Beijing is a city with a long history, and in recent years, many foreigners have chosen to visit Beijing to see the style of the capital. Generally speaking, when outsiders come to Beijing to travel, they must go to the Tiananmen Forbidden City, or the Great Wall Summer Palace, but the Ming Tombs are rarely visited, after all, it is far from the city, and the mausoleum makes people feel gloomy, and it seems a little unlucky to go there.
But in fact, the Ming Tombs are also quite interesting, full of a sense of historical age, the reason why it is so called the Ming Tombs, because it buried the thirteen emperors of the Ming Dynasty, it can be said that visiting the Ming Tombs is equivalent to visiting most of the history of the Ming Dynasty. However, the Ming Tombs are not all allowed to enter everywhere, some mausoleums are not open to the public, and the Ming Dynasty has sixteen emperors, and only thirteen are buried in the Thirteen Tombs, so where are the three emperors buried?
As we all know, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty was Zhu Yuanzhang, but in fact, Zhu Yuanzhang was not in the mausoleum, because the Ming Tombs were only put into use in the seventh year of Yongle, that is, in 1409 AD, and At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang had been dead for a long time, so the first emperor buried in the Ming Tombs was actually Zhu Di instead of the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. When Zhu Yuanzhang first founded the people's republic, the capital was not in Beijing, but in Nanjing, and Zhu Di only moved the capital to Beijing after he ascended the throne. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang died of illness in Nanjing, and after he died, he was naturally buried in Nanjing, and there was no reason to take the body to Beijing to bury it, after all, Nanjing and Beijing were far apart, and ancient transportation was not developed, which was enough to walk for more than half a month. In addition, Zhu Yuanzhang was very fond of Empress Ma, so he chose to be buried with Empress Ma, and the tomb is still in Nanjing, named Ming Xiaoling.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Yunjiao succeeded to the throne, but Zhu Yunjiao's Jiangshan was not sitting steadily, and within a few years, he was taken away by Zhu Di, and Zhu Yunjiao also mysteriously disappeared. Zhu Di searched for him for a long time and did not find it, and scholars so far cannot study where he ran, although there are many theories, but none of them have absolute authority. Because of this, there is no tomb of Zhu Yunjiao in the Ming Tombs, after all, no one can find where he is, how to bury him. However, if Zhu Di found Zhu Yunjiao, although he might kill him, he would also bury Zhu Yunjiao for the sake of fame, and it is difficult to say whether he was buried in the Ming Tombs.
The last emperor who was not buried in the Ming Tombs was Zhu Qiyu, that is, Emperor Ming of Ming, whose brother Ming Yingzong was captured by the wattle, and Emperor Ming stepped forward in such a critical situation, gradually improving the situation of the Ming Dynasty, making the Ming Dynasty gradually prosperous, and was recognized by many generations as the Emperor of Shengming. After Ming Yingzong was rescued, he was dissatisfied with his brother's power, so he launched a change of door seizure and became emperor again. Ming Yingzong did this very unauthentically, he himself became emperor again, even if he did not recognize Zhu Qiyu's former status, thinking that he was not an emperor, so after his death, he was not eligible to enter the Ming Tombs, and also destroyed the mausoleum that he had built, it was really a small belly chicken intestine, without his brother, maybe he himself would have been in a different place.
However, history still recognizes Zhu Qiyu's status, otherwise the Ming Dynasty would have been fifteen emperors, not sixteen.