Why didn t the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty build mausoleums?

Who said that they didn't repair it, they also built mausoleums, but compared with other dynasties, the monarchs of the Yuan Dynasty were more low-key, and there were not too many rules and regulations for what happened after their deaths, and they had to be known to the world.

Because all my life has been fighting. The Yuan Dynasty has been fighting wars since its creation, and the emperor led the troops, and the emperor was buried wherever he died, after all, state affairs are important.

The Yuan Dynasty was founded by nomadic people, and their customs dictated that they would not build mausoleums, and the Yuan Dynasty was a dynasty of great expansion, and it was time-consuming and laborious to build mausoleums.

The rulers of the Yuan Dynasty all used the secret burial method, did not build a huge cemetery, and the descendants did not sacrifice to the grave, this custom is because the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty are nomadic people, they have lived for a long time, and there is a person named Yang Lian Zhenjia in the early Yuan Dynasty who likes to rob tombs, and turned over the tombs of many emperors, in addition to taking away the gold and silver treasures and priing away the night pearl in the mouth, the corpse is hung upside down, and the embalming mercury in the belly is drained to sell for money.

The Yuan Dynasty was founded by the Mongols, who were nomadic and had their own burial customs, and did not have the habit of building mausoleums like the Han people, and the funeral rites were simple.

In the later period of China's feudal society, the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties built the capital of Beijing. The tombs of the Ming emperors were in Changping, and the tombs of the Qing emperors were in Zunhua and Yixian, both of which were not too far from the city of Beijing. So, where is the tomb of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty?

Some people may say: "Isn't the mausoleum of Genghis Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan, in the Yijin Boluo tribe in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region?" "Actually, it was a monumental building, and Genghis Khan's body was not buried in it.

Today we have not found any of the tombs of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty, so where the tombs of the emperors of the Yuan Dynasty are located is really a mystery to us. The reason for this mystery is the Mongolian funeral custom of "burying deep without seeing the grave". This custom originated with Genghis Khan.

On August 25, 1227 (the seventh month of the summer calendar), Genghis Khan died of illness in Qingshui County. When he was dying, he told his subordinates to "keep the funeral secret" and implement "secret burial". According to the "History of the Mongols of Tosan", it is recorded:

The generals returned to Mongolia, and the news of the death of the Khan was known, and the guards were ......killed in this long distanceAfter the burial, the surrounding trees are overgrown, and it becomes a dense forest, and the tomb is no longer under the tree. After Kublai Khan, the ancestor of the Yuan dynasty, set the capital of Dadu (now Beijing), he still continued the custom of "secret funeral". It is recorded in Ye Ziqi's "Grass and Muzi" in the Ming Dynasty:

The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty drove a landslide, "with two pieces of wood, hollowed out of it, the humanoid size was combined into a coffin, and the body was placed in ......."Add paint, finish, then ** as the circle, three circles (hoop two ends, middle)". Then, dig a deep ditch and bury it together, "with ten thousand horses to ravage it." Kill the camels on them, and guard them with a thousand horses.

In the coming year, when the grass is born, the tent will be moved and dispersed, and the hope will be peaceful, and people will not know it. The funeral of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty was very simple, no graves, no Ming Towers, no waste of arable land, and safety and confidentiality. Even his descendants don't know where his tomb is, let alone outsiders and descendants.

Of course, maybe one day, archaeologists will discover the tombs of the Yuan emperors, and that will surely be big news.