1722 65438+February 20th (November 13th, 61st year of Emperor Kangxi of Qing Dynasty), the second emperor and the longest-serving emperor in the history of China, died at Qingxi Bookstore in Changchun Garden, Beijing, at the age of 69.
After the death of Emperor Kangxi, his son Yong Zhengdi held a grand funeral for him and was buried in Jingling, the Qing Dongling in zunhua city, Hebei.
Jingling is located about 1 km east of zunhua city Xiaoling (the tomb of his father the emperor shunzhi). Construction started in the 15th year of Kangxi (A.D. 1676), and the project was completed in the 20th year of Kangxi (A.D. 168 1 year), which lasted for fifteen years.
Jingling is the second imperial mausoleum built in Dongling after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. Its architectural scale is slightly smaller than that of Xiaoling, and its architectural style is roughly based on Xiaoling, but the local nuances are different.
Like other imperial tombs, the location of Jingling is also cautious!
Because in the view of feudal emperors, the "feng shui" of the mausoleum site is not only related to the prosperity of the royal family, but also has a great influence on the country.
Because the mausoleum where the Qing Mausoleum is located was decided by the emperor shunzhi, according to the principle of "the son is buried with his father" and "Zhao Mu system" in ancient China, the mausoleum of Emperor Kangxi must be located in Changrui Mountain in Zunhua, and it will not be too far away from his father's Xiaoling Mausoleum.
Like most other ancient emperors, the construction of Emperor Kangxi's mausoleum began when he was in office.
At the beginning, Emperor Kangxi ordered the tomb minister to find the land of Changrui Mountain for himself.
After being one kilometer away from the east side of Xiaoling Mausoleum, the ministers found an excellent place for Emperor Kangxi's "Feng Shui" through careful selection.
When the Minister of Mausoleum Selection returned to Beijing to report to me, Emperor Kangxi accepted the suggestion of site selection after listening to the report (it is also said that Emperor Kangxi personally visited his mausoleum site just in case, and then made a final decision).
(Distribution of Mausoleums in Eastern Qing Dynasty)
There is also a mysterious legend about the choice of Kangxi mausoleum site.
In other words, Kangxi sent the Minister of Mausoleum Selection to Dongling to find the location of the mausoleum for himself. Later, the minister of selecting Ling discovered that today's Jingling is a rare "Feng Shui" treasure.
Here, with rolling mountains, lush vegetation and evergreen pine and cypress, it is a good place to build a mausoleum. However, everything is difficult at the beginning, and this website has flaws from the beginning.
Its flaw is that there is a deep pool in the middle of the boundary area of the mausoleum.
The locals said, "There is a huge passage under the deep pool and the Longmenkou opposite Changrui Mountain, which is connected by water, so dragons often haunt the pool." And every time there is a drought, people will come here to put incense tables and ask for rain tributes, which is very effective. "
So the minister of mausoleum selection reported the situation here to Emperor Kangxi. Emperor Kangxi was greatly surprised after hearing this and went to investigate in person. Emperor Kangxi didn't say anything when he first saw this pool, so he stayed here for one night. The next day, he announced that this place was the building site of his eternal land.
Surprisingly, on the day when the tomb was started, the water in the deep pool was suddenly only half. In this way, the craftsmen who built the mausoleum were overjoyed, so they cleaned up the remaining half of the pool and the mausoleum was officially started.
It should be noted that this is only a kind of folklore, and there is no convincing scientific explanation.
In fact, the location of the mausoleum is most afraid of being built in a low-lying place! Because the imperial tomb needs to build a large-scale underground palace, it is undoubtedly embarrassing to build an underground palace in a low-lying place.
Imagine that low-lying areas are easy to seep and store water. In this way, the completed underground palace will soon be "full of water."
The consequences of storing the emperor's coffin in such an underground palace can be imagined.
Therefore, in the construction of ancient imperial tombs, besides the consideration of "Feng Shui", drainage is the most important, followed by soil composition.
As we know, Yong Zhengdi, the son of Kangxi, did not build a mausoleum for himself in the Qing Dongling, largely because Yong Zhengdi found that the soil in Changrui Mountain, where the Qing Dongling was located, was mostly composed of sand and gravel, so the water seepage was serious.
If the underground palace is built here, the direct consequence is that it will be infiltrated by water soon after it is built, and because the soil contains huge sandstone, it is easy to cause the deformation of the built underground palace.
On second thought, Yong Zhengdi flatly rejected the suggestion that the ministers who elected Ling should be re-elected elsewhere.
Now it seems that Yongzheng's choice is correct, because both the Jingling of Emperor Kangxi and the Yuling of Emperor Qianlong have seen serious water seepage in the underground palace, and some coffins even float directly in the underground palace.
Therefore, it is a false proposition that the Jingling of Emperor Kangxi described in the title was built in a deep pool!
Friends who have been to the Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty know that the Mausoleum is built on the mountain, and there will be no deep water pool at all! Even so, because the drainage system of the underground palace is not handled well, the water seepage in the underground palace is still very serious
(Overlooking the Mausoleum of Emperor Kangxi from the air)
Aisingiorro-Michelle Ye, Emperor Kangxi, ascended the throne at the age of 8, and took charge of state affairs at the age of 14, with outstanding achievements in his life. He conquered Ao Bai, pacified San Francisco, * * *, and personally incorporated Geerdan to govern the Yellow River, which made great contributions to the stability and discovery of the unified multi-ethnic country in the early Qing Dynasty and was honored as the "emperor of the ages" by later generations.
But the mausoleum carefully selected and built by Emperor Kangxi did not let him sleep underground. Instead, it was robbed by warlords one after another, which led to the untidy underground palace. Today, the bodies of themselves and their empresses are still soaked in the cold underground palace. This has to make future generations sigh!