The Royal Cemetery and Tomb Guards’ Residence in Suburb of Beijing in Ming, Qing Dynasty

Abstract

As the Eight Banners Army entered Beijing city and Han nationality moved out from inner city in Qing dynasty, great part of suburb used as graveyard for Royalty, Aristocracy and Soldiers and also used as manor had be attached to Royalty, aristocracy.While the Tomb guards’s residences were important Auxiliary part for the cemetery which named as Yangzhai was a coalition united by features of cemetery and local living culture. Qing government had inherit and improve the structure form of the cemetery which made by Ming dynasty, while merged the culture elements of Manchu nationality.As the accretion of the cemetery, this kind of special residence had turned in an important building type in suburb of Beijing, even grown into community.Some conditions also leaved by some Joseon envoy’s record that written in Ming and Qing Dynasty. Though these records, local chronicles also some historical document, the feature of Royal Cemetery and the Tomb guards’s residence also the special architecture type will be investigated in this paper.