Chapter 175 Travel, from the Great Wall to the Ming Tombs
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In the next two days, Chunhua participated in the training, and Yang Wenbin did not bother her.
On Friday night, Yang Wenbin received another phone call, it was Chunhua.
Chunhua told him that the training was over, and she planned to spend the weekend in the capital, and the two of them would get together more.
Of course, Yang Wenbin couldn't ask for it.
Chunhua told him that he had booked a one-day tour of the Great Wall and the Ming Tombs for tomorrow at the front desk of the hotel.
Tomorrow morning at 6 o'clock, gather at the entrance of the training center.
Yang Wenbin immediately agreed, and went to the counselor to ask for leave that night.
The next morning, when Yang Wenbin got out of a taxi and rushed to the door of the hotel, Chunhua was already waiting for him in the lobby.
The two of them waited for another five or six minutes, and a tourist bus drove over.
The tourist bus shuttled around the city several times and picked up individual tourists scattered in various hotels.
The first destination of the two of them today was the Badaling Great Wall in Beijing.
The Badaling Great Wall is located at the north entrance of the ancient road of Shanguangou in the military capital, known as one of the nine stops in the world, is the outpost of the Juyongguan Great Wall, and is an important barrier in the capital, and has always been a place where soldiers must fight.
This section of the Great Wall is the most essential part of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, which integrates majestic and steep, beautiful and verdant, and crowns the world with the vast scenery and the slogan of "not a hero if you don't go to the Great Wall".
Yang Wenbin took Li Chunhua's hand and went to Guancheng.
The city is set up with east and west gates, and the lower part of the west city wall is built with more than 10 layers of granite strips, and the upper part is built with large city bricks.
The two sides of the west city wall are connected with two city walls in the south and the north, both walls are built on the ridge, low in the east and high in the west, forming a U-shape, meeting at the east gate. The walls are 3.3 meters thick, 2,070 meters in circumference, and 7.6 meters high. The east and west gates are 63.9 meters apart, and the area of the city is about 5,000 square meters.
The castle is a trapezoidal shape that is narrow in the east and wide in the west, and there are two gates in the east and west. The east gate is titled "Juyong Outer Town", and the west gate is titled "North Gate Lock Key".
The Great Wall extending to the north of Guancheng has 12 enemy towers and 7 enemy towers south of Guancheng.
The center line of the city wall is biased towards the outside, with the outer wall high and the inner wall low. The two sides of the wall are covered with granite stone strips, which are 0.5 meters wide, 0.4 meters high, 0.8-1 meters long, and the longest stone bar is 3.1 meters and weighs 1.5-1.7 tons.
Regardless of the steep slope or the gentle section, the stone strips are built layer by layer horizontally, criss-crossed, horizontal frame and vertical barrier, bite into one, and the joints are filled with mortar.
The walls are filled with earth and stones, and compacted with ramming.
The upper part of the wall is 3-4 layers of city bricks, and the joints are bonded with lime plaster. The city was paved with bricks to make the top of the wall level.
The wall bricks are 0.4 meters long, 0.2 meters wide and 0.1 meters thick, and each brick weighs 15 kilograms.
Standing on the Great Wall and seeing this huge national defense project in ancient times, Yang Wenbin was full of emotion.
The Ming Dynasty built a large number of buildings and the Great Wall, which blocked the Mongolian iron cavalry, but failed to prevent the Qing army from entering the customs.
No matter how well the Great Wall is built, it has lost the support of the people, and it is still in vain.
After visiting the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, the two got on the bus again, nibbled on bread on the road, and drank mineral water.
Then visit the next stop, the Ming Tombs.
The Ming Tombs are located at the foot of Tianshou Mountain, Changrate District, Beijing, with a total area of more than 120 square kilometers and about 50 kilometers away from Tiananmen Square.
The Ming Tombs are located in the small basin surrounded by mountains on the east, west and north sides, the mountains around the mausoleum area are surrounded, the central part is the plain, there is a small river in front of the mausoleum that twists and meanders, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the scenery is pleasant.
Ming Ming Tombs is the general name of the royal mausoleum of the 13 emperors' tombs after the Ming Dynasty moved the capital to Beijing, and there are Changling (Chengzu), Xianling (Renzong), Jingling (Xuanzong), Yuling (Yingzong), Maoling (Xianzong), Tailing (Xiaozong), Kangling (Wuzong), Yongling (Shizong), Zhaoling (Muzong), Dingling (Shenzong), Qingling (Guangzong), Deling (Xizong), Siling (Sizong), so it is called the Ming Tombs.
The scenic spots have been opened, including Changling, Dingling, Zhaoling, and Shenlu.
The bus entered the scenic spot, and Yang Wenbin found that the thirteen imperial tombs were all built according to the mountain, and were built on the foothills of the east, west and north sides, forming a complete system, a grand scale and a majestic mausoleum complex.
There is a hill on the east and west sides of the mausoleum area, like two divine beasts, guarding the imperial mausoleum area.
No wonder, the warlocks of the Ming Dynasty would think that this is a "feng shui" resort, an excellent "auspicious soil", so it was selected by the Ming Dynasty as the "longevity domain" for the construction of the imperial tomb.
The two of them first visited the Ming Changling Mausoleum.
The Ming Changling Mausoleum is located at the southern foot of the main peak of Tianshou Mountain, and is the joint burial mausoleum of the third emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Emperor Cheng Zuwen Zhu Di (year name Yongle) and Empress Xu.
The mausoleum building of Changling covers an area of about 120,000 square meters. Its layout is in the shape of a circle in front and back. The square part in front of it is composed of three courtyards connected to the front and back.
Walk into the first courtyard and see a mausoleum. Its system is the palace gate type building on the top of the single eaves resting on the mountain, the face is wide and shows five rooms, and the forehead fang, the flying son, the eaves rafter and the single ang three-step bucket arch are all glazed components; There are three red ticket gates under it.
Then enter the second courtyard, there is a temple gate, called Qi'en Gate.
There is also a door on both sides of the door, all of them are made with the wall type glazed flower door, the bucket arch on the door, the forehead, the tile decoration on the top of the door, the rafters are all assembled with yellow and green glazed pieces, and they are particularly distinct against the backdrop of the red wall.
In the middle of the north side, there is a tall and majestic temple of Eun.
It is said that in the Ming and Qing dynasties, this hall was used to worship the emperor and queen god tablets (tablets) and hold the tomb sacrifice activities.
That's all for the buildings on the ground.
If you want to explore the mystery of the underground palace, then go to Dingling.
The Ming Ding Mausoleum is the mausoleum of Zhu Yijun, the thirteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty. Two of his queens are also buried here.
The mausoleum is located at the foot of Dayu Mountain, located in the southwest of Changling, built in 1584~1590 (Wanli 12 to Wanli 18).
Its ground buildings occupy a total of 180,000 square meters, with three wide courtyards in front and a tall treasure city in the back.
In front of the main gate of the mausoleum is the white marble bridge of the three pawns. Across the bridge is a tall stele pavilion. There are more than 300 buildings around the pavilion, such as the ancestral sacrifice office, the slaughtering pavilion, and the Dingling Prison. Further back is the outermost wall of the cemetery - Wailuo Castle (the wall outside the wall).
It is the only one of the Ming Tombs that has been excavated. The Dingling Underground Palace is available for visitors to visit.
It is said that the deputy mayor of Jingcheng at that time was an expert in the history of the Ming Dynasty, and in order to study the history of the Ming Dynasty, after repeated considerations, the mausoleum of the Wanli Emperor, ---- Dingling, was selected as the object of excavation.
The overall layout of the mausoleum is also in the shape of a circle in front and back.
The Dingling Underground Palace is the only underground palace that has been developed in the Ming Tombs, and it is the first imperial tomb to be excavated in a planned way after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Yang Wenbin and Li Chunhua, following the flow of people, went down the stairs and went down the underground palace.
The underground palace is located under the treasure city, twenty-seven meters deep into the ground.
It is said that it took archaeologists more than a year to find the door of the tomb.
When I went down to the tomb, I felt cold and cold, and in the empty tomb, there were stone candlesticks and other sacrificial utensils.
It feels more like a huge bomb shelter.
It is said that more than 3,000 pieces of various cultural relics were unearthed in the underground palace that year, including four national treasures: the golden crown, the phoenix crown, the night pearl and the Ming Sancai.
However, the coffin of the emperor and queen has disappeared, and many precious cultural relics, such as silk fabrics, have been damaged due to poor protection.
Out of the underground palace, Yang Wenbin's mood was a little heavy and a little complicated.
"The Great Wall is still there today, and I don't see Qin Shi Huang back then!"