In addition to dissidents, on the one hand, we also make great efforts to govern. During her reign, the whole society was stable, and there were many legends about Wu Zetian. Wu Zetian herself has never been a lonely person. Even if she dies, she will leave a tablet without words, which has attracted people's speculation for thousands of years.
The tombs of Tang Gaozong Li Zhi and Wu Zetian are located in Liangshan, Ganxian County, 80 hectares northwest of Xi. There are two stone tablets in front of the tomb, both 6.3 meters high. The one in the west is a "tablet". The important inscription is to praise Tang Gaozong's contribution. This was written by Wu Zetian and copied by Tang Zhongzong. The monument consists of seven sections, which are connected by tenons and mortises, so it is also called the "seven-section monument". The monument is 1.86 meters wide and weighs 8 1.6 tons. To the east is Wu Zetian's "Wordless Monument", which is carved from a huge stone with a width of 2. 1 m and a weight of 98.8 tons. The head of the monument is carved with eight broken ends intertwined, decorated with the dragon pattern of Tian Yun, and the base of the monument is painted with lines such as horse drinking water, lion and moire. Such exquisite carvings are extremely rare in tombstones of past dynasties.
People have speculated on the reason why Wu Zetian set up a tablet without words. There are three most important theories. It is beyond words to say that Wu Zetian thinks she has made great achievements. In Wu Zetian's view, although she was a woman, Gao Zong was mediocre, and her own talent was definitely superior to Gao Zong. During her reign, her political clarity, social stability and people's peace of mind should be regarded as one of her great achievements. Unfortunately, at that time, many people thought that Huang Wu had robbed the mountains and rivers of Datang and turned a blind eye to her achievements. Therefore, Wu Zetian wanted future generations to criticize and record her achievements, so there was a wordless tablet. Second, Wu Zetian knew that she was sinful, and I was afraid that if she made an inscription, she would be even more scolded by everyone, so she might as well not write it. Some people say that after the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, Wu Zetian felt guilty and concentrated on returning the mountains and rivers to Down's after her death. However, because of her resume of claiming to be the throne, she had no confidence in her situation after death, and was even more afraid that everyone would blame her for usurping the throne, so she left a wordless tablet to save herself. Thirdly, Wu Zetian hopes that future generations will comment on her life. This statement is just the opposite of the last one. Wu Zetian is quite arrogant about her life. As a woman, she can stand out in the political struggle and reach the peak of power. She hopes that future generations will objectively evaluate her literary martial arts, and her talent is generally outstanding, while her son Li Xian, who argued with her own strengths, will certainly not make an objective and fair evaluation of herself. In view of this, Wu Zetian wants to hand over the merits and demerits of her life to future generations, that is, to let future generations evaluate her life. It seems that all three statements make sense. As for which statement is her original intention, there is no way to prove it. It is worth mentioning that after the Song and Jin Dynasties, people began to add inscriptions to the tablet without words, and now there are 13 paragraphs of ink on it. Surprisingly, there is another kind of minority pen and ink in these pen and ink, which no one can recognize for a long time. This long-abolished minority brush and ink is regarded as "the mystery of the 20th century" by Japanese scholar Hiroaki Hiraoka Yamamoto. According to research, the younger brother of Emperor Taizong of Jin Dynasty inscribed "Travel Notes of Lang Jun, General of Dajin" 1 134 on the wordless tablet, with a Chinese translation next to it. This lost pen and ink is not a bronze inscription, but what pen and ink is it? Zhao Shanhan, an epitaph in the Ming Dynasty, said in a graphite engraving: "The inscription on the tablet (Lang Jun's Travel Notes) is indistinguishable, but it is engraved on the tablet without words in Ganling." This statement is widely circulated. It was not until the 1920s that archaeologists invented the epitaph of the Liao Empress in the area of Bahrain Right Banner in Inner Mongolia that the mystery was solved. It turns out that these pen and ink are very similar to the words on the epitaph, and they are early Qidan pen and ink. Qidan pen and ink was founded in 920 AD, but it soon perished with the demise of the country. In the Yuan Dynasty, almost no one was familiar with it. In the Ming Dynasty, it became a kind of "dead pen and ink" that no one could recognize. This lost pen and ink is preserved as an extremely precious historical material of pen and ink, but it is a great filial piety of Wu Zetian's wordless monument.
I believe that one day, these difficult riddles will eventually come out. The momentum of history rolling forward is unstoppable.