position.
Historians say that the ruler loved her so much that, in AD
724, he banished his wife and made Wu a royal concubine.
“Although she was only a concubine, she was treated as an
empress with palace etiquette,” explained Shi Xiaoqun, director of relics collection for Shaanxi History Museum. “Tang Xuanzong even wanted to make her his empress
but was opposed by the ministers.”
The emperor had thousands of concubines in his palace in Chang'an (now called Xi'an, capital of Shaanxi province) but, according to Shi, he only loved Wu, the mother of seven of his children.
Wu died in the December of AD 737 at the age of 40 and was interred in Jingling Mausoleum. She was given the title Empress Zhenshun after her death.
“It's rare for a concubine to be given so much posthumous(死后获得的) honor in the history of Chinese feudal society,” said Liu Daiyun, research director at the Shaanxi Archaeological Research Institute.
Her tomb53 meters wide by 56 meters longis located in the west of Pangliu village, which is part of Xi'an's Chang'an district.
The recovered sarcophagus(石棺) is 4 meters long, 2 meters wide and 2 meters tall and is decorated with flowers and maiden figures, which archaeologists say is a rare cultural relic of high scientific, historical and artistic value. In ancient times, a sarcophagus was used to house wood coffins in order to preserve the body of the noble person.
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