Other Ming Dynasty Mausoleums

This section covers a few distinguished -and sometimes almost forgotten- mausoleums. They include tombs of concubines, eunuchs, a general and even a king.

One of these tombs is actually the largest imperial Ming mausoleum in existence -and it doesn't even entomb an Emperor!

Another tomb contains the person that constructed the still extant northern moat of central Beijing!

Some concubines managed to get their own mausoleum and a couple of eunuchs were honored with a tomb close to their Emperor.

But most ordinary folks could only afford a simple burial and a small tomb stone. Farmers even to this very day often reserve a small plot of land in their field as a mausoleum for the family members, like the one above.