Ming Dynasty Tombs in China（4/4）:The tomb of a Chinese emperor, a magnificent underground palace

[@namelesswarrior4760]

I'm an overseas Chinese and I find these kinds of historical videos fascinating. Thanks

[@LaoWang624]

Glad you liked it, thank you so much! 😃

[@rrahman1590]

I am very impressed with your explanation with 3D modelling on 7:42. This is very clear explanation about the real underground palace. Thank you for delivering the history very clear. Most of the youtube channel about Wan Li emperor tomb in Chinese without English translate or maybe with unclear english. Good job Wang, waiting your other video about Chinese imperial architecture.

[@LaoWang624]

Thank you so much, glad to be helpful.😎

[@WendyQallab]

Chinese artitecutre and art clothes is so beautiful.

[@chrismc8000]

Have never seen any of this before. Amazing stonework and craftsmanship!

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Any ancient Greek building that this was copied from you're probably familiar with.

[@woojongson5431]

@@napalmholocaust9093Ancient Greek doesn't belong to the four great civilizations in the human history.

[@skraskraa._.5371]

@@napalmholocaust9093 This wasn't copied from anywhere, the ancient Chinese built this according to their own 5,000 year old tradition.

[@Mike1941-r8y]

I was there on a tour in 1981 and from these pictures the tombs appear to be cleaned up and organized so a tourist is better able to interpret the area. It is an impressive trip from Beijing to the Ming Tombs.

[@Ampasss]

Yes it looks like much rebuilding work and cleaning has taken back. When I went in the 80s it was almost entirely a ruin after being completely ransacked and destroyed during the cultural revolution

[@JasLoney]

Lovely and fascinating! I hope you will continue to help us Westerners begin (at least) to fathom the depth and length of Chinese history!

[@jeffyoung60]

Every Han Chinese emperor supposedly had a bathroom or toilet built into his tomb. On the Internet there's a fine photo of a Chinese emperor's well-constructed toilet. It had two floor placements for the emperor's feet. There was an armrest for his right arm. A sturdy stone backrest allowed the emperor to squat and lean his back against it. But there was no visible sign of provision for toilet paper or a place to wash his hands. I can't remember which dynasty this was.

[@JR-sq2of]

@Jeffyoung60 I know which Dynasty it was. The PoopPing Dynasty! Right?

[@davidolien2828]

Thank you very much for this excellent program.

[@LaoWang624]

Glad you like it!😀

[@porkscratchings5428]

Thank you for sharing. Amazing history, I really can’t imagine the time and people to construct the great tombs. Very lucky it was not robbed as we can now see what beautiful items and have a close feel with history seeing those items in the tomb. 👍

[@noahpeng1689]

The Ming Dynasty was overthrown by the peasant uprising army. The founders of the Qing Dynasty entered Beijing in the name of "avenging the Ming Dynasty", so they personally paid homage to and protected the tombs of the Ming Dynasty emperors. When the Qing Dynasty fell, Sun Yat-sen, who founded the Republic, also paid homage to the tomb of the Ming Dynasty emperor. The tombs of Ming emperors have become cultural relics that Han nationalists must protect.

[@jeffyoung60]

We can be grateful that the victorious Qing Manchurian Dynasty did not spitefully destroy the Ming tombs. The Qing left the Ming tombs alone. This contrasted with the vandal Jin Jurchens who after conquering northern China, proceeded to vandalize the Song Dynasty emperor tombs. On deceased Song emperor had his head kicked about like a soccer ball by Jin warriors. There was another Ming emperor disliked greatly by today's Han Chinese for being neglectful of his emperor official duties. Angered, frustrated, and pessimistic with his divided, squabbling government which opposed him at almost every turn, this emperor decided not to show up for work. He essentially went on strike for a decade. As a result, the Ming government, already hobbled by infighting between the two major factions, East Bureau and West Bureau, simply stopped. In the long run this government paralysis left the Ming Dynasty vulnerable to the growing power of the Manchurian Qing to the north. During the Cultural Revolution, an angry Chinese mob ransacked his tomb, pulled his corpse out of his lavish coffin and set it on fire.

[@parksto]

I've just watch the 4 episodes. Wonderful! Thank you LaoWang 👍

[@LaoWang624]

Glad you like it.😄

[@ibgeorgeb]

Very interesting. Excellent information. Thank you.👍🏾

[@LaoWang624]

Glad it was helpful!😀

[@pauloroarty1799]

Thank you very much that was very interesting indeed.

[@samyoungblood3740]

Beautiful craftsmanship as always.. wonder what they used to shine the stone with

[@deckard5558]

I always imagine a random Jiang Shi rising up from some abandoned coffins in these documentaries about ancient China.

[@LaoWang624]

😂

[@manjaribala3710]

I saw one chinese drama dreaming back to quing dynasty, he is very impressive, drama, i love Chinese old quing dynasty ❤️. I saw this drama two times.

[@philltaylor8442]

Imagine finding those vessel's and the bottle he selabrated his coming deth from 😮in his chamber?.

[@riikkaalanen3429]

Amazing! Thank you! ❤

[@LaoWang624]

My pleasure.😄

[@directionfinderformen]

Chinese history is an incredible journey of awe.

[@medic1627]

Interesting video, thanks for sharing. I somehow thought if a Chinese Emperors tomb was opened, it would be full to the ceiling with treasures similar to that of the Pharaoh's of Ancient Egypt.

[@wcheebh]

Where are all the treasures? Are they on displayed?

[@SB-qm5wg]

Great video. ty

[@LaoWang624]

Glad you enjoyed it.😄

[@BuzzSargent]

Nice job on the story and video. Happy Trails from Florida

[@LaoWang624]

Thank you so much! 😁

[@OguejiDavid-ey4cw]

Can't imagine what the chinese built in ancient times without machine😢😢

[@ElijahBenjamin-ug6op]

Don't want to split hairs here, but the Ming dynasty is not exactly "ancient times " as a student of history we consider that era as late middle age. To give a comparison of ancient vs the Ming tomb, the pyramids were built around 3500 years before the Ming tombs were built

[@MeowCockadoodledoo]

Even during the time of ancient Egypt, they managed to build huge monuments like pyramids and obelisks. These ancient peoples surely are as sophisticated in terms of architecture and technology.

[@gyurmethlodroe1774]

They built good, not tofu b dregs😂

[@cw4608]

Built with the labor of hundreds of peasants and craftsmen.

[@ReuterL]

​@@ElijahBenjamin-ug6opmiddle ages is a european era. China reached imperial age very early in their history. Their timeline is different to the european centric eras

[@VikingRaidersGaming]

great work

[@LaoWang624]

Many many thanks.😀

[@yttean98]

Very good explanation, one question: do the treasures of the King reside in the same place as the King's Tomb or somewhere in the Valley of the Kings or even elsewhere?

[@LaoWang624]

According to current archaeological discoveries, the treasures were all placed in the tombs of kings. Some large-scale tombs would have some burial pits containing chariots, weapons, and human figurines, such as the famous Terracotta Army. As for treasures, they were usually in tombs.

[@jeraldbaxter3532]

Thank you!😊

[@LaoWang624]

You're welcome 😊

[@joeyp1927]

China has so little stone architecture so it is a shame that its most impressive stone architecture is to be found 27 meters underground. It would be wonderful if there was a temple above ground that looked like this.

[@magnaviator]

Good video, very interesting!

[@LaoWang624]

Glad you enjoyed it 😁

[@tomsunuwar6940]

Amazing great 🇨🇳❤

[@LaoWang624]

Glad you liked it.😉

[@jb7287]

Very interesting. !

[@TWOCOWS1]

Very nice. thank you

[@LaoWang624]

Welcome 😊

[@carmenbell77]

Exquisite !

[@scottjohnson6173]

That was interesting to know

[@osiris2u]

Were the empresses sacrificed together with the concubines upon the death of the emperor to accompany him in his afterlife? If not, how were their coffins placed next to the emperor's after the tomb was sealed upon the death of the emperor?

[@LaoWang624]

One of these two empresses died in October 1611, nine years before the death of Emperor Wanli. At that time, she was just a concubine, so she was buried in the concubine's cemetery. But when Emperor Wanli died, her son succeeded as emperor, so she was eligible to be buried with Emperor Wanli. So, after Emperor Wanli died, her coffin was dug out of the cemetery and they were buried here together. Another empress died in May 1620. As an empress, she was qualified to be buried here, but before the funeral could be carried out, Emperor Wanli also died three months later. So the coffins of the three people were buried in the tomb at the same time. And, even if they didn't die at the same time, the underground palace can be opened repeatedly. This happened many times during the Ming Dynasty.

[@osiris2u]

@LaoWang624 Thanks for your input.

[@LaoWang624]

You're welcome.😃

[@JiubeiKibagami]

Xie, xie ni, LaoWang, for this beautiful narrated story of the past!

[@LaoWang624]

Thank you so much, it's my pleasure.😄

[@helloworld0911]

It was not because of limited conservation techniques that most items weren't saved, it was looted and destroyed during Mao's cultural revolution, and they even burned the emperor's remains.

[@leeliu6867]

Rubbish, your source from west media outlets, British and french most of the treasure was looted.

[@may-ky6jl]

Wonder why wall of tomb is bared , normally covered with pictures.

[@hypercomms2001]

I am interested in the culture of modern day throwing money, here paper money at the graves: what is the reason for it? Is it to bring luck?

[@NoraCuantica7]

Parece un circuito electrico,Y no parece una tumba para humanos

[@pumpupjam9648]

Like all who began an empire, conquered human beings, slaves chiseled and stone masons, labor to move the stones, and build palaces. Rome, was build by slave laborers. Some were educated. Others learned by sight and the whip. Under those palaces, whether in China, or any other country all have skeletons underneath.

[@wks2291]

Wanli's skeleton, as well as those of his empresses, and the original coffins and the vast majority of the burial items where destroyed and burnt by Mao's red army during the cultural revolution.

[@jkdm27]

This belong in British museum

[@SeeLasSee]

At least the CPC didn’t smash it all up.

[@leeliu6867]

That is your misconception about china. All the west historians plus the media fabricate lies about china ...

[@yorkiesweetpea23]

Can you please turn down the accent for the AI narrative voice? Just a little bit.

[@LaoWang624]

Thank you for the advice, I really wish I could, but this is my own voice...😓

[@harrylately1]

Was not a tomb anymore than the Great Pyramid was a tomb. TPTB globally ALWAYS call these mysterious and outlandish structures tombs, have you noticed that?

[@aaronyork3995]

Great video Is “Borat” narrating? Lol

[@napalmholocaust9093]

This proves you were an ancient Greek colony. They own all your land by right and everyone on it.

[@skraskraa._.5371]

It is interesting that you say this when the Greeks copied their art and civilisation from China who existed a thousand years before them.

[@jacku8304]

There was no mentioned of colony in this region by the Greeks. But the Chinese had colonies in the Far Eastern and South East Asia region.

[@Just_Johnnie]

It took many years and costed many peasants’ lifes. This is another shameful display of another human tragedy.

[@cw4608]

Xie xie

[@LaoWang624]

😁

[@ruffmansavageveteran1345]

Looks nice, but to much like a combloc or German bunker. I'll pass.

[@napalmholocaust9093]

Copies of Greek architectural motifs. Crude and derived copies. Simple, almost as if built by children who visited Athens only once. You can only copy.

[@emilkarpo]

Every bit of this is fake or a recreation.

[@Eris123451]

So not the Tomb of the First Emperor then ? Just click bait.