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The Western Han Mausoleums The Han people firmly held that the site selection, design, and construction of the dwellings of both the living and the dead should abide by the feng shui principles. They believed a favorable place with auspicious signs in terms of feng shui would definitely bring good luck to offspring.
Historical documents on funerary customs record that the desirable site for imperial tombs had to be wide and flat with a high body of water. Starting from the intersection of the Jing and Wei rivers in the east and ending westward in Xingping County of Xianyang, Xianyangyuan, with god-given fertile land and abundant water, was born to be a perfect site for mausoleums.
No other alternatives around Chang¡¯an could be compared with Xianyangyuan
both in size and vigor. The second largest Bailuyuan was only 25 kilometers long
and 6-10 kilometers wide, with grooved billabongs (stagnant pools of water) and
hillocks (small hills) over the surface.
Politics
When the Western Han
Dynasty was in its infancy, the central government was more concerned with
consolidating the imperial regime by overcoming two political barriers, namely,
threat from the northern nomads and the disobedient nobles of the previous Warring
States Period (475-221BC) before the Qin
Dynasty.
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