Brief introduction of Dingling in the Ming Tombs

Mingding Mausoleum is the tomb of Zhu Yijun (Wanli), the 13th emperor of Ming Dynasty. His two empresses (Xiao Duan and Xiao Jing) are also buried here. Dingling is located at the foot of Dayu Mountain in the southwest of Changling.

Dingling was started long before the death of Emperor Wanli, and started in the 12th year of Wanli (A.D. 1584), which took six years to complete and cost eight million and two thousand yuan. The emperor was only 28 years old when the mausoleum was built, and it was not officially opened until 1620. Dingling became one of the three major cemeteries in the Ming Tombs.

Its ground building * * * accounts for 6.5438+0.8 million square meters, with a wide courtyard in front and a tall treasure city behind. In front of the mausoleum is a three-legged white marble bridge.

Crossing the bridge is a tall pavilion. There are more than 300 buildings around the pavilion, such as temple sacrifice department, sacrifice pavilion and Dingling prison. Then there is the outermost wall of the cemetery-Wailuocheng (the wall outside the wall).

The main buildings in Dingling include Pit Gate, Pit Temple, Baocheng, Minglou and Underground Palace, covering an area of 182000 square meters. This is an excavated tomb in the Ming Tombs.

During the Cultural Revolution, Dingling was criticized as a ghost, and the bones and coffins of Emperor Wanli and two empresses were destroyed.

And because people's awareness of cultural relics protection was not strong at that time and the specific historical period at that time (mainly referring to the break between the Cultural Revolution and capitalism), a large number of silk fabrics unearthed in Dingling were not effectively protected and quickly weathered. Therefore, the excavation of Dingling is also considered as a great tragedy in archaeological history.

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Ming Chengzu was buried in Dingling:

(1563 September 4th-1620 August 18) The thirteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, his third son, the third son of the Ming emperor, and his biological mother was Filial Empress Li.

In the second year of Qin Long's reign (1568), he became the Crown Prince on March 11th and was in the East Palace. In the sixth year of Qin Long (1572), Ming Muzong died, and Zhu Yijun, aged 10, succeeded to the throne, with the year number of Wanli, who reigned for 48 years, and was the longest emperor in the Ming Dynasty.

In the first ten years of the rule, Zhang, the first assistant of the cabinet, presided over the government affairs and carried out a series of reform measures, which made the social economy develop greatly and created a situation of "Wanli Prosperity". During this period, he presided over the famous three expeditions of Wanli, which consolidated the territory of the Han family, but it also cost a lot of money. ?

In the later period of his administration, due to the lack of a sage like Zhang to deal with supervision issues and state disputes, he was abandoned in political affairs and was tired of political affairs. Since then, no lawsuits have been filed for more than 20 years, and the national operation has almost stopped. In the later period of Ming Shenzong's administration, the party struggle lasted for a long time, which led to the increasingly corrupt political affairs.

In addition, the mining tax levied by Ming Shenzong during its rule was also called a great criticism, which made the Ming Dynasty gradually decline. At this time, Manchu in Northeast China began to rise. In the forty-seventh year of Wanli (16 19), the Ming army was defeated by Nurhachi in the Battle of Salhu, and the control of the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong collapsed.

The Ming Dynasty, which declined during the reign of Ming Shenzong, also became lively and open during this period, and China's economy was in a leading position in the world economy at that time. During this period, the seeds of capitalism appeared in China.

Foreign missionaries have also come to China. For example, Matteo Ricci visited Ming Shenzong and began to spread western learning to the East. The whole society also shows the spirit of opposing feudal ethics and liberating individuality.

In the forty-eighth year of Wanli (1620), on July 21st, Ming Shenzong died at the age of fifty-six. Fan Tianhe, a posthumous title, wrote a short article about Zhesutun, saying that Wu 'an people showed their filial piety and buried Ming Tombs and Dingling Tombs. Zhu Changluo, the eldest son, succeeded to the throne after his death. Only 24 years after Ming Shenzong's death, the Ming Dynasty perished.

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