Is Zhu Yuanzhang buried in the Ming Tombs?

The Ming Tombs are located in Dulong Mansion at the southern foot of Nanjing Purple Mountain. It is the mausoleum of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and Ma Shi, the empress. Because Ma Huanghou died before Zhu Yuanzhang and was buried in the mausoleum, her posthumous title was called Xiao, so Zhu Yuanzhang's mausoleum was named Xiao Ling. The circumference of the Ming tombs wall is 22.5 kilometers, which is equivalent to two-thirds of the length of the Beijing wall at that time. It is one of the largest existing ancient imperial tombs in China. On July 3, 2003, the Ming Tombs were officially listed in the World Heritage List after the 27th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.

Emperors of past dynasties made more preparations for themselves before their death than before, and built huge tombs, and Zhu Yuanzhang was no exception. In the 14th year of Hongwu (138 1), the Ming tombs began to build Xiaoling. In the 15th year of Hongwu (1382), Ma Huanghou died and was buried in the Xuan Palace of Xiaoling. In the sixteenth year of Hongwu (1383), Xiaoling Temple was built. By the thirty-first year of Hongwu (1398), Zhu Yuanzhang's death had not been completely completed. In March of the first year of Yongle (1403), the kitchen, vault and wall of Xiaoling were built. In the first month of the 9th year of Yongle (14 1 1), the Xiaoling Gate was built according to the system of Nantianmen Temple. In the 11th year of Yongle (14 13), Judy, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, built a Daming Mausoleum. At this point, the 32-year-old Xiaoling construction project was completed.

Zhu Yuanzhang went to great pains to build a mausoleum for himself, but whether he was buried in Xiaoling Mausoleum after his death has been questioned by many people since the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Some people think that Zhu Yuanzhang is not buried in the Ming tombs, but somewhere else, but no one knows where. Some people think that this "different place" is Nanjing Chaotian Palace; Others believe that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in the Long Live Mountain in Beijing. There are different opinions about the burial place of Zhu Yuanzhang, because there are many unusual things about Zhu Yuanzhang's death and burial that are different from previous emperors.

& gt First, the quick burial of Zhu Yuanzhang.

According to Ming History? Mao Chuan: "(May) Jiayin, the emperor didn't prepare ... The leap month didn't pass, and the emperor's illness worsened. Yiyou, who died in Nishinomiya at the age of 70 ... buried Xiaoling's Xin Mao. " "Ming history? "Gong Min Nianpu" also contains: "In May of leap thirty-one, Taizu collapsed. Xin Mao, emperor. Amnesty, next year as his first year of work. On that day, Emperor Gao was buried in Xiaoling Mausoleum. After three years of mourning. " In the thirty-first year of Hongwu, it was May, and the date of return was June 24th, A.D. 1398, and the date of Xin Mao was June 30th. In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang only had seven days from death to burial. It is not normal for Zhu Yuanzhang to be buried so soon.

After the death of the ancient emperors in China, they usually stayed in the palace for nearly a month. At this time, he was called the great emperor. There will be a complicated funeral ceremony during the funeral. According to Ming Hui Dian, the emperor's funeral is called "big burial". First read the emperor's testament, and then arrange everything. After hearing about the funeral, all the government officials in Beijing's five houses and six hospitals went to the inner hall to hear the announcement of the testamentary edict, and stayed in this yamen, wearing mourning clothes for 27 days. On the fourth day, the servant girl wore mourning clothes and entered the crying field from Xihuamen. She is not allowed to wear gold and silver jewelry. Kings, princes, county kings, princesses, county lords, princesses, internal envoys, imperial secretaries, etc. They all served for three years. From the fourth day after hearing about the funeral, except in July, all the people who served in the imperial court wore black horns and black belts and retired from the imperial court. From the news of the mourning day, hundreds of foreign civil and military officials, dressed in official black horns, knelt down to listen, mourn and worship again, and rested in this yamen, without drinking or eating meat. Soldiers, civilians, men and women all wore plain clothes for thirteen days. All music festivals, officials, soldiers and civilians stop for 100 days, men and women get married, officials stop for 100 days, and soldiers and civilians stop for January. The capital will start from the funeral day, temples will ring 30 thousand bells and slaughter will be banned for 49 days. All the funerary wares were built by the Ministry of Communications and Industry and the Ministry of Internal Affairs according to the names of the halogen books (etiquette articles) they used during their lifetime. Twenty-seven days later, the heir emperor Su Guan Ma Yi came to the court, but he still declined when he abdicated. Finally, "joining" means carrying out the coffin and sending it to the cemetery for burial.

Even if the funeral was not prepared at that time, it would not be simplified to the point of being buried in seven days. Even if there is a saying in Zhu Yuanzhang's testamentary edict that "all subjects in the world cry for three days and are relieved not to marry", it is all the rhetoric of the emperor's kindness, and no one will take it seriously. Take the funeral of Ma Huanghou, the empress of Zhu Yuanzhang as an example. In August of the 15th year of Hongwu (1382 September 17), Ma Huanghou died of illness, and was buried in Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in September (10 October 3 1). The funeral was suspended for 44 days. "Soldiers and civilians dressed in plain clothes for three days. The queen's death was not forgotten, but the emperor who died sixteen years later was buried so soon. In contrast, the psychological impact on people at that time can be imagined. Later, Judy, the prince of Yan, launched the "Battle of Jingnan". In this battle, Wen Jian was once blamed for a funeral for his father Zhu Yuanzhang.

Of course, Wen Jian Emperor Zhu Yun buried Zhu Yuanzhang in such a hurry for his own reasons. At that time, his uncles and nephews were armed to the teeth, and if Zhu Yuanzhang was not buried earlier, he was afraid that they would go to Beijing for an accident in the name of mourning. In addition, when Zhu Yuanzhang died, Zhu Yun was still a great-grandson and Zhu Yuanzhang was buried without an heir. This is impolite, so Zhu Yun should be emperor as soon as possible and then bury Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang is wily and can't ignore this layer, so "Records of Ming Taizu" says that "being buried on the throne, being buried on the same day, is high."

Even so, Zhu Yuanzhang's quick burial is unreasonable, and people always have to find a specious reason for this matter, so many legends have emerged.

& gt II. Legend of "Thirteen Doors Coming Out of the Coffin at the Same Time"

There is also a legend in Nanjing that thirteen coffins were born at the same time. It is said that on the day of Zhu Yuanzhang's birth, thirteen gates were opened, and the same sacrificial ceremony and the same coffin were held outside the city. No one knows where the thirteen coffins were finally carried, and no one knows from which coffin Zhu Yuanzhang was carried out, so the puzzle is to make people confused about where Zhu Yuanzhang was buried. Some people say that this is what Zhu Yuanzhang meant, because he knew that the murder was too heavy and he was afraid that the enemy would retaliate and destroy his tomb, so he came up with this idea.

In the history of China, it is not uncommon for imperial tombs to be dug or stolen. In the pre-Qin period, before the demise of Song State, Song Wengong's mausoleum was dug up and Qi Zhuanggong's mausoleum was stolen. * * * Gao said that it was a heavy burial, so it was a grave robbery. Therefore, the emperors of later generations often told them to use thin burial in their testaments, and Zhu Yuanzhang also asked them to "use sacrifices for martyrdom, not expensive jade." During the Warring States Period, Wu Zixu led Wu Jun to dig the grave of King Chu Ping and flog his bones in retaliation for the killing of his father and brother. There were 1 1 emperors and * * * Lv Hou 12 tombs in the Western Han Dynasty, of which 10 was on the north bank of Weihe River, and only Baling and Ling Du were on the south bank of Weihe River. Results After the Red Eyebrow Army invaded Guanzhong and reached the north of Weihe River, the mausoleum of the Western Han Dynasty was looted, and Baling and Ling Du survived because they were separated by Weihe River.

During the Three Kingdoms period, in order to supplement the military pay, Cao Cao actually set up full-time grave robbers such as "Faqiu corps commander" and "touch gold captain", and the graves of the previous generation were completely swept away. Later, it was said that Cao Cao, who was suspicious by nature, set up a mausoleum in Xiyuan, Linzhang County, Hebei Province in order to prevent his grave from being excavated. There was no mausoleum, garden city or Shinto. There is also a legend that Cao Cao laid 72 suspected graves to prevent the enemy from digging graves. Therefore, Yu Fu, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said, "Before his death, he deceived others and built a grave of doubt. If you die, you will rest. Why not stand on the ridge with a spare machine? I don't doubt people's suspicions. I don't know one thing. As long as 72 suspected graves are dug up, there will be a grave to bury your body. "

Not only the emperor, but also some officials created "suspicious graves" to prevent people from retaliating. According to New Tang Book? It is said that after Zhang's father was framed and executed by the court, Zhang and his brother Zhang were exiled to Lingnan. They later fled back to their hometown, killed the enemy who framed their father, and were sentenced to death by the court. Before the execution, they ordered their families to set up a sign with seal script on the side of the avenue and bury it in Beimang Mountain. The graves in the mountains have also been made into suspicious graves, making people wonder where the real graves are.

From the analysis of Zhu Yuanzhang's personality, it is possible to be secretive when he was buried in order to prevent revenge. Look at the chaos in the late Ming Dynasty. The surrounding people rushed to illegally cut down trees in the Ming tombs. The Qing army that fought Nanjing even cut down the wooden pillars of Jin Sinan in Xiaoling Hall. Zheng Chenggong's army followed closely, and the Ming tombs were in jeopardy. Later, during the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the temples of the top ten heroes of the Ming Dynasty were all destroyed. If Hong Xiuquan and others didn't think that the Ming Tombs still had political use value, the fate of the Ming Tombs would not be hard to imagine. Some people think that it is not Zhu Yuanzhang's intention to hold the funeral at the same time in thirteen gates, but Zhu Yun's act of claiming to be Zhu Yuanzhang. Because a large-scale funeral service will definitely delay time, and Zhu Jun will ascend to the throne as soon as possible, he made a funeral ceremony for thirteen gates under the pretext of Zhu Yuanzhang's imperial edict, which was grand and saved the time spent on complicated etiquette. However, whether the coffin was buried in a secret place after the funeral of the Thirteen Gates at the same time, some people think that it is just a gesture, and Zhu Yuanzhang's real coffin was secretly buried in the Ming Tombs.

& gt Third, Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in the Chaotian Palace in Nanjing.

The saying that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in Chaotian Palace dates back to the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. At the beginning of Qing Dynasty, the king of Tang Dynasty, his father was a scholar in Chongzhen of Ming Dynasty. ) In the Book of Knowledge, he said: "The Chaotian Palace is the graveyard of Ming Taizu, which is a myth. It is better to be a man than a magnanimous emperor. The emperors of the Yuan Dynasty did not have tombs, and their tricks were the same. " At that time, the King of Tang disagreed with the statement that Ming Taizu was buried in the Heavenly Palace. Of course, it is an old custom in Mongolia that the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty did not have a mausoleum. It is wrong to say that they are imitating Cao Cao's tricks. Although some people don't believe that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in Jinling Tiangong, it doesn't prevent it from continuing to spread. At least during the Qianlong period of the Qing dynasty, some people believed this statement, starting with a poem by a famous scholar of the Qing dynasty.

All (1705- 1755) people are called Shaonong and Xieshan. /kloc-when he was 0/6 years old, he took part in the provincial examination and compiled "Ancient Chinese Cha Shen Xing". Cha praised him and thought he was a figure like Liu (a historian of the Northern Song Dynasty). At the age of nineteen, he was chosen by the governor Wang Lansheng to Beijing and wrote to Lang to discuss the funeral. Fang Bao marveled at his erudition and preached for him, which made him famous. In the tenth year of Yongzheng (1732), he took part in the rural examination in Shuntian and won the top prize. When everyone saw his article, the waiter Gu Li praised: "This is the first talented person after Huang Zhen and Wang Yinglin!" Invite him to live in his own home. In the first year of Qianlong's reign (1736), he was recommended to take Boshi class. Before the exam, he took the spring exam of does, won the Jinshi, and was elected as Jishi Shu in Hanlin. In imperial academy, he studied the secret script of Yongle Dadian with Guli, and he hit it off very well. Because the great scholar Zhang and Li have a bad relationship, it is good for everyone to be jealous of Li. When he left the museum for two years, he was listed as the lowest-level candidate for magistrate of a county. In a rage, he resigned and returned to his hometown of Ningbo, where he wrote and became an apprentice. After that, he never wanted to be an official again. After six years of Qianlong (174 1), I tried Jiangnan and visited Nanjing. The whole poem "From Chaotian Palace to Xiaoling Mausoleum" should be written at this time:

Zhong You's clothes are right and wrong, but his bow and sword are more suspicious. Jade box beads are hard to find, and the tablet of divine power can be seen. & gt The founding of the People's Republic is not ashamed of Han Zu, and Sun Di's successor is to learn from Cao Pi. At that time, it was ridiculous to let a mountain ridge be an ambassador. Who ordered who to violate it?

All said that "the emperor of the world passed the throne in the palace, not in the mausoleum", indicating that he knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in the Chaotian Palace. He said it was difficult to find the burial place of Zhu Yuanzhang's body, and accused Cao Pi, the son of Zhu Yunxue, Zhu Yuanzhang's successor, of building a suspicious grave for his ancestors, indicating that he agreed to Zhu Yuanzhang's burial in the Heavenly Palace.

In addition, the whole Biography of Ming Taizu notes from the cloud: "It is the day that stops the wind, and this is given because of the tour of Xiaoling Mausoleum." This poem should have been written after he wanted to leave Nanjing by water, but it stopped near Xiaoling because of the heavy wind and waves. There is a line in the poem, "I heard that I sent a rickshaw puller to Buhan Valley, but I regretted teaching the bow and sword to be a long-term cadre". It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang once sent Prince Zhu Biao to Chang 'an to inspect the situation and planned to move the capital. It's a pity that Zhu Biao was very ill after he came back, and moving the capital failed to come true. Zhu Yuanzhang should regret it. In the poem, "Hangu" refers to Chang 'an, "Chang Gan" refers to Nanjing, and "Chang Gan" may be because it is not far from the Chaotian Palace.

Gan, a famous bibliophile in the Taoist period, questioned the statement that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in the Temple of Heaven. Gan Xi (1797- 1857), a scholar of Qing Daoguang in nineteen years, worked hard all his life. Before Tongguang, private writing flourished, especially Gan's Words under the White Sky. The book "Lock the Eyes under the White" took about forty years before and after, and was compiled by Gan, Tongli Jin 'ao and Zhu. This book not only records what Gan saw and heard during the reign of Jia Dao, but also records "Being a father and knowing the old". "Lock the Eyes under White" said: "Chaotian Palace, the Song Dynasty celebrated the view of heaven, the Yuan Dynasty celebrated the beauty, and changed it to Yongshou Palace. This amount was given in the early Ming Dynasty. During the Ming Dynasty, the Liao Bai Dynasty congratulated Yi Xi here. Under the Sanqing Hall, it is the real burial place of Mingzu. " Gan believes that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in Xiaoling after his death, which is clearly recorded in the official history. Besides, according to common sense, Zhu Yuanzhang personally selected the mausoleum site, and many tombs were built, which cost more than one million for decades. How can it be for Ma Hou alone? Wen Jian's nature is benevolence and filial piety. How could he have the heart to put Mao's body in an unknown place? Ministers didn't see it with their own eyes? Regarding the statement that everything was inspired by Zhu Yuanzhang, Gan and the view that "the emperor is magnanimous, it is better to die than die" are similar. He thinks that Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of Ming Dynasty, started to establish a system from a humble cloth to an emperor, which is the same as Liu Bang, the emperor of Han Dynasty, but he is by no means a traitor like Cao Cao, and he will not learn Cao Cao's tricks of hiding secrets. Whether people believe the statement that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in Nanjing Chaotian Palace or not, this statement has been circulated among the people.

& gt Fourth, Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in the Long Live Mountain in Yanjing.

The statement that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in Long Live Mountain in Yanjing can be found in Zhao Zhixin's poem Long Live Hall in Qing Dynasty. Zhao Zhixin (1662- 1774), whose real name is Qiugu, was later named Yushan, or Yishan old man, named Lianxiu, also known as Dreamless Taoist, and was from Yidu, Shandong. He was a writer when he was nine years old. In the seventeenth year of Kangxi (1678), he won the second place after having obtained the provincial examination and was a scholar the following year. In the 19th year of Kangxi, the following year, imperial academy and Jishi Shu were selected. In the 25th year of Kangxi, he moved to Youchunfang and praised imperial academy. Zhao Zhixin is not good at catering, and he is proud of his talent, but he has a rather negative reputation. In the 26th year of Kangxi (1687), the playwright Hong wrote The Legend of the Palace of Eternal Life and presented it to the cohesion class in the capital. Emperor Kangxi appreciated it after seeing it. Therefore, whenever a banquet is held, the prince and cabinet ministers will find a cohesive class to play the Palace of Eternal Life. Unfortunately, Zhao Zhixin and others happened to watch the Palace of Immortality after the death of Empress Dowager Cixi. As a result, they were impeached for "disrespect" and nearly 50 scholars and students, including Zhao Zhixin, were dismissed. After being fired, Zhao Zhixin disappeared into the mountains and never came back. Zhao Zhixin is only 28 years old this year. Zhao Zhixin's "Long Live the Hall" should be based on his years in Beijing before he was illegally dismissed. As a poem says:

Mingzu is holding a glass of wine, and Liu Jizhen is my friend in cloth. Like Cao Biao, I guessed the phase with Lu Xiong. & gt Please look at the seventy-two suspected graves. Poor Jaco. Later, Xiaoling cried all night. It should be that Ma Hou was sad and lonely. & gt Jinchuan disaster has turned into children and grandchildren, and it has been killed through the ages. The god at hand knows the unknown, but the praise sermon can show it. & gt The fierce flame of mink polluted the world and turned all the Langqiang in the room into semi-idiots. The hero's grievance is miserable, which is worse than this. & gt The punishment stick is stuffed in the palace, and the powder is always copied into the leather yard. Jingshan Park has a long life, just because of his long life. & gt dragons have always been earthworms, and they are never afterlife. Heart, heart, hands and feet belong to Li Si, and integrity articles support any scholar. & gt The golden coffin has no owner to hide cold ashes, and the sacred stone worships itself. You are laughing, Mr. Qiu. You are not a talented person.

Zhao Zhixin's evaluation of Zhu Yuanzhang is not high. He thinks that although Zhu Yuanzhang, like Liu Bang, won the world by cloth, he is equal to Liu Bang in killing heroes. Zhu Yuanzhang claims that Liu Bang's friends are really patting his face. Contrary to Quan's view of Zhu Yuanzhang, he thinks that Zhu Yuanzhang's mind is similar to that of Cao Cao, and he did not bury the body in the Ming tombs, but only left a "golden coffin" in the Ming tombs, but it was "ownerless"; When Judy launched the "Battle of Jingnan" in Yanjing, Zhu Yuanzhang's "God" who was "just a stone's throw away" from Yanjing and buried in Long Live Mountain was helpless. Mao Baoxun, written by Zhu Yuanzhang before his death and praised by later generations, became useless nonsense. Later, The Night Cry in Xiaoling Mausoleum should be that Ma Hou was buried alone in the Ming Mausoleum, lamenting his loneliness.

Gan's "Lock the Eyes under the White" refers to "Long Live the Hall", which says that Zhao Qiugu was buried in Yanjing Long Live Mountain as a discipline leader's song. But as Gan said, at that time, Zhu Di, the prince of Yan, was indignant because he could not attend Zhu Yuanzhang's funeral and was ready to launch a "war of Jingnan". Other kings are also in jeopardy, and the political atmosphere is unprecedentedly tense. How could your Majesty transport Zhu Yuanzhang's coffin to Yanjing thousands of miles away? Therefore, Zhao Zhixin's statement is "even less credible". In the Republic of China, Wang Huan wrote A Record of the Ming Tombs, which also said that regarding the burial place of Zhu Yuanzhang, "some people called it the Yanjing Long Live Mountain". Lack of trust. "

& gt5. Was the Ming Tomb Underground Palace stolen?

No matter whether Zhu Yuanzhang is buried in the Ming tombs or other places, as long as we can have a look at the Ming tombs, the truth will come out, but there are rumors that the tombs have been stolen.

In order to find out the historical truth and study the architectural regulations of the First Mausoleum in Ming Dynasty and its influence on the later period, with the approval of National Cultural Heritage Administration and the arrangement of the cultural relics authorities in Jiangsu and Nanjing, the Nanjing Institute of Cultural Relics and the Cultural Relics Department of Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum Administration conducted archaeological exploration and research on the Ming Mausoleum for six years from 65438 to 0997. With the help of magnetic survey (GMP) technology, archaeologists have explored the spatial distribution characteristics of magnetic field in underground media (soil, stone, sand and artificial substances) at tens of thousands of regular grid points with a square of 1 meter in the core area of more than 20,000 square meters selected by Fiona Fang. According to the distribution images of magnetic field lines in different spaces, they entered the computer to analyze and judge whether there are buried objects and their shapes underground, and finally successfully found out the underground of Ming tombs.

The initial layout of the survey network is centered on the buildings in the Ming Dynasty. A survey network starts from the stone ridge in the north of Ziminglou and goes straight to the top of Baoding. The reason for laying the net like this is that the Shinto, tomb and bedroom of most emperors' tombs are all in a straight line. The detection results show that there is no imaginary underground structure on this central axis. Next, a B network was laid along the east side of the central axis, and the magnetic permeability signal extending to the southeast was found. Tracking by Helium Optically Pumped Magnetometer shows that it is a continuous tunnel-like structure with a length of 65438 0.20m, a certain width and an inner diameter of 5-6m. According to the surface survey, two obvious tensile cracks and subsidence dislocation can be seen on the corresponding Baocheng city wall, so it is speculated that this is probably one of the entrances to the tunnel-like structure, that is, the underground palace tomb.

After adding the southeast C network, we found the center of the underground palace of the Ming tombs in Baocheng, and confirmed that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried dozens of meters below Dulong House, and the underground palace was well preserved. Archaeologists also found that at least 60% of the surface of Dulong Fushan Mountain was artificially repaired and filled, and a large number of giant pebbles were regularly arranged on the top of the treasure. Through research and analysis, these pebbles were lifted during the construction of the mausoleum, which is the aesthetic requirement of the mausoleum, and also to prevent the rain from washing the surface of the mausoleum and preventing thieves from digging. In this way, through the exploration of high-tech means, the old saying that the underground palace was stolen was finally ruled out.

& gt 6. Zhu Yuanzhang should be buried in the Ming Tombs.

The underground palace of the Ming tombs has never been opened before. Due to the economic strength and the scientific and technological level of properly protecting tombs, it is impossible to open the underground palace to confirm that Zhu Yuanzhang's body is in the underground palace in a short time. However, we can't agree that Zhu Yuanzhang was not buried in the Ming tombs.

In the traditional society of China, based on the concept of the connection between man and nature, there are many mysterious concepts such as astrology and geomantic omen. Are quite popular, which has become the common belief of princes and ordinary people. Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a commoner and was deeply influenced by this mysterious thought. Zhu Guozhen, an Amin writer, said in "Architectural Essays" that "astronomy is the most important thing for the country", and Zhu Yuanzhang once said: "I have been observing the celestial phenomena with travelers for 23 years since I set out." He is very loyal to astrology. In August of the 21st year (136 1), Zhu Yuanzhang took the initiative to attack Chen Youliang. Liu Ji said to the soldiers, "Look at the astronomical phenomena yesterday. Venus is in front and Mars is behind. This is a good omen for this division." Zhu Yuanzhang also said, "I also watch the astronomical phenomena at night as you said." Then the teacher sent Longwan. In February of the 16th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1383), Soapy was ordered by the moon, which was regarded as a sign of "urgent frontier" in the book. The next day, Taizu sent envoys to command Liaodong, strictly guarded it in many ways, and transported 400 thousand stones across the sea, and then began to ride hundreds of thousands of horses in Peiping, Calm and other places, and showed that all this was "providence." Until his later years, he often told frontier generals and kings of vassal States about the good and bad luck of astrologers. Astrology and geomantic omen belong to the same belief system. In order to choose a "land of geomantic omen" for the Ming tombs, Zhu Yuanzhang also took Liu Ji, Xu Da, Tang Qin and others to visit Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. "He decided to sleep in a cave, and every place was hidden in his sleeve. Three people together, ordered. " The mausoleum site was chosen in Zhongshan because Liu Ji thought it was the "Southern Dragon" among the "Three Dragons" in ancient and modern times. Determining the "Long Mai" status of the Ming Tombs is an important factor to confirm the orthodox status of the Ming Dynasty, just as the Nanjing City was originally designed to "strengthen this mystery and maintain the majesty of * * *". Zhu Yuanzhang, a real dragon, would of course bury himself in Long Mai. In traditional thinking, this is not only related to him personally, but also to his descendants and the fate of the Ming Dynasty. Zhu Yun won't ignore this layer, and swept the world, burying his grandfather elsewhere.

As a symbol of kingship, the Ming Dynasty did not allow any damage or disrespect to the Ming Tombs. According to Ming History? In the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered: "Those who cross the mausoleum with horses and chariots, those who guard the mausoleum with officials and people, dismount with a hundred steps, and offenders are regarded as disrespectful." "Xiaoling's defense, patrol and supervision are all customized." Ming tombs? "Shoushan" contains: "Xiaolingshou, outside for Xiaolingwei, inside for the Jingu supervisor. Officials who govern the people have a history of making orders, a history of law, and an official who is in charge. Xiaoling, the commander of the pro-army guards, obeyed the control of the DuDu House in Zhong Jun. There are 5600 infantry. After that, the damage increased slightly and the tomb needed to be protected. ..... Guards, jailers and Nanjing garrison officers patrol from time to time. The Royal Guard also designated 100 families to patrol firewood harvesting in each season. Nanjing Taichang Temple is supervised and arranged every month, and the kitchen is clean. It is forbidden to enter the mausoleum, and those who enter the mausoleum gate will fight. Those who seek to destroy the mountains and tombs are against the Tao, and those who steal to worship the gods are disrespectful. Both belong to the category of heinous crimes. "At that time, it was not easy to enter the Ming Tombs, let alone broken. Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't have to worry about the tomb palace being stolen. Of course, despite the harsh laws, illegal logging and destruction still occur. In the third year of Qin Long, Wang Cai, eunuch of Nanjing Jingu Prison, condemned the illegal felling of Xiaoling trees. But in the Ming Dynasty, protection measures were strengthened from time to time. In the fourteenth year of Chongzhen (164 1), a monument was erected in the Ming tomb, and the imperial edict was renewed. Among them, "anyone who dares to cut down trees without authorization will be put to death" and "no riding over the kiln, chiseling mountains for exercise, and offenders will be beheaded" were imposed on the relevant hills. This monument now stands on the east side of Xiamafang in the Ming Tombs.

In short, through the analysis and investigation of the above statements about Zhu Yuanzhang's burial place, we think that Zhu Yuanzhang was not buried elsewhere, but should be buried in the Ming Tombs.