Chapter 736: Tomb of Princess Wencheng
The so-called 'people have left their names, geese have left their voices', ordinary people will set up tombstones in their tombs, and leave the basic information of the tomb owner on the tombstones, who is the surname, who erected the tombstone when and when, and so on.
And on the tombs of a certain specification, such as up to the emperor's relatives, high-ranking officials, down to the wealthy businessmen, squires and celebrities, there is an epitaph in the tomb to describe the life and deeds of the tomb owner.
But there are also some well-known wordless monuments, and there are a few more famous ones.
Qin Shi Huang Tai Tai sealed the wordless tablet.
The wordless monument of Wu Zetian's tomb.
The powerful minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, the traitor Fan Xu, the one who killed Yue Fei, also erected a wordless monument.
The wordless monument of the Ming Dynasty Emperor's Tombs.
And the closest to us is the wordless monument of Sun Yat-sen's Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum.
Why is it wordless? That is, the deeds of this person's life cannot be expressed in words, presenting two extremes, either supreme or below.
Just like Qin Shi Huang unified China, this is what a great cause, in Mount Tai Feng Zen, set up a wordless monument, this is the supreme, for a hundred generations.
Dr. Sun Yat-sen led the Xinhai Revolution and overthrew the imperial system, which is the same great deed.
Fan Hao betrayed the country and killed Yue Fei, who was loyal to the country, this is the bottom, how you describe your great achievements on the tablet is useless, future generations will naturally scold you, this is a stench for 10,000 years.
As for the wordless monument of Wu Zetian's Qianling, she is one of the more controversial.
Because I just learned to fight before, I read a lot of books, especially the books that have introduced some famous tombs or tombs, this Qianling is one of the legends, because there are countless tomb robbers who are worried about Qianling, and even used the regular army to excavate, but in the end they still failed to steal it.
Wu Zetian is really a dilemma, first of all, her identity is difficult to establish, she was first a talented person of Tang Taizong Li Shimin, equivalent to the identity of a spare tire concubine; at the time of Gaozong, she became the queen of Gaozong Li Zhi, the son of the Tang Prince, which is a bit of that, nominally it should be Gaozong's little mother, but she became his queen, and was called the 'two saints'; after Gaozong died, she naturally became the queen mother, and then the Lin Dynasty was restructured, and she established herself as the emperor, the country was called Da Zhou, and he was the emperor for 16 years.
And the Qianling tomb is Tang Gaozong Li Zhi of the Tang Dynasty, she was buried with him, how do you write on this monument, how do you call this title, do you call you 'Zetian Great Sage Empress', or call you 'Great Zhou Tianshu Golden Wheel Holy Spirit Emperor'?
The reason for this is one thing, and the other is the things she has done all her life.
In ancient times, there was no woman who was called the emperor, she established herself as the emperor, and there was the fact that she usurped Li Tang's country, although in the end it was returned to Li Tang, but the facts are the facts.
What Wu Zetian has done in his life can be described as mixed.
Therefore, she set up a wordless monument, right and wrong, history will naturally record, and future generations will naturally judge, which is also a wise move.
When I came back to my senses, I stared at the wordless monument in front of me, and I was also puzzled, who was the person who actually erected the wordless monument in this Tibetan area, under this Xiaozhao Temple?
I walked in front of the sarcophagus, which was carved with a phoenix pattern and a beautiful cloud pattern, which looked like it was made by a top craftsman, and the whole coffin looked so close that I couldn't even find the gap between the lid and the coffin.
In the entire secret room, in addition to the wordless stele, this sarcophagus and those pot fires, there are only murals around it, if there are burial goods, it must be in the sarcophagus.
But I don't dare to open the sarcophagus rashly now, I have to find out who the owner of the tomb is.
I took a flashlight and shone it on the murals on the walls.
The first one is in a splendid palace complex, a bit like the emperor in the early dynasty, a group of ministers are deliberating, but in the middle of the main hall, there are a few people in strange costumes, which are obviously different from the court clothes of the surrounding ministers, and there are a few words on the side of this mural 'Five Trial Marriage Envoys'.
Seeing these four words, I suddenly remembered what I had read in the book before, and remembered that there were only two famous historical celebrities in Tibet, one was Princess Wencheng, and the other was Princess Jincheng.
And the allusion of the five trial marriage envoys is Princess Wencheng, said that during the Tang Dynasty, those border countries outside the Saiwai, in order to be friendly with the powerful Tang Dynasty, all sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty to ask for relatives, asking Li Shimin to marry Princess Wencheng to the king of their country, this Tibetan Songtsan Gampo is one of them, he sent Lu Dongzan as a messenger, and finally Lu Dongzan did not disgrace his mission, passed the five levels, and won the others.
The second mural is a huge procession, with regular troops in the procession, and a convoy carrying baggage, in the middle of the procession there is an eight-horse carriage, surrounded by many people on horseback escorts, and behind the background of this painting is a mountain, on which there is the sun and the moon together, I gasped, and the same is true of the vision that day.
The words on the side of this second painting are 'Wencheng Out of the Plug'.
I suddenly remembered that there was a Zhaojun out of the Han Dynasty, and now this Wencheng is out of the fortress, which should mean the same thing, that is, the court will marry the princess to the surrounding forces, which is harmony.
The third painting has only two people, showing that in a room, the female should be Princess Wencheng, and the male should be Songtsen Gampo, but it seems that Songtsan Gampo is a little old, and Princess Wencheng is very small, looking like a father and daughter, not like a husband and wife.
Finally, in the fourth picture, it was still that room, but there was only one person, that was Princess Wencheng, she sat alone in front of the bed, quietly looking out of the window, there were also the sun and moon outside the window, and even the stars, and there was a dresser next to her, and there was a bronze mirror on the dresser, and the sun, moon and stars were also reflected in the mirror.
The strange thing is that there are no words in the third and fourth paintings, but I can feel the desolation and loneliness of painting Chinese, even in the third painting, it is Princess Wencheng waiting for Songtsam Gampo, like a maid slave, pouring wine and vegetables for Songtsan Gampo.
Then look around, empty, there is no marriage, Princess Wencheng is still the princess of the Tang Dynasty, although she is the daughter of Li Daozong, a close relative of the Li family, but she is regarded as a princess by Li Shimin, that is also a princess.
But the specifications of this funeral are not even as good as a squire and celebrity, and the businessman is very rich.
Seeing this, I lost my mind for a moment.
Obviously not.
Princess Wencheng, as a symbol and a historical representative of Sino-Tibetan friendship and harmony, if I open her coffin today, I am afraid that she will be wanted by the whole country tomorrow.
It's just that when I entered her tomb today and saw the scene in front of me, I suddenly couldn't feel better.
The empty burial chamber had absolutely no signs of theft, and I must have been the first to enter, and the frescoes were damaged by opening the burial chamber.
The only possibility, then, is that I was the first person to enter this chamber thousands of years later.