The Genghis Khan Mausoleum is located in about 15km southeast of Atengxilian town of Ikinholo Banner in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The old name of Genghis Khan was Temujin, who was born in 1162 in a noble family of a Mongolian tribe. With his wisdom and intrepidity, he gradually unified Mongolia. In 1206, all chieftains of the tribes in Mongolia convened a meeting at the bank of the Wonan River, jointly choosing Temujin as the Great Khan, and calling him Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan was such an outstanding politician, militarist who overawed Europe and Asia. Riding the whirlwind in his whole life, he fought with enemies, conquered the Central Asia, and established by far the most capacious Mongolia Great Empire of the border in the world, striding Eurasia. Genghis Khan died on the journey of attacking Xi Xia (a dynasty in old times). Since Genghis Khan was buried secretly after his death, nobody knew where his coffin was buried. It was still a historically unsettled case. The devout offspring can only set the curtain that Genghis Khan had used before his death on the plateau between Altai and Kent Mountain, and set up eight white felt curtains, which are called eight white rooms. The eight white felt curtains became the mausoleum symbol of Genghis Khan. For hundreds of years, it received the sacrifice of Genghis Khan by their offspring.
After the perdition of the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), eight white rooms moved with the Erdos tribe, which was responsible for guardianship. In the sixth year (1649) of the Shunzhi reign in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the Qing court granted Elinqin, middle banner of Erdos left wing, the noble rank of Prince, and he served as the leader of Ikinholo ally. For the convenience of meeting the ally, he moved the eight white rooms to the area that he governed, which is Ikinholo Banner now.
Ikinholo means MonarchMausoleum. In the period of Anti-Japanese War, the coffin ofGenghis Khan had been moved to Xinglong Mountain in Yuzhong County of Gansu Province, and then it had been transferred to the Ta'er Temple of Bingzhong County in Qinghai Province. In the spring of 1954, the InnerMongoliaAutonomous Regionorganized a delegation to escort Genghis Khan's Mausoleum bedroom, which escorted the coffin of Genghis Khanto the original place to bury. TheGenghis Khan Mausoleumwas formally founded in 1956.
Now, theGenghis Khan Mausoleum is located in the place, with the front facing to the south. The main construction of the mausoleumconsists of three co-adjacentmausoleum palaces.The main hall is 26 meters in height, the yurt peak, like a Mongolian tent, dots the white wall, and the top was built with luck designs by yellow-white glazed tile. Climbing along the steps, one can see a 5 meter-highsitting statue of Genghis Khan in the middle of the mausoleum. In the bedchamber behind the main hall, there are three Mongolian tents covered with yellow satin juxtaposition. The coffins of Genghis Khan, his wife, his second wife and his third wife are placed in the middle of the hall, and the coffins ofGenghis Khan's two brothers are placed in the west and the east of the bedchamber.The western and the eastern halls are all 23 meters in height. The coffin of Genghis Khan's fourth son Tolui (the father of Kublai Khan, who was the founder of the Yuan Dynasty) and the coffin of Kublai Khan's wife were placed in the eastern hall; The western hall enshrines 9 banners, which were the symbol of 9 generals, and arms and other goods used at that time. The east and west corridors of the main hall were decorated with large frescos. The content manifests the expedition history of Genghis Khan and the processes that Kublai Khan unified China. Two huge wooden wheels outside the hall have received supremacy homage for many years by visitors, because it was said that the two wheels were used to carry the coffin of Genghis Khan hundreds of years ago.
Genghis Khan's real tomb is still historically a mystery. People have already regarded the Genghis Khan Mausoleum that evolved from the eight white rooms as Genghis Khan's real mausoleum, with which to commemorate his achievements.
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