"Liang Ming was buried in Dingjun Mountain in Hanzhong. Because the mountain was a grave, it was buried enough to accommodate the coffin, so it was a long time ago and no utensils were needed."
Zhuge Liang chose to be buried in Dingjun Mountain instead of Chengdu for three reasons.
In order to be wise, Zhuge Liang spent his last few years in the front line of Cao Wei's Northern Expedition. In order to live up to Liu Bei's entrustment, he has always remembered the ideal of "restoring the Han Dynasty and returning to the old capital", and Zhuge Liang has been committed to realizing this ideal all his life.
▲ Zhuge Liang
Dingjun Mountain, located in Hanzhong, is the place where the Shu-Han army left Bashu for the northern expedition to Cao Wei. Zhuge Liang chose to be buried here, which has the meaning of clear ambition and also has the function of inspiring future generations. Zhuge Liang did not succeed in the Northern Expedition. After his death, he hoped that Jiang Wan, Fei Yi, Jiang Wei and others would not forget the mission of "reviving the Han Dynasty".
Warning future generations, Hanzhong is the throat of Guanzhong entering Shu and the barrier of the plain in the middle of Sichuan. When Liu Bei competed with Cao Cao for Hanzhong, he did his best to benefit the country and the people, so that he won Hanzhong to the point where "men should fight and women should make money". Hanzhong is hard-won, and it is also of great strategic significance to the Shuhan regime. It is an important place to attack and defend. Zhuge Liang chose to be buried in Dingjun Mountain to warn future generations that Hanzhong is very important and cannot be lost. Later, the Shu-Han regime was destroyed by Cao Wei within a few months after the fall of Hanzhong. Such a warning function cannot be reflected in the burial in Chengdu.
▲ Zhuge Liang's legacy
Unwilling to be disturbed at the end of the Han Dynasty, due to the chaos in the world, grave robbery began to be rampant. Cao Cao set up a captain to touch gold and obtained rich funerary objects from the tomb as military assets. Zhuge Liang arranged his tomb very simply, without funerary objects, which can be called a thin burial. The theft of this tomb is of little value and is not easy to be targeted by grave robbers.
There is a saying that after Zhuge Liang's death, four big men were arranged to carry his coffin to Dingjun Mountain. Once the rope on the coffin is broken, you choose to bury it on the spot. In this way, the exact burial place of Zhuge Liang is a mystery, leaving Zhuge Liang undisturbed after his death.
▲ Wuhou tombstone
If buried in Chengdu, it is inevitable that others will know the location of the tomb, and it is more likely to be stolen. So far, the exact burial address of Zhuge Liang has not been found. I have to say that this is related to Zhuge Liang's arrangement of dense burial in Dingjun Mountain.
Zhuge Liang chose to be buried in Dingjun Mountain instead of Chengdu, which not only served as a warning and encouragement to future generations, but also considered peace after death without being disturbed by others.