We often hear about the tombs of the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties, why do we rarely hear about

Because the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties were relatively powerful dynasties, and the dynasties were maintained for a long time, so the accumulation of social wealth was relatively large, and the social wealth determined the quality of the materials used for the construction of the cemetery, so the materials used in the tombs of the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties were better and could be preserved relatively completely, while the social wealth accumulation of the Song Dynasty was shorter.

Because the tombs of the Song Dynasty were devastated by the later ruling dynasties, valuable things were stolen and buildings were destroyed. The mausoleums of other dynasties are well preserved, and they are widely known after publicity, and the mausoleums of the Song Dynasty have no archaeological value and no tourist value, so naturally no one mentions them.

We often hear about the tombs of the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties, and in the Song Dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty fell suddenly, the descendants were scattered, and the Southern Song Dynasty did not have the ability to return to their hometown to worship and maintain the tombs of the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty, so we rarely heard of the tombs of the Song Dynasty.

The culture at that time was different, the Song Dynasty did not pay attention to the ceremonial aspect of the natural death of people, and the Song Dynasty existed for a relatively long time in history, and produced relatively few important figures.

Because the Northern Song Dynasty perished too suddenly, the Song Tombs were not well protected, so people were not impressed by the Song Tombs.

Because the tombs of the emperors of the Song Dynasty are relatively simple. Zhao Kuangyin, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, once advocated not to overhaul the mausoleum, so after the death of the emperors of the Song Dynasty, their mausoleums were very ordinary tombs, so few people mentioned them.

Because the emperor's tomb in the Song Dynasty was not very large-scale and the most humble of all the dynasties, basically no one wanted to know about the emperor's tomb in the Song Dynasty, so it was rarely mentioned.

It is rarely mentioned today because of the devastating destruction of the Song Tombs. We all know that the Northern Song Dynasty died in Jin, and the Jin State established a puppet Qi regime after occupying the homeland of the Northern Song Dynasty, which was a puppet regime established by Liu Yu, the former prefect of Jinan, under the support of the Jin State. Beginning in 1130, Liu Yu excavated the Song Tombs, and all the buildings on the tombs were destroyed, and the treasures in the tombs were looted.

The tomb style of the emperor of the Song Dynasty is similar to that of the Western Han Dynasty, all of which are "sealed into a mausoleum", that is, the tomb is raised on the flat ground, and then the rammed earth mound is built with a bucket-shaped tomb, and its construction technology and consumables are not as good as the Tang Dynasty Yishan as the mausoleum, so it is more thrifty and provincial. The emperors of the Song Dynasty, except for Zhao Ji of Song Huizong, who was more extravagant, were more diligent and thrifty, and most of them followed the thin burial system and did not advocate luxury.

The Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties all liked to fight, and the Song Dynasty were all cultural people Minqing, they rarely used funerary goods or Shibi Li Mo precious things to accompany the burial, and the Han, Tang, Ming and Qing dynasties all liked to use these things to accompany the burial, so we often hear about the Han and Tang Mingqiao Huiqian Qing mausoleum.

Because of the shame of Jingkang at that time, the Jin Zhan regiment invaded the Northern Song Dynasty, burned and looted in the Northern Song Dynasty, and dug up all the tombs of the Northern Song Dynasty emperors, so basically the tombs of the Song Dynasty emperors were rarely found.

Because the mausoleum style of the Song Dynasty was made of wood as a coffin, the tombs of the Song Dynasty were rarely unearthed.

Now a lot of ancient emperor's tombs have been discovered, I have to say, the emperor is the emperor, the general emperor's tomb, the specifications are quite high, and quite grand, so it has also attracted a lot of tomb robbers' fear, but there is a special strangeness, no matter which dynasty the emperor's tomb, there is always something found, but the Yuan Dynasty is very strange, the tomb of the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty has not been found so far.

In fact, there is a reason for this, first of all, the first point, the imperial tomb of the Yuan Dynasty has a characteristic, that is, there is no surface building, such as the Ming Ming Tombs, there are buildings on the surface, but the Yuan Dynasty does not, not only that, their imperial tomb has no tombstone, and there is no small mound, but all those who know will be killed, and there are very few records in the history books.

This reason is also a fundamental reason why no one has found the imperial tombs of the Yuan Dynasty so far, and many times, there are just some speculations in folk books.

There was a literati in the Ming Dynasty, called Ye Ziqi, who wrote a book called "Cao Muzi", which was only speculation, and there was no stone hammer, so it was said that the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty had a special burial ceremony, using two pieces of wood to hollow out the middle one, synthesizing a coffin the size of a person, putting the emperor's body into it, and adding lacquer.

After doing this, make a circle with **, set it three times, and then dig a deep ditch, bury it, use horses and camels to step on it repeatedly, and then there are special people to guard here, and wait for the grass here to grow in the next year, no different from other places, that's good.

In fact, the emperor's mausoleum of the Yuan Dynasty, the tomb robbers have no interest in patronizing, because the Yuan Dynasty was established by the Mongols, and they have a custom, that is, thin burials and simple funerals, even the emperor is no exception, so there is nothing to steal in their cemetery.

And after the Mongols established the Yuan Dynasty, they excavated the tomb of the emperor of the Song Dynasty, and used the skull of the Song Emperor as a wine cup.

After Kublai Khan destroyed the Song Dynasty, under the instruction of Yang Lianzhen, he began to dig the tombs of the Song Dynasty on a large scale, and the skull of Song Lizong was presented to the imperial court, made into a wine cup, and became a thing in the court of the Yuan Dynasty.

They dig other people's tombs on a large scale, and naturally know that if their own cemetery is stolen, it must be very congested, there is no dynasty since ancient times, and it can be passed on forever for thousands of years, although there is no record in the history books, why did he want such a unique burial, but he will definitely be afraid that the mausoleum was stolen by others.