Tang Dingling Mausoleum is located in the north of Shiziwo Village, Gongli Town, Fuping County, Weinan City. It was built in the sun of Phoenix Mountain, about 12 kilometers north of the county seat, and is the tomb of Tang Zhongzong Li Xian. On the afternoon of May 5th, 22, I came to the Dingling Mausoleum of Tang Dynasty for the third time, and operated my own DJI UAV to take aerial photos of Shinto here-
On August 6th, 1956, the Dingling Mausoleum of Zhongzong was announced by the Shaanxi Provincial People's Committee as the first batch of provincial-level cultural relics protection units. On June 25th, 21, as a part of the Mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty, it was announced by the State Council as the fifth batch of national key cultural relics protection units.
On the afternoon of May 29th, 29, I came to the Dingling Mausoleum of Tang Dynasty for the first time, and I finally found Shinto, only seeing a stone lion and two monuments of cultural relics protection units. On April 23, 211, on the way to find Tang Zhangling and Tang Yuanling, my family and I passed Tang Dingling again. In a blink of an eye, nine years later, not much has changed here, but a tall street sign with the words "Tang Zhongzong Dingling" was set up at the southern end of Shinto.
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) rises from below this street sign. It looks like a stone tablet in the Tang Dynasty, and stands at the southernmost tip of the Shinto in Dingling, Tang Dynasty, with a height of about 1 meters and a width of about 2 meters. Looking from the air to the north, there is a bumpy dirt road on the former Shinto site, which meanders to the end of Shinto.
Then, the drone flew from south to north along the top of Shinto ruins, surrounded by a field. The Shinto site in Dingling of Tang Dynasty is located between Rutai and Zhuquemen site, with a total length of about 624 meters and a width of about 1 meters from east to west. In the 196s, it was severely damaged and completely lost its original appearance.
The scale of the Dingling Mausoleum in the Tang Dynasty is second only to that of the Ganling Mausoleum and the Qiaoling Mausoleum in the Tang Dynasty. There are many stone carvings of Huabiao, Winged Horse, Ostrich, Zhanma, Stone Man, etc. on Shinto, and a tablet without words about 5 meters high. Today, there are only five stone men left here, standing on both sides of Shinto. Among them, three stone figures on the west side are well preserved, and two stone figures on the east side are seriously damaged.
At the end of Shinto, there is a stone lion sitting in a field with a pair of well-preserved rammed earth pagodas on both sides. This is the site of Zhuquemen in Dingling, Tang Dynasty, also known as "Nanshenmen". On the south side of Zhuquemen site, a square-shaped building base site was once found, which may be the site of Liji Gallery and Fan Emirates Hall, showing the important position of Zhuquemen.
Fenghuang Mountain, also known as "Longquan Mountain", is composed of three limestone peaks arranged in the east and west, surrounded by a semicircular high mountain ridge in the north. The middle peak extends to the south, shaped like the head of a phoenix; The left and right peaks face each other, like a phoenix spreading its wings. The underground palace of the Dingling Mausoleum of the Tang Dynasty was dug at the southern foot of Zhongfeng, and the peaks on the left and right sides just formed the base of the east and west walls of the Mausoleum.
Tang Zhongzong Li Xian (656-71), formerly known as Li Zhe, was the seventh son of Li Zhi in Tang Gaozong and the third son of Empress Wu Zetian, and was the fourth emperor of the Tang Dynasty. From 683 to 684 and from 75 to 71, he was in office twice.
in the first year of Hongdao (683), Li Xian became the emperor, and Empress Dowager Wu Zetian became the emperor. In the first year of Guangzhai (684), he was abolished as King of Luling and moved to Junzhou and Fangzhou successively. In the first year of Shenlong (75), he was restored as emperor again.
In June of the fourth year of Jinglong (71), Li Xian was poisoned by Queen Wei and Princess Anle, and died suddenly, at the age of 55, and was buried in Dingling. Soon after, Li Longji joined forces with Princess Taiping to kill Queen Wei and Princess Anle, and completely wiped out Webster's Group, which was known as "Tang Long Political Revolution".