Empress Wu Qianling
Jan 25, 2010 About China
Shaanxi Qianling known archaeological community, “the Three Gorges Project,” said. Located in Xi’an, northwest of the main peak of Liangshan, the buried Gaozong Li Zhi, and large-week female Emperor Wu Zetian. A couple, the Korean emperor, buried in a room, which is extremely rare in the world of. For half a century, to explore Qianling is always a hot topic, as China’s archaeological and technological progress, so that the time is ripe Empress Wu see a bright future begin? Dig or not to dig? When digging? At this point, we call on people of insight at home and abroad participate in the discussions, once again to activate this topic to examine the “scientific excavation Qianling” practical significance.
Qianling Mausoleum of Tang 18 most western one, large-scale, imposing, is the third Tang emperor, Li Zhi and Emperor’s Queen, but also the history of China’s only female emperor, Empress Wu of the cemetery.
Qianling was built in AD 683 years, 22 years later, the Empress Wu Qianling buried until the end of the project. Qianling built according to Liangshan, sitting north to south, from the inside and outside the two cities throughout the cemetery composed of four and a door, circumference 40 km, 4.9 km long north-south axis. Remains on the ground before the stone relics are mainly tomb stone horses, stone man, wing horse, Chinese tables, 114 ostriches, etc., and to glorify the Emperor’s Emperor and Empress Wu of “Shu-sheng mind monument” and “an absent monument.”
China’s ancient Mausoleum, the Qianling is the most special one. It drilled hole mountain building, large-scale, collecting rich, a man and a woman, the Korean emperor, buried in a room, and the 1000 years, remains intact. The Empress Wu Mingyangtianxia, including women and children, more so that tomb, much attention at home and abroad.
The Chinese government in 1957, it announced Qianling as “the first batch of monuments in Shaanxi Province key protection units.” In 1961, the State Council announced its first batch of national key cultural relics protection units. Over 40 years, governments at all levels continue to earmark funds for maintenance and repairs throughout the cemetery, to the end of 2004, received a total of 38 million passengers and foreign tourists.
However, it Sima Road, get off at the Qianling see only one, and completely forgetting the mountain blending the Royal Mausoleum, where the underground palace? Mausoleum, then where? Almost all visitors to swim after having a series of questions with a sense of loss and return. People are justifiably concerned about is what’s tomb How do you baby? Empress Wu Tang Emperor’s remains can not be seen? Will there be like Hunan Mawangdui woman’s body as the millennium? If on, leaving only a skeleton, to borrow a modern shape recovery techniques, can also allow people to re-see the Empress Wu, real landscape? Among these hidden mysteries too much, if opened, Qianling will become the world’s largest museums in the most ornamental
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