Today, there is a mausoleum on a hill ten miles north of Gongzhuling, which many people call Chaoyang, Jiu Feng. Oaks, glass nuts and willows grow around the mausoleum. Every early summer, there are trees and flowers everywhere, birds are singing happily, and the running river is full of affection, just like playing the piano. According to Sun, the last keeper of the mausoleum, the mausoleum is surrounded by a blue brick wall with a guard room in the middle. Unfortunately, it was stripped off during the Russo-Japanese War. Entering the gatehouse, it is a brick passage that leads directly to the dining hall. The dining hall is three blue brick houses, facing south, like a temple, with a pyramid-shaped mound leading to the mausoleum in the middle, which was also demolished after liberation.
A princess is buried in the mausoleum. Mention that she has a touching love story!
During the Qianlong period, there was a Mongolian prince in Zhengjiatun. At the age of 50, his wife gave birth to a daughter named Meliqi Ge. He brought his daughter a string of bronze bells to show that ghosts can suppress evil spirits and protect her long life. From then on, people inside and outside the palace called Princess Meiling. The prince specially hired a Han woman, Zhang Ma, as a wet nurse. The kind Zhang Ma patiently raised the princess and made the prince very happy. So, make an exception and let Zhang Ma's son Zhang Long into the house. The young princess likes Zhang Long very much. They often play together. Really childhood friends.
Princess Dambert 14 years old, Zhang Long's father died unfortunately. Soon, Zhang Ma was driven out of the palace, orphaned and widowed, and her life was difficult. In less than two years, Zhang Ma died from overwork. Lonely Zhang Long lived tenaciously. He practiced riding and shooting hard. He became a leader in archery, horse racing and wrestling at the annual Mongolian traditional Nadam convention. The princess sees it in her eyes and enjoys it in her heart. However, traditional hierarchical concepts and cruel government regulations and laws make them like Qian Shan. On a hunting trip, Princess Lingling met a tiger and accidentally fell off her horse. Suddenly an arrow hit the tiger's throat and the princess was saved. Zhang Long and the princess meet again. They talked cordially and refused to leave for a long time. At this time, the prince took the housekeeper up the hill. After listening to the story of the princess's rescue, he was also very moved and left Zhang Long in the palace to feed the horse to drive.
In a blink of an eye, Princess 17 years old, with delicate facial features. She refused the proposal of a senior official, and privately made a lifelong commitment with Zhang Long to escape from the palace. When the monarch knew about it, he set a trap for Zhang Long to go up the mountain to shoot tigers, and then promised him to marry the princess. Before leaving, the king gave Zhang Long a treasure knife, but the scabbard was full of lead. When Zhang Long met the tiger after going up the mountain, the knife was drawn. However, Zhang Long, who had been to the hunting ground, killed the tiger with a drawn knife. However, he was shot by the housekeeper's back arrow. When the princess arrived, Zhu Gong had fallen in a pool of blood, and she was very angry. She stabbed the housekeeper with an arrow tied to Zhang Long and cut her neck.
After the princess died, Prince Dahan and his wife were very sad and buried their daughter on the spot with a generous gift. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, on March 3rd and 1 October 1 Gregorian calendar every year, several cars will drive from Zhengjiatun, pulling paper money, gold and silver paper shovels, pigs, sheep and other sacrifices to the princess grave. The Mongols who came here stayed here for a few days to eat and drink, and gave some money and things to the Shouling people before going back. Because there were bandits in the Puppet Manchuria period, they sometimes came to a cart with wheels, and sometimes used mules and horses to transport pig heads, sheep heads, chickens and other sacrifices. After the sacrifice, they stayed for one day at most and left.
When the Russians built the South Manchuria Railway, the original design passed through the place of Princess Mausoleum. Because the Mongolian prince negotiated with the Russians, the railway was moved more than ten miles south. Later, with the development of traffic, the population near Princess Mausoleum increased, and it soon became a larger town. The homonym of Ling is Ling, and Princess Ling has become today's Princess Ling.