Who knows where the tomb of Genghis Khan is? How old was he and how did he die?
On September 17, 2004, at the "Ordos Academic Seminar" held in Dongsheng District, Ordos City, experts and scholars from inside and outside the area and Daur Mongolians who have been guarding the mausoleum for generations pointed out that although the burial place of Genghis Khan has not been accurately confirmed by underground archaeology, Genghis Khan's "Eight White Rooms" (also known as "Eight White Rooms"), as a national will and a national public sacrifice, is located in Yijinhuoluo Banner, Ordos City, Inner Mongolia. As the only hereditary grave keeper in the world whose duty is to protect Genghis Khan's tomb, the Daur nationality has been practicing the most complete, authoritative and Mongolian sacrificial system.
Experts attending the meeting believed that during Kublai Khan's rule in Yuan Shizu, Ordos was classified as a province directly under the central government, and the place name of Yijinhuoluo, which was allowed to be translated into Chinese, was not set on Mount Kent, but the place where eight white houses were placed in Ordos was definitely not arbitrary, nor was it allowed to be arbitrary. In addition, Chagan Surik Festival, the largest of Kublai Khan's four legal festivals, was held in Genghis Khan Mausoleum in Ejinhoro Banner. For more than 700 years, Mongolians have been adhering to this traditional commemorative activity.
At this seminar, experts also showed the witness record of the person who put the silver box in Genghis Khan's "celestial burial": "The coffin of Genghis Khan and the coffin of the Great Khan Queen are both equipped with rectangular silver coffins, which are locked with copper locks." "1956 after the completion of the new Genghis Khan cemetery, Khan's silver coffin was opened once ... all seven coffins were opened, and the seventh coffin contained a portrait of Genghis Khan's family wrapped in a fragrant cowhide pillow. What is in the leather pillow is still a mystery because it has not been opened. "
According to the local person in charge in Dahut, "it has been said for many years (in the leather pillow) that Khan's clothes are wrapped in a bone of Khan."
Yun Zhaoguang, the former chairman of Inner Mongolia Federation of Literary and Art Circles, the screenwriter of "Ordos Storm" and a famous scholar of modern Mongolian history, said that Genghis Khan died in midsummer, so to protect his body, it will not take three months or half a year for long-distance transportation, and it will only be buried in Ordos, which is close to Liupanshan and the Yellow River.
It is now in the Center for Asian Studies in the United States, and it is written in 1939. It omits the little-known content in the postscript of the Yuan Dynasty general Dou, which actually proves Mr. Yun's point of view. The incomplete paper book stored in the iron cabinet was translated into Chinese, saying, "Khan went out to fight and died suddenly, and proposed celestial burial because of Khan." "Prime minister with sweat sword, Dong Mu seven treasure chest (i.e., silver coffin), make god camel to be buried. 47 days in the desert ... and in the days in the flat desert depression, the camel can't stand up and the subjects don't move. The ministers prayed silently, the sword flew away, and the clothes shone brilliantly. The subjects rejoiced in the Lord and were buried in the lowland plateau (that is, Ejinhoro). They set up guards ... They went out to look for swords, found them on the grass hundreds of miles away, and enjoyed the sacrifice at four o'clock as a treasure house (now Su Le Dinghuo). "
The custom of dense burial of Mongolian nobles
Legend has it that when Genghis Khan was buried, in order to keep secret, more than 10 thousand war horses were planted in the burial place and an independent tree was used as the tombstone. In order to find the cemetery in the future, Genghis Khan killed his baby camel in front of a female camel and spilled blood on the cemetery. By the time the green grass sprouted the next spring, the cemetery was no different from other places. In this case, when the descendants sacrificed to Genghis Khan, they took the female camel with them. When the mother camel comes to the cemetery, she will cry because she thinks of the killed baby camel. The sacrificial ceremony was held in the mother camel's funeral home. However, when the camel died, no one could find Genghis Khan's tomb.
According to the Secret History of Mongolia, after the Mongolian royal family was buried, hundreds of war horses were used to flatten the tomb surface, then flowers and trees were planted on it, and then people were sent to guard the tomb for a long time until there was no trace on the surface, and the insiders would be killed. This shows that this legend is obviously not groundless. Pan Zhaodong pointed out that there is a long distance from Liupanshan to the location where the Japanese-Mongolian joint archaeological team found the cemetery. In midsummer, it is necessary to travel thousands of miles to ensure that the body does not rot, and at the same time, it is necessary to climb mountains and cross deserts. These problems are difficult to solve in three days.
Pan Zhaodong said that according to records, when Genghis Khan died, he put the top mane of the white camel on Genghis Khan's nose and mouth. If he doesn't gasp, it means that the soul has attached to this white camel hair. At this time, the body can be disposed of, and this camel hair can be kept in the cloakroom. According to Pan Zhaodong, when Chengling was completed in the 1950s, the silver coffin was opened and this camel hair was found. The tomb of Genghis Khan finally revealed the secret. Mr. Qi Zhong Yi, the 34th generation grandson of Genghis Khan and the last Mongolian prince in China, recently introduced some little-known past events to reporters, revealing the mysterious corner of Genghis Khan's mausoleum.
Genghis Khan Mausoleum, located in Yijinhuoluo Banner, Erdos City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, has always been concerned at home and abroad. A grand sacrificial ceremony is held here every year, and the Mongols regard it as a sacred place. However, some people think that it is just the cenotaph of Genghis Khan.
Qi Zhongyi, a 78-year-old man, once served as the vice-president of Yike Zhao Meng (now Erdos City) in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, and retired from the post of vice-president of CPPCC in Inner Mongolia several years ago. At his home in Hohhot, the old man was interviewed by Xinhua News Agency.
"Outsiders don't know that the mausoleum of Genghis Khan in Ejinhoro Banner is very important, not just the cenotaph of Genghis Khan. There are many secrets in Genghis Khan's coffin, but we can't tell them. I remember 1954, when the coffin was opened, Ulanhu, then chairman of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, saw it with his own eyes. There are indeed some human bones in it. " The reporter also visited a portrait of Genghis Khan's family in Qi's home, which contained *** 12 people. The portrait of Genghis Khan is different from the image circulating in the world now. Qi Zhong Yi said that the portrait was taken from Genghis Khan's coffin.
"Judging from the Mongolian customs and shamanism believed in in the past, ancestor worship is mainly about offering sacrifices to souls, not bones. According to Mongolian custom, after a person dies, his last breath-soul will leave the human body and attach to the nearby camel hair. According to historical records, camel hair that absorbed the last breath of Genghis Khan's ancestors, that is, the soul, has been collected in Genghis Khan's mausoleum in Ordos for hundreds of years. " Qi Zhongyi said.
The old man Qi Zhong Yi thinks that Genghis Khan died in Liupanshan, Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. It was summer and the climate was hot. The body cannot be transported far away, and it is very likely to be secretly buried in Ordos. " He also told reporters a beautiful legend circulating in Ordos grassland:
At that time, when Genghis Khan led his army to Xixia, he passed by Bao 'er Tolgoi in Ordos grassland and was deeply intoxicated by the beautiful scenery of lush water plants and deer infestation. If I missed it, I dropped the whip on the ground, and Genghis Khan stopped me when my entourage tried to pick it up. Khan felt it and recited a poem: "Jin Lu, Hua Jiao is the habitat, the hometown of Dai Sheng birds brooding, the place where the declining dynasty is revived, and the white-haired old man enjoys happiness." And said to the left and right, "I can be buried here after I die." After Genghis Khan died in Liupanshan, his men were going to transport his coffin back to his hometown for burial, but when the hearse passed the Ordos grassland, the wheels suddenly fell into the ground and the horse-drawn frame did not move. At this time, everyone remembered Genghis Khan's words before his death, so Genghis Khan was buried on the Ordos grassland, leaving 500 "Darhutes" to guard him.
When the Japanese invaded China, in order to protect the mausoleum of Genghis Khan, the then Kuomintang government moved Genghis Khan's coffin to Xinglong Mountain in Yuzhong County, Gansu Province and Ta 'er Temple in Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province on 1939. 1954, 1 In April, the new central government of China moved Genghis Khan's coffin back to Erdos, rebuilt the cemetery in Ejinhoro Banner, and gradually concentrated the scattered Genghis Khan's relics to Genghis Khan's mausoleum. Now, Genghis Khan Mausoleum still houses Genghis Khan's wife and brother, and the coffins of Genghis Khan's fourth son, Tuo Lei, and his wife.
"The Genghis Khan Mausoleum in Erdos will always be a sacred place for the Mongolian people," Qi Zhongyi said.