The next day, Yu Fei got up early, first practiced the breathing technique in the room for a while, then went downstairs to the restaurant downstairs and found that Old Ye and Old Ding had already used up their breakfast and were still talking about something, but they didn't know what.
Did the two gods not sleep all night or get up early?
When Mr. Ye saw Yu Fei, he smiled and said, "Brother Yu, why don't you take a little longer?"
Yu Fei said, "Haha, I'm used to getting up early now. But I didn't expect that the two elders were earlier than me. Could it be that they didn't sleep for the whole night, right?"
Old Ye and Old Ding smiled at each other, and Old Ding said, "Hehe, we are old and we will not be able to sleep for a while when we come to this strange place."
"Sure enough, I haven't slept for a 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. When Mr. Ye saw this, he spoke and said, "Brother Dong is getting up so early, why not finish breakfast later and accompany us to stroll around Qianling? Brother Yu
This is the first time I have come to Qianling.”
"Ah? Is this my first time with Brother Yu? I have to take a look first. The outside of Qianling Mausoleum is also magnificent." Since I learned last night that the secret picture of Qianling Mausoleum came from Yu Fei and Professor Dong
I also have more enthusiasm for Yu Fei.
Yu Fei has been fascinated by this Qianling Mausoleum, which is known as the "No. 1 Tomb in the World", and now I heard that I want to visit Qianling Mausoleum, so I naturally want it.
After breakfast, Professor Dong called two cars, and without waiting for the others, he led the three of them to Qianling with Li Su.
Their place was only a few kilometers away from Liangshan where Qianling was located. In just a few minutes, a few people arrived at the entrance of Qianling Scenic Area. Since it was still early in the morning, there were not many tourists. After getting off the bus, Professor Dong led everyone in and walked in.
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The first thing you walk into the scenic area is a stone stairway. Professor Dong introduced: "This stone stairway has 537 steps, and the height difference of the steps is 81.68 meters. After walking the steps, you will arrive at Sima Road. The end of Sima Road is Qian.
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Upon the steps, a flat road came into view. This was Sima Dao. There were many sculptures on both sides of it, including many stone statues. What was strange was that these stone statues had no heads. Yu Fei felt strange: "
Why don’t these stone statues carve their heads?”
Professor Dong said: "There are many different opinions about the reason why the stone statues have no head. The more credible statement is that the heads of these stone statues were cut off by the people of the Ming Dynasty."
"Ah! Did the people of the Ming Dynasty have nothing to do after eating and having enough food? They came to cut off all the heads of these stone statues?"
Professor Dong smiled and said, "Haha, of course, there is no reason for no reason. There is another allusion here:
These stone statues are actually statues of foreign ministers from the Tang Dynasty. They stand here, symbolizing the power of the Tang Dynasty and worshipping all nations.
In the early Ming Dynasty, a foreign envoy went to Qianling to visit and found that his ancestors were actually placed here to guard the tombs for the emperor of the Tang Dynasty. He felt that it was both harmful to the national character and the personality, and his self-esteem was greatly damaged.
, so I wanted to destroy these stone statues.
But he was afraid of arousing dissatisfaction among the local people, so he thought of a trick. He went to the crops near Qianling to trample on food every night, and then fanned the flames the next day, telling the people that these were all made of stone statues.
Yes, they became stingy at night and began to waste crops.
To protect crops and food, the stone statues must be eliminated and their heads cut off so that they cannot harm the crops. The local people thought that the foreign envoy made a lot of sense, so they took the stone statues' heads in anger
Cut it down."
"This foreign envoy is really good at it. It's a pity that these precious Tang Dynasty cultural relics were destroyed." Yu Fei sighed.
Ding Laosan said fiercely: "Are there few foreign devils who have destroyed our cultural relics?"
As he was speaking, a black stone tablet more than two meters high appeared in front of everyone, with the letter "Qianling Mausoleum of Emperor Gaozong of Tang", Yu Fei asked in confusion: "Isn't Qianling Mausoleum a tomb buried by Emperor Gaozong of Tang and Wu Zetian of the two generations of emperors? Why is it only written about Emperor Gaozong of Tang
Woolen cloth?"
Professor Dong explained: "Wu Zetian asked her son to bury herself in Qianling as Empress Gaozong of Tang, so in the ritual system, Qianling still belongs to the joint tomb of one emperor and one empress.
In this case, only the emperor's name is written."
Walking further forward, we saw two huge stone tablets seven or eight meters high on each side of Sima Road. The stone tablets on the west are engraved with words, while the stone tablets on the east are engraved with many messy words.
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Professor Dong introduced: "The stone tablet on the left is called the 'Shusheng Monument', which was written by Wu Zetian. His son, Li Xian, wrote the Dan. It was a merit stele that was praised by Emperor Gaozong. The stele is a square, with a roof, body, and a total of seven.
Festival means sun, moon, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, and it means that Li Zhi's civil and military achievements shine the world, so it is also called the "Seven-Chronic Monument".
"What about the building on the right? It seems that there are many different words engraved on it." Yu Fei has never seen this inscription with different fonts, or even inconsistent directions of the text.
"Haha, this is the world-famous Wu Zetian's wordless stele. There are nine dragons engraved on the forehead, so it is also called the 'Nine Dragons Monument'."
"Ah! This is the wordless stele! But on it..." Professor Dong's answer surprised Yu Fei. He had heard of this wordless stele, but he never expected that so many words would be engraved on the wordless stele.
"Well, this stone tablet was originally without words, but after the Song and Jin Dynasties, tourists began to write inscriptions on the stele, turning the stele without words into a stele with words. After the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, the stele gradually formed on the stele.
Many different fonts, different texts.”
"Hey, since the monument was erected, why didn't we engrave words? It's so messy now." Yu Fei sighed.
Professor Dong said: "There are three kinds of people's opinions on this point. The first is that Wu Zetian erected a stele without words to boast about himself, indicating that his merits and virtues cannot be expressed in words. The second is that Wu Zetian erected
The wordless stele is because you know that the sin is serious, so it is better to not write the wordless stele. The third theory is that Wu Zetian is a self-aware person, and erecting a wordless stele is a clever move, and the merits and demerits and faults are allowed to be commented on by future generations.
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When Yu Fei heard this, he shook his head and said, "I think these three statements should not be the case."
As soon as Yu Fei said this, Professor Dong was stunned: "Oh? What are your opinions on this, Brother Yu?"
"This merit monument was erected by later generations to evaluate his ancestors. How could Wu Zetian erect a monument for herself? Therefore, erecting a monument without words must not be her own idea. I think it should be the meaning of her son Li Xian.
The Tang Dynasty said that Wu Zetian had committed the crime of disobedience. If she wanted to write a memorial tablet, it would probably be a criticism. However, Wu Zetian was the mother of Zhongzong Li Xian after all, and Li Xian couldn't bear to do this, so she finally
After erecting this stele without words, all the merits and demerits were left to future generations to comment on. Haha, but this is just my personal opinion, Mr. Dong laughed at him."
"No! No! Brother Yu, your statement is worth studying! Maybe you can solve the eternal mystery of this stele without words." After hearing Yu Fei say it, Professor Dong thought about it carefully and said that this statement really makes sense.
, so he quickly asked Li Su, who was beside him to take notes:
Ding Laosan smiled and said, "Hehe, Brother Yu can always have unique insights."
Afterwards, under the leadership of Professor Dong, the group visited more than a dozen Qianling tombs that had been excavated. Yu Fei was amazed at the architectural layout of these tombs. He thought to himself: "It is just the tombs of the princes and nobles who are buried with them.
It is already so magnificent, what kind of prosperous landscape should be there in Qianling Mausoleum?”