that of the first imperial tomb.
The grave robbers were eager to act, but there was no result. If the safety of the mausoleum is graded, then Ganling is considered as a bug level, because you have no idea where the entrance to the mausoleum is. Unless the whole mountain is dug up, it is beyond human power, and the super master who knows the distribution of mountains and rivers can also find clues to enter the ancient tomb from the details.
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Before the Tang Dynasty, during the Wei and Jin Dynasties, many tombs were built by sealing the soil, that is, the address was determined first, then a big pit was dug, and the soil was sealed layer by layer until it was pushed into a mound and the mountain was wrapped. In the Tang dynasty, the emperor's mausoleum began to be built on the mountain, and a mountain with good feng shui was chosen and dug from the middle of the mountain. This way is obviously much safer than piling up soil.
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The secret of anti-theft in Ganling is that you know it but you can't find it, which means you know it's here, but you can't find the entrance.
Ganling is in Liangshan, Xianyang City, not Piliang Mountain. This mountain is mainly composed of limestone mountains, which are hard and full of stones. The mountain is not very big, but it is strong. Coupled with the consideration of strengthening, it can be said to be indestructible.
After Huang Chao Uprising occupied Chang 'an, hundreds of thousands of troops were used to dig the Gan Ling on the crossbeam, and only a few tens of meters of pits were dug, but nothing was found. Wen Tao is knowledgeable. He organized tens of thousands of people to start digging from the mountain, but when it rained on the mountain, the digging work was very difficult.
In modern times, Sun Dianying dug Qianlong and Dongling in Cixi, which was a huge oil spill and made many people greedy. Sun Lianzhong, a Kuomintang general, lives near Xi 'an. One of them was tempted. He thought for a moment, you have the Qing Dynasty and I have the Tang Dynasty, which is no worse than you. So in the name of military exercises, he used a division's troops to carry explosives and prepared to take the treasures of Ganling as his own. As soon as he found the entrance to the tomb and blasted the first protective stone gate, the accident happened. A thick smoke emerged from the tomb, spiraling up and becoming a tornado. Suddenly it was dark, and seven soldiers from Shaanxi Province were the first to bear the brunt. Scared Sun Lianzhong to quit directly, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the state issued a document, unless it is necessary to rescue cultural relics, otherwise it will not actively dig the emperor's tomb to protect China's historical relics. Later generations estimated that there were 17 excavations in the history of Ganling.
The reason why Ganling is so safe is that Feng Shui occupies many factors. This feng shui is not a superstition, but a situation, a borrowing and application of the environment, and borrowing the power of nature to achieve the purpose of protecting oneself. First, the mausoleum area must be in a dangerous place, which is difficult to reach. Secondly, the mountain excavation is solid. Secondly, it must be a rainy place with strong magnetic field. Feng Shui masters have never been conclusive since ancient times, but there are only two truly famous people, that is, Li and Yuan Tiangang. These two people must have great attainments in the art of geomantic omen, and the chosen area is also quite particular. This is also the reason why Ganling can be stolen many times for thousands of years, but the grave robbers failed to return.
One of the three mysterious tombs in the history of China (the tomb of Mount Li of Qin Shihuang was afraid to dig, the tomb of Wu Zetian could not be dug, and the tomb of Genghis Khan could not be found), it is said here that the tomb of Wu Zetian was not stolen, but could not be dug, the knife could not be cut, and the gun could not be smashed. According to records, there were 17 people who robbed the tomb. Let's start with a few celebrities who didn't succeed in stealing Ganling.
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One: Huang, who claimed to be a scholar, led the army to rob Ganling for the first time. After they invaded Chang 'an, they were told that there were a lot of treasures in Ganling, so Huang Chao took 400,000 soldiers, all with shovels and hoes, but they didn't find the entrance to Ganling until Tang Jun counterattacked. They withdrew the soldiers who dug the tomb and returned empty-handed. Later, someone read it and said that Huang Chao claimed to be a scholar, and Gan Ling was originally sitting in the south.
Second: Wen Tao Wen Tao, the nemesis of the imperial tomb, seems keen on excavating the imperial tomb. He despises ordinary tombs. He stole 17 tombs of Tang emperors. Facing the rain, he decided to give it a try. Wen Tao led tens of thousands of people to dig Ganling, but Wen Tao encountered three storms when he went up the mountain. It rains every time they start digging, but it clears up as soon as they stop. Wen Tao saw this situation and thought it was providence, so he decided to give it a try.
Three: Sun Lianzhong, the general of the Republic of China, is completely imitating Sun Dianying, the thief of Dongling. He saw that Sun Dianying had stolen so many treasures without being punished, so he turned his attention to Gan Long, which was the biggest damage since it was stolen, because the places where they used shovels were directly bombarded by artillery. You know, this is a modern reorganization department. When the pyramid-shaped mound exploded, Sun Lianzhong ordered people to go in, but when he went in, a thick smoke emerged, and all the seven soldiers in front were gone.
In fact, Ganling is built in Liangshan, a naturally formed limestone peak with hard geology. In addition, when Wu Zetian built the tomb, it was in the heyday of the Tang Dynasty, and the national strength, financial resources and manpower were unprecedented, so a better tomb could be built. So it's not that no one steals it, but that it can't be stolen.
Wu Zetian's tomb is also called Gan Ling. For thousands of years, Ganling has never been stolen, to be precise, it has never been stolen.
First, the characteristics of Ganling
As a famous mausoleum in the history of China, Ganling has many characteristics:
1. Ganling is the burial tomb of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian in Tang Gaozong, and it is a unique burial tomb of the "two saints" of husband and wife;
2. Before Ganling, there was no tablet in the emperor's tomb, and there was no epitaph in the tomb. Ganling broke through this convention, so the sacred monument has special historical value;
3. Ganling is the only double-walled tomb found in the tombs of emperors in Tang Dynasty. The inner city symbolizes the imperial city of Chang 'an, the capital, and the outer city is equivalent to Guo Cheng where officials and natives live, reflecting the overall pattern of the ancient capital of China at that time. It has a unique value that ordinary tombs do not have;
4. The most striking thing about Ganling is that there are two groups (***6 1 statue) of neat and respectful stone figures on the east and west sides of Shinto. These stone men were officials of ethnic minorities under the rule of the Tang Dynasty at that time and envoys of princes and princes of neighboring countries. In order to show off the power of the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian put their statues in front of Yuling.
5. Ganling is the best preserved tomb among the eighteen tombs in the Tang Dynasty, and it is also the only tomb in the Tang Dynasty that has not been stolen;
6. Ganling is also a masterpiece of the architectural project of "Mountain as the Mausoleum" in Tang Dynasty.
Second, the pattern of Ganling
In 683 AD, Wu Zetian ordered people to build Ganling in Liangshan with hard geology, and was buried in Li Zhi, Tang Gaozong in August the following year. After that, the Ganling project continued. Wu Zetian was buried in May 706, and the gate was blocked with huge stones and reinforced with molten iron.
The cemetery is modeled after Chang 'an, Tang Dou, and is divided into Imperial City, Miyagi City and Outer Guo Cheng. There are many splendid buildings in the city, such as memorial halls, wing rooms, cloisters, Quelou, ancestral halls of 60 courtiers and Summer Palace.
Third, the thief of Ganling
For thousands of years, many people have been trying to dig Ganling. The famous grave robber 17 in history had three large-scale excavations.
The first large-scale excavation was made by Huang Chao, the leader of the rebel army who had entered Chang 'an. He sent 400,000 troops to dig for a month, and dug a big ditch (known as "Huang Chao ditch" in history) with a depth of more than 40 meters, but did not dig to the tomb gate.
The second time was Wen Tao, Hou Liang's envoy to Chongzhou in the Five Dynasties. He took advantage of the chaos in the world to dig the tomb of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. When you dig into Ganling, it will be thunder and lightning as soon as you dig, and it will be sunny as soon as you stop. Frightened, Wen Tao thought that Ganling was blessed by a fairy, and never dared to dig again.
The third time was in Sun Lianzhong during the Republic of China. A division was used to rob Ganling. Exploded many places with explosives, killed several soldiers, but couldn't find the entrance to the tomb.
4. Why has Ganling never been stolen?
Ganling has never been stolen for thousands of years, mainly in mountains. The entrance to the ancient tomb is too secret, too hard to find and too strong.
Many emperors' tombs in the Tang Dynasty were based on the suggestion of the eldest grandson queen, that is, digging holes in the mountains to build tombs.
The same is true of Ganling, with the main peak of the whole limestone mountain as the Xuan Palace and the cemetery palace hidden in the mountain. The tomb door is secret, and finding it is equivalent to a tiger eating the sky, and there is nowhere to claw. It is quite difficult to enter or dig a new hole from the hillside without digging from the tomb.
Moreover, the tomb of Ganling is complete, with a large number of stone bars filled at the entrance, and the stone bars are reinforced with cast iron. Even if you know where the pyramid-shaped mound is, don't try to blast it easily with explosives, unless the whole Liangshan is dug up, which is obviously impossible in ancient times.
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The tomb of Ganling has never been found for thousands of years, so grave robbers don't know how to go in and steal treasures, and Ganling has never been stolen.
Therefore, it is not that Ganling has not been stolen, but that it has not been stolen.
Want to steal but can't get in! In order to raise funds for the uprising, Huang Chao sent 200,000 people to dig the drought tomb, but no tomb was found. As for other small grave robbers, they can't get in.
Sun Lianzhong, the leader of Taierzhuang Battle, also wanted to steal Ganling. Seeing that Sun Dianying had made a fortune stealing Cixi's tomb, he felt itchy in his heart. Under the guise of an exercise, he sent a division of troops to bomb everywhere. As a result, it rained heavily for seven days, and the officers and men said that Ganling appeared. This grave robbery is over. I see. I wasted so much explosives that I didn't even find the tomb door.
Ganling is the burial tomb of Li Zhi, Empress Wu Zetian, with two emperors buried. It is said that after Li Zhi's death, Wu Zetian buried one third of the treasures of the Tang Dynasty. After the death of Wu Zetian, Li Xian once again buried a third of the treasures of the Tang Dynasty. If so, it would be terrible. Wang Xizhi's Preface to Lanting may also be in Ganling. Sounds greedy!
As for Ganling, it hasn't been dug up yet, mainly because the current technology can't guarantee the effective preservation of the cultural relics inside. It may be oxidized in an instant, and it is better not to dig in this case.
Wu Zetian, Lv Zhi and Cixi are the three most famous political powerhouses in the history of China. However, after the death of Lv Zhi and Cixi, they both suffered the tragic fate of being robbed and humiliated. Only the tomb of Wu Zetian, the only orthodox female emperor in China's history, was split by swords in the cold weapon era and bombarded by machine guns in the hot weapon era. What is the reason?
Empress Wu Zetian and her husband Tang Gaozong Li Zhi were buried together in Ganling, which was built in the first year of Guangzhai (AD 684) and the second year of Shenlong (AD 706). The mausoleum area is modeled after the capital Chang 'an. In addition to the main tomb, there are seventeen small tombs buried in Ganling with other royal family members and heroes.
Ganling is one of the eighteen tombs in the Tang Dynasty in Guanzhong area of Shaanxi Province, located on Liangshan Mountain, 6 kilometers north of Ganxian County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. Liangshan is a conical limestone mountain, with three peaks, the northern peak is the highest, with an altitude of1048m. Bahe River surrounds its east, desert water surrounds its west, and Ganling Gong Xuan is located on the north peak. The two peaks in the south of Liangshan are low-lying, east-west, with Sima Dao in the middle, so they are named "Feng Ru".
The so-called "because the mountain is the mausoleum" means to dig out the tomb on the mountainside and build it. The main peak of Liangshan where Ganling is located is limestone.
Among the eighteen tombs of the Tang Dynasty in Guanzhong area, Ganling is the only imperial tomb that has not been stolen. But in fact, in the past 1000 years, Ganling was targeted by grave robbers many times, but it was never successfully opened.
The first large-scale excavation of Ganling was in the late Tang Dynasty. After Huang Chao, the leader of the peasant uprising, conquered Chang 'an and established the Daqi regime, he led 400,000 troops to excavate Ganling. Together with 400,000 people, he almost dug up most of Liangshan where Ganling was located, and finally failed to find the entrance to Ganling.
There is still a ditch in Shimadao Village to the west of Ganling, which is called Huang Chao ditch by local people. It is said that it was left by the Huang Chao Army.
The second large-scale excavation of Ganling was in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period. Wen Tao, the general of the Back Beam, was appointed as our special envoy in Yaozhou, Chongzhou and Yuzhou to take charge of the Guanzhong area. Wen Tao worked as an officer in Chang 'an for seven years, robbing tombs crazily. He once led troops to dig seventeen imperial tombs and made a fortune, but only lost his halberd in front of the female emperor Wu Zetian's Ganling.
Wen Tao used tens of thousands of people to climb the mountain three times. Wen Tao, who was afraid of retribution, was scared away because of the abnormal astronomical phenomena, violent storms, lightning and thunder. After several times, Wen Tao got scared and completely gave up the idea of digging Ganling.
The third large-scale excavation of Ganling was in the Republic of China. Sun Lianzhong, a general of the Kuomintang, also wanted to make a fortune like Sun Dianying, a warlord who stole the tomb of Cixi, so he excavated the Ganling on the grounds of protection. Sun Lianzhong led a modern reorganization division, and even managed to make a hole with explosives and artillery. The weather is unpredictable. Sun Lianzhong was about to get into Ganling from that small hole when a tornado blew and several soldiers were swept away by the strong wind. The frightened soldiers thought that the tomb was blessed by the gods and fled one after another, leaving only the hole they blasted. Sun Lianzhong was afraid of retribution, so he sent someone to fill the hole.
197 1 year, archaeologists in China made many investigations on the dry tomb of Wu Zetian, and the conclusion was that the tomb was solid and abnormal. According to the investigation, it is 63 1 m long and 3.9 m wide. All 39 floors are filled with stone strips, and each floor is fixed with iron bolt plates and poured with iron juice. These conditions are related to the following factors
I have been to Ganling once. It is said that the design of the mausoleum is exquisite, and sand and boulders are combined.