Was Tang Taizong s tomb excavated? Has Tang Taizong s tomb ever been stolen?

Li Shimin's mausoleum has really been stolen in history.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin is a famous king in the history of the Tang Dynasty, during his reign, the politics were clear, the society was stable, and the country was prosperous, which laid a very strong foundation for the later Tang Dynasty. After Li Shimin's death, he was buried in Zhaoling. So far, Li Shimin's mausoleum has not been excavated on a large scale, but it has been stolen by tomb thieves in many places in history, especially by a tomb robber named Wen Tao when he robbed the tomb.

1. Stealing a large number of rare treasures from the mausoleumAncient emperors were often buried with many rare treasures, including a large number of authentic cultural relics, jewelry, and money. Wen Tao is a famous tomb robber in the history of the Tang Dynasty, he stole not only Li Shimin's tombs, but also stole the tombs of other Tang Dynasty figures, he excavated 17 Tang Dynasty tombs, known as the Tang Tomb Butcher. Wen Tao decided to steal Li Shimin's mausoleum, which was related to the authentic work of Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Preface", and in order to get the "Orchid Pavilion Preface", Wen Tao led the army to steal Li Shimin's mausoleum.

A large number of gold, silver, jewelry, cultural relics and monuments in the mausoleum were stolen, which shows that Li Shimin's mausoleum is a relatively miserable mausoleum in the Tang Dynasty mausoleum.

Second, the person who destroyed Li Shimin's legacy, Wen Tao, was not only greedy, but also extremely insidious. While stealing Li Shimin's mausoleum, he did not even let go of Li Shimin's body. While they stole gold and silver treasures, they also stole Li Shimin's body, and what is even more ridiculous is that Li Shimin's skull is not a thing to be bought and sold, but is used as a toy by businessmen.

Later, during the Northern Song Dynasty, Zhao Pu spent a lot of money to buy Li Shimin's remains back and sent them back to Zhaoling, and the matter came to an end.

There are countless cases of tomb robberies in history, but there are few cases of such cruelty as Wen Tao. Although Li Shimin's mausoleum has not been excavated now, with the entry and exit of various tomb robbers in history, it is estimated that the current Zhaoling Tomb is no longer what it used to be.

Li Shimin's Zhaoling Tomb has been stolen at least three times, and the worst one is that his bones have been stolen, and his head has become the plaything of the rich in later generations. It wasn't until a prime minister named Zhao Pu in the Northern Song Dynasty that he spent a lot of money to re-search Li Shimin's bones and re-bury them in the Zhaowu Imperial Mausoleum.

Zhaoling, known as "the world's famous mausoleum", is located in the main peak of Jiuzhi Mountain, 22 kilometers east of Liquan County, Shaanxi Province, the underground palace of Zhaoling is built on the mountainside of the southern slope of Jiuzhi Mountain, the cemetery is 60 kilometers in radius, majestic and magnificent, more than the previous dynasties of the emperor's tomb. After the death of the eldest grandson, Empress was buried in Zhaoling, and Li Shimin once erected a monument in front of the tomb and wrote: "The king takes the world as his home, why bother with things in the mausoleum, but for himself."

Today, because Jiuzhi Mountain is a mausoleum, it does not hide gold and jade, people and horses, utensils, and uses civil engineering tools. This means that there is no gold, silver and jade in this tomb, just to prevent tomb robbers from paying attention, but this still cannot resist the ambitions of tomb robbers.

The most serious damage to the Zhaoling was stolen by the warlord Wen Tao during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, and Wen Tao personally sent the Zhaoling underground palace to loot all the precious cultural relics in the Zhaoling, including Wang Xizhi's "Orchid Pavilion Collection Preface" and many calligraphy and painting antiques such as Zhong Xuan. It is rumored that the treasures stolen from Wen Taozhao's tomb were loaded in horse-drawn carriages, and thousands of soldiers were mobilized, and it took more than a month to transport them all.

Tang Taizong Zhaoling is the mausoleum of Li Shimin, the second emperor of the Tang Dynasty, and is the largest one in the "Eighteen Tombs of the Tang Dynasty" in Guanzhong, Shaanxi, located on the Jiuzhi Mountain in the northeast kilometers of Liquan County, Shaanxi Province. It is 70 kilometers away from Xi'an City, 30 kilometers away from Xianyang City, and 25 kilometers away from Xianyang International Airport. In 1961, Zhaoling was announced as the first batch of key cultural relics protection units in the country, and in 2002, it was rated as a "3A" tourist attraction by the National Tourism Administration.

Zhaoling cemetery has a circumference of 60 kilometers, covers an area of 200 square kilometers, has a total of more than 180 burial tombs, is known as "the world's famous mausoleum", is the largest area in China's imperial cemetery, the most funerary tombs, and is also a representative imperial mausoleum in the Tang Dynasty. From the first burial of Empress Taizong Wende's eldest grandson in the tenth year of Tang Zhenguan (636 AD) to the twenty-ninth year of Kaiyuan (743 AD), the construction of Zhaoling Cemetery lasted for 107 years, and a large number of cultural relics remained on the ground and underground. It is a physical witness from the early Tang Dynasty to the prosperous Tang Dynasty, and a rare treasure trove of cultural relics for us to understand and study the politics, economy and culture of the Tang Dynasty and even China's feudal society.

Zhaoling is known as "the world's famous mausoleum".

The mausoleum of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty was excavated. The Eighteen Tombs of the Tang Dynasty, except for the Qianling Tomb, were not stolen and excavated, and the rest were all stolen by Wen Tao.

Tang Tailing is the tomb of Tang Xuanzong Li Longji, located in the south of Jinsu Mountain, Wulong Mountain, Yumai, 15 kilometers northeast of Pucheng County, Shaanxi Province, Tang Tailing takes the mountain as the mausoleum, builds the tomb chamber in the belly of the mountain, builds the wall around the mausoleum, is magnificent, and is typical of the style of the Tang Emperor's Mausoleum. In addition to the main mausoleum of Tang Xuanzong, the mausoleum area is also attached to the burial tomb of Empress Yang and the eunuch Gao Lishi. After expert research, Tailing built imitation Tang Chang'an City, the scale is large, although after more than 1,000 years of wind and rain, now 34 pairs of stone carvings on both sides of the Shinto are basically well preserved, have high artistic value.

Tang Tailing is now a national key cultural relics protection unit.

Tang Eighteen Tombs, except for the Qianling Tomb was not stolen and excavated, the rest were all stolen by Wen Tao, but modern times have not been excavated "The History of the Old Five Dynasties, Volume 73, Lie Biography 25" record:

Wen Tao, a native of Huayuan. Less for the thief, according to Huayuan, Li Maozhen, the name Yantao, later descended to Liang, changed the name to Zhaotu. For the Yaozhou Festival, the Tang Tombs in the realm of the people sent it, and took the hidden gold treasures:

And Zhaoling is the most solid, the books of the previous life, Zhong, Wang paper and ink, the handwriting is as new. Moved to the state to make the envoy, tired officials to the inspection of the school captain, Ping Zhangshi. Tao Sushan Zhao Yan, every attachment to it.

Zhuang Zong entered Bian, Yan Yantao and his own Su Hou, and then went to Xuzhou. Tao Yanzhi was in the first, and he was decapitated and teleported. At the beginning of the same light, Tao came to the dynasty, Guo Chongtao said:

This tomb thief is an unforgivable sin. After Tao Na bribed Liu, he gave him a surname, the name Shaochong, and sent him back to the town. Mingzong ascended the throne, lived in Texas, and died in Russia.

The eldest son, Yan Jun, was the muddy water envoy in the Qing Taizhong; The second extension of recruitment, for the father's tent school; Second extension table, Deng Zhou commander envoy; The salty settlement is permitted. At the beginning of Jin Tianfu, I heard that Zhang Congbin was in trouble in Heyang, and he relied on it. From the guest to worry about its difficulty, all under the account.

Tang Taizong Li Shimin's cultural and martial arts have been talked about and praised since ancient times. The academic circles have positively affirmed his great talent and strategy and his major contributions to Chinese history. Li Shimin was an accomplished politician and military strategist who played a leading role in the struggle against the Sui and Tang dynasties, and the victory of the Xuanwumen Revolution of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty objectively played a positive role in the development of social history in the early Tang Dynasty.

Tang Taizong did not discriminate against ethnic minorities, except for the invasion of the Turks and the use of troops, mainly using Huairou political means to deal with ethnic issues, with proper methods and enlightened policies, which were conducive to national unity and national unity.

Emperor Li Shimin was one of China's most outstanding and wise monarchs, and with his high degree of wisdom, he governed his empire with diligence and care, and soon ushered in a second ** era for China that lasted for 130 years. , he reigned for a total of 23 years, and after his death, he was buried with Empress Wende in the Zhaoling Tomb, where a large number of precious cultural relics were buried. Zhaoling began to be built in 636 A.D., until 743 A.D., lasted 107 years, including a total of 108 burial tombs, known as "the world's famous tomb".

In fact, in history, the tomb of Tang Taizong once had the experience of being stolen. It was in the Later Liang period of the Five Dynasties, when there was a general named Wen Tao, his job was to rob the royal tombs, and when he found the tomb of Tang Taizong, he ransacked it for three days and three nights, stealing a large number of cultural relics.

In ancient times, it has been found that bandits have excavated the tomb of Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, but in today's advanced science and technology, although the archaeological technology is becoming more and more developed, we have no way to enter the Zhaoling Tomb, there are three main reasons.

First, with our existing technology, it is not possible to guarantee the integrity of the cultural relics when the tomb is opened again, so in order to avoid unnecessary losses, it cannot be excavated for the time being.

Second, although our science and technology are improving, the ancient people were also very wise, and the tombs are full of all kinds of traps, and we cannot guarantee that we can completely crack them.

Third, the Zhaoling Tomb is beyond imagination, if it takes a lot of manpower, material resources and time to excavate, our current task is to build a well-off society, there is no need to waste a lot of energy on the excavation of ancient tombs.

It was already dug up by Wen Tao, and the bones were thrown out, but Zhao Kuangyin was reburied.