One-day tour of Qing Dongling

One-day tour of Qing Dongling Mausoleum: Cixi Mausoleum-Dingling Mausoleum-Palace of Yuling Princess Garden-Yuling Mausoleum-Xiaoling Mausoleum-Daoguang Ruins-Hui Ling.

Qingling Mausoleum is located 30km northwest of zunhua city, Tangshan City, Hebei Province, and125km west of Beijing, covering an area of about 2,500km2, and now it covers an area of 80km2. It is one of the ancient imperial tombs with the largest scale, the most complete system, the most regular layout and the best preservation in China.

In the 18th year of Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty, the construction of the Qing Mausoleum began, which lasted for 247 years, and 2 17 palace archways were built one after another, forming 15 cemetery, 5 imperial tombs, 4 back tombs, 5 princess gardens and 1 princess garden. Five emperors, 15 queens and 65,500 princesses were buried in the Qing tombs.

Architectural model

All the mausoleums of the Qing Dongling, except Zhao Qianling of the Empress Dowager Xiao Zhuang, are centered on the Qing Xiaoling Mausoleum, the first emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the customs. Qing Xiaoling Mausoleum is located on the central axis of the main peak from Jinxing Mountain in the south to Changrui Mountain in the north. The tombs of other emperors are arranged in a fan-shaped east-west direction at the southern foot of Changrui Mountain on both sides of Xiaoling Mausoleum according to the traditional concepts of centering, orderly aging and different respects. The tombs with low seniority are far from the main tombs.

The layout of the mausoleum is as follows: the mausoleum on the left is the Jingling of Emperor Kangxi, the mausoleum on the left is Hui Ling of Emperor Tongzhi of Mu Zong, the mausoleum on the right is the Yuling of Emperor Gaozong Qianlong, and the mausoleum on the right is the Dingling of Emperor Wenzong Xianfeng, which forms the pattern that children and grandchildren accompany their fathers and ancestors, and highlights the ethical concept of respecting the elderly. At the same time, each mausoleum has built a series of buildings according to the regulations, and the overall layout is that the front faces the back and sleeps.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Qing Dongling