The ancestral tombs that are so awesome in history have to be detoured by the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway to protect them. How much is they worth?
In everyone’s inherent impression, emperors are all descendants of the royal family who inherit the throne. Of course, there are many examples of relatives turning against each other to compete for the throne. Some people even harmed their own relatives in order to compete for the throne. However, not all emperors inherited the throne through family inheritance. Just like Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, and Liu Bang, the emperor of the Han Dynasty. Before they became emperors, they were like ordinary people. Their living conditions were very difficult, and their families' financial conditions were also very poor. Not very wealthy, these two people rose to the throne step by step from the bottom.
The most outstanding ancestral tomb "Ming Emperor's Tomb"
However, comparatively speaking, Liu Bang is better than Zhu Yuanzhang. After all, Liu Bang also served as a small cadre, and he was also good in terms of food and clothing. Yes; Zhu Yuanzhang was more miserable. He lost his relatives when he was young and lived alone. At that time, he didn’t even have a place to bury his parents. He was still young and had no choice. In addition, his family was very poor and had no money. He couldn’t even buy a coffin, so he could only wrap his parents in old clothes. He got up and was buried in the Zhu family's ancestral grave. In the end, his parents' funeral was hastily settled like this. I believe everyone will be very curious, why did Zhu Yuanzhang, whose family was so poor at that time, have an ancestral grave? This is a long story. Come find out with me below.
This starts with Zhu Yuanzhang’s grandfather. Zhu Yuanzhang’s grandfather was Xizu of the Ming Dynasty. He was born in the late Song Dynasty and the early Yuan Dynasty and was a native of Zhujia Village, Tongde Township, Jurong County, Jiangsu Province. Due to the constant war at that time, he moved to Sizhou with his family. As long as the local people have weddings and weddings, they will ask him to be the master of ceremonies. However, one day, he was lying in a pit under the Yang family pier behind the house. At this moment, two Taoist priests, one old and one young, came, pointed to the place where he was lying, and said: "If you are buried here, the emperor will definitely be born." "Actually, Xizu was not asleep at that time but pretending to be asleep. After hearing what the two Taoist priests said, he silently remembered it in his heart.
Until 1327, Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather passed away. Before his death, he asked his family to bury him here after his death. Later, in 1328, Xizu's daughter-in-law gave birth to Zhu Yuanzhang. As time passed, Zhu Yuanzhang's parents, brother and sister-in-law buried them here after they passed away. After all the affairs were arranged, Zhu Yuanzhang was ready to go out and strive for his own career, and maybe he could change the status quo and achieve himself. Sure enough, 20 years later, Zhu Yuanzhang became King of Wu. After he became rich, he remembered his ancestral tomb in Haozhou. Since the ancestral tomb was very simple and small, he sent someone to expand and repair the ancestral tomb.
Not long after, after Zhu Yuanzhang successfully proclaimed himself emperor, he thought about expanding the tomb of his ancestors. At that time, he also had the idea of re-burial. Fortunately, at that time, Feng Shui master Liu Bowen said the reason why the location of the ancestral tomb could not be changed. If it were to be changed, it would definitely "discharge the spiritual energy of the mountains and rivers." Because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang did not re-burial, but just expanded it on this basis. The total area of the Ming Emperor's Tomb now reaches 20,000 acres. Judging from the time, the ancients also attached great importance to Feng Shui, and even Zhu Yuanzhang was no exception.
In order to protect the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway bypass in the Ming Dynasty Mausoleum
The area where Zhu Yuanzhang buried his parents was a geomantic treasure land and the location of the dragon vein. As it should be, Zhu Yuanzhang later obtained He achieved great success and became emperor. After he became the emperor, he attached great importance to this place and built the large-scale Ming Emperor Mausoleum. Feng Shui actually has no scientific basis. The most important thing is that Zhu Yuanzhang achieved major achievements through his own efforts. In the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum, in addition to Zhu Yuanzhang's parents, there are also his brothers and sisters-in-law. The Ming Emperor's Mausoleum is not actually an imperial mausoleum, but its scale is built according to the imperial mausoleum.
The Ming Emperor’s Mausoleum covers a total area of 20,000 acres. The mausoleum is equipped with hundreds of Xiangdian, Zhaigong, and official halls. There are 32 pairs of stone statues. The inscriptions on the imperial mausoleum were all written by Zhu Yuanzhang himself. of. To say that the carvings of these 32 pairs of stone statues are very exquisite, they are rare art treasures. To say that these have become the crown of the imperial mausoleums of all dynasties. I have to say that this mausoleum can be regarded as the most impressive ancestral tomb in history. The palaces and palaces are grand in scale, and the entire imperial mausoleum is very spectacular.
What everyone doesn't know is that in order to protect the Ming Emperor's Mausoleum, even the Beijing-Shanghai high-speed railway chose to change its route, and built an extra 6 kilometers of bridges, and spent nearly 230 million yuan more. It can be seen that the value of such a large-scale tomb is very high, and it cannot even be measured in money.
The value of money is immeasurable
This mausoleum is an extremely precious treasure house of art and has very important historical and cultural value, so we must take good care of these ancient buildings. In addition, some precious cultural relics also need everyone to protect them together. After all, these are precious treasures left by the ancients. They also allow us to see the wisdom and creativity of the ancients. We must Cherish it more. In any case, I hope everyone can protect cultural relics and not do things that you will regret for your own selfish interests.
The value of life is not measured by time, but by depth. —— Leo Tolstoy
Conclusion
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang is also an authentic filial son, and he is also someone who works hard and is easily satisfied. Therefore, no matter what kind of difficulties we encounter in life, we must persevere and work hard. One day you will be able to hold on until the clouds clear and the moon shines through, and you will have a good harvest in career and love. Even after we have something, we must not forget our original intention, know how to be content, don't dream of wanting more, and be filial to our parents. After all, filial piety is our country's traditional culture, and this is what we want to pass on. Finally, I hope that everyone can protect these precious cultural relics and buildings with great historical value, so that our country can become stronger and stronger.
References:
"Qian Xuesen's Quotations" and "Leo Tolstoy's Quotes"