the emperor had to examine the scene himself and was satisfied with it and was
finally finalized.Soon after Zhu Yuanzhang ascended the throne, he was
concerned about the "paradise" after his death, and began to plan the
construction of the mausoleum.It is said that he has called Liu Bowen, Xu Da,
Tang He, and other ministers to discuss site selection.Five people agreed to
write their respective best burial sites on paper and then open them at the
same time.The results are written, Great minds think alike., Dulong Fu Mount
Everest ".So the site of the tomb of Zhu Yuanjin was thus fixed.Dulong Fu is a
hill located beneath the Zijin Mountain peak, 150 meters high, about 400
meters in diameter, is like a huge natural grave.Chinese feudal emperor often
put themselves as sons of the heaven, to build the tomb in Dulong Fu, is in
line with the requirements of the feudal superstition.
Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum Yu Wu nine years (1376) began to build, build
competent mausoleum engineering enterprises is "Dudu Fu Li xin.At that time, a
large number of migrant workers were employed, and dozens of temples were left
behind by their predecessors.Since the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern
Dynasties, Buddhism has been widely spread in China. The emperor of Wu even
regards Buddhism as a national religion, so the temples in Nanjing are
numerous.In the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there were more than 300 Buddhist
temples, nearly 500 in the Southern Dynasties, and 100 thousand monks.His
poetry in the Tang Dynasty: "in the four hundred and eighty temple, how many
loutai yanyu."It was the portrayal of the flourishing Buddhist temples in
Nanjing.In addition to moving to the temple, even moved a lot of previous
tombs.But when moving to the Three Kingdoms, the tomb of Sun Quan (now on
Mount Mei Shan in Nanjing), Zhu Yuanjin said, "Sun Quan is a true man, keeping
him as a gatekeeper."."It was not removed.Hongwu fifteen years (1382), the
first phase of the project completed, coincided with the empress Ma's death,
Zhu Yuanjin held a grand funeral for her, and the coffin burial tomb, called
her "Xiaoci Queen", which is also the name of the tomb.In 1383, the main
project of the tomb built hall.In 1392, the crown prince ZhuBiao died and was
buried in the tomb of the East, called dongling.Hongwu thirty-one years (1398)
built "Ming Tomb magic holiness monument", the construction of the mausoleum
engineering ended, the project took 23 years.Before the death of Zhu Yuanjin,
had left a testament; "funeral to frugality, no Jin, change because of the
tomb and the world, three subjects are released, as marriage."This is
obviously Zhu Yuanzhang's trick of buying people's hearts.The whole Ming
Xiaoling Mausoleum building, Xiaolingwei East, South to West Fang Weigang
dismount, the walls of the city, north of Longgang only halfway up the
mountain, a radius of more than 20 km, is a grand scale.In the long 23 years
of construction, depletion of the flesh and blood of the people.At that time,
there were ten thousand trees planted in the tomb area, thousands of deer kept
and 5700 guards.Its wide range, large scale, before the Ming Dynasty is
rare.But Zhu Yuanjin was buried, there are 40 concubines to bury, in which 2
people were buried in the tomb of the East and west sides, 38 people from the