In ancient China, the long passage from the main entrance to the mausoleum was called "Shinto". On both sides of the long Shinto of Jin Taizu Mausoleum, there are nine pairs of stone statues and beasts, which are properly called "stone statues". These stone statues and wild animals are used to decorate graves, symbolizing the rituals of the deceased before his death, and at the same time having the symbolic significance of "protecting" the cemetery. It is understood that the "stone statue life" in front of the mausoleum began as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties. Jin Taizu Park took six or seven years to complete. On the left side of Jin Taizu Mausoleum, there is an obvious protrusion facing southeast. At first, the entire tomb of Akuta Yan Hong was turtle-shaped, with its head facing southeast, and the burial direction of Akuta Yan Hong's coffin was also facing southeast.
For the people in the pass at that time, whether walking, sitting or lying down, the emperors advocated "facing south and facing north", and even the direction of the mausoleum was strictly centered on the north-south direction. Although Jin Taizu Cemetery takes the north-south direction as the central axis, Jin Taizu's Akuta Tomb faces the southeast. Hu Zhiyuan said that at that time, the graves of all ethnic groups in the north were east-west. "Jurchen people worship the sun", that is, the national characteristics of Jurchen people advocating the sun are reflected in many architectural relics discovered so far.
For Chinese emperors of past dynasties, most of them started to build large-scale shelters after their death, and chose the so-called "land of geomantic omen" with beautiful landscapes and nymphs.
On the point of establishing a mausoleum, akuta is different from previous emperors. First of all, jurchen did not have the custom of building a tomb before her death. Secondly, until three months before his death, Akuta was still personally conquering Liao.
11June 23, when Aguda was marching to the then "Yuanyang Dragon" (now southwest of Beijing), he suddenly fell ill. He seemed to have a hunch, so he handed over the military command to Wan Yan Zonghan and prepared to return to Beijing. On August 28 of that year, he died when he went to Budulong Palace (now Fuyu County, Jilin Province). On the third day of September, Aguda Lingshu returned to Beijing and was buried here the next day.
Before Akuta's death, the Golden Temple was not built, and all historical records show that Jin Taizu was a very simple emperor, and his mausoleum was also very simple, which could not be compared with the imperial tombs in the Central Plains. Among the nationalities in the northeast and north, it can only be said to be "a grand generation of imperial tombs." Bypass Jin Taizu's mausoleum from the right, and a palace behind it is Ning Temple. There are wax figures of Akuta and its Six Heroes in Ning Temple, which was once the most revered place of Nuzhen, and its descendants still come here to worship. There are simple and elegant murals of Akuta's life on both sides of the temple.
According to experts in the history of gold, Yuanning Temple is located on the mausoleum of Taizu, which is a ancestral hall and a place for future generations to sacrifice. Initially, only the imperial power of Jin Taizu was established here. Later, for the founding heroes who made outstanding contributions to the unification of the Jurchen tribe and the war of cutting Liao, the titles were posthumously awarded after their death, and they were conferred to the ancestral hall by drawing. This is also an honor.
Besides, Ning Temple has two purposes. The first is the place to punish senior generals. Before King Hailing moved to the capital, senior generals who made mistakes and needed to be severely punished were all taken to the mausoleum of Taizu to confess to him, and they were lightly punished with sticks and severely beheaded. This is also the source of Mao's mausoleum, also known as "chopping platform"; Another important function is to provide prisoners as a place. In the war of cutting Liao and attacking Song, whenever Jin won a major victory and captured an important enemy civil servant and military commander alive, a ceremony of offering prisoners was held. Celebrate the victory and inspire the army and the people. The biggest time was in August of 1 128, when two captured emperors, Song Huizong and Qinzong, concubines and ministers, escorted them to hold a ceremony of offering prisoners. According to experts in gold history, there are three tombs in Akuta, Jin Taizu. It was first buried outside the northern city of Huining County, and it was called Ling Rui. During the Tongzhi period, Hu Kaishan was reburied, saying; During Zhenyuan period, Dafang Mountain in Zhongdu (now southwest of Beijing) was reburied, and it was still called Ling Rui.
The exact addresses of Hu Kaishan and He Ling are unknown in historical records. Built on the mountain, there are still turtles, civil servants' stone carvings and stone sheep in front of the mausoleum.
Ling Rui, Dafang Mountain in Zhongdu, is located in Dafang Mountain in the southwest suburb of Beijing. There are seventeen mausoleums in Jinling, Dafang Mountain, forming a large-scale cemetery complex. But after the end of the Ming Dynasty, Dafangshan Jinling Company was burned down. Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty ordered the restoration of the mausoleum halls of Jin Taizu and Jin Shizong, and erected a monument to explain the reason why Dafang Mountain Jinling was burned down. It can be seen from this inscription that Fangshan Jinling was destroyed on a large scale because the rulers in the late Ming Dynasty used the concept of Yin and Yang to destroy Fangshan Jinling in order to resist the Qing army's entry into the customs, and used the so-called "technique of avoiding victory" to make their rule linger. Although it recovered slightly in the early Qing dynasty, it was not the original scale.