I. Location of Zhaoling:
Zhaoling is the burial tomb of Emperor Taizong and Wen Deshi. It is located on the main peak of Jiuzhang Mountain in Xia Yan Town, Liquan County, Xianyang City, Shaanxi Province, and is a national AAAA-level tourist attraction. Zhaoling is 70km from Xi, 30km from Xianyang and 25km from Xi Xianyang International Airport.
Second, Zhaoling introduced:
From Emperor Wende's burial in the tenth year of Zhenguan in Tang Dynasty (636) to the 29th year of Kaiyuan in Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty (74 1), the construction of Zhaoling took 107, with a circumference of 60 kilometers and an area of 200 square kilometers. * * There are more than 80 tombs/kloc-0, which are the "Eighteen Tombs of the Tang Dynasty" in Guanzhong.
It is a representative imperial mausoleum in the Tang Dynasty, and is known as "the famous mausoleum in the world".
Textual research on the name and site selection background of the mausoleum;
First of all, the meaning of the name of the mausoleum was researched.
There is no special explanation for the name of Zhaoling in history books. The ancient obituary explained the word "Zhao" and said, "The sacred text is called Zhao Zhou and Zhao De is called Zhao." In ancient times, there were also beautiful words such as shun, truth and xian.
According to the selection of auspicious, auspicious and peaceful words in the tombs of Tang emperors such as Xianling, Ling Zhen and Tailing, it is obvious that the naming of Zhaoling is also a beautiful word, which means "gathering the spirit of emperors" and "cultivating martial arts".
Second, the site selection background
In the tenth year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan (636), Empress Shi was critically ill and her last words were buried. Following the last words of his eldest grandson, Emperor Taizong temporarily settled the queen in a newly carved grotto in jiusan, named Zhaoling. And decided to make Zhaoling the home, buried with the queen after her death, and immediately began large-scale construction projects.
Emperor Taizong chose Jiuyi Mountain as the site of Zhaoling, which had a strong cultural and political background. In ancient China, the so-called theory of tomb geomantic omen was gradually improved with the continuous expansion of surnames and the spread of the theory of yin and yang of the five elements, and a set of theories for evaluating geomantic omen was basically formed in the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Jiuyi Mountain meets all the requirements that Kanyu scholars think an imperial mausoleum should have. Since the Tang Dynasty, geomantic scholars generally believe that Zhaoling's geomantic omen is the best in China.