Moreover, not only did the Emperor Qianlong's Yuling have a lot of water, but the mausoleum of Emperor Kangxi, the grandfather of Emperor Qianlong, also had water all the year round. Both the underground palaces of grandparents and grandchildren have been soaked in water, and the whole Qing Dongling has similar problems. The imperial tombs in the pass of the Qing Dynasty are divided into the Qing Dongling Mausoleum and the Qing Xiling Mausoleum, but their fates are completely different.
The Qing Xiling Mausoleum is well preserved and there have been no problems. However, the Dongling Mausoleum of Qing Dynasty was not only stolen and bombed in modern times, but also the underground palace of the Imperial Mausoleum had water seepage problems, especially the underground palace of Emperor Kangxi Qianlong, just like water curtain cave. After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Xiaoling Mausoleum in the emperor shunzhi became the first mausoleum to enter the customs. After the death of Emperor Kangxi, his mausoleum was also built next to the Xiaoling Mausoleum, but things took a turning point in the Yong Zhengdi period.
Originally, Yong Zhengdi also built his own eternal place in chao yang shan, Jiu Feng. However, in the seventh year of Yongzheng, Yong Zhengdi suddenly decided that there was something wrong with the local geomantic geology, and there were many sand stones and easy water seepage, so he chose another place to build a tomb. Therefore, Yong Zhengdi chose Taining Mountain and built Tailing Mountain. Since then, the imperial tombs in the Qing Dynasty have been divided into two parts, namely Zunhua Mausoleum in the Qing Dynasty and Yixian Mausoleum in the Qing Dynasty. However, there is a problem in this regard. Where to put your own mausoleum in the future is worth pondering.
The first thing that needs to be solved is Emperor Qianlong, the heir of Yong Zhengdi. Instead of following his father, he chose the address in Qing Xiling, but returned to his grandfather Kangxi. It turns out that Yong Zhengdi's practice has already broken the tradition of "the son is buried with his father and inherited by his grandparents". At first, Emperor Qianlong wanted to be by his father's side, but he also thought that if future generations were like this, it would inevitably make the Qing Xiling Mausoleum prosperous and the Qing Dongling Mausoleum desolate, so he moved to the Qing Dongling area.
In addition, there is a saying that Emperor Qianlong has always regarded himself as "the favorite grandson of Emperor Kangxi" and imitated his grandfather's various practices everywhere, which is considered to be intended to move closer to Emperor Kangxi, which also formed the trillion-dollar burial system in which his father was in Dongling and his son was in Xiling in the Qing Dynasty. During the Qianlong period, the national strength of the Qing Dynasty reached its peak, and Emperor Qianlong also invested heavily in its mausoleum, which cost more than two million pieces of silver before and after it was really built.
Embarrassed, however, from the day the mausoleum was built, there was a problem of water seepage in Yuling. Emperor Qianlong saw it with his own eyes when he inspected it and ordered it to be repaired immediately.
After some repairs, it was not until many years after the death of Emperor Qianlong that water seepage appeared in the underground palace. However, when Sun Dianying blasted Yuling in modern times, it was found that there was a large amount of water gushing from the underground palace, and the Qianlong Imperial City was soaked in the water. In other words, the large-scale restoration activities of that year only temporarily blocked the leakage of the underground palace, but did not really solve the root cause of the problem, so no one took care of it later, and the Yuling underground palace was still leaking.
The water seepage in Yuling is easy to understand, because there are many tombs in Dongling, not only those of Qianlong, Kangxi and Daoguang, but also in different degrees. When Yong Zhengdi chose the address of the mausoleum, the groundwater in Dongling area was too high and there was too much sand in the land. Once the mausoleum is built, it is easy to cause many problems, which is one of the reasons why he gave up.
Yuling is on a gentle slope, and the underground palace is shallow. Compared with the depth of the imperial tombs in the Ming Dynasty, the Yuling underground palace is only 15 meters, and rainwater can easily gather and penetrate into the underground palace. If you have been to Yuling, you will know that the underground palace in Yuling is actually not so neat in many places, especially the underground buildings are not all on a central axis, and there is a gap in the middle, so there is a huge gap in the underground palace. Although Yuling has become an empty mausoleum, a large number of exquisite sculptures and murals can still be seen in the underground palace.
Emperor Qianlong believed in Buddhism. In his underground palace, he spent a lot of money and effort, made many sculptures, as well as various Buddhist scriptures and other things, just as he liked inscriptions and seals. The density of carving and seal cutting in Yuling Underground Palace is really amazing, almost everywhere.
However, so many sculptures are naturally not a whole piece, and many of them are spliced after carving, so it is very easy to cause cracks between buildings. After a long time, they will crack and then ooze. Nowadays, in the rainy season in Yulin, pumping operation is still needed. The problem of water seepage in the underground palace has not been completely solved today, what's more, in ancient times, like the underground crystal palace, Yuling was prone to water accumulation.