Nanjing Ming Mausoleum, listed in the World Cultural Heritage List, covers an area of about 170 (? )

The Ming Tombs are the tombs of Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Huanghou, the founding emperors of the Ming Dynasty. It is located at the foot of Long Fu Mountain in the south of Zijin Mountain, with Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in the east and Meihua Mountain in the south. The Ming Mausoleum is the largest imperial mausoleum in Nanjing, with a length of 22.5 kilometers.

The Ming tombs cover an area of 1.7 million square meters, and the underground palace covers an area of about 4,000 square meters. It is one of the largest royal tombs in China.

It took seventeen years to build the Ming Tombs. Only the last part of the cemetery exists. Its overall layout is divided into two parts: one is to guide the Shinto of architecture;

There are stone beasts, stone men and cemeteries in Shinto? In Yicheng, you can climb to the top of the mountain. In the middle of the top of the mountain, there is a stone carving "The Tomb of Ming Taizu in this Mountain". The second is the main building of the mausoleum, where Zhu Yuanzhang was buried. There is Judy as his father in Sifang city? Set up a "monument to the sacred virtues of Daming Tomb".

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The Ming Tombs changed the layout of the square, platform, square wall, upper and lower palaces and horizontal axis of the imperial tombs in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and established a three-step courtyard system of "front facing and rear sleeping" for the first time according to the layout of the imperial palaces, creating the basic layout of the mausoleum buildings with "front and rear circles", and has been standardizing the construction specifications of more than 20 imperial tombs in the Ming and Qing Dynasties for more than 500 years.

In particular, the "front yard and back bedroom" of the Ming tombs and the mausoleum system of the front and rear courtyards reflect the ritual system, but the imperial power politics is prominent.

Imperial tombs of the ming and qing dynasties, which is distributed in Beijing, Hubei, Liaoning, Hebei and other places according to the historical process, was built according to the regulations and patterns of Nanjing and Ming Tombs, and has a special position in the history of the development of China Tombs, so it has the reputation of "the first royal mausoleum in Ming and Qing Dynasties".

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