Why was Yongzheng not buried with his father and grandfather? What is the reason?

In ancient China, the imperial tombs of a dynasty were usually not far apart, and were roughly organized into a group of imperial tombs, such as the Eight Mausoleums in Gongxian County in the Northern Song Dynasty, the Six Mausoleums in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the Ming Tombs in the Ming Dynasty. However, there were three imperial tombs in the Qing Dynasty, except the Yongling, Fuling and Zhaoling tombs in Shenyang, and the Qing Dongling and Qing Xiling tombs in the customs.

The Dongling Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty is an eternal auspicious place chosen by the first emperor Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty. His son Emperor Kangxi and his father were buried in Dongling. However, Yongzheng, the son of Kangxi, violated the ancestral system that his son was buried with his father. He opened the Qing Xiling in Yixian, west of the Qing Dongling, and became the first emperor to be buried in the Qing Xiling. Why did Yongzheng, who always claimed to be filial and never changed his ancestral system, violate the ancestral system in the choice of his mausoleum?

There is a popular saying that Yongzheng became emperor only after he usurped the throne. He was uneasy and didn't dare to treat his father Kangxi in the grave, so he built his grave far away from his father. There are too many conjectures about this statement. First, whether Yongzheng tampered with the testamentary edict and sought to seize the throne is still inconclusive in academic circles. Second, if Yongzheng really believes in punishment after death, can he escape from 500 miles away? So there must be other reasons for this Yongzheng choice.

The first is the reason of feng shui. In the seventh year of Yongzheng's accession to the throne, Mr. Feng Shui was sent to find a "forever blessed land" for himself in the Qing Dongling. Mr. Feng Shui found the Auspicious Cave in chao yang shan, Jiu Feng, near Jingling, Xiaoling, but it was later proved that the Feng Shui in this place was flawed and imperfect. Later, Yongzheng ordered not to search in Dongling, so thirteen younger brothers of Yongzheng, Prince Yun Xiang of Yixian and Governor Gao Qizhuo found this "blessed land" at the foot of Taining Mountain in Yizhou, Hebei Province.

How good is this place? History: The place where Kun Kun gathers is the meeting of Yin and Yang. The sand and stones in Longdong are beautiful, the water law in the mountains is detailed and clear, and the situation is reasonable and auspicious. Therefore, Yongzheng abolished the site of Jiu Feng chao yang shan Mausoleum in Qing Dynasty and chose Taipinggu at the foot of Taining Mountain in Yizhou as his eternal home. This place was very satisfied with Yongzheng, and construction started the following year. It took six years to build the Tailing of Yongzheng. In today's view, the feng shui of the Qing Xiling, especially the Tailing of Yongzheng, is really good.

The second is that Yongzheng's maverick is to show his position. Yongzheng was one of the most successful emperors in the Qing Dynasty and made great contributions to the development of the Qing Dynasty. He carried out drastic reforms on many disadvantages of Kangxi in his later years, and made breakthroughs in bureaucracy and finance, which laid the foundation for his son's later prosperity.

Yongzheng, who was in power, dared to be unconventional and resolute, and had great courage and courage. This character made him dare to violate the tradition that his son was buried with his father in Dongling, far away from his father's mausoleum, and became the first owner of Xinling.

In order to treat Dongling and Xiling equally, emperors after Yongzheng were buried in Dongling and Xiling. Until Emperor Guangxu, the emperors buried in the Qing Dongling were Shunzhi, Kangxi, Qianlong, Xianfeng and Tongzhi, and the emperors buried in the Qing Xiling were Yongzheng, Jiaqing, Daoguang and Guangxu. As for the last emperor Puyi, when he died, it was after the founding of New China, and his ashes were finally buried in the "Longhua Royal Cemetery" next to Emperor Guangxu's mausoleum, which was also called the Qing Xiling Mausoleum.