In Chinese history, whether it is in front of or behind, the emperor is extremely concerned. Especially after death, even if the emperor with no name in history attaches great importance to the construction of the mausoleum after his death, first of all, the burial items should be more than enough and precious, the feng shui of the tomb location is better, and the anti-theft tomb organ should be good, so this has also led to the fact that the imperial tomb has been found relatively smallly.
Regarding such a custom, it is probably from the beginning of Qin Shi Huang, according to the wild history records, Qin Shi Huang requisitioned 300,000 people to build an imperial mausoleum for him, and vainly tried to go to The Huangquan Road to fight and build a large number of terracotta warriors, and three terracotta pits have been found, totaling more than 8,000. In addition, a large amount of mercury is infused into the tomb, making the tomb sterile and incorruptible for thousands of years, which can be said to be the most luxurious one of the tombs of Chinese emperors.
Since Qin Shi Huang, both princes and emperors have attached great importance to their own mausoleums, and there are several reasons for this. First, as an emperor, his status is extremely noble, he is the first person in the world and also a person who is "ordained by heaven", coupled with the ancient view of the afterlife, after the construction of the imperial tomb, the selection of feng shui treasure land, the next life will be rich.
Second, in the Chinese ritual music system, great importance is attached to sacrifice, one is to sacrifice to the heavens, the second is to sacrifice the earth, the third is to sacrifice the ancestors, for the emperor, as long as the dynasty does not fall, they are the object of sacrifice, and the mausoleum naturally has to be different in all aspects.
In this way, the emperor's mausoleum is the most important, and according to the custom, the emperor will build the imperial tomb when he is still alive. History has a suspense case - did the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty have a mausoleum?
Now historians in order to understand the ancient civilization, in addition to the records of ancient books and historical materials, there is a most important way, through the tomb funerary products and construction style to understand the history, so far, the tombs of the emperors of various dynasties have been found, even the tomb of Qin Shi Huang (regardless of the world's perception of the true and false Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum) has also been found by historians, but only did not find any tomb about the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, so some people feel that the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty did not build a mausoleum.
On this point, the author has checked the historical data, the Yuan Dynasty was a nomadic people, has never had the idea of the Central Plains people falling leaves and returning to the roots, so there is no Central Plains emperor for the mausoleum as much attention, they think that after death should return to nature, the construction of the mausoleum is not consistent with this concept. And they didn't have much reverence for the flesh, and even they had cremations at that time, so it seemed a little possible that the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty did not have a mausoleum.
However, the Central Plains water and soil to raise people, Genghis Khan initially established a great unification, and then Kublai Khan set the capital of Beijing, after several generations of influence, although it is a Mongol, coupled with the impact of the Central Plains etiquette, the importance of the imperial tomb should be self-evident. After the capital was fixed, the customs of the original nomadic people had become the form of settlement, and because there was no Zongmiao, there was one less sacrifice, which was inconsistent with the etiquette, and the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty should understand the importance of building an imperial tomb.
Therefore, the author speculates that it should be that the Yuan Emperor built the imperial tomb differently from the Central Plains Emperor's concept of building the imperial mausoleum, and it is too secretive to be discovered by later generations.
In response to this phenomenon, the author looked up historical materials and finally came up with possible causes. First, the Yuan Dynasty was founded by Kublai Khan and the capital was Beijing, although Genghis Khan unified the Mongols, he did not claim to be the Emperor of the Central Plains, so he was not affected by the etiquette of the Central Plains, so he did not build an imperial tomb, but was buried in the traditional form of the Mongols.
In order to ensure that the Mongolian Heavenly Khan was not disturbed for thousands of generations after his death, the external propaganda of the tomb of Genghis Khan was simple, and all those involved in the construction of the mausoleum were buried, and then the traces were flattened by ten thousand horses, and any books on the tomb of Genghis Khan were prohibited from recording that after several generations, the Mongols had built the capital of Beijing, so the tomb of Genghis Khan slowly became a secret.
There is no record of the slightest classic, and it is different from the construction method of the Central Plains Imperial Mausoleum, after the founding of New China, all the tomb excavations are based on the construction etiquette of the Central Plains Imperial Tomb to find, so the tomb of Genghis Khan has not been found, which has led some people to think that Genghis Khan has no tomb.
Looking at other emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, from Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty to the last emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, Emperor Yuanshun, so far no emperor's tomb has been discovered by later generations, regardless of the tomb robbers of the previous seven or eight hundred years, the development of science and technology in this world has reached a certain level, historians have spared no effort to find the emperor tombs of various dynasties and generations in order to improve the history books, but still have not found the tombs of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty.
The author found a custom about the burial of Mongolians, in order to prevent being disturbed after death, the Mongols no matter what form of burial, as long as there is a fixed cemetery, the tomb will be sealed, different from the construction of the Central Plains mausoleum, there will always be entrances and exits, although in order to prevent tomb robbers, set up a lot of secret passages, but there is still a risk of theft. This kind of sealed tomb of the Mongols cannot be accessed by outsiders, coupled with the post-treatment on the surface, it is even more difficult to find the mausoleum.
If the descendants need to worship, they will find a ewe and a lamb after burial, and then kill the lamb in front of the ewe at the cemetery, and only need to release the ewe to find the cemetery at the time of worship. And when this practice is feasible, but the maximum lifespan of the ewe is only more than ten years, even if it is in this form every few years, after the change of emperors, the change of dynasties, the passage of time, and the prohibition of any written or pictorial records about the mausoleum, so the location of the mausoleum is not very clear.
So it seems that with the records of modern knowledge, there is no understanding of the construction of mausoleums in the Yuan Dynasty, and it is difficult to find the tomb of the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, which is not difficult to explain why the modern founding of the country has been decades, science and technology is so developed today, still has not found any of the Emperors of the Yuan Dynasty.
Therefore, in general, the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty did not have mausoleums, not really none, but difficult to be discovered by later generations. Because the Yuan Dynasty was not Han, but Mongol, the Mongols have always been known as nomadic people on horseback, and the concept of home country is not as profound as that of the Han people in the Central Plains, so the concept of inheritance and temple in the imperial tomb is too illusory for them and does not have much significance.
They believe that people are born to raise, the form of burial does not need to build a mausoleum, as long as it is not disturbed by future generations, can rest in peace, and return to heaven and earth is the greatest respect for the dead. Under such a thought, the tombs of the Yuan Dynasty must be extremely secretive, so they cannot be discovered by later generations.
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