After 108 years of Qing death, why are there still mausoleum guards in the imperial tomb, and who pa

The purpose of guarding the tomb is to prevent the theft of cultural relics, and some of the current tomb guards are the descendants of the tomb keepers of the year, they are willing to guard the tomb, and no one pays them wages; There is also a part of the scenic staff and the army, and the state pays them salaries.

The wages of the mausoleum keepers are paid by the state, and these people are no longer the mausoleum keepers in the previous sense, but manage the cultural relics of the imperial mausoleum for the state, and also prevent crowding in tourism and maintain the order of the scenic spot, which is essentially different from the mausoleum keepers in the past.

Because the Qing Emperor's Mausoleum has become a cultural relic, the cultural relics department will send people to guard it; Of course, it is the cultural relics related departments that pay them salaries, after all, they are the employees or hired people of these departments.

Because these imperial tombs have become cultural relics and need to be protected, there are still people guarding the imperial tombs; Of course, it is the relevant antiquities authorities who pay these people, because these people are the employees or hired personnel of these departments.

No one paid them, they were all the most loyal patriots of the Qing Dynasty, so they would always keep it.

Now it is a tourist attraction and belongs to cultural relics. The mausoleum guards should be paid directly by the state, and they are of the same nature as the staff of attractions such as the Forbidden City

Although the Qing Dongling Tomb is the mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty royal family, it is also a cultural relic, and the state is still very concerned about the protection of cultural relics, and the salary of the mausoleum keeper should be paid by the state. They are the descendants of the Qing Dynasty Taining Association, which is mainly composed of people from the Three Banners, so if you look at it this way, the reason for persevering is not only a kind of inheritance, but also a kind of faith. It's similar to the feeling of intangible cultural heritage.

The Qing Dynasty has been dead for 108 years, why are there still mausoleum guards in the Qing Dynasty? And who pays their salaries? In fact, although the Qing Dongling Tomb is the mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty royal family, it is also a cultural relic, and the state is still very concerned about the protection of cultural relics, so the mausoleum keeper should be paid directly by the state.

They are the same as the staff of attractions such as the Forbidden City.

The mausoleum keeper is a manifestation of the promise made by the owner of the tomb that they can be self-sufficient, right in the vicinity of the mausoleum.

We all know that our country has always had a lot of cultural traditions, and since a long time ago, the course of civilization in our country has begun, and it has become more and more precious over time. Different people have different views on life and death, such as Sima Qian, who once mentioned in the Book of Bao Ren'an that "people are inherently dead, or heavier than Mount Tai, or lighter than Hongmao".

In our culture, people attach more importance to life and death, some people do not care about life and death, such as generals and soldiers, and some people attach great importance to life and death, such as emperors and magnates. Especially for the emperor, the Qing Dynasty's Cheng Vulture once wrote a poem called "Four Chapters of the Cold Food Song of the Immortal City", which has such a sentence: "Tingshan Mountain guards the mausoleum households, and forgets to live under the mausoleum for a long time", this is the life of the mausoleum keepers.

Most emperors will look for people to guard their tombs, so in such a situation, the profession of tomb keeper came into being.

We know that, according to historical records, there was a case in history when Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, looked for a mausoleum keeper to guard the mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang. He had arranged for twenty households, all of whom were subsidized by the state, and although the work of caring for the mausoleum was boring, it was indeed a very formal profession, and it was recognized by the emperor, and the treatment was not bad. However, in addition to the mausoleum keepers of the imperial seal, there are two other kinds of mausoleum keepers, one is the degraded court officials, who were demoted to guard the Huangling Tomb because of mistakes, and the other is to spontaneously go to guard the mausoleum, there are many such examples, such as Yuan Chonghuan, he was a famous general in the late Ming Dynasty, and was buried by his advisers after his death, and the mausoleum was guarded by their family for generations, and it has been passed down to this day.

Many people have such a question, that is, more than 100 years after the end of the Qing Dynasty, why are there still mausoleum guards? Who pays them?

It is normal to have such questions, because most of the tomb guards in the Qing Dynasty were imperial seals, so they have been arranged to guard the imperial tombs for generations, not only need to maintain the mausoleum every day, but also to ensure the safety of the mausoleum, to avoid the patronage of tomb robbers, this profession is very good. But after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, it was more embarrassing, many mausoleum guards after a long period of reproduction, will gradually become a village, in this way, they are not only mausoleum keepers, but also villagers, their task is no longer only to guard the mausoleum, but need to farm like ordinary people.

In fact, many descendants of the mausoleum keepers do not know that their ancestors used to be mausoleum keepers, and in festivals like ancestor worship, they will not sacrifice on a large scale like their ancestors, but simply express it. There are also descendants who have become new mausoleum keepers, but such professions have been attributed to state management, such as maintenance managers, they are also considered "mausoleum keepers".

However, the times are developing faster and faster, and the profession of mausoleum keeper has almost disappeared. Countless people once yearned for this profession, they thought it was a sacred mission, but now it is more about the legends of the mausoleum keepers, they have become a thing of the past, more like a memorial than an actual profession.

And they don't have to pay their salaries, because these people really live here, and they are self-sufficient here, and they are living very well.

No one paid them a salary, but this life was so ingrained in their minds that they thought it was their duty to guard the grave.

Although it has been more than 100 years since the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the tomb keepers have been passed down from generation to generation, because this is already their faith inheritance, they were born to guard the mausoleum, and we in New China will pay them wages.