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Chapter 64
The remains of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty are hard to find
After the death of the emperor, it is always necessary to have a grand burial, so as not to lose the face of the royal family. This is the case in every feudal dynasty, except that the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty did not leave a mausoleum.

Ming Dynasty Ye Ziqi's "Cao Mu Zi" records the events after the death of the Yuan Dynasty emperor: "The Yuan Dynasty emperor died, and two pieces of wood were used to hollow out the coffin, which was shaped like a human being, and the body was placed in it... and painted, After that, use gold as a circle, and make three circles (both ends and the middle of the hoop)...Ten thousand horses will be used to make it level. Kill camels on it, and thousands of horses will guard it. When the grass grows next year, move the tent and disperse it. Looking at Pingyan, people don’t know.”

This passage means that after the death of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, his followers would dig a deep ditch and put his body in a coffin made from a hollowed out tree.The coffin was then lowered into a deep ditch, filled with earth, trodden down by horses, and surrounded by tents.The tent will not be removed until the grass grows on the ground of the tomb and looks the same as the surrounding grass, so that the location of the tomb will not be revealed.

When Genghis Khan died, he was buried in this way.According to the notes of literati in the Southern Song Dynasty, after Genghis Khan died of illness in Ningxia, his body was transported to a place under the Kent Mountain in Mobei and buried in such a unique way. Therefore, it is still impossible to determine the location of Genghis Khan’s tomb.

After all the burial work is completed, the Mongols will kill a baby camel on the surface of the cemetery. At this time, the mother of the baby camel will remember this place and go there every year to sacrifice the baby camel. If you shed tears in a certain place, it means that this place is the place where you were buried in the first place.

The Mongolian nation is a wise nation. Their conquest of most of China’s land is not entirely by force, but also by wisdom. Although there is no scientific basis for the saying that camels are used to find the tombs of their ancestors, it can be considered that later generations have no mausoleums for the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty. A process of discovery and discovery.

Before the founding of the Yuan Dynasty, the Mongols had their own unique funeral customs. The main feature was thin burials and simple funerals. This was related to the characteristics of the Mongols as nomadic people. They lived on the grasslands without a fixed residence, and their lifestyle was relatively simple and practical.When a person dies, the Mongols will let the deceased sit in the center of a tent that was used during his lifetime, and then put some meat, bows and arrows buried in the soil, which means that the deceased will have meat to eat and bows and arrows after death.

After Kublai Khan established the Yuan Dynasty, he gradually accepted Sinicization and began to bury people in coffins. However, compared with the dynasty established by the Han people, the tombs of emperors in the Yuan Dynasty were much simpler.After the death of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, there must first be a burial ceremony, and there must be more burial objects, but Han officials cannot participate, only Mongolians can participate.

They will not build large mausoleums, nor will they leave relevant records in history books, in order not to leave clues and traces that can be discovered by tomb robbers. In addition, they have other people who will not be stolen The method of discovery, for example, during the reign of Kublai Khan, he found a way for himself and for future generations to prevent the tomb from being stolen.

He chose a sparsely populated Fengshui treasure land as the burial place of the mausoleum, and then relocated all the local people, turning this place into a blank space with no one there.After the emperor was buried, it was announced that the emperor's body would be transported back to Mobei for burial, so as to achieve the purpose of confusing the real ones. Therefore, later generations could hardly feel where the tombs of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty were located.

Incomplete records and intentional concealment cast a mysterious veil on the tombs of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, and the unique cultural customs and living habits of the Mongolian people also added a certain degree of difficulty to the archaeological work of the tombs of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty. Knowing the historical truth at that time, it can be considered that the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty did not have a mausoleum, but had not discovered it. This carefully planned scam has yet to be cracked.

(End of this chapter)