The next day, Yu Fei got up early, first practiced the art of vomiting in the room for a while, and then went down to the restaurant downstairs, and found that Ye Lao and Ding Laosan had finished breakfast and were still chatting about something, and I didn't know if these two gods had not slept all night or got up early.

Ye Lao saw Yu Fei and said with a smile: "Brother Yu, why don't you rest for a while." ”

Yu Fei said: "Hehe, I'm used to getting up early now. But I didn't expect the second elder to be earlier than me, so I haven't slept all night, right? ”

Ye Lao and Ding Laosan looked at each other and smiled, Ding Laosan said: "Hehe, we are old, and we can't sleep for a while when we come to this strange place." ”

"Sure enough, I haven't slept all night, these two are really gods." Yu Fei couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

At this time, Professor Dong and Li Su also came down, and Ye Lao opened his mouth and said, "Brother Dong also got up so early, why don't you finish breakfast later and accompany us to walk around Qianling?" This is the first time that this Yu brother has come to this Qianling. ”

"Huh? Is Brother Yu coming for the first time? You have to take a good look at it first, and the outside of this Qianling Tomb is also magnificent. "Since I learned last night that the secret map of Qianling came from Yu Fei, Professor Dong has also become more enthusiastic about Yu Fei.

Yu Fei has been fascinated by this Qianling Mausoleum, which has the reputation of "the first mausoleum in the world", and now he hears that he wants to visit the Qianling Mausoleum, so he naturally can't ask for it.

After breakfast, Professor Dong called two cars, and without waiting for others, he and Li Su led the three of them to Qianling.

The place where they live is only a few kilometers away from Liangshan, where Qianling is located, but in a few minutes, a few people arrived at the gate of Qianling Scenic Area, because it is still early in the morning, there are not many tourists. After getting out of the car, Professor Dong led everyone inside.

Professor Dong said: "There are 537 steps on this stone road, and the height difference is 81.68 meters. After walking the steps, you will arrive at Sima Road, and the end of Sima Road is Qianling. ”

When I went up the steps, I saw a flat avenue, which was Sima Dao, and on both sides of it, there were many sculptures, among which there were many stone statues, and strangely enough, these stone statues were headless. Yu Fei felt strange: "Why don't these stone statues have carved heads?" ”

Professor Dong said: "There are many opinions about the reason why the stone statue is headless. The more credible theory is that the heads of these stone statues were cut off by the people of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"Ahh Are the people of the Ming Dynasty full of food and nothing to do? And he came to cut off the heads of these stone statues? ”

Professor Dong smiled: "Hehe, of course it won't be for no reason, there is another allusion here:

These stone statues are actually the statues of the Tang Dynasty, standing here, symbolizing the power of the Tang Dynasty and the worship of all countries.

In the early days of the Ming Dynasty, a foreign envoy went to the Qianling Tomb to play, and found that his ancestors were actually erected here to guard the tomb of the emperor of the Tang Dynasty.

But he was afraid of causing dissatisfaction among the local people, so he came up with a clever plan. Every night he went to the crops near Qianling and trampled on the grain, and then the next day he fanned the flames again, telling the people that they were all made of stone statues, and they became fine at night and began to spoil the crops.

In order to protect the crops and food, these statues must be destroyed, their heads cut off, so that they cannot come out to harm the crops. The local people thought that the foreign envoy was very reasonable, so in a fit of rage, they cut off the heads of the stone statues. ”

"This foreign envoy is really well-intentioned, but it's a pity that these precious Tang Dynasty cultural relics were destroyed." Yu Fei sighed.

Ding Laosan said fiercely on the side: "These foreign devils, it's not enough to destroy our cultural relics." ”

As he was talking, a black stele more than two meters high appeared in front of everyone, with the inscription "Tang Gaozong Qianling", Yu Fei asked suspiciously: "Isn't Qianling the mausoleum where Tang Gaozong and Wu Zetian were buried together?" Why only write about Tang Gaozong? ”

Professor Dong explained: "This Wu Zetian asked her son to attach himself to the Qianling Tomb as the Empress Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty after the abolition of the emperor's title, so in the ritual system, the Qianling Tomb still belongs to the joint burial tomb of one emperor and one queen, and in this case, only the emperor's name is generally written." ”

Walking further, you will see two giant stone tablets of seven or eight meters high on both sides of Sima Road, the stone tablet on the west side is full of words, and the stone tablet on the east side is engraved with many disorganized words.

Professor Dong introduced: "The stele on the left side is called 'Shusheng Ji Stele', which is written by Wu Zetian himself, his son Zhongzong Li Xianshudan, a merit stele for Gaozong's song and praise, the stele is square, the top, the body, and the seat have a total of seven sections, representing the sun, the moon, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, implying that Li Zhi's martial arts shine the world, so it is also called the 'Seven Sections Tablet'. ”

"And what about the one on the right, what's it? It seems to have a lot of different words engraved on it. Yu Fei had never seen this inscription in a different font, or even in an inconsistent direction.

"Hehe, this is the world-famous Wu Zetian wordless stele, the stele is engraved with nine dragons, so it is also called the 'Nine Dragons Stele'."

"Ahh This is the wordless monument! But it's ...... on it" Professor Dong's answer surprised Yu Fei, he had heard of this wordless tablet for a long time, but he never expected that so many words would be engraved on the wordless tablet.

Well, this stele originally had no words, but after the Song and Jin dynasties, there began to be tourists inscribed on the stele, making the wordless stele become a stele with words. After the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, many different fonts and different contents of the text were gradually formed on the stele. ”

"Hey, since the monument was erected in the first place, why didn't you engrave it? It's so messy now. Yu Fei sighed.

Professor Dong said: "There are three folk theories about this point, the first one is that Wu Zetian set up a wordless tablet to boast of himself, indicating that his merits and virtues cannot be expressed by words. The second theory believes that Wu Zetian erected a wordless tablet because he knew that he was guilty of a great sin, and he felt that it was better not to write the inscription. The third theory believes that Wu Zetian is a self-aware person, and it is a smart move to erect a wordless monument, and the merits and demerits are for future generations to comment. ”

When Yu Fei heard this, he shook his head and said, "I don't think these three statements should be true. ”

As soon as Yu Fei's words came out, Professor Dong was immediately stunned: "Oh? What is Brother Yu's opinion on this? ”

"This merit monument is erected by later generations to evaluate the ancestors, how could Wu Zetian erect a monument for himself himself? Therefore, it must not be her own idea to erect a wordless monument. I think it should be the meaning of his son Li Xian. Compared with the Tang Dynasty, Wu Zetian was guilty of disobedience, if he wanted to write a monument of merit, I am afraid that most of it could only be a critical pen, but after all, Wu Zetian was the mother of Zhongzong Li Xian, Li Xian couldn't bear to do this, so he finally set up this wordless monument, and the merits and demerits were left to future generations to comment. Hehe, but this is just my personal opinion, Dong Lao smiled. ”

"Nope! No! Brother Yu, your statement is worth studying! Maybe you can solve the mystery of this wordless monument. After listening to Yu Fei, Professor Dong thought about it carefully, this statement was indeed reasonable, and he quickly asked Li Su on the side to take a note:

Ding Laosan smiled on the side: "Hehe, Brother Yu can always have unique opinions. ”

Subsequently, under the leadership of Professor Dong, the group visited more than a dozen Qianling burial tombs that had been excavated. Yu Fei was amazed by the architectural pattern of these burial tombs. Xin said: "Just the tombs of the princes and nobles who accompanied the burial are already so magnificent, what kind of prosperous landscape does it have to be in the Qianling Tomb?" ”