The Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum Museum is located in the Zhongshan Scenic Area in Xuanwu District, Nanjing City. It is a special exhibition hall about Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the world cultural heritage Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum and Nanjing’s Ming culture. The exterior of the new museum adopts the architectural style of the Jiangnan area during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The use of typical elements such as white walls, grey tiles, carved wooden doors, sloping roof, horsehead walls and lattice windows makes the overall building coordinate with the surrounding cultural sites such as the Golden Gate and Square City remaining from the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum and the lush natural environment. This also coincides with the construction concept of ‘harmony between man and nature’ of the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum more than 600 years ago. The Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is the joint tomb of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and Empress Ma. Because the empress was posthumously titled ‘Xiaoci’, it is named Xiaoling Mausoleum. It is the largest imperial mausoleum in Nanjing and also one of the ancient imperial mausoleums in China. As the first Ming mausoleum in China, the Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum is magnificent and grand, representing the achievements of architecture and stone carving art in the early Ming Dynasty. It directly influenced the forms of imperial mausoleums of more than 500 years in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The imperial mausoleums of the Ming and Qing Dynasties distributed in Beijing, Hubei, Liaoning, Hebei and other places according to historical processes were all constructed according to the regulations and models of the Nanjing Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum. It has a special position in the development history of Chinese imperial mausoleums, so it has the reputation of ‘the first imperial mausoleum of the Ming and Qing Dynasties’. Opening hours: Open from Tuesday to Sunday throughout the year from 09:00 to 17:00; closed all day on Monday throughout the year; open from 09:00 to 17:00 on New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, Tomb-sweeping Day, Labor Day, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day.
Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum Museum
The Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum Museum is located in the Zhongshan Scenic Area in Xuanwu District, Nanji[...]
