The Ming Chang Mausoleum is the joint burial tomb of Zhu Di and Empress Xu of the Ming Dynasty, and is the largest and earliest mausoleum built in the Ming Tombs.
In 1402, Zhu Di successfully usurped the throne and ascended the throne in Nanjing. In 1407, Empress Xu died, and Zhu Di did not bury her in Nanjing, but chose the site of the mausoleum in Beijing, and finally chose the loess mountain in northern Beijing, and renamed the loess mountain Tianshou Mountain. In 1409, construction of the Changling Tomb began. The underground palace alone took 4 years to build, which shows how large it is, and the ground construction was not completed until 1427.
In 1416, Zhu Di ordered the construction of the Beijing Imperial Palace, which was completed in 1420, and in September of that year, despite the opposition of his courtiers, Zhu Di could not wait to officially move the capital to Beijing and return to the fiefdom he was once familiar with. In 1424, Zhu Di personally led an army to attack the north of mobei, but without success, died on the way back to the division. After the crown prince succeeded to the throne, he buried Zhu Di in Changling and buried him with Empress Xu.
Changling is round in front of and back, and the ground building has three courtyards, covering an area of 180 acres. Boseong is the enclosure of the underground palace, which is circular in shape, 340 meters in diameter, surrounded by bricks, and the sealed earth is piled up into a small hill more than 20 meters high.
There are certainly countless rare treasures in the Ming Chang Mausoleum, but they have not been stolen so far.
Because both the Ming and Qing dynasties effectively protected the Changling Tomb, although the Qing Dynasty demolished some ground buildings of golden silk nan wood, it still did not attack the underground palace. There is also the fact that the sealing soil is too large, the amount of work is huge, and the tomb robbers cannot eat it. After liberation, Guo Moruo applied for the excavation of Changling, but the cultural relics workers were busy for a long time, and the entrance to the underground palace was not found, so he had to extend his hand to the Dingling Tomb of the Wanli Emperor, causing huge losses to the Dingling Tomb, and Guo Moruo also carried the insult. Since then, there has been no initiative to excavate the imperial tomb. Therefore, Zhu Di's Changling tomb has been preserved to this day.