Have you found the tombs of the Yuan Dynasty so far?

In order to guard against theft, the tombs of the Yuan Dynasty were all built in a hidden way. Before the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, Mongolians had their own unique funeral customs, which were characterized by thin burial and simple burial style. Mongols are nomadic people living on the grassland. They have no fixed place to live and their lifestyle is relatively simple and practical.

Especially in the war years when the Mongols expanded on a large scale, the funeral ceremony was particularly simple. When they were buried, they sat the deceased in the center of a tent used before his death, surrounded by worshippers praying, horses, bows and arrows, tables with meat and milk, and finally put them underground. The purpose is that when the deceased lives in another world, they have tents to live in, horses to ride, meat and milk to eat.

After Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty, he implemented the Han method, and was gradually influenced by the funeral customs of the Han nationality, and began to use coffins for burial, but the coffins used were different from those of the Han nationality. After the death of the deceased, the two coffins were connected to form a log and then "nailed together with iron bars". Although they entered the Central Plains, the Mongols were still frugal when they died. Shrouds are usually worn clothes, and there are fewer items buried with them. Most of them are the weapons that the deceased liked before his death, such as bows and arrows, swords and the like.

However, the royal family in the Yuan Dynasty, especially after the death of the emperor, was slightly different from the general royal family and nobles. After the death of the emperor, there should be a burial ceremony first, and there should be more funerary objects. Only the emperor is buried, Han officials are not allowed to participate, and large buildings will not be built on the ground. There are no merit memorial archways and tombstones. Everything seems so simple. In addition, in order not to leave clues and traces that can be found by grave robbers, the historical records of the emperor's burial place in the Yuan Dynasty are also pitiful, so that people feel that there is no tomb of the emperor in the Yuan Dynasty.

During the reign of Kublai Khan in the Yuan Dynasty, he found a way for himself and his descendants not to be robbed. Because of this, he made careful arrangements for the mausoleum of the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty: he chose a sparsely populated land of geomantic omen as the burial place of the mausoleum, and then moved all the local population away, making this place an unknown blank.

At the time of burial, Han officials are not allowed to attend the funeral ceremony of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty or to reach the burial place. After the death of the emperor, it was announced that the emperor's body was transported back to Mobei for burial, and it was recorded in historical records to achieve the purpose of confusing the real with the fake, so that grave robbers could not start; There are not many buildings, too many funerary objects and tombstones in the mausoleum, which makes the appearance of the mausoleum look no different from that of ordinary tombs; When recording the emperor's mausoleum, only the clear place names of Mongolian nobles and royalty are recorded, and it is difficult for outsiders to detect that everything is a well-planned scam.

Incomplete records and intentional fabrications have made the Yuan Dynasty, a dynasty other than the Han nationality, more and more shrouded in mystery. In addition, many unique cultural customs and living habits of Mongolians are unknown to the outside world, which makes it difficult for future generations to understand the truth of history. This may be the reason why the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty did not have a mausoleum. Not without, but without.