Zhaoling is located on Jiuzhang Mountain, 22.5 kilometers northwest of Liquan County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province. It is the mausoleum of Emperor Taizong and Empress Wende, and a national AAA-level tourist attraction.
Zhaoling is the mausoleum of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin and Empress Wende, located in Jiuzhang Mountain in the northeast of Liquan County, Shaanxi Province. The "Six Horses in Zhaoling" engraved with bluestone relief is placed on both sides of the memorial hall next to the mausoleum. The six steeds carved in stone carvings are all horses that Li Shimin rode in the Civil War before his death. Among them, four steeds are now in the Xi 'an Forest of Steles Museum, while "Dew Purple" and "Boxing Hair" are lost overseas and collected by the University of Pennsylvania Museum.
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The artistic value of the six emperors of Emperor Taizong's mausoleum
When the "Six Juns" of Emperor Taizong Li Shimin fought in the north and south from 6 18 to 622, they accompanied Li Shimin to the battlefield. Six Horses in Zhaoling witnessed Li Shimin's heroic course of winning the world in one fell swoop, and reappeared the heroic spirit of Emperor Taizong in major battles.
In order to warn future generations of the hardships of starting a business, and at the same time to pin their memories on six war horses, Li Shimin issued an edict when he built Zhaoling in the tenth year of Zhenguan (636), inscribed "I ride a military horse to help the poor and stay with me."
Six good horses were named "fist hair?" Shi Fakai, Bai Tiwu, teller, Qing, Salouzi. According to legend, Emperor Taizong ordered the painter Yan to draw the image of "six horses" first, and then asked the stone carver Yan Lide to carve it on the stone screen and put it on the altar at the northern foot of Zhaoling. He also wrote poems for each horse, describing their achievements.
The Biography of Emperor Taizong also asked Ou Yangxun, a great calligrapher, to copy the name and royal praise of each horse on paper and let craftsmen carve it on stone carvings. Although each stone carving has a chisel one foot square, after more than a thousand years of wind erosion, there are no words now.
"Six Horses" are divided into two columns, which are placed in front of the mausoleum of Emperor Taizong from east to west, and the horseheads all face the mausoleum in the south. From south to north, the west is "dew purple" and "fist hair?" "white hoof is black"; On the east side are "Tele", "Qing" and "Shifakai" in turn. Each "Six Juns" is 204 cm wide, 172 cm high, 40 cm thick and weighs 3.7 tons, all made of bluestone.
Among them, dew purple and fist hair? These two stone carvings were stolen in 19 13, and were transferred to cultural relics dealers, and finally lost overseas, and then entered the University of Pennsylvania Museum. The other four pieces were also broken packages and were intercepted in the process of smuggling. Now they are displayed in Xi 'an Beilin Museum.
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