What is the significance of mausoleum architecture?

The 5,000-year history of civilization of the Chinese nation has left a considerable number of ancient relics, relics and ancient books for modern times. Mausoleum is a kind of rich and well-preserved ancient architectural heritage in China, which contains a large number of ancient art treasures. At the same time, the mausoleum building itself is also a comprehensive embodiment of ancient art and technology. An outstanding feature of ancient tombs in China is the deliberate pursuit of the perfection of natural scenery of mountains and rivers. Carefully explore the organic combination of natural landscape beauty and human landscape beauty. The formation of this feature has strong cultural roots, which fully embodies the ideological and cultural framework of ancient China and comprehensively reflects the ancient people's views on environment, architecture, aesthetics and ethics. This is the main research content of this paper. By studying the development history of the mausoleum, the consistency of the site selection, planning and layout between the mausoleum and the first residence, this paper discusses the relationship between the mausoleum and the ancient traditional view of nature. The author thinks that China's ancient traditional view of nature should not only include the content of his view of nature, but also include human nature and ethical factors. Therefore, the brand of the traditional view of nature in the mausoleum is decomposed into the view of soul, the view of yin and yang, the view of "harmony between man and nature" and the view of Feng Shui. Their influence on the mausoleum and the intermediary role of geomantic omen between concept and practice are analyzed respectively. This paper reveals the profound cultural value of the mausoleum as a historical witness, and based on this, combined with the current international cultural relics protection theory, discusses the significance and principles of protecting the mausoleum in order to provide some theoretical basis for the rational protection and development of this historical and cultural heritage.