The Ming Tombs Kangling

The Kangling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty, located at the eastern foot of Lianhua in the Tianshou mausoleum District of Changping, is the joint Tomb of Zhu houzhao, the tenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and Xia, the empress of the Ming Dynasty. It took one year to build the mausoleum. The overall layout follows the former system and takes the shape of front and back circle. Kangling is one of the tombs with the largest number of brick inscriptions. The tomb was built in 1521, covering an area of 27000 square meters. At the end of Ming Dynasty, Kangling was burned down and renovated during the reign of Emperor Qianlong of Qing Dynasty.

The mausoleum building is composed of Shinto, Mausoleum palace and ancillary buildings outside mausoleum palace. A Wukong bridge and a Sankong bridge will be built on the Shinto Road, and a tablet Pavilion of Shengong Shengde will be built near the mausoleum. The overall layout of the mausoleum palace is round in front and back, covering an area of 27000 square meters. There are two courtyards in front of them. The first one is the gate of the mausoleum, with a single eaves resting on the top of the mountain and three rooms wide. In the courtyard, there are five Kuan en halls, five on the left and five on the right. There are two sacred silk stoves. On the second entrance to the courtyard, there are three doors in front of the courtyard, two archways with two columns, a stone censer, two candlesticks and two vases. After the square courtyard, there is a round treasure city. A square platform is built at the entrance of the treasure city. On the platform, a double eaves Xieshan style Ming Lou is built. The building is decorated with a stele with "Daming" and "mausoleum of Emperor Wu Zongyi".

After minglou, a mound rises from the inner side of the drainage ditch to the center of the city, and the shape of the mound is naturally uplifted. In front of the tomb and on both sides of the front, there are tomb walls which are not as high as the chest. In front of the wall, a glass screen wall is built at the urn road of Baocheng. There are also some ancillary buildings outside the mausoleum, such as the slaughter Pavilion, the God kitchen, the God storehouse, the ancestral temple and sacrifice department, the god palace supervisor, the court room, the orchard, the hazelnut factory, the god horse room and so on.

Address: No.16, Kangling village, Changling Town, Changping District, Beijing, China

Longitude: 116.212081

Latitude: 40.319941