On the Chunde Mountain in Zhongxiang, Hubei Province, there is an imperial tomb called Xianling, which is the largest single area of all the imperial tombs in the Ming Dynasty. But the owner of the mausoleum did not become an emperor for even half a day. He was Zhu Youyi, the father of the Jiajing Emperor of the Ming Dynasty. His throne was posthumously. From The Xingxian King to the Xingxian Emperor and finally to the Jiamiao Ruizong, into the Taimiao Temple, the famous ceremonial discussion event of the Ming Dynasty ended in the great victory of the Jiajing Emperor.
Xianling was the joint burial tomb of Zhu Youyi and his wife Empress Dowager Cixiaoxian of the Jiang clan. After Jiajing's death in the seventeenth year of Jiang's death, it took some painstaking efforts to move Zhu You's tomb to Beijing or to bury Jiang's burial in the south. After some iterations, the Jiajing Emperor personally went to Hubei to explore the field and found that the feng shui of Chunde Mountain, where the Xianling Tomb was located, was much better than that of Dayu in Beijing, and finally, it was decided that his mother would follow his father.
Zhu Houxi was in Hubei, and his poems were greatly developed, and he wrote a poem "Mai Lang", "The ancient country is based on pure virtue mountain, and the etiquette is pro-referee and solemn; the horses and grass seedlings are long on the way, and the wheat ears are spotted on the roadside." The wind is blowing on the clouds, and the sun is piled up in the middle of the clouds. To be truly willing to fill the belly of our people, it is necessary to receive the anointing of the spirit from the emperor."
Speaking of which, the level of this poem is comparable to that of the Qianlong Emperor's imperial poems, but it also reflects an emperor's sincere desire for the people of the world to have enough to eat—as for whether what he did in his reign was toward this goal, it is another matter. It is as if the Kangxi Emperor told Su Qi'er that the Cai Gang is the largest gang in the world, and it is necessary to control your little brother strictly. Su Qi'er said that the number of them depends on you and not me.
Anyway, although the Jiajing Emperor had good intentions, Xianling made many mistakes, causing the people to have no food to eat.
The Mingling website records a story that one night, the farmer found a white horse stealing grass seedlings, and did not catch up, and saw it enter the Xianling Tomb from a distance. Thinking that it was the horse of the soldier guarding the tomb, he wrote a letter of paper and asked the county order to coordinate. Before it was too late for the county order to make friends with those people, they tore up the peasants and threw them out of the gate. The county officials could not ask for it, and the peasants went to ask the land lord, and the land lord did not help. The farmer was furious and gave him a slap. When a Taoist monk heard about this, he was furious and deliberately grabbed the white horse for the people. One night, when the opportunity came, the Taoist priest jumped to the side of the white horse, went down with a sword, and cut off a piece of meat on his stomach. The horse hissed and ran back to Xianling. The next day, I found that the piece of meat had turned into a stone. And under the belly of a stone horse in Xianling, there was also one piece missing. It turned out that it was the stone horse of the Xianling "Apparition".
This is, of course, folklore, but it has a deep basis in reality. Chinese people, believe this. Just like Qin Shi Huang believed that his family could be passed on to all generations. It was not until after the Qing Dynasty that part of the plot of land in Xianling, which had long been abandoned, was set aside as arable land, and there were also cases of destroying stone statues because farmers believed that it was stone horses that stole crops.