The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal ruling dynasty in China, the Qing Dynasty has been destroyed for more than 100 years, and the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Puyi, has also died for more than 50 years. Puyi was buried in Babaoshan when he first died, and later considered various reasons, Puyi was reburied next to the Qingxi Mausoleum, which is now the Hualong Royal Cemetery. Although the Qing Dynasty has been extinct for more than 100 years, there have always been tomb keepers in these Qing Dynasty imperial tombs.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, on September 29, 1952, a special Qing Dongling Protection Agency, the Qing Dongling Cultural Relics Depository, was established, and the buildings of the tombs were successively repaired and the management of the mausoleum area was strengthened. On March 4, 1961, the Qing Dongling Tombs were included in the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units, and in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Cixi Mausoleum and the Yuling Underground Palace were successively opened for tourists to visit, and since then the Qing Dongling Cultural Relics Depository has also been upgraded to the Qing Dongling Cultural Relics Management Office, and on November 30, 2000, it was included in the World Cultural Heritage List.
Many of the descendants of the tomb keepers do not know that their ancestors were tomb keepers. Even if they know something, they will not understand much, and in some important ancestral festivals, the descendants of these tomb keepers will not carry out large-scale sacrifices like their ancestors, but at most they will make some simple sacrifices according to the rituals of ancestor worship. There are also some descendants of the tomb keepers who have also become new tomb keepers, of course, these are mainly some who have been planned as royal cemeteries, or cultural relics protection units, and the descendants of these people will carry out the work of their ancestors as a member of the maintenance and management of them.
Many tomb keepers changed their ways in order to make a living, and the Republic of China government arranged some tomb keepers, but a large part of them were guarded and robbed, as mentioned earlier, the tombs of Empress Dowager Cixi and the Qianlong Emperor were stolen and excavated, it was Sun Dianying who did it, he was still the commander of the 12th Army of the Kuomintang Sixth Army, so it was enough to see the chaos at that time.