In 1368, Zhu Yuanzhang was proclaimed emperor in Yingtian (present-day Nanjing), and was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, officially establishing the Ming Dynasty.
Zhu Yuanzhang
At the beginning of the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there were many locations to choose for the dingdu matter, and even zhu Yuanzhang's hometown of Fengyang, Anhui. Later, fengyang was abandoned at the suggestion of Liu Bowen. Perhaps Zhu Yuanzhang also knows that Ying Tian is partial to an even, not the best choice in his heart. But there is really no better place, Xi'an is too far away to effectively suppress the regime that has not yet been consolidated. So that's how it dragged on. Thirty-one years after Hongwu, Taizu died of illness. He was buried in Dulongfu, the southern foothills of the Purple Mountain, on the outskirts of present-day Nanjing. Dulongfu feng shui is excellent, in order to bury the Ming Tombs, Zhu Yuanzhang moved away countless graves, and even moved away a temple. The power of the emperor is supreme. On the day of the funeral, the thirteen city gates of Nanjing were buried at the same time, so that the world did not know which was true and which was false. In any case, Ming Taizu lay quietly in his final place of belonging. The first emperor of the Ming Dynasty was thus buried in the Ying Tianming Tombs.
Ming Tombs
Let's talk about the second emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Jianwen.
Emperor Jianwen was the grandson of Emperor Ming. Why not a son succeeding to the throne? Because the crown prince Zhu Biao died of illness in Hongwu twenty-five years. Zhu Yuanzhang was heartbroken, stopped making another crown prince, and began to cultivate Zhu Biao's son Zhu Yunjiao.
After Taizu's death, Zhu Yunjiao succeeded to the throne as Emperor Jianwen. Because Emperor Jianwen did not allow foreign clan kings to return to Beijing for funerals, and later the policy of cutting off the clan. Zhu Di, the King of Yan, launched the Battle of Jingnan, and after four years of war Zhu Di finally seized the throne and was proclaimed emperor in Yingtian. Emperor Jianwen disappeared in a fire, so there was no mausoleum.
Ming Chengzu Zhu Di
In the fifth year of Yongle, the empress died of illness, and Zhu Di ordered the feng shui master to go to Beijing to find the Ji Cave, and finally settled at the foot of the Tianshou Mountain in present-day Changping, in a complete small basin.
At this point, the first mausoleum of the Thirteen Tombs, and the largest mausoleum, appeared in the long river of history. In the middle of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Ming Yingzong Zhu Qi was defeated and captured in the battle of the Northern Expedition to Wala, which was the famous change of the Ming Dynasty's Tumu Fort.
Later, it was considered that the state could not support Zhu Qiyu as emperor for a day, as the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. In the eighth year of Jingtai, Emperor Yingzong restored and destroyed the tomb site of Emperor Daizong Changping.
After Zhu Qiyu's death, he was buried in Xishan, Beijing, for the Jingtai Mausoleum. Zhu Qiyu was also the only emperor who was not buried in the imperial mausoleum after the capital was Beijing.
Zhu Qiyu
With the burial of the last emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Chongzhen Emperor, into the Siling Tombs, the Ming Tombs, which lasted for more than 230 years, completed its mission.
Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in Nanjing, Emperor Jianwen's whereabouts are unknown, and Emperor Daizong was buried in Xishan, Beijing. All the other emperors, a total of thirteen were buried in the mausoleum, so it is called the Ming Tombs.