Why did Yongzheng violate orthodoxy to build the Qing Xiling? Why didn't Gan Long want to be buried in Qing Xiling?
First, Yong Zhengdi opened the Qing tombs. There are two opinions about Yong Zhengdi's building the Qing Xiling Mausoleum and letting himself sleep here. There have been rumors among the people. Some people say that Yong Zhengdi's throne came from an improper source, and he feels guilty. He dared not face his father Kangxi after his death, so he chose to build a new mausoleum and not be buried with his father.
Of course, some people think that Yong Zhengdi's re-opening of the mausoleum has a lot to do with his life's implementation of the New Deal and the road of reform. He offended many dignitaries in his life. After the Nine Sons took the throne, Yongzheng had great courage and dared to stand on the opposite side of the ministers.
Such a maverick emperor wants to do something different from other emperors in a hundred years. Is that why he violated it? Son and father buried together? This ancestral system, with the emergence of the Qing Xiling.
Second, Emperor Qianlong buried the tomb of the Qing Dynasty, which set an example for future generations. After emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne, although he did not follow the path set by Yongzheng at that time, he did something to prevent future generations from opening graves again. This thing is to bury yourself in the Qing Dongling.
Qing Dongling is the mausoleum of Emperor Kangxi and his grandfather Huang. Yongzheng, as the son of Emperor Kangxi, should be buried in Qing Dongling. Now choose to bury the Qing Xiling, if buried in the Qing Xiling, the Qing Dongling is bound to decline, which is not good for future generations of the Qing Dynasty.
Qianlong not only buried himself in the tomb of Dongqing, but also stipulated that later emperors could no longer open tombs and do other things at will. Since then, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty have been buried in two cemeteries, the Qing Xiling Mausoleum and the Qing Dongling Mausoleum.
From Yongzheng to Qing Dynasty, four emperors were buried here, and the other three were Jiaqing, Daoguang and Guangxu.