The thirteen Ming Dynasty imperial tombs are Changling of Emperor Cheng Zu (Zhu Di), Xianling of Emperor Ren Zong (Zhu Gaozhi), Jingling of Emperor Xuan Zong (Zhu Zhanji), Yuling of Emperor Ying ...

The tombs from the Jin Dynasty were destroyed ... Thirteen out of the 16 Ming emperors are buried in this peaceful valley. Visitors first pass by an elegant, five-arched white marble memorial ...

The tomb of the first Ming Emperor, the Xiaoling Tomb broke with the past and established the basic design for those that followed in Beijing, and also the Xianling Tomb of the Ming Dynasty in ...

It represents the addition of three Imperial Tombs of the Qing Dynasty in Liaoning to the Ming tombs inscribed in 2000 and 2003 ... Constructed for the founding emperors of the Qing Dynasty and their ...

Traditionally a Chinese spring ritual, the tomb-sweeping festival is said to have its roots in an emperor's cruelty to a ...

The film takes place during work on the water reservoir, outside Beijing's Ming Tombs, in 1958 at the beginning of the Great Leap Forward. The film follows how workers and leaders are working ...

Her first book, What the Emperor Built: Architecture and Empire in the Early ... Her second book, In Death as in Life: A Material History of Ming Dynasty Tombs (in progress), moves away from the ...