Tomb robbery exists in various periods of history, especially in the Three Kingdoms, Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms and the Republic of China period, tomb robbery is even more serious, these tomb robbers can be described as bold, such as the Han Dynasty, tang Dynasty and Qing Dynasty imperial tombs, have been stolen very seriously, only the Ming Dynasty's imperial tombs were stolen relatively better.
In the Ming Dynasty imperial mausoleum, in addition to the Ming Tombs, there is a very special imperial tomb, that is, Zhu Yuanzhang's Ming Xiao Mausoleum, the reason why this imperial tomb is special, because its construction area is very large, and there is only one imperial tomb, which has experienced more than 600 years of history, still intact, no one to rob the tomb, why is this?
The basic situation of the Ming Tombs
Ming Xiaoling is a relatively special imperial mausoleum, the rest of the imperial tombs are generally many emperors concentrated in a precinct, such as the Ming Tombs and the Qing Eastern Tombs, Qingxi Tombs and the like, Ming Xiaoling does the opposite, it only has an imperial tomb, occupies an area, it is said that the reason for this, is because some people say that this feng shui treasure land can only prosper one person, so Zhu Yuanzhang only chose to let his imperial tomb be built here.
Ming Xiaoling was built from the fourteenth year of Hongwu, and was officially named Ming Xiaoling in the sixteenth year of Hongwu, the reason why it was named like this is because Empress Ma died in the sixteenth year of Hongwu, Empress Ma was first buried in the Ming Xiaoling, Zhu Yuanzhang had a deep affection for Empress Ma, and Empress Ma's title was "Empress Xiaocigao", so she took the filial character to name the imperial mausoleum.
Ming Xiaoling was built until Yongle three years before it was fully completed, it took a total of 25 years before and after, more than 100,000 laborers were used, covering an area of up to 1.7 million square meters, among the ancient imperial tombs, Ming Xiaoling is definitely one of the largest imperial tombs.
After the ming xiaoling was built, it has always been guarded by heavy troops, it is said that under normal circumstances, there are also five or six thousand people guarding the Ming xiaoling, and many times it is as high as tens of thousands, so in the entire history of the Ming Dynasty for more than two hundred years, the Ming Xiaoling tombs are well preserved, but in the Qing Dynasty Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, Hong Xiuquan once destroyed the Ming Xiaoling Tombs, but later it was also repaired by Zeng Guofan, so far, the Ming Xiaoling tombs have been unscathed and preserved to this day.
Why is the Ming Tomb always well preserved, and no one dares to rob the tomb? In fact, there are many reasons behind this problem, and I will analyze it in detail below.
Why is the Ming Tomb well preserved
To explain the reason why the tombs are well preserved, I think the first one is because the meaning of the Ming tombs is different, the Ming Dynasty is the last Dynasty ruled by the Han people in ancient Chinese history, so the Central Plains people have a strong sense of reverence for the Ming Dynasty, so we will find a problem, the imperial tombs of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to the Imperial Tombs of Chongzhen and the Dingling Tombs have been excavated protectively, the rest of the imperial tombs are well preserved.
To say that no one in history dared to rob the tomb, in fact, it is not so, but everyone does not want to rob the tomb, for example, Sun Dianying in the Republic of China period, why did he dare to steal the imperial tomb of the Qing Dynasty, that is, because Sun Dianying thought that this was giving the Han people a long face, so after he stole the Qing Dongling, he did not panic at all, if it were not for the high attention of all walks of life later, Sun Dianying did not have any fear at all.
We can imagine that the Qing Dynasty was originally established by the Manchus, so the Han people dared to rob tombs, but the Ming Dynasty was established by the Han people, the significance of the representation is too special, whether it is the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, or people from all walks of life, do not dare and can not go to the tomb, the Qing Rulers in order to win over the Han people, but also specially sent people to protect the Imperial Tombs of the Ming Dynasty, people from all walks of life are even more regarded as the foundation of the Han people, no one dares to risk the world's great disobedience, to steal the tomb.
Judging from the special significance of the Ming Tombs, everyone will not go to the tombs, and from the geographical location of the Ming Tombs, there is no way for everyone to rob the tombs. Ming Xiaoling is located in Nanjing relatively close to the center, next to the Nanjing government, during the Ming Dynasty Nanjing was the imperial capital at the beginning, and later even if the capital was moved to Beijing, there are still many heavy troops guarding Nanjing, tomb robbers are no way to patronize the Ming Xiaoling.
In the Qing Dynasty, Nanjing was an important place, the Qing Rulers protected the Ming Tombs very well, basically there was no such thing as tomb robbery, and in the Republic of China period, Nanjing became the National Government, and no one dared to rob tombs in such a place, even if they were as bold as Sun Dianying, presumably they did not dare to rob tombs in front of everyone.
Of course, these are subjective factors mentioned above, to show that Xiaoling is not damaged, the most important reason is that when it is built, it has already taken into account the problem of tomb robbery, and has also done a lot of anti-theft measures, first of all, it shows that the construction method of Xiaoling, it is built by hollowing out the stones horizontally, after the building is closed, people simply can't find the entrance to the underground palace of Ming Xiaoling, if you want to use violent means to open the underground palace, you must use a lot of explosives to use a lot of explosives in this obvious place, This obviously does not work.
Even if someone is lucky enough to find the entrance to the underground palace, after entering, it may be buried by pebbles, because the Ming Tomb adopts a quicksand anti-theft construction method, and puts a lot of pebbles on the top, as long as someone enters the underground palace, the upper stone will automatically fall down, and the tomb robbers can be described as having no return.
Just the outer buildings are already full of so many mysteries, what the situation inside will be, we don't know, but judging from Zhu Yuanzhang's personality and the status of the founding emperor, the interior of the Ming Tombs is definitely full of organs, and those who want to rob the tomb are estimated to have no return.
Since the Ming Tomb is full of so many terrifying things, it is unlikely that someone wants to rob the tomb or destroy it, after all, if there is any mistake in the Ming Tomb, it is not only a matter of economic loss, but also involves a lot of things about faith and even national righteousness, and no one dares to risk the world to rob the tomb.
epilogue
Ming Xiaoling is not only built in a very unique way, so that tomb robbers are daunted, and its special geographical location and the special significance of its representatives, are doomed to ming xiaoling is impossible to be robbed, unless the Ming Dynasty appears again similar to the special historical stage of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, otherwise it is impossible to be stolen, fortunately, after the Ming Dynasty, there is no such turbulent era, so the Ming Xiaoling tomb has been preserved intact for more than 600 years, and will continue to be preserved unharmed!
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