Dingling underground palace

Dingling underground palace

Dingling underground palace is one of the famous underground buildings in China. It is the mausoleum of Zhu Yijun, Emperor Shenzong of Ming Dynasty (1573-1620). One of the Ming Tombs. In the south of Tianshou mountain, Changping District, Beijing. Construction began in 1584 and completed in 1590.

The underground building, commonly known as "underground palace", was excavated in 1957. The architecture of Dingling mainly includes the gate of yan'en, the hall of yan'en, the Ming tower, the treasure city and the underground palace. The underground palace of Dingling is located at the back of the Ming tower, which is the main part of the mausoleum building, in which Zhu Yijun, empress Xiaoduan and empress Xiaojing are buried.

In 1958, under the guidance of Xia Nai, the excavation of the Ming Dingling mausoleum lasted more than two years. Dingling mausoleum is the first planned, organized and active imperial mausoleum in New China approved by the State Council. A large number of precious silk, jade, gold and other cultural relics have been unearthed. However, due to the backward technical level, countless treasures could not be preserved, the excavated silk became hard and rotten, and the huge red painted coffin made of three golden Phoebe and the bones of Emperor Wanli were abandoned and destroyed by the red guards and revolutionary cadres before and after the cultural revolution.

brief introduction

The underground palace is 27 meters away from the ground, with a total area of 1195 square meters. It is composed of five tall and spacious halls in front, middle, back, left and right. All of them are arched stone structures (with straight wall stone lining on the vault). Without beams and columns, the front and middle halls are connected into a rectangular corridor, and the back hall is across the top (see photo). Between the front hall, the middle hall and the back hall, there is a gate with the same structure, which is all made of stone. Under the gate are two white marble gates, which are 3.3 meters high, 1.7 meters wide and weigh about 4 tons. The stone gate is well made and reasonable. Most of it is carved from original stone. The front hall and the middle hall have a large space, with a height of 7.2 meters from the floor to the vault, and the connecting length of the two halls is 58 meters. The floor of the hall is paved with "gold bricks". There are two corridors on the left and right sides of the middle hall, leading to the left and right side halls. The entrance of the corridor is equipped with a green stone gate, which is small in shape. The two side halls are all built with stone (i.e. stone lining). The hall is 7.1 meters high, 6 meters wide and 26 meters long. The rear hall has the largest space, 9.5 meters high, 9.1 meters wide and 30.1 meters long. There is a coffin bed in the hall, and the floor is paved with polished light stone.

background

In Ming Dynasty, the underground palace was built with large stone to form an arched stone structure, which could bear great pressure. The open cut method was used to construct the palace, which compacted the covering soil and made the surrounding waterproof and drainage facilities well. Although it was 400 years ago, there was no collapse and there was little leakage.

Address: Ming Tombs special zone, Changling Town, Changping District, Beijing, China

Longitude: 116.22355245155

Latitude: 40.295844619132