Walking through the Spirit Way of the Ming Dynasty Tombs, our first stop on Friday, I got lost in a moment of zen (*insert "but aren't you always spaced out" joke*). With its symmetry of tall willow trees, well-mainted hedges and stone statues representing the Emperor's court and animals on both ends - it was not hard to surrender into tranquility.
The Ming Tombs are located some 50 km north of urban Beijing, carefully chosen because of the site's good feng shui. The site was chosen by the third Ming Dynasty emperor, who moved the capital of China from Nanjing to the present location of northwest Beijing. From the third emperor onwards, 13 Ming Dynasty emperors were buried here (thanks, Wikipedia).
Again, the symbolism was neat. The tomb is protected on both sides by Tiger and Dragon mountains.
As we exited the Tomb, I told Andrew that I'll create a Thibideau-Velasco tomb like this for us one day. Maybe in Barrie or whatever, where land is relatively cheaper. Instead of stone camels, elephants, and lions - we'll have stone cats.
2 comments:
what???? thinking about how you are going to be buried already??? you are one FUNNY guy!!! hahahaha. so, are the stone cats going to be one fat and one skinny? one kittyboi and one harley? muahahahahahah.
Nice post. Ming Dynasty Tombs are the thirteen Tombs of the Ming Empire.This location was cautiously selected as per the Feng Shui principles.It is a valley that has water and other necessities as per Feng Shui.
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