Introduction: Throughout the history of China's five-thousand-year Chinese civilization, there are more than 500 emperors with names and surnames, if you choose the most legendary emperor, then the first place is not the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang. A poor boy from a poor family, his parents died since childhood, in order to eat enough to live, Zhu Yuanzhang became a monk to eat, and later joined the rebel army, relying on the ability to know people and do good job, and finally unified Jiangshan and became the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty.
After Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, he followed the example of the previous emperor and began to look for feng shui treasures and build mausoleums for himself, and finally Zhu Yuanzhang saw the Purple Mountain in the eastern suburbs of Nanjing. According to the "History of Ming", the Ming Tombs were built from the fourteenth year of Hongwu (1381) until the death of Zhu Yuanzhang in the thirty-first year of Hongwu, and were built for a total of 17 years. However, according to folklore, only Empress Ma was buried in the Ming Tomb, and Zhu Yuanzhang's bones were not in the underground palace of the Ming Tombs.
In the city of Nanjing, this children's song is circulated: the old man is afraid of the old woman, the young man buys a cousin to wear, and the thirteen city gates come out of the coffin. The third nursery rhyme sings the story of Zhu Yuanzhang's burial, and it is said that before zhu Yuanzhang died, he ordered his grandson Emperor Jianwen to arrange thirteen funeral teams after his death, and at the same time set off from the thirteen city gates of Nanjing, so that no one knew where he was really buried.
Of course, the claim of the tomb is only folklore, and there is no such thing as a tomb in the main history. According to the "History of Ming", Zhu Yuanzhang's underground palace was under a circular mountain called Dulongfu in the Purple Mountain. Archaeologists analyzed that Zhu Yuanzhang was an emperor who valued his death more than he did before he was born, and it can be seen from the grand scale of the Ming Tombs, so the underground palace buried under the Dulongfu must be equally huge.
Due to the loss of historical books, the lack of necessary engineering archives, and the fact that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in Nanjing Chaotian Palace or Beijing Banzai Mountain and 13 city gates at the time of burial, zhu Yuanzhang has been a mystery in people's minds for hundreds of years.
Archaeologists said that due to scientific and technological means and the provisions of the law, the Ming Tombs cannot be excavated for the time being, which is a very regrettable thing. But this did not bother the archaeologists, they still found a new way to basically explore the condition and structure of the underground palace of the Ming Tombs.
In the Ming Dynasty, the place where the emperor lived before his death was called the imperial palace, and the place where he died was called the Linggong, also known as the shrine. According to the ming dynasty funeral system, after the emperor died, he set up a shrine supervisor in the mausoleum to manage the emperor's mausoleum. Usually, the location of the shrine is next to the shrine, that is, the mausoleum palace next to the ground. Therefore, it is very important for the archaeological team to look for the location of Zhu Yuanzhang's underground palace and find the specific location of the shrine supervisor. In several consecutive years of drilling studies of the Ming Tombs, the archaeological team found the site of a jingu prison.
In 1999, while drilling on the east side of the Jinshui Bridge in Ming Xiaoling, an archaeological team found a well made of bricks, and found the remains of brick structures and stone components around the well, with large pillar foundations exposed to the surface. By comparing and comparing the bricks and stones elsewhere in the established Tombs, the researchers determined that the remains belonged to the same period of architecture as the Tombs. Since the ruins were the only buildings found close to the shrine at that time, cultural relics workers speculated that the building was most likely the location of the shrine overseer.
Since the location of the shrine was determined, it meant that the underground Xuangong should also be nearby. So the archaeological team immediately found the staff of the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute, using non-destructive precision magnetic measurement technology, and with ground investigation and research, and finally unveiled a mystery hidden for more than 600 years - one - to find out the location of the underground Xuan Palace of the Ming Xiaoling Tomb, to confirm that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried tens of meters under the Dulongfu, and this underground palace was well preserved, eliminating the theory that the underground palace was stolen in the past.