Zhu Yuanzhang was the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and as the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang formulated many requirements. These requirements became the ancestral precepts of later emperors of the Ming Dynasty. As we all know, Zhu Yuanzhang demanded that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty not be called a vassal, not to pay tribute, not to be kind, not to cut the land, not to pay indemnities, to guard the gate of the country by the son of heaven, and to die in the community of the king.
Even the Chongzhen Emperor, the king of the fallen country, did not lose the face of his ancestors, until the last moment, the Chongzhen Emperor did not choose to live secretly because he wanted to destroy the country. After Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, he rewarded all the ministers, followed by the beginning of the rectification of the bureaucracy. In history, Zhu Yuanzhang was one of the most popular emperors.
It is undeniable that during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, ming officials belonged to "high-risk occupations", and during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he launched the four major cases of Hongwu, which implicated more than 100,000 officials of the Ming Dynasty, and thus a large number of officials of the Ming Dynasty were implicated.
Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang's killings are certainly not in the minority. More importantly, during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, through the Hu Weiyong case, the prime minister system, which had been implemented for thousands of years, was abolished and replaced by the first assistant of the cabinet. But Zhu Yuanzhang could never have imagined that a hundred years later, the first assistant of the cabinet also played the role of "prime minister", and more seriously, the emergence of the first assistant of the cabinet gave the Ming Dynasty a party struggle.
Having said that, Zhu Yuanzhang founded the Ming Dynasty, and then began to rectify the rule of officials, and more importantly, during Zhu Yuanzhang's reign, he created the rule of Hongwu. Thus the Ming Dynasty had its first prosperous era, which in comparison pushed the Ming Dynasty to a peak. Thirty-one years after Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang died at the age of 71. As a result, Zhu Yuanzhang died, and emperor Jianwen took the throne.
After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, he left three wills, the first throne belonged to the emperor's grandson Zhu Yunjiao; the second funeral was simple and should not be handled in a big way; and finally the kings of the clan did not have to return to Beijing. Of these three edicts, the most important one is the last one, which is to avoid the various clan kings from snatching Zhu Yunjiao's throne in the name of shouxiao, which means Zhu Di.
In the fourteenth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang's tomb of filial piety began to be built. The following year, Empress Ma died. After Empress Ma died, she was buried in the Tomb of Filial Piety. It is worth mentioning that the "filial piety" character of Xiaoling is said to be Empress Ma's courtesy name "filial piety". After that, the construction of Xiaoling did not stop until the eleventh year of Yongle.
At this time, the "Monument of Divine Merit of the Great Ming Tomb of Filial Piety" was built in front of the Tomb of Filial Piety. As a result, after more than 30 years of time and countless costs, Xiaoling finally covers an area of more than 1.7 million square meters. Since the ming tomb was built, it has been sacrificed. During the Ming Dynasty's large and small festivals, filial piety was sacrificed. Every year, there are three major festivals and five small festivals.
After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Tombs were not affected, and even the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty would still sacrifice the Tombs. Since the ming tomb was built, the ming tomb has never been stolen for more than 600 years. Why is that? Since 1997, archaeologists have conducted 6 years of archaeological exploration of Xiaoling through high-tech means such as precision magnetic measurement, confirming that Ming Xiaoling has never been stolen.
The reason why the Ming Tombs have not been stolen has a lot to do with the structure in the Ming Tombs. First of all, the curved and curved lanes inside the Ming Tomb are like a labyrinth, and after the tomb robbers enter, it is very likely that they will not be able to get out. During the construction of the tomb, the tomb was chiseled horizontally into the mountain, hollowing out the mountain from the inside, building the underground palace, and the tomb robbers from the outside could not get their hands on it.
In the Ming Tombs, there are also pebbles as mechanisms, and if the tomb robbers dig a hole, the pebbles will roll down from all directions and fill the hole. That is, the grave robbers will go in, but they can't get out. In this way, the tomb robbers will certainly not enter the Ming Tombs. Even if you steal the treasure, you can't come out, which is definitely not what the tomb robber wants.
In addition to the anti-theft measures of the Ming Tomb itself, there is also the protection of the Ming Tomb by successive dynasties. After the Manchu Qing Entered the Customs, in order to envelop the Han people, they began to protect the imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty. More importantly, during the Kangxi Emperor, a monument was erected for the Ming Tombs. From this point of view, after the tomb robbers saw such a monument, they would also be jealous of three points.
During the Qing Dynasty, the emperor attached great importance to the protection of the imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty, and secondly, in the contemporary era, the Nanjing Municipal Cultural Relics Department invested more than 3 million yuan to repair the partially collapsed walls, and since then has carried out a number of protection projects. As a result, the Ming Tombs are even more impossible to steal, and now they have become nationally protected cultural relics.