The largest imperial mausoleum in the Ming Dynasty took 13 years to build. Why did the experts leave in a hurry?
When excavating the Changling Mausoleum, the largest imperial mausoleum in the Ming Dynasty, the experts left in a hurry. That's because they encountered many unexpected difficulties in the process of excavation, and the archaeologists got sick and finally had to retreat.
The largest imperial mausoleum in the Ming Dynasty is Changling Mausoleum, which is the mausoleum of Zhu Di and his empress Xu, the first mausoleum among the Ming Tombs and the best one preserved so far. Since Zhu Di ascended the throne, he began to build a mausoleum. During this period, Zhu Di also spent a lot of effort to choose a treasure house of geomantic omen, and finally settled at the foot of Tianshou Mountain, where the geomantic omen pattern was very good, showing a? Four potential auspicious? Although the geomantic omen there is very good, at the beginning, it was called Huangtu Mountain. Zhu Di didn't think the name was very good. Later, on his birthday, he changed it to? Wanshou Mountain? .
After the construction of the mausoleum began, it took a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources. The long and secret area was very large, and it took four years to build the underground palace alone. Later, other buildings were built one after another, and it took 13 years to complete. Later, in 1956, archaeologists originally wanted to excavate Changling, but later they excavated Dingling. At first, archaeologists wanted to excavate Changling, but at that time, it happened to be winter, and the weather was not very good, and the excavation process of archaeologists was not very smooth, and some team members were sick.
They didn't expect that it would be so difficult to excavate Changling. In the end, there was no way. In just three days, they withdrew and excavated Dingling instead. In the process of excavating Dingling Mausoleum, many things happened, and even caused many regrets. Since then, the archaeological community has made a rule that they will not actively excavate the Imperial Mausoleum.