Historical topic: Why are the imperial tombs in the Yuan Dynasty so flat? There is no momentum at all!
Where is the Mausoleum of the Yuan Dynasty?
On the Ordos Plateau in Inner Mongolia, three yurt-shaped halls inlaid with colored glazed tiles are hidden among pines and cypresses, and the halls are dedicated to the clothes, saddles, bows and arrows, knives and other relics used by Temujin before his death. Here is the tomb of Genghis Khan, the founding monarch of the Yuan Dynasty. However, this place is only the cenotaph of Genghis Khan. At first, people buried Genghis Khan's body and took his clothes and knives as a souvenir. With the continuous migration and battle, these things were left here and enshrined by future generations, but for hundreds of years, no one can tell where the real Chengling is.
Not only Genghis Khan, but also the tombs of all emperors in the Yuan Dynasty have not been discovered until today. It stands to reason that every feudal emperor has a mausoleum after his death, and only the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty left no mausoleum. What is the reason? It turns out that the Mongols, as nomadic people, are different from the Han people living in the Central Plains. In order to survive, they have to change their residence on the vast prairie and follow the growth law of pasture. During the migration, some people died during the migration and were buried on the spot. Then, the tribe will continue to move to the next place with abundant water and grass. In order to prevent enemies and grave robbers from disturbing relatives who are buried underground, according to Ye's "Grass and Trees", after the death of Mongolian aristocrats, there were no coffins and no sacrificial objects, and their funerals were very strange. They just "used two pieces of wood, hollowed it out, combined it into a coffin, and put the body in it", and then dug a deep pit and buried it. After piling up soil on the ground, level it with 10,000 horses, send a team to temporarily block the area until it is covered with grass and there is no trace at all, then lift the blockade and withdraw the team. The loess on the earth has grown lush weeds again. It won't be long before people can't tell where the grave is and where the grass is. This burial method is called "stepping on the green grave".
According to the analysis of historians, some Yuan emperors' tombs are likely to be outside the territory of China and in some areas of Mongolia. Since the 20th century, experts and scholars from China, Mongolia, Japan and other countries have tried to find these tombs, and even used high-tech means such as aerial exploration on a large scale. But so far, no one has enough evidence to prove that they have found the tombs of Yuan emperors such as Chengling. Genghis Khan still doesn't know where the laughter came from.
Genghis Khan fought all his life, unified Mongolian ministries and established the Mongolian empire. This is the largest empire in history, accounting for 1/5 of the total land area of the earth. 1226, Genghis Khan went to Xixia,1July 227 12, Genghis Khan died of illness during the journey. According to legend, Genghis Khan was mysteriously buried in a mausoleum built for him by 2,500 craftsmen after his death. After the completion of the mausoleum, all craftsmen were collectively killed by 400 Mongolian soldiers in a secret place. Subsequently, all the 400 soldiers were executed, and everyone's ears were cut off to prove that they were beheaded. The mausoleum of Genghis Khan has thus become an eternal secret, and no one knows where it is, let alone what is buried in the tomb ... In recent years, many archaeological teams have claimed to have discovered Chengling, but they all died after a burst of excitement, leaving clues that make Chengling even more confusing.
Mongolian mausoleum site
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, 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 original reason why the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty did not have a mausoleum. Not without, but without.