If you ask which is the most mysterious imperial tomb in China, I believe that most people will say qin shi huang mausoleum. But in fact, the most mysterious imperial tomb in China should be the mausoleum of Genghis Khan, the head of the "Golden Family". Because the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang has been found, but the mausoleum of Genghis Khan has not been found so far.
An expert in Mongolian studies predicted that the mausoleum of Genghis Khan might be more spectacular than the terracotta warriors of the Mausoleum of the First Emperor of Qin. Because throughout Genghis Khan's life, he plundered from more than 20 countries the treasures are numerous. So this is very likely to happen.
But Genghis Khan was a Mongol and a shaman. Shamanism, on the other hand, holds that a person's life and death is a cycle of rebirth. What they advocate is to return to nature after death, to return to the earth. Give back to the land that nurtured itself with the greatest value of the body after death.
Therefore, their funeral system is also a secret burial system, that is, the funeral is not recorded, and the burial place is not marked and not announced. And after the burial, it is buried by the "Ten Thousand Horses Stepping Flat". As a result, the tombs of all the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty are still difficult to excavate.
The same is true of the tomb of Genghis Khan, which has been a mysterious existence in the history of the continent. Among them, many legends have been derived, one of which is that in order to determine the location, his descendants slaughtered a small camel in front of the mausoleum before the funeral, and the mother camel watched from the side.
The mother camel mourned when she saw the little camel being killed. Later, when it was time to worship, the descendants led the mother camel to this place, and the mother camel could accurately find the place where the little camel was killed and cry. In this way, people can determine the location of the mausoleum to worship. After the death of the mother camel, the descendants will no longer come to worship.
Another legend is that in order to ensure that no one knows the specific location of the Khan's tomb after the death of Genghis Khan, the army that was buried after the death of Genghis Khan carried a coffin to kill people along the way, and directly stabbed everyone regardless of men and women. After being sent to the burial, a circle of arrows was inserted 30 miles outside his grave and heavily guarded.
The reason why these two legends are legends is because their authenticity has no historical records and cannot be verified. But experts say the legend may be false, but it is likely that Genghis Khan killed people when they met people. There are three reasons for this:
First, it is to keep secrets. The Mongolian secret burial ritual has been like this since ancient times. The mystery of Genghis Khan's tomb is that it is very likely that his coffin was killed everywhere he went, and of course no one who knew about his tomb would be able to find his tomb.
The second is that the reason for Genghis Khan's death is because of Xixia. He died after conquering Western Xia, even if Western Xia surrendered. This also did not dispel the anger in the hearts of the Mongol army, and Genghis Khan sent a funeral through the Western Xia. Naturally, it was necessary to kill everyone, and killing an enemy country did not have any burden on the Mongol army.
Third, practice the traditional Mongolian system of burial. In "Marco Polo's Travels", the funeral of Genghis Khan was recorded in a sentence -
"On the way to transport the coffin of the monarch to the Altay Mountains, the escorts treated everyone they met along the way as martyrs"
This sentence reveals the approximate location of the burial place of Genghis Khan, and also explains the authenticity of the funeral army's killing. At the same time, the reason was also named, that is, to give the monarch a burial. Archaeologists have indeed found a large mountain with traces of artificial modification in the Altay Mountains of Xinjiang, speculating that Genghis Khan's mausoleum is likely to be this mountain.
Of course, this cannot be taken seriously, because it cannot be determined either. Because of the historical record, even his descendants Kublai Khan did not know where his grandfather's mausoleum was, and in order to commemorate the restoration of the 8 white carpet tents in which he lived before his death, some of his relics were enshrined and established a crown tomb.
500 families were drawn from the Various Ministries of Mongolia to guard the mausoleum and given the name Ofalbat. Since then, Darhut has been moving around with these 8 white blankets, from the Yuan Dynasty to the Ming and Qing dynasties, and then to the Republic of China, has always adhered to his mission, probably really faith, so that they can stick to it.