What is the reason why Zhao Qianling's tomb is outside the tomb wall?

According to the ancestral law of the Qing Dynasty, it is right that Empress Xiaozhuang Wen and her aunt, Empress Dignified Wen, that is, the Empress of Huang Taiji, were buried in Zhaoling, Shenyang, together with Emperor Taizong and Huang Taiji. However, the tomb of Emperor Shunzhi, the son of Emperor Wendi of Xiao Zhuang, and the tomb of Emperor Kangxi, the grandson of Emperor Shunzhi, which were painstakingly cultivated for decades, were built at the foot of Changrui Mountain in Zunhua, far away from her children and grandchildren, and it was really difficult for her to leave. Moreover, in ancient times, there was a saying that "the honorable person was buried first, and the humble person was not allowed to enter".

Therefore, before she died, she left her last words to Emperor Kangxi: "Emperor Taizong has been working in Zigong for a long time, so don't treat me lightly. Anyway, I love your father and son and can't bear to leave, so I have no regrets in serving Xiaoling. "

Emperor Kangxi was a very filial man. He neither dares to destroy the ancestral system nor wants to go against his grandmother's legacy. So he thought of a compromise and decided to build a temporary Anfengtang on the east side of Dahongmen, south of Xiaoling, to park his grandmother's Zigong. This stop was 37 years, and Emperor Kangxi failed to solve the problem of grandmother's mausoleum all his life. 1725, Yong Zhengdi converted the temporary Anfeng Temple into a mausoleum and named it Zhao Qianling. 1725, Xiao Zhuang Wen uterus was officially buried in Yu Ling.

Empress Xiaozhuang Wen is the queen of Huang Taiji, and her tomb is called Zhao Qianling. From the name of this mausoleum, we can know that this mausoleum belongs to the same system as Zhaoling in Shenyang and two systems as Dongling in Qing Dynasty, so it must be built outside the Feng Shui wall of Dongling to show the difference.

Experts also believe that it is reasonable for Zhao Qianling to be built outside the Feng Shui Wall, because the emperor shunzhi has occupied the supreme position in the Feng Shui Wall, and Xiao Zhuang, as a mother, will be lower than her son no matter where she is buried, so it is more appropriate to build outside the Feng Shui Wall. A woman, a grave in Zhao Xi, left unknown stories and unsolved mysteries to future generations.

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