The tombs of the Emperors of the Central Plains are very grand, especially the tombs of the Ming and Qing Emperors have underground palaces, the surface buildings are also very grand, stone arches, Shinto, stone statues, treasure cities, sacrifice halls are indispensable, the gold and silver treasures in the underground palace are countless, so it is indeed done to die as if they were alive, but it also left a lot of thoughts for tomb robbers, buried a huge disaster for themselves, and countless imperial tombs that were stolen and destroyed. Comparatively speaking, the Mongols are much smarter, the tombs of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty are almost invisible on the surface, and where the tombs of Genghis Khan are still a mystery, even with satellite detectors, it is difficult to find.
The surface can not see the Yuan Dynasty imperial mausoleum and the Mongolian rulers of the funerary methods and traditions have a lot to do with the Mongolian rulers, the Mongol rulers advocate thin burial, burial after death is very simple, compared to the Han rulers can be described as shabby to the extreme. After the death of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, only one piece of wood was hollowed out of wood to make a coffin, and the most extravagant thing was to make three gold hoops made of gold and tie them to the coffin. Which is like the Han ruler who wants the yellow intestine inscription, because the mountain is a mausoleum, and the underground palace treasure roof? Funeral goods are not a dime. The choice of burial site for the funeral of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty is extremely hidden and confidential, just go to the grassland deep in the mountains, all the people seen along the way are killed, the approximate location is in the Altai Mountains, the specific location of the burial is randomly selected, the horse team stops before and after, dig a ditch at random here, and then put the emperor's coffin into it, and then the soil is backfilled and flattened with ten thousand horses.
Ten thousand horses trampled to make sure that there was no trace of excavation, and then set up a huge tent here, no one was allowed to enter, sent elite troops to guard, and waited until two or three years later, when the grass and trees here grew exactly the same as the surroundings, and then the tent was removed. The workers who specifically dug the pits would all be shot and buried in the pits as funerary items for the emperor. In order to facilitate future generations to come and pay tribute to the emperor, a small camel was killed at the place where the emperor was buried. After the mother camel saw the death of the little camel, she was sad, and naturally wrote down this place, and later relied on the guidance of the mother camel to reach the place where the emperor was buried. The way to use camels to find tombs may be arranged by later generations of Mongols, after all, the life of camels is not as long as that of people, and camels cannot withstand logical reasoning when looking for tombs.
The reasons why the Mongol rulers chose the strange burial method are various, and there is a theory that they were afraid of retribution, because they carried out large-scale destruction and excavation of the tombs of the Southern Song Emperors, and even used the heads of Song Lizong as wine vessels to drink, which hurt nature and reason too much, and feared that the Han people would retaliate later to adopt this extremely simple burial method, so that it would be difficult for future generations to find the place where their real bones were buried. However, the approximate location of the burial of the Emperors of the Yuan Dynasty can be found, and 13 of the 15 Yuan Emperors were buried in the Qiyuan Valley of the Altai Mountains.