Which royal mausoleum in the Qing Dynasty has a stone carving pattern with a phoenix in front of the railing?
The Empress Dowager Cixi Mausoleum is the most luxurious among the emperors' mausoleums in Qing Dynasty. The stigma of the Long 'en Hall and the platform fence of Cixi Mausoleum was changed from the dragon and phoenix to the whole phoenix, and two dragons with their bibcock facing upwards were carved on the column. The pattern on the railing is that the phoenix is flying in front and the dragon is chasing behind.
Cixi mausoleum
The underground palace of Cixi, namely Ding Dong Mausoleum, is located on the west side of Yufei Garden in zunhua city, Hebei Province. It is the mausoleum of Emperor Xianfeng of Qing Dynasty, Xiao Xian Zhen (Empress Ci 'an) and Xiao Qinxian (Empress Cixi). The two tombs are connected together, and the building regulations are exactly the same. According to the Notes of Aiyuexuan, there are a large number of rare treasures in its tomb, which were stolen by the warlord Sun Dianying, which is called "the case of stealing treasures from the Qing palace".
A large number of treasures were smuggled out of the tomb of Dongqing, and the treasures behind them were scattered in the hands of senior officials of the Kuomintang and gradually disappeared. The tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi was in Tomb-Sweeping Day on the 9th day of March in the 12th year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1873). Emperor Tongzhi personally surveyed Feng Shui, and on 15, Pingdingshan was changed to Puxiang Valley as the tomb of Empress Dowager Ci 'an, and Putuo Mountain was renamed Putuo Valley as the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi.
The design and construction of the two mausoleums were presided over by the seventh model Lei Tingchang. Construction started at the same time in August of that year, and was completed at the same time in June of the fifth year of Guangxu (1880), which took six years. In the 21st year of Guangxu (1895), the mausoleum of Cixi was rebuilt again, which lasted thirteen years and was completed on 1908 10/8.