Looking at the five thousand years of China's history, we will find that the emperors of the past tried every means to protect their tombs in order to keep themselves from being disturbed after death, and they poured mercury into their tombs, set up mechanisms such as bows and crossbows, and even wrote vicious incantations on their tombstones.
Although the emperors were well prepared, no feudal dynasty in this world could exist permanently, and once the dynasty collapsed, the imperial tombs would eventually welcome the guests they least wanted to see- the "tomb robbers".
The imperial tombs of the Yuan Dynasty have always been a mystery
However, for the mysterious Lieutenant Touching Jin, there is a mausoleum of one dynasty that has not been discovered until now, that is, the tomb of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty.
So far, no one has really found even one tomb of the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, which makes people wonder, does the tomb of the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty exist?
However, we can still find through the records of the "History of the Yuan" and other classics that the tombs of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty have existed since Genghis Khan, but the way they chose and built the mausoleums had a very special way of choosing and building the tombs in a very special way than the traditional Central Plains Dynasty.
Originally, since Genghis Khan, the Yuan Dynasty has conquered countless countries in Eurasia, and slaughtering and destroying the country is commonplace, but this has also established countless enemies for them, even if these enemies cannot threaten the Yuan Dynasty for the time being, but the so-called fear of thieves and thieves is afraid of thieves.
The first method: ten thousand horses to flatten
Therefore, in order to prevent the enemies of the Yuan Dynasty from robbing the tomb, the most important measure taken by the Yuan Dynasty was to take the method of "ten thousand horses stepping on the flat" to cover up the true location of the mausoleum, which in itself is a traditional monarch tomb custom passed down from generation to generation by the nomadic people of the Mongolian plateau.
Due to the use of this tomb form, the mausoleum does not show the slightest trace, and people who do not know it cannot distinguish the location of the imperial tomb at all, so the anti-theft coefficient is extremely high.
Ye Ziqi, a lover of ming dynasty tomb culture, once conducted extremely in-depth research on the tomb culture of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, and in his "Grass and Wood" he wrote, the tomb customs of the Yuan Dynasty have such a record:
"After the death of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, he used two pieces of wood, chiseled into them, and the humanoid size was combined into a coffin, and the remains were placed in it... Add lacquer, bi, then with gold as the circle, three circles fixed (hoop two ends, middle). Then, dig a deep ditch and bury it together, and bring it to peace with the ravages of ten thousand horses. Kill the camels on it and ride it with a thousand horses. When the grass is born in the coming year, it will be moved and scattered, and the hope will be peaceful, and the people will not know it. ”
We can see that in Ye Ziqi's "Grass and Wood", it is clearly recorded that the Yuan Dynasty buried the emperor through this form of tomb, and once the tomb mark no longer exists or the person who knows the tomb dies, posterity faces the vast grassland, and it is difficult to find it again. And the reason why we have not been able to find genghis Khan's mausoleum today is because of this.
The second method: heavenly burial
In addition, the tombs of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty may have a second anti-theft measure, that is, the "heavenly burial" that has been popular among nomadic people for thousands of years, that is, the location of the mausoleum is determined through the free walking of cattle.
Since the Mongols believed in the Heaven of Immortality, they also believed that the Heaven of Immortality would give them the best destination.
This way of burial in heaven is generally to use a good satin after the death of the emperor, wrap the body and put it on the ox cart, let the ox run freely, and in the process of the ox cart bumping on the grassland, the body will fall randomly, and the place that falls is the chosen burial place.
Because this way of selecting tombs has great uncertainty, it can effectively prevent the mausoleum from being guessed by others. However, the possibility of this kind of tomb method being adopted by the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty is not high, after all, the emperors have always paid attention to the location of the mausoleum, and they probably do not want to choose the burial place in the way of herdsmen after they die, and even more importantly, they will fall to the ground, and it hurts to think about.
The third method: cremation
The third possible method, in fact, is the simplest way, is to use cremation. This way is much simpler, only a fire is needed to solve, after the completion of the mausoleum is omitted, of course, this possibility is also very small.
epilogue
But in fact, no matter which of the above methods is used, for the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, there is only one kind of person who can keep it secret, that is, the dead person, so after each burial of the emperor, the only person who can know the address of the imperial tomb will soon die for various reasons, and the secret of the imperial tomb they know will naturally not be discovered by people with ulterior motives. This is the real reason why the Imperial Tomb of the Yuan Dynasty has not been able to find one so far.
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