It took 25 years from the 14th year of Hongwu (138 1) to the 3rd year of Yongle (1405).
Mobilized 654.38+million military industry, consumed a lot of manpower and material resources, and the scale was huge. At that time, 45 imperial walls were built from Chaoyangmen (now Zhongshan Gate) to Xiaolingwei to the west and north of the mausoleum.
Commander Wali, there are more than 5,000 troops stationed in Hu Ling. At that time, pavilions in the cemetery were connected; Smoke in the temple, pine and cypress in the forest, deer in a thousand miles. Luming Literature in this period, the momentum is extraordinary. Due to repeated fires, there are only 24 pieces of six kinds of Shenshan Monument, Xiama Monument, Dajinmen, Sifang City, Debei Monument, Shinto Stone Beasts and Lions, Lions, Camels, Kirin and Horses, 2 Shinto Stone Columns and 4 civil servants and military commanders.
The Shinto of the Mausoleum starts from Sifang City. Sifang City is a tablet pavilion, located between Wei Qiao and Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum. It is a "sacred merit monument of Daming Tomb" built by Judy, the founding emperor of Ming Dynasty, for his father Zhu Yuanzhang. Its top has been destroyed, leaving only a square wall, and a stone tablet stands on the turtle seat, 8.78 meters high. Judy wrote an inscription of 2,746 words, detailing the merits and demerits of Ming Taizu. The pedestal and tablet are exquisitely carved. Shinto goes west through Waijinshui Bridge (now Hongqiao), bypasses Meihua Mountain and turns north, about 1800 meters long. Among them, this section is Shixiang Road, and there are 12 pairs of stone beasts on this section, which are lions, camels, elephants and horses respectively.
There are two pairs of each kind, and the posture is one against the other. Behind them are a pair of tall China watches, carved with Yunlong, with extraordinary momentum. There are four pairs of civilian military commanders in armor or embroidered robes on Shinto, turning to the north. Unfortunately, some have been damaged. Stone carving figures and animals are huge in size and are treasures of stone carving art in Ming Dynasty. Zhumen in the Ming Tombs faces south, facing Meihua Mountain, and the word "Ming Tombs" is written on his forehead. There is a stone carving on the east side of the gate, which was inscribed in six languages by Daotai and Jiangning Magistrate of the General Administration of Westernization of Liangjiang. It was written by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty during his third southern tour. There used to be two royal pavilions behind the stele pavilion, one in the west is called the sacrificial pavilion, and the other in the east is called the service hall. Now, they are all destroyed, leaving only a few stone pillars and stone fields. You can also see the foundations of 64 stone pillars on the original site of the temple, from which you can imagine that the scale of the temple is very large. The present Xiang Dian was rebuilt in the 12th year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1873), which is much smaller than the original one, and contains a portrait of Zhu Yuanzhang. After enjoying the temple, there is depth 100.
This open space, which is more than ten meters wide, was once a place for open-air sacrifice, with a tunnel in the middle and lush trees on both sides. There is a stone bridge at the end of the tunnel, called Dashiqiao, also called Sage Bridge, which means that crossing this bridge is the "fairy world". The north of the bridge is a castle-like building with a width of 75 meters, a height of 16 meters and a depth of 3 1 meter, which is called Fangcheng. Fangcheng is made of large stones, with an arched inclined tunnel in the middle and steps to enter, with a total of 54 steps. There are stone steps from the tunnel to the top of the city. There used to be a palace-style building on the top of the city, and the top and wooden structure of the building have been destroyed. Now there are only four brick walls, and there is an arch 3 in the south.
First, there are arches on three other sides. Looking from the top of Fangcheng, there are Sun Yat-sen Mausoleum in the east, Meihua Mountain in the south, Sun Yat-sen Botanical Garden in the west and Baoding in the north, surrounded by lush trees and pines, which does not prevent visitors from recalling the past. Baoding is about 400 in diameter.
The dome of meters, the underground palace where Zhu Yuanzhang and Ma Huanghou were buried together, is surrounded by stone walls, and the seven Chinese characters "The Tomb of Ming Taizu in this Mountain" are engraved on the south stone wall. Meihua Mountain was buried here by Sun Quan and his wife, the monarch of Soochow during the Three Kingdoms period. It was called Sun Linggang in ancient times and is located 300 meters south of the Ming Tombs.
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