What exactly does Wu Zetian Tang Ming do? What does Tang Ming mean?

Vientiane Temple in Wei Zi Palace was built on December 27th, 688, the fourth year of hanging arch. It is 300 feet (now more than 90 meters) high and very spectacular, allowing people to visit. Wu Zetian also ordered heaven to rise from the north of Tang Ming, and granted "families enjoy the Tang Ming system" by storing images. Later, Wu Zetian proclaimed himself emperor, and Vientiane Shrine became the political center of Wu Zhou. Every year, a ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth is held, and envoys from all over the country are welcomed.

Wu Zetian ordered Xue Huaiyi, a monk, to command more than 10,000 people to destroy the Yuan Temple and build the Ming Temple, which took nearly a year to complete, with a height of 294 feet and a width of 300 feet. * * * Three floors, with a dome on the top and a posture in Kowloon. There is an iron phoenix on the mountain, ten feet high. Decorated with gold, it is called "Vientiane shrine". After the completion of Tang Ming, the monk Xue Huaiyi was ordered to cast a colossus. The little finger of the colossus can hold dozens of people, and a five-story paradise has been established in the north of Tang Ming to receive the colossus. The cost is trillions, and the financial resources are exhausted. At that time, Wu Ming-ren carved a white stone as a text, saying, "The Virgin is a human being, and Yongchang is an emperor." It is said that it was found in Luoshui and dedicated to Wuhou. The marquis of Wu was overjoyed and ordered people to call this stone a "treasure map". Later, Wuhou was honored as the "Virgin Jade Emperor".

Then Emperor Tiandi inherited Emperor Gaozong's last wish, and regarded Tang Ming as a symbol of his own destiny and dynasty, so he attached great importance to the construction of Tang Ming. However, the style of his decision-making motion is completely different from that of Gao Zong. It didn't listen to the endless arguments of Confucianism, but discussed its supervision with the North Gate Bachelor alone, and the Tang Ming plan was soon determined. In the spring of the third year (687), Wu Zetian pushed through the crowd, demolished the Gan Yuan Hall, the main hall of Luoyang Palace, and built a great hall on the original site. This calendar lasted about one year, and Tang Ming completed it on the fifth day of the first month in the fourth year (spring of 688). According to the old Tang book? "Biography of Wuhou" records: "Tang Ming is 294 feet high and 300 feet square. Where there are three floors, the lower floor method is used four times, each with a square color, the middle floor method is 12, and the top is a round cover, which is held by Kowloon. The upper floor is also a round cover, with wood as tile, painted with iron phoenix, ten feet high and decorated with gold. There are ten giant trees in the middle, connected from top to bottom, with four seals as the foundation. Shixia Iron Canal is a statue of Bi Yong, nicknamed "Vientiane Shrine". The Tang Ming built this time is to commemorate the ancestors of Li Tang, so it is called Tang Mingtang. Tang Ming is majestic, magnificent, towering and full of breath, so Wu Zetian gave Tang Ming a very atmospheric and solemn name-Vientiane Temple. The appearance of Tang Ming is three floors, which can be boarded. The ground floor is square and majestic. Twelve changes in the middle layer, covering the round cover and covering Kowloon; The top floor is deformed, covered with a dome and decorated with Jin Baofeng; Inside is a breakthrough multi-layer composite space with a giant through-hole column, the diameter of which is as thick as that of ten people hugging each other. According to the average Japanese ruler in Tang Dynasty (about 30.33 cm per foot), its volume and height are about 88 meters, and each side of the ground floor is about 90 meters long. This is undoubtedly the largest wooden single building in the history of ancient architecture in China, and the only pavilion-style palace main hall building. When Li Bai Tianbao visited Luoyang in his early years, he wrote "Tang Ming Fu" and couldn't help but sigh-"It's so beautiful! Huang Zi, Tang Zi! "

At the same time, Tang Ming is an unconventional and fashionable work. Wu Zetian built Tang Ming in a unique way and with innovative spirit. It "changes with time, follows the trend, lives in the past and guides the situation", which is contrary to the past retro tradition and rigid, square single-story building model, and also inherits the traditional Tang Ming design principle of "like heaven and earth" in connotation. In the Tang Dynasty, the architectural form of Gongming Hall in Luoyang was under the ring, which created the precedent of China ancient Tang Ming architecture from square to round. It embodies the emperor's idea of connecting with heaven, symbolically expresses the four seasons, twelve o'clock and twenty-four atmospheres, as well as the space-time view of the universe in all directions, the unity of heaven and man, and the round sky, which directly influenced the shape and design of the memorial building in Ming and Qing Dynasties.

After the completion of Tang Ming, Wu Zetian was very happy. "Yongchang first day, I began to enjoy Tang Ming, I was pardoned. On the fourth day of the month, Tang Yuming was in charge of state affairs, and he was rewarded with nine awards. Many words are meaningless. The next day, I went to the Imperial Palace to entertain the minister and gave C a bad gift. Since the establishment of Tang Ming, women in Du Dong and elders in various states have come into sight and given food and wine, but it has been a long time. Tubo and barbarians successfully arrived in Tang Ming and sent envoys to congratulate them. " It can be seen that Mingtang, the tallest building in the Tang Dynasty at that time, caused a sensation in the world, and tourists flocked to it, much like Burj Dubai, the tallest building in the world today. However, this most famous landmark and tourist attraction in Datang is only open to tourists occasionally.

However, the title of "the tallest building in Datang" in Tang Ming did not last long. Tiandi is a high-rise lover. Shortly after the completion of Tang Ming, he ordered monk Xue Huaiyi to start building a higher "paradise" for the giant Buddha. Old Tang book? Then the emperor's postscript recorded: "Huai Yi made a big statue, and his little finger still contained dozens of people. In the north of Tang Ming, there are five layers of heaven to store it, and the third layer overlooks Tang Ming. "Ji Tang XXI" also records: "When the temple was first built, it was destroyed by the wind, and it was built more and more. Ten thousand people were employed in Japan, and the wood was harvested in Gangneung. In a few years, it cost trillions and the national treasury dried up. "It can be seen that the Paradise Project is much bigger than Tang Ming and much higher than Tang Ming (88 meters high). On the third floor, you can have a panoramic view of Tang Ming. The giant Buddha in the sky alone is as high as 100 feet (more than 30 meters), and its little finger can hold dozens of people. Moreover, when heaven was first built, it was blown down by strong winds several times, and then it was rebuilt. Although the history books do not clearly record the exact height of the heaven (estimated to exceed150m), there is no doubt that it is the tallest wooden structure in ancient China.

The first and second tallest architectural paradise in the Tang Dynasty and the completion of Tang Ming constitute the most magnificent skyline of Luoyang, the capital of gods, representing the unparalleled outstanding achievements of architectural technology in the Tang Dynasty, and embodying the spirit of the times of the people in the Tang Dynasty, which is highly confident, pioneering and vigorous. Datang, standing at the top of the world, is the center of all nations.

However, because Tang Ming is too close to the Heaven (archaeological investigation shows that the rammed earth foundation between them is only16m apart), "On the night of freezing in the first month of the first year of Shengyuan, the Heaven caught fire and extended to Tang Ming, and the Second Hall was destroyed in the morning". Tang Ming is a symbol of imperial destiny and imperial power. The destruction of Tang Ming hit Wu Zetian hard, but she didn't lose heart. In March of the same year, Wu Zetian ordered the reconstruction of Tang Ming on the original scale, and the new Tang Ming was completed in March of the following year (696). Because the newly-built Tang Ming was built for the Wu family, it is called Wu Zhouming Hall, also known as "Tian Tong Palace".

During the Kaiyuan period, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty made great efforts to make the country rich and strong. He moved the capital to Du Dong five times and took charge of Luoyang for nearly 1 1 year, creating a prosperous "Kaiyuan Shi Sheng". At this time, the Tang Empire still paid equal attention to both capital city and capital city, "Three Qin and Nine Luo, salty called the capital". In the eyes of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, Du Dong was still the second capital. The heart of the empire, the east and west of Beijing, is bustling outside, living in peace and bringing out the best in each other, supporting the sky in the prosperous Tang Dynasty together. In the fifth year of the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty (7 17), Tang Ming was renamed "Ganyuantang"; In the 10th year of Kaiyuan (722), the old name of "Tang Ming" was restored.

At the end of Kaiyuan, Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty was infatuated with Yang Yuhuan and could not extricate himself. Since then, he has been addicted to singing and dancing, debauchery and dogs. "But the nights in spring are short, and the sun rises too fast. Since then, the emperor has given up his early hearing." At this time, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty had no enterprising spirit, and his relatives were alienated and involved, and his political affairs were gradually abolished. During the Tianbao period, Xuanzong never left Chang 'an, and the importance of the East Capital was gradually forgotten, which also laid the groundwork for the "Anshi Rebellion" and the rapid decline of the Tang Dynasty. In the 26th year of Kaiyuan (738), Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty thought that Tang Ming in Luoyang was "clever, out of line, out of reach and beautiful", so on October 2nd, he ordered Kang Su, a great master, to destroy Tang Ming in Dongwu. In the twenty-seventh year of Kaiyuan (739), "it was always a demolition worker, so it was invited to demolish the upper floor, which was 95 feet lower than the old system." Then I went to the pillar wood and put an octagonal building on the platform. There are eight dragons upstairs with fire beads. Less than five feet around the old system. Cover it with real tiles and take it away forever. This new concert hall is still called "Gan Yuan Concert Hall" for twenty-eight years. The northern government soldiers set fire to the cloister and changed the new hall to "Tongyuantang". It can be seen that at this time, the top floor of Tang Ming was demolished, the through-hole column was demolished, and the octagonal pyramid roof was replaced on the middle drum base; Its height is still 200 feet, nearly 60 meters, and it is still a huge building.

During the Anshi Rebellion (755 ~ 763), Tang Ming was burnt down twice by insurgents and Uighur soldiers, and was finally destroyed in 762. After the chaos, the powerful national strength of the Tang Dynasty suddenly collapsed and never recovered, and it entered a situation of one and a half centuries of separatist regime, eunuch chaos and factional struggle. Except for those poets and poets who are immortal, the Tang Dynasty in this period seems to be lackluster and gradually forgotten by the world.

Tang Ming, a symbol of the luck of imperial countries. The fate of Vientiane Temple in Tang Ming and Tiantong Palace in Tang Dynasty witnessed the rise and fall of the Tang Dynasty and the changes of honor and disgrace. Once the best in the world, I was proud of the world. Later, I destroyed myself, but I still lost my heroic spirit. Finally, I collapsed in the war and turned into a scorched earth.