According to the ancient Mongolian custom, after death, if a person is not an important person, he is secretly buried in an open space that they think is suitable. When he was buried, one of his tents was buried at the same time, so that the deceased sat in the middle of the tent, and a table was placed in front of him, with a plate of meat and a cup of horse milk on it. In addition, a mare and her pony, a horse with a halter and saddle, were buried. In addition, they killed a horse, ate its meat, stuffed it with straw and tied it to two or four posts. Therefore, in another world, the deceased can have a tent to live in, a mare to drink his horse's milk, and he can breed his horse and ride it.
As for the important people, after their death, they secretly found an empty place, removed the grass, roots and everything on the ground, and dug a big pit. At the edge of the pit, they dug an underground grave. When they put the bodies in the graves, they also martyred the living. They put their beloved slaves under their bodies. The slave lay under the body until he almost died, and then they dragged him out and let him breathe; Then they put him under the body, so they did it three times in a row. If the slave is lucky enough not to die, then he will be a free man from now on, able to do whatever he wants, and become an important person in his master's tent and his relatives. When they put the dead man in the grave, they buried everything mentioned above except his tent in the open space. Then fill the big hole in front of the tomb, cover it with grass and restore its original appearance. Because there are no tombs in Mongolian tombs, no one can find these tombs in the future.
The burial of the Yuan emperor was extremely secret. According to historical records, all the emperors were buried in the so-called Guqi Valley in Mobei. Mongols call this cemetery a "forbidden area". Halton was not mentioned in the Outline of Mongolian Gold History. The Persian scholar Raster's Collection of History records many times that Genghis Khan's forbidden area is Mount Bourhan Heldun, and his youngest son Bao Lei, Sun Mengge Khan, Kublai Khan, Ali Buge and other descendants are also buried here. But in another place, it is said that there is a forbidden area for Genghis Khan in Windur, near the Xuelingge River. Except Kublai Khan, Solu Yongtienibeiji and all other kings are buried here. There are different opinions about where the "forbidden land" of the Yuan Dynasty was. For example, Zhang, a historical geographer, believes that Genghis Khan's burial place is in Ejinhoro, Ordos; Tuji, a famous Mongolian historian, believes that it is in the west of the Krulun River bend of the Mongolian people today, in the east of Tula 'a and in the sunshine of Mount Kent. When the Mongolian Khan died, he was buried in a coffin. The coffin was hollowed out with two pieces of wood, and the human-shaped group synthesized a coffin, and the body was placed inside. After painting, I circled it with gold and set it three times. "No matter where Khan died, he should also transport his Zigong to Mobei. In order to keep a secret and not let people know the exact burial place of Khan, whoever leaves on the day of going to the cemetery will be killed. Go to the cemetery where it is buried, cut the soil in the hole into pieces, arrange it in turn, put down the coffin and cover it in turn. If there is residual soil, it will be transported to other places. There are three funeral officials living five miles away. After the burial, "ten thousand horses were flat, the grass was lifted, and the slope was flat, and there was no trace of re-examination." A few years later, when the mourners died, no one knew the exact location of the burial site.
Genghis Khan Mausoleum, now located in Yijinhuoluo, is a symbolic mausoleum. The Mongols kept the burial place of Khan very secret, but the sacrificial ceremony was carried out openly and passed down. As the god of eight rooms outside the tomb, we set up a "room", that is, a "shadow hall". The Mongolian custom is still white, and the "water room" is composed of eight white tents, so it is also called the "eight white rooms". The built-in portrait is a symbol of the Khan mausoleum for future generations to pay homage to. Hidden "silver coffins" and "relics" are only symbolic objects. The separation between burial sites and sacrificial sites is mainly caused by frequent activities and migration of nomadic people on the grassland, especially in wartime, burial sites can be obtained or lost at any time, and burial sites can only be kept secret to avoid being destroyed. However, the sacrificial ceremony cannot be abolished because of this, so it has to be passed down through a symbolic mausoleum. Follow the Ministry of magic.
Due to the Mongolian funeral customs and tradition of secrecy, it is difficult to find out the exact location of the burial place of the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. With the passage of time, the changes of place names and landforms, and the limitations of language translation, the location of imperial tombs in the Yuan Dynasty has become a historical mystery. Most of our knowledge of the imperial tombs of the Yuan Dynasty comes from some historical records of the Ming Dynasty, but many historical records of the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty were recorded and described according to the caliber allowed by the rulers of the Ming Dynasty at that time, among which the most typical ones are the Secret History of the Yuan Dynasty and the Outline of the Golden History.
Many people in modern times confuse the mausoleum of Genghis Khan with the mausoleum of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. In fact, since Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty and the four khanates of Mongolia were no longer under the jurisdiction of Kublai Khan and the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty never returned to his original place except for going to the ferry. Although the origin of Mongols is still under the control of the Yuan Dynasty, this control can only be administrative jurisdiction.
In Ming Dynasty, Ye's Annals of Grass and Trees recorded that the Yuan Dynasty emperor opened a landslide, "using two pieces of wood, hollowing it out, putting the human body into a coffin ... and drawing it, and then putting three rings (two hoops and a middle hoop)". Then, dig a deep ditch and bury it together. "Ten thousand Ma Ping." Kill camels on it and ride thousands of them. Next year, the grass will grow, move and disperse, and I hope it will be flat and scattered. People don't know. "
The above records are puzzling. One of the doubts is that we have unearthed some tombs of Mongolian nobles in Yuan Dynasty. These tombs have not only tombs, but also burials. Why did Mongolian aristocrats have mausoleums, but the Yuan emperors didn't? However, secret burial is unreasonable. Doubt 2: The replacement of emperors in the Yuan Dynasty was mostly achieved by force. Why spend a lot of money and manpower to transport the enemy to a distant origin for a simple burial after seizing the throne? Doubt 3: The Yuan Dynasty governed the country according to the laws of China, and the national customs of the Han nationality were highly respected by the Mongols. Why can all customs be adopted and absorbed by the Han nationality, but the tombs remain unchanged? Then why did the Mongolian nobles in the Yuan Dynasty carry out tombs like the Han people?
Obviously, some records about the tombs of the emperors in the Yuan Dynasty in Ming History are quite different from the facts. I always thought that the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty deliberately concealed the fact that he robbed the tomb. Because of the good confidentiality, little is known about the tombs of the Yuan Dynasty in the late Ming Dynasty, so we have to write this blank record by speculation.