In the past few years, a popular "Tomb Robber's Note" has been sought after by people, and one of the professions, "Captain Touching Gold", has appeared in people's sights.
First of all, let's not talk about whether Lieutenant Jin existed in history, just say whether the "tomb robbery" situation mentioned in it exists, the answer is yes, in the folk has been circulating the Han tomb ten rooms and nine empty saying, this is because at that time the Han Dynasty experienced the rule of Wenjing, the national strength was strong, officials and rich people will use thick burial after death, which also breeds many tomb robbers.
Of course, in many large tombs excavated now, there are often tomb robbers who have "patronized" the figure, which makes many archaeologists headaches.
Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum - Ming Xiaoling
In history, the tombs of many emperors have been patronized by tomb robbers, but Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Xiao mausoleum has now passed for more than 600 years, but he has survived.
The Ming Tombs were not originally called "Ming Tombs", because in the second year after the tomb was built, Empress Ma died and was buried in the underground palace in September of the same year, and "filial piety" was derived from the filial piety in Empress Ma's title. In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang died in Yingtianfu and was buried with Empress Ma in the underground palace of Xiaoling.
The Ming Tombs were built in the style of the imperial tombs of the Tang and Song dynasties as a whole, and half of the more than seventy temples in the Southern Dynasty were within the scope of the Tombs, and it is also one of the largest existing ancient imperial tombs in China, and was included in the World Heritage List in 2003.
According to historical records, at that time, the construction of the Ming Tombs successively used more than 100,000 military engineers, built in the fourteenth year of Ming Hongwu, and basically completed in three years of Yongle, which took up to 25 years, showing the vastness of the project.
According to common sense, in general, there are countless rare treasures in this kind of imperial tomb, which have long been remembered by tomb thieves, but 600 years have passed since Zhu Yuanzhang's death, and many imperial tombs in the same period or after have been "patronized" by tomb robbers, but the Ming Tombs are still intact, what is going on?
Protection of the Ming Tombs
It can be explained that the untolen tomb of Xiaoling has the most direct relationship with the protection of various dynasties, during the Ming Dynasty, Xiaoling belonged to the mausoleum of the founding emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, no matter from which aspect, it was protected.
And the ancients would think that the tombs of emperors occupy good feng shui, and are also the lifeblood of a country, and the rise and fall of a dynasty depends entirely on whether the lifeline protection is perfect. Therefore, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty after Zhu Yuanzhang cherished the xiaoling tomb and did not dare to make any mistakes. Even the emperors after Zhu Di did not have much ability, but the mausoleum of the ancestor Zhu Yuanzhang was still protected, which allowed Xiaoling to survive safely throughout the Ming Dynasty.
As for the reason that after the Qing army entered the customs, although the emperors of the Qing Dynasty were on the one hand eliminating the forces of the previous Ming Dynasty, on the other hand, they were protecting the tombs of the Ming Emperors.
This is still a problem of the small population base of the Manchus, when the Manchus want to rule the world, they must buy the hearts of some Han people, so as not to suffer too much dissatisfaction, and the Ming Emperor's mausoleum is one of the official Han people's hearts, so the Qing Dynasty still has various protective measures for the Ming Emperor's mausoleum.
In history, there were also many Qing Emperors who sent or personally worshiped the Ming Tombs, performing the ritual of three kneeling and nine kowtows, which shows the importance that the Qing Rulers attached to the Ming Tombs, and although they were destroyed in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, it was fortunate that the Qing Rulers sent people to repair it in time.
As for the subsequent Republic of China period and after the founding of New China, the protection of the Ming Tomb is even more important.
Ming Xiaoling's self-superiority
As the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum must have been the most important, and at that time, the Ming Dynasty was in a prosperous period, and various anti-theft was also particularly good when building the Xiaoling Tomb. This can be seen in the fact that Guo Moruo advocated the excavation of Zhu Di's Changling Tomb, but after searching for a long time, he did not find the entrance to the underground palace.
In addition, the Ming Tomb is located next to the city of Nanjing, if the tomb robbers really want to excavate the Ming Tomb, they will also make a big move, for this kind of thing that cannot see the light, they naturally do not dare to openly excavate.
Although there are many cultural relics and jewels in the Ming Tomb, these points are enough to make the Ming Tomb still intact for hundreds of years, which is also fortunate for many people.