After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, a total of two imperial gardens were built, one is the Qing Dong Mausoleum in Malanyu, Zunhua, Hebei Province, and the other is the Qing Xi Mausoleum in Yi County, Hebei Province. The Qing Tombs were the mausoleums of the first emperor Shunzhi and the second emperor Kangxi after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and when the third emperor Yongzheng arrived, he did not follow his grandfather and father to be buried in the Qing Dongling, but built his mausoleum in Yi County, Hebei Province, hundreds of miles away from the Qing Dongling.
As for why the Yongzheng Emperor was not buried in the Qing Tombs? There are many opinions in history, and there are three reasons why they are more popular
First, usurpation
Conspiracy theorists believe that the Kangxi Emperor did not want to pass the throne to Yongzheng, but yongzheng ascended the throne by tampering with the edict. Therefore, he felt ashamed in his heart, and did not dare to face his father, the Kangxi Emperor after his death, so he could only choose another place to bury.
Second, good daxi gong said
According to the records of the History of the Qing Dynasty, during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor, he killed and killed, believing that his merits were better than thousands of autumns, and not burying himself in the Qing Tombs was to show his status.
Third, the location of the selected Qing Dongling Mausoleum is not good in feng shui
According to the "History of Engineering", the mausoleum originally selected by the Yongzheng Emperor was in chaoyang mountain in the Qing Dynasty. However, after the officials of the Ministry of Ceremonies carefully looked at it, they felt that although Chaoyang Mountain was grand in scale and excellent in feng shui, it was complete in shape and the conditions for the emperor's mausoleum were not enough. Moreover, in the early exploration, it was found that the sand soil was covered with sand and stone, and it was not appropriate to build an imperial tomb.
Of the above three reasons, the first and second claims are spread in folk history and are not credible, while the third reason is from official historical sources, which is more credible. Therefore, the Yongzheng Emperor was not buried in the Qing Tombs because the feng shui of the mausoleum location was not good. Later, the Yongzheng faction and Shuoyi Prince Yunban and the governor of Liangjiang, Gao Qiqiu, looked for new feng shui treasures around the capital, and after seeing Taipingyu in Yizhou, they believed that it was "the area of Qiankun Juxiu, the place where yin and yang meet, the sand and stone of the Dragon's Den are beautiful and harvested, the water law of the mountain range is well-organized, the situation is rational and auspicious, and tao is the land of Shangji." So the Yongzheng Emperor ordered that his own mausoleum be built here.
The Yongzheng Emperor's Tailing Tomb is the largest mausoleum in the Qing Dynasty and the center of the entire Qing Dynasty Mausoleum. However, since the yongzheng emperor was buried, for hundreds of years, the focus of people's attention was not the grand scale of the Tailing, but whether the Yongzheng emperor buried in the tomb had a golden head or whether he was assassinated by Lü Siniang.
In 1975, archaeologists entered the Qianlong Underground Palace in the Qing Dynasty to clean up the site after being excavated by Sun Dianying. Since then, there have been voices in the academic circles demanding the excavation of the Tailing Tombs of the Qing Dynasty, hoping to solve the mystery of the cause of the yongzheng Emperor's death. At that time, on the edge of the treasure roof of The Tailing, there was a robbery cave of unknown age, and the cultural relics department approved the archaeological excavation considering that the underground palace might be stolen.
On April 8, 1980, a joint archaeological team composed of Hebei Province, Baoding City and Yi County officially began to excavate the Tailing Tombs. At nine o'clock in the morning, the archaeological team dug down along the mouth of the robbery cave, and when it dug to a depth of two meters, it found that the robbery hole was missing, and it turned out that the robbery cave did not enter the underground palace, indicating that the Tailing tomb was not stolen. This news was first learned by Xia Nai, who was the director of the Archaeological Research Institute at the time, and he immediately reported to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and asked to stop excavations. Subsequently, he personally rushed to the Qingxi Mausoleum and urgently stopped the excavation work.
In this way, the excavation of the Yongzheng Tai Mausoleum was terminated, and the archaeological team also refilled the entrance to the stolen cave, and the mystery of the cause of death of the Yongzheng Emperor was not solved. In July of the same year, the archaeological team excavated the Chongling Tomb of the Guangxu Emperor, also in the Qing Dynasty Mausoleum, and now the underground palace has been opened to the public!