1. The legend of Ganling, where Ganling is located.
After Tang Gaozong's death, Wu Zetian decided to choose Jidi to build a mausoleum on the Weibei Plateau in Guanzhong. Soon, the imperial court selected two famous alchemists nationwide, one was Yuan Tiangang, an astrologer, and the other was Li, an official in charge of Yin and Yang and astronomical calendar in the palace.
After Yuan Tiangang took the order, he searched all over the banks of the Yellow River, but he didn't find a favorite place. Later, I came to Guanzhong and came out to see the astronomical phenomena in the middle of the night. I saw a purple sky on a mountain, which happened to intersect with Beidou. Yuan Tiangang thought it was a treasure, so he hurried up the mountain to find a suitable place. He couldn't find anything to mark at the moment, so he took out a copper coin and put it on the ground, covered it with aggradation, and then went down the mountain to report to me.
Li, another feng shui master, accepted the order and went east along the Weishui River to find the treasure. One day at noon, when the sun was shining, he saw a strange stone mountain protruding from Qinchuan. From south to north, it looks like a young woman sleeping naked under the blue sky and white clouds. This young woman has complete facial features, a pair of strong and symmetrical breasts, even nipples and navel. What surprised him even more was that the young woman's legs were slightly apart, and there was a clear spring flowing in the middle all day! Li Dawei was surprised, and hurried up the mountain. Taking meridian as the picture, he put the gossip on the gravel, pulled out his hair pin and plunged it into the soil where the two fish met, and reported back down the mountain to me.
Wu Zetian heard two people say that Ji Di chose the same direction and sent someone to review it. When the minister came to Liangshan, he found Li's hairpin stuck in the money eye of Yuan Tiangang copper coin! Wu Zetian ordered the immediate construction, and soon Ganling was repaired. Tang Gaozong was buried, and then her husband was buried in Ganling. The terrain of Ganling should be a perfect combination of Yin and Yang and the best coordination between heaven and earth. Dry for the sky is yang, Kun for the earth is yin, and yin and yang make everything happen.
Headless stone statue
The stone statues on the east and west sides of Shinto outside Zhuquemen Gate in Ganling are headless. There are different opinions about the reasons. It is said that the heads of these stone statues were cut off by the Ming Dynasty. In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, a foreign envoy came to Ganling and found his ancestors standing here guarding the mausoleum for the Tang emperor. He felt that this was not only detrimental to national dignity, but also a humiliation to his own personality, and his self-esteem was greatly damaged, so he wanted to destroy these stone statues. But he was afraid of causing dissatisfaction among the local people, so he came up with a clever plan. Every night, he tramples on grain in the farmland near Ganling, and then the next day, just like fanning the flames, he tells the people that these statues are all made, and at night they become refined and begin to spoil crops. If you want to protect crops and food, you must destroy these stone statues and cut off their heads so that they can't hurt crops. The local people thought that what the foreign envoys said was very reasonable, so they cut off the heads of these stone statues in a rage.
Historical coincidence
In the history of China, there are two dry tombs-Li Zhi dry mausoleum in Tang Gaozong and Yeluxian dry mausoleum in Liao Jingzong, one in Ganxian County, Shaanxi Province and the other in Beining City, Liaoning Province. The two tombs are separated by 300 years. Interestingly, there are many similarities between the two mausoleums-the emperor was unable to go to court after a long illness after he ascended the throne, and both were regents, and both emperors died first. Empresses have been queens, and they have done things that are beneficial to the people. They all developed society and became female politicians, and they all had erotic history. They were all buried in Ganling after their death, which is a rare coincidence in all imperial tombs.
2. Has Ganling been stolen? Ganling is the only tomb among the eighteen tombs in the Tang Dynasty that has not been stolen. Experts believe that the reason is that its tomb is complete and no stolen holes have been found.
There are 17 tombs with stolen surnames in history, and the older ones have three times, so grave robbers have never given up robbing tombs.
At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao used 400,000 uprising troops to March into Liangshan Ganling, and dug an endless "Huang Chao" ditch with a depth of 40 meters. The reason for the failure seems to be that no one in the army understands the structural characteristics of Ganling, which faces south, so digging in the wrong direction failed.
Wen Tao, the secretariat of Yaozhou in the Five Dynasties, was a grave robber. He led troops to dig more than a dozen tombs of the Tang Dynasty and made a windfall. The greedy snake swallowed the elephant and led tens of thousands of people to dig Ganling again, but in the process, it was always difficult because of the storm, which frightened these people and stopped to give up the idea.
In the early years of the Republic of China, Kuomintang general Sun Lianzhong led his troops to camp in Liangshan, and in the name of military exercises, he blasted three layers of rocks next to the tomb, but still found nothing.
Let's not talk about how many treasures there are in Ganling. Let's put it this way, why is Ganling completely preserved, is it blessed by the gods or ...
The reason why it is difficult to steal Ganling is to prove that Ganling has not been stolen. According to the theory of geomantic omen, it is the geomantic omen of the master's grave, which will definitely affect the fate of the family. The feng shui of the tombs in that country will affect the future and destiny of the country. Therefore, for the sake of the permanence of imperial power and the prosperity of the country, the choice of mausoleum sites of emperors in past dynasties is the most important. Therefore, there is a characteristic of the imperial tombs in the Tang Dynasty: "The mountains are the tombs".
For example, the Zhaoling Mausoleum in Li Shimin, Emperor Taizong, has a steep main peak, with 167 tombs where heroes and relatives are buried, covering an area of about 300,000 mu. Look at the burial tombs of Li Zhi and Wu Zetian, just in Liangshan, northwest of Ganxian County. The terrain is like a human body lying on the earth with its head facing north and its feet facing south, which conforms to the saying that "the living face south and the dead face north", although it contains superstitious elements.
"Book of Rites": Therefore, the living in the south and the dead in the north all begin. Gan Ling chose Liangshan, dug a cave halfway up the mountain, dug all the way to the foot of the mountain, and then buried the coffin in it. Compared with a tomb built of earth, a master like the captain is hard to steal.
It not only shows the majesty of the supremacy of imperial power, but also makes grave robbers unable to start. Or a thief intends to give up the pyramid-shaped mound and dig another hole from the mountainside of Liangshan, which can only be said as "admiration". Friendship reminds us to choose this method carefully.
There are also things that make thieves feel sad. For an emperor's mausoleum, the entrance to the mausoleum is the key to a locked door. If it was easy to be taken away by thieves, it would have been dug up long ago. Therefore, the tomb of the Tang Dynasty is centered on the tomb below, surrounded by a square white city on the ground, and there are two gate valves outside the door.
The symbol of the first gate valve is a stone lion, and there are a large number of stone carvings arranged in order outside the second gate valve. It is said that people call it the "Shan Ye Small Court", which is very interesting. Zi Tongzhi Tang Jian Dezong Zhong Jian for four years: the desert Gu Dao is narrow and dangerous, which may attract thieves. If you don't go north from Ganling, go with Baicheng. Therefore, experts believe that it is reasonable that Ganling has not been stolen, at least it is intact at present, and there is no hole theft.