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-- In the front part of the imperial necropolises, there usually is a Sacred Way (or Divine Road) which means the road leading to heaven. The Emperor, known as the Son of the Heaven, who came from Heaven to his country through the Sacred Way, also deservedly would return to Heaven through this road ...
-- The Ming Tombs located in Changping District, about 50 kilometers from the northwest of Beijing, is enclosed by mountains in three sides. The imperial cemetery covers an area of 120 square kilometers with 13 Ming emperors, 23 empresses and a number of concubines, princes, and princesses buried there, and thus it is also called 13 Mausoleums. These tombs are the best preserved ...
-- The splendid Ding Ling is the tomb of Emperor Wanli, Zhu Yijun, the 13th emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He ruled his great empire for 48 years, the longest for his whole dynasty. The historical documents reveals that the total cost for the tomb amazingly reached mover 8 million taels of silver, which was approximately equivalent to the entire tax income for two years of then government. Regarding the scale...
-- The Marble Archway is the southernmost gate in the Ming Tomb area. It was built in 1540, and features five doors, six pillars, and eleven floors. The archway marks the beginning of the Sacred Way, and the dragons, lions, and clouds that decorate its many pillars evoke images of the heavenly afterlife it was believed that the emperors enjoyed. It is the largest and best preserved archway of its kind in China.
-- LingXingMen, common saying as LongFengMen, means the Dragon-phoenix Gate. For the Ming Tombs here, it possesses the significance as the gate to heaven. The three passageways were connected by short walls and 6 gateposts looks like HuaBiao. It still got another name as fire torii for the stone graved fire bead on the central part of the forehead. An obvious seven holes white marble divine bridge is the must way to enter the Changling...
-- The frontispiece--main entrance of Ming Tombs is the Great Palace Gate, DaGongMen in Chinese, which consists of three arches and connected to a bounding wall of 40 kilometers.
The frontispiece--main entrance of Ming Tombs is the Great Palace Gate, DaGongMen in Chinese, which consists of three arches and connected to a bounding wall of 40 kilometers. The three passageways obeyed rigorous rules: ...
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