Tuesday, 11 August 2015
In Beijing I had a chance to visit the Ming Tombs. These are located in the country side on the way to the Great Wall. There were 13 emperors from the Ming Dynasty buried underground here. What I found interesting is that each worker had to stamp their name into each brick they made for the tombs. The emperor wanted the highest quality bricks so at any time the emperor could look at the bricks and identify which worker was to blame if the quality was not up to standard. The tombs are deep underground and it is hard to imagine the workers digging out this space in the mountain by hand. It must have been a big job with thousands of workers.
Here is some background history for the tombs from http://www.travelchinaguide.com/attraction/beijing/ming_tomb.htm
"Zhu Di, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, built his Changling Tomb here, the succeeding twelve emperors had their tombs built around Changling during the next 230 years, covering a total area of over 120 square kilometres."
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