There is a famous Qingxi Mausoleum in Yi County, Hebei Province. It is dominated by 14 royal tombs of the Qing Dynasty, supplemented by palaces, Yongfu Temple, barracks, and government offices. It has a vast mausoleum area of 83 square kilometers. Ancient Royal Tombs.
On May 6, 2007, the reporter and Cao Qun, the president of Beijing Aiche Sunshine, and his team took it as one of the key projects of Beijing Aiche self-driving Yixian tour route, accompanied by Liu Xuejun, then director of Yixian Tourism Bureau, and Zhao Hezhong, deputy director Go to Qing Xiling to investigate and search.
Strolling into this building, it was announced by the State Council of the People's Republic of China as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units in 1961, and was included in the World Cultural Heritage List in 2000. It was rated as 5A by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism on January 7, 2020. The huge architectural complex in the tourist area also heard the eloquent explanations from the tour guide who made a special trip for this trip.
The Qingxi Mausoleum is located at the foot of Yongning Mountain 15 kilometers west of Yi County, Baoding City, Hebei Province, covering an area of more than 800 square kilometers. It is the last imperial tomb group in the Qing Dynasty. It was first built in 1730 (the eighth year of Yongzheng), and it lasted from the middle of the 18th century to the beginning of the 19th century, and Yu Xuyan extended to the period of the Republic of China.
In fact, Yongzheng originally chose the mausoleum site in Chaoyang Mountain, Jiufeng, the Eastern Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty. However, he believed that "although the scale is large but the shape is not complete, and the soil in the cave contains sand and gravel, it is really unusable", so he decided to use it as a mausoleum. The original site was abolished, and another "auspicious place for ten thousand years" was ordered to be selected.
At that time, the person who chose the site of the mausoleum said that the foot of Yongning Mountain in Yi County was "the area where heaven and earth gather together, where yin and yang meet, where the dragon's cave is full of sand and water, and there is no beauty. I am happy, and I also think that "the mountain water method is well-organized and well-organized, and Xun is the land of auspiciousness." Since then, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty have been buried in Zunhua and Yixian County East and West Mausoleums at intervals.
From the reporter's point of view, it was fortunate that Emperor Yongzheng's decision to choose Yi County as the mausoleum at that time, from one aspect, somehow escaped the notorious warlord Feng Dianying's looting by the Dongling robbers. destiny. Of course, this is a joke. No one has such a forward and backward prediction. History is history.
So how many royal families are buried here in the Western Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty? The tour guide said that since Yongzheng first built the Tailing Mausoleum, it took 186 years until Guangxu’s Chongling Mausoleum was completed in 1915. There are 4 imperial mausoleums here: Tailing (Emperor Yongzheng), Changling (Emperor Jiaqing) ), Muling (Emperor Daoguang), Chongling (Emperor Guangxu); 3 rear mausoleums: Taidong Mausoleum, Changxi Mausoleum, and Mudong Mausoleum; Geling, Wangyeling, etc.). More than 70 people including 4 emperors, 9 queens, 56 concubines, princes and princesses were buried together.
It is worth mentioning that Emperor Xuantong Puyi died in 1967 and was originally buried in Babaoshan. Later, in 1995, it was moved to the Hualong Royal Cemetery in the Western Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty. With a construction area of more than 50,000 square meters, there are more than 1,000 palaces and more than 100 stone carvings and stone buildings, forming a large-scale and magnificent ancient building complex.
Walking into the Qingxi Mausoleum, you can see a group of ancient buildings with a complete system under the grand and resplendent halls. Since I came here during the "May 1st" and "Golden Week", I also watched a large-scale performance of "Qing Dynasty Emperor Sacrifice Ceremony". The large-scale scene attracted many tourists to watch here.
Today's Qingxi Mausoleum, in addition to the huge ancient buildings, is also a tourist attraction with elegant environment and beautiful scenery. In the mausoleum area with a radius of 200 li and an area of 800 square kilometers, there is the largest artificial ancient pine forest in North China.
Since the mausoleum was built, the Qing Dynasty planted tens of thousands of pine trees at the foot of Yongning Mountain, along the Yishui River, and inside and outside the mausoleum. Now there are 15,000 ancient pines and more than 200,000 young pines and cypresses. The mausoleum area is lush with pines and cypresses. With beautiful mountains and clear waters, 14 mausoleums are hidden in the pine forest, looming, just like a gorgeous landscape painting.
The reporter visited the Western Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty, and felt that the magnificent natural scenery and the cultural landscape of the magnificent ancient buildings here are perfectly integrated. Its remote, mysterious, simple and detached scenes make people linger and forget to return. (Photo: Feng Ganyong)
