Our country's tradition has always emphasized that the deceased is the most important, so when a person dies, they will try their best to have a good funeral for the deceased. And many people bury a large number of funerary objects after death so that they can enjoy the things they had during their lifetime. This is especially prominent in the tombs of dignitaries, princes and generals, and the emperor's tomb is the most luxurious one among them.
In ancient times, once the emperor passed away, the whole country would be deserted, and everyone would wear hemp and mourn for the emperor. Then the emperor was buried in the imperial mausoleum built during his lifetime in a grand ceremony. These imperial mausoleums can be said to be extremely luxurious, and some are even larger than their own palaces. They were built almost as soon as he ascended the throne. The most typical one is the tomb of my country's first emperor, Qin Shihuang . The terracotta warriors burial pits discovered so far are only a drop in the bucket of his huge mausoleum.
Our country’s buildings all pay attention to Feng Shui, and the Feng Shui position of the mausoleum is even more stringent. For the emperor, the king of a country, everything from site selection to construction must be calculated by the top Feng Shui masters at the time. This is a hope that his country will be stable and his dynasty will survive forever. However, I have never heard of a mausoleum built by an emperor under the water, and generally Feng Shui masters would not choose an underwater site. And this is the Mingzu Mausoleum that the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang built for his ancestors. It is also the only royal mausoleum in my country that is underwater. This mausoleum is located in the Huaihe River in our country. It was built after Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country. It also spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources. Unexpectedly, it would sink to the bottom of the river and only see the light of day again three hundred years later.
Did Zhu Yuanzhang choose to build the tombs of his ancestors at the bottom of the river in order to make them unique? According to records, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown was in Zhujia Lane, Jiangsu Province, but at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, people were in dire straits. Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather took his whole family to Anhui Province to seek life. After arriving in Anhui, he met a Taoist . The Taoist priest told Zhu Yuanzhang's grandfather that as long as the tomb was built next to Yangjiadun, the emperor would definitely appear in the family. Ancient people believed this kind of words very much, so as expected, this place began to be used as an ancestral grave. I don’t know if it is really a Feng Shui treasure cave. Zhu Yuanzhang later founded the Ming Dynasty and became the emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang also decided to repair and rebuild the tombs of his ancestors at this place.
It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang took great pains to build this mausoleum. It took nearly thirty years from the start of construction to final completion. It was finally completed in 1413. The scale of this ancestral mausoleum can be imagined. But there is a huge problem with this location, which is that floods often occur in the surrounding area. Therefore, every emperor of the Ming Dynasty had to build dams and repair the tombs of his ancestors, but the result was that they still failed to withstand the flood. Finally, in 1680, there was an extremely serious flood and the imperial mausoleum sank to the bottom of the water.
Years of flooding followed, causing tombstones and other buildings that were still on the ground to be washed down and submerged. This mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty could not be discovered in the water. From then on, no one knew that there was an imperial mausoleum under the water for hundreds of years.
In 1963, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, we happened to encounter a severe drought that had not been seen in this area for many years, causing many rivers to dry up. The water level in the water where the Mingzu Mausoleum is located has dropped significantly, causing the stone statues outside it to be seen again wrapped in mud. Later, during the excavation and protection by archaeologists, the imperial tomb, which had been submerged in water for more than 300 years, reappeared in front of the world.
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