Xian Tomb of Crown Prince Zhanghuai
Positioned on the foot of Liang Mountain in Qianxian Country, it is one of the 17 satellite tombs of the Qianling Mausoleum. The structure of the bomb is basically the similar with the Princess Yongtai, only a little small in scale.
Prince Zhanghuai-Li Xian, the sixth son of Emperor Gaozong and Empress Wu Zetian was comparatively talented among his other brothers. Gao Zong was in praise of him and made him the crown prince. As opposing the peremptoriness of Wu Zetian, Lixian was forced to kill himself in his year of 31.The tomb also includes the tunnels with a length of 71 meters, a width of 3.3 meters and a height of 7 meters, four skylights, six niches, a brick corridor, an antechamber and a burial chamber. There are more than 600 articles unearthed including article-ceramic, tricolor ceramic figures and so on. The wall, 400 square meters long, was covered by fifty murals in an excellent state of preservation. This mural shows three Tang officials accompanying ambassadors from aboard such as Rome and Korea as well as ethnic groups from north-east China. The mural indicates that in Tang Dynasty the Chinese international relationship with more than 300 different countries has been grown up.
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