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Dingling Tomb
 Dingling Tomb is the representative royal tomb of the
Ming Dynasty tombs. Shisanling (13 royal tombs) of the foot of Dayu
Mountain, Shisanling Region, Chang Ping County, Beijing. They are
scattered in the basin of 40 square kilometers. Shisenling have 13
royal tombs of Emperors of the Ming Dynasty, generally called Royal
Tombs of the Ming Dynasty.
Dingling is the tomb of the thirteenth Emperor Shenzong
(Zhuyijun) of the Ming Dynasty and his two Queens, Xiaoduan and
Xiaojing.
The construction of Dingling Tomb started in the 12th
year of Wenli of Shenzong's reign (AD1584) and was completed in the
18th year of Wanli (AD 1590). Buildings on the ground consist of
Treasure City, Grand Mansion, Lingen Hall, two ground auxiliary halls,
Lingen Gate, Ling Gate, Shenbo Oven, Dinvine Wardrobe, Divine Stock,
Slaughter Pavilion and Wailuo City etc. At present, the Treasure City
and Grand Mansion of the Ding Ling have been preserved fairly well.
The Grand Mansion is not only gallant and splendid, but
also does not have a piece of wood and a nail. The rafters, brackets
and inscribed board of the upper and lower caves are all inlaid with
white stone sculptures and painted with colorful pictures which look
like wood structure.
The Underground Palace Halls, a labyrinth palace
building, were the first royal tomb excavated in accordance with plan
in China. The labyrinth palace building consists of 5 underground
halls, i.e. front, middle, back, left and right halls, with the total
area 1195 square kilometers. There are seven stone gates in the five
halls.
 The stone gates of the front, middle and back halls
were most finely done with sculptured white marble. Every stone gate
has two leaves, each of which is 3.3 m high and 1.8 m broad and weighs
about 4 tons. On every facade of leaf, 81 nipple like nails and
decorative beast head holding knocker in the mouth are sculptured. The
back hall, the biggest one in the underground palace, is also called
labyrinth room, which is the main part of the Underground Palace. It
is 9.5 m high, 9.1 m broad and 30.1 m long, paved with polished
piebald stones. On the front of the coffin platform, inner and outer
coffins are laid with the Emperor Zhuyijun in the middle and two
Queens, Xiaoduan and Xiaojing on two sides respectively.
Exhibition Room: The excavated articles of Ding Ling
are 3000 odd in total which include a great number of gold, silver,
jade, China wares. Textiles, crowns, belts and ornaments of emperor
and queens, tin wares, posthumous tittle books and posthumous
treasures etc.
Gold Crown: It was made of extremely thin gold threads,
on which two dragons playing with pearl are inlaid, a skilful master
piece with vivid posture. It is the first discovery among excavated
articles in China.
Phoenix Crowns: Four Phoenix Crowns were excavated, on
each of which 5 thousand odd pearls and 1 thousand odd precious stones
have been inlaid. Phenix Crown was worn by queen on ceremonial
occasions.
Dragon Gown: It was worn by Emperor Zhuyijun on grand
ceremonial occasions, on which 12 dragon designs were embroidered.
Hundred Son Clothes were worn by Queen Xiaojing, on
which double dragon longevity character was embroidered. All around
the clothes, designs of pine, bamboo, plum, stone, peach, pear,
banana, ganoderma, glossy and different flowers and grasses and
picture of hundred sons were embroidered, vivid and lively, remarkably
true to life.
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