Speaking of Inner Mongolia, in most people's impressions, there may be an endless grassland, as if the green sea, the bold and strong Mongolian Hanzi galloping on horseback, is a free and unrestrained field. However, Inner Mongolia seems to be unable to talk about the rich, but no one can imagine that near daban town in Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, this town has a population of only a few hundred people, but it is buried in an extremely luxurious tomb, that is, the tomb of Princess Rongxian. Don't look at this as a princess tomb, but its scale is not inferior to that of the princes and nobles of the Chinese dynasties, and there are halls of enjoyment, underground palaces, and inscribed stone tablets on the ground.
And the burial items in the tomb are even more abundant, completely worthy of the title of golden branches and jade leaves, because this Rongxian Princess is no one else, but the third daughter of the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and she can be regarded as a pampered and habitual breeder since she was a child. When he grew up in 1691 and was 19 years old, he married Urgun, king of Dora County, Mongolia. Although it was not as invincible as the previous dorgon, Urgun could also be regarded as a good warrior, strong and brave, proficient in riding and shooting, and accompanied the Kangxi Emperor on many expeditions. It was out of appreciation for Urgun's bravery that the Kangxi Emperor not only rewarded Urgun, but also married his beloved daughter Princess Rongxian to Urgun.
The princess marries the king of the county, and this seemingly perfect union is actually inseparable from the shadow of political marriage. It should be known that the national policy set by the Jurchens at that time was the Manchu-Mongolian marriage of a family, and the strength of the Jurchens at the end of the Ming Dynasty was not so strong, and it was natural to challenge the Ming Dynasty that still existed in Yuwei with its own strength, so Nurhaci connected with the Mongols and established the so-called Mongolian Eight Banners, as a supplement to the Manchu Eight Banners, to charge for themselves. At that time, there were often Jurchen women who married Mongolian princes, and Princess Rongxian's marriage to Urgun naturally belonged to the continuation of this Manchu-Mongolian political marriage.
After Princess Rongxian married Urgun, she accompanied her husband through the Spring and Autumn Festival for forty years, and died of illness in the Bahrain steppe in the sixth year of Yongzheng at the age of fifty-nine. The Yongzheng Emperor had a deep heart and defeated the other princes to ascend to the throne, but Princess Rongxian was a woman and did not pose any threat to his seizure of the throne, so the Yongzheng Emperor naturally did not pay much attention, but was quite sad. As the beloved daughter of the Kangxi Emperor and the sister of the Yongzheng Emperor, Princess Rongxian was naturally buried thickly, in addition to the magnificent tomb architecture, the burial items in the tomb can also be said to be very rich. Just from the clothes on the princess's body before her death, we can see how graceful and luxurious this Princess Rongxian was before she died.
The princess wears a red gold phoenix crown and a pearl dragon robe. This phoenix crown is embellished with rare treasures, peacock steps of different shapes, and exquisite golden hairpins such as "Three Friends of the Year" and "Xi Ge Dengmei", which are very gorgeous. Among the many ornaments, the most dazzling is the "stars holding the moon inlaid cat gem gold noodles", pearls are like stars, a huge cat's eye gem is in the middle, like the stars holding the moon. The pearl dragon robe worn on the body is even more amazing, in order to weave this dress, it cost more than 100,000 pearls, woven into eight clusters of auspicious dragon patterns, surrounded by auspicious clouds and seawater.
Although to this day we have always advocated thin burial and thick cultivation, but I have to say that if these ancient emperors are really buried thinly, and the tomb does not bring a large number of rare treasures and precious cultural relics and other funerary items, then can we still excavate such exquisite ancient cultural relics today? In this way, everything has two sides, there is no absolute right and wrong, otherwise how can we appreciate the unique style of "the stars holding the moon inlaid cat gem gold noodles" and "pearl regiment dragon robes"?