It is because most of these stone statues were carved by Wu Zetian when she arrived in Tang Zhongzong, and they were erected after Wu Zetian buried Gan Ling, instead of the so-called guards and envoys of ethnic minorities who attended Tang Gaozong's funeral.

The stone man turned into a stone demon and ran to the nearby farmers' homes and fields to destroy food. In order to destroy them, people smashed the head of the stone statue. G-8. When Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, he came to Ganling and saw that foreign envoys humiliated Emperor China while guarding the mausoleum, so he cut off the head of the stone man. According to expert research, the G8 has never been to Ganling.

The descendants of the statue were secretly destroyed. The descendants of the northern Turks found that the statue of their father was erected in Ganling to defend the Tang Mausoleum. They were very angry, so they secretly ran to Ganling to hit the head of the stone statue, and then they were arrested and beaten up. So they deliberately spread rumors that the stone statue had become a demon and took destroying crops as evidence. Only by smashing the heads of the stone statues can they be stopped, so people nearby believed it and all the stone statues were smashed.

Earthquake damage theory,1555 65438+1On October 23rd, a strong earthquake occurred in Shaanxi, with a magnitude of 8~ 1 1. More than 800,000 people died at that time. Huaxian County is only100km away from Ganling, the epicenter of the earthquake. Ganling was destroyed. Because the stone statues are very old, they are eroded and eroded by various winds. The stone used in the stone statue has some defects. In addition, another evidence that such a strong earthquake caused the head of the stone statue to break is that many stone statues and horse heads in Ganling were also damaged at that time. Therefore, from the above situation, the earthquake damaged the stone statues to a great extent.

Human factors, natural disasters and man-made disasters always follow. In addition to earthquakes, the head fracture of stone statues may also be caused by human factors. Such a long history, wars between various forces and so on. It will inevitably lead to social unrest, and it will inevitably lead to grave robbers, enemies and rebels. Will stare at Ganling to see the destruction of these stone carvings. It can be seen that the Ganling 6 1 stone statue has no head or ghosts because of the interaction of natural disasters and human factors.