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After settling in Beijing, it is time to try out new things \u2013 traveling with a long-distance bus. It is a much different story from traveling with trains. First of all, you cannot buy bus tickets on trip.com, which makes it much more challenging to buy tickets in advance. Also, finding information about bus schedule is difficult. A lot of online information is out of date, but still usable. If the bus isn\u2019t going at 7:40, as it said online, it will go at 8:00, which is what happened to me. Finally, buses are less reliable than trains and can get stuck in traffic. You are incredible unlucky if you end up in a high-speed train that is late, buses being late is just standard occurrence.<\/p>\n

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Since bus trip is around 3 hours one-way, I decided to take an early bus. The buses to Eastern Mausoleum take off from Sihui Long Distance Bus Station, which is right next to Sihui subway station. Thus, it is very easy to get there. The station is to the east of Tiananmen square and Forbidden city. You need to take the bus number 57 to Zunhua. The best that I could understand is that the bus should drop you off at the village called Shimenzhen, which is a couple of kilometers away from the entrance to the Mausoleum complex. However, my bus driver took me and the rest of the passengers to the main gate of the Mausoleum complex. He was saying a lot of things in Chinese that I did not understand, but I think he went out of his way to take me to my destination, even though it is not exactly on his route.<\/p>\n

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If you end up at the bus station in the village Shimenzhen, it is not the end of the world. You can taxi the taxi to the main gate of the complex. Technically, you can walk these few kilometers but I would not advise it. It is not a nice walk by any stretch of the imagination. You will mostly be walking on open road.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/platypus.hr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/1-Map-of-the-Eastern-Mausoleum.jpg” _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” enable_caption_text=”on” caption_text=” Map of the Eastern Mausoleum” image_caption_alignment=”center” align=”center” image_title_alignment=”center” image_description_alignment=”center” module_alignment=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

When you get to the main entrance, you have to decide which tickets you want to buy. There is no need to buy the tickets in advance. Almost no one speaks English there, however, and the lady selling the tickets has tried the old proven method that if a foreigner does not understand the word you said, just repeat it 100 times and he will figure it out eventually. The word she kept repeating was passport. Often when you buy tickets they will ask you for your passport and will put your passport number into the ticket they issue. Coming to think about it, is it that difficult to, after repeating the word for the 49th<\/sup> time, maybe open your wallet, take out your ID and show it to me?! That would help me understand what she wants from me. I have decided that the explanation is that there are very few non-Chinese tourists in that Mausoleum so she is just not used to working with people who have mastered only two Chinese words: nihao (hello) and xiexie (thank you). On the other hand, I was still getting used to using the benefits of google translate.<\/p>\n

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The complex includes tombs of 5 emperors, 4 empresses and many concubines. Not all emperors of the Qing Dynasty are buried here. The other five Emperors are buried in the Western Mausoleum. The oldest tomb in the complex is that of the Emperor Shunzi, the first Qing Emperor to rule from Beijing. However, the biggest star is Emperor Kangxi, the greatest Qing Emperor and the longest reigning Emperor in Chinese history. However, none of these tombs are open to the public. Instead, you can visit the tombs of Emperor Qianlong, Empress Dowager Cixi and Concubine Wu. Buy the combo tickets and also buy the shuttle bus tickets. The tombs are very far away from the entrance to the tomb complex.<\/p>\n

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I boarded the shuttle and the driver took us to the venues. He offered to drop us off at the Sacred Way \u2013 the path that leads to all the tombs in the complex. The sight was almost copy paste of the Sacred Way in the Ming Tombs: it even had statues of the same 6 animals, two generals and two ministers guarding the path! It was super cold when I visited so I have decided to skip this part and go straight for the tombs. My first stop was the Empress Dowager Cixi\u2019s tomb.<\/p>\n

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Empress Dowager Cixi \u2013 the Dragon Empress, as she will be known in the West, has never ruled China in her own name and right, which is why she is only the second most important woman in Chinese history, after Empress Wu Zetian, the only woman to rule China in her own name and right. Empress Dowager Cixi, as her name suggest, ruled China as a regent for the underage emperors. This was all good and approved by the Confucian scholars. However, empress dowager is expected to relinquish her powers after the emperor comes of age. Well, let\u2019s just say Cixi was not planning to go along with Confucian scholars\u2019 expectations. In one way or another, Cixi will dominate Chinese politics for around 45 years, which is truly a remarkable achievement, especially for a woman in high Chinese politics. But you would be soundly mistaken if you think that this accomplishment would garner her respect from the Chinese: Cixi is widely despised and blamed for many of China\u2019s ills. In 1928, during the chaos that followed the collapse of the Empire, a warlord named Sun Dianying, decided to organize war exercises (read looting) of the Qing tombs. The tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi was the first to be violated. After blowing up the entrance to the tomb, the robbers found their way to the main burial chamber, where they not only stole her favorite jewels but also desecrated her corpse: tearing off her undergarments, shoes and socks, and taking all the pearls and jewels on her body. The looters even pried open her jaws and took the rare pearl from her mouth. Her body was discarded as trash.<\/p>\n

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Another fascinating thing about Cixi\u2019s tomb is that it is a perfect mirror image of the tomb right next to it \u2013 the tomb of the Empress Dowager Ci\u2019an. These two women could not be more polar opposite \u2013 one was dumb as a rock but kind, the other extremely intelligent and utterly ruthless. One will be celebrated and hated by many, the other will be forgotten. Wanna guess which one is who? Perhaps it is due to their differences that these two women have never seen themselves as rivals but have worked together and will end up being united in their death.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” type=”4_4″ theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_gallery _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” theme_builder_area=”post_content” gallery_ids=”2809,2810,2811,2812″ caption_text_align=”center” hover_enabled=”0″ sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_gallery][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.27.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” theme_builder_area=”post_content”]

After that you can walk to the tomb of Emperor Qianlong. On the way there, you will reach the tomb of Qianlong\u2019s imperial consort Wu. there is nothing special about this concubine, she was just one of many, but her grave was dug open so you can visit it. When you are already there, no reason to skip it. Otherwise, absolutely unremarkable. The only memorable thing was to see so many tombs next to her\u2019s. these were all tombs of imperial concubines. It is a bit chilling to see how many woman can an emperor take for himself.<\/p>\n

Last but not least on the list is Emperor Qianlong\u2019s tomb. Emperor Qianlong is considered a part of the golden age of the dynasty, together with Emperors Kangxi and Yongzheng have ruled China for 150 years. Qianlong was the contemporary of Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great, Maria Teresa and the French Revolution. In fact, Emperor Qianlong was the closest thing that China got to the European style of enlightened empire builder. No wonder China has reached its greatest size under his reign. However, his ambitions have been curtailed by dovish mandarins. There was little appetite for wars of expansion in China, especially compared to Europe, so Emperor Qianlong has managed to implement only 10 glorious military campaigns. Come to think of it, it might have been better that the bureaucrats kept saying no to new wars since out of these ten great campaigns, five ended in complete disaster.<\/p>\n

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I remember his most fondly as the emperor who told the British delegation, sent by George III in 1792 to open up trade between United Kingdom and China. The British have proudly demonstrated the climax of British engineering and technology, including telescope, watches even carriages in order to impress the Chinese. Emperor Qianlong\u2019s reply was more or less: these would make good toys for Chinese children. Though Qianlong would certainly make a name for himself as a comedian, his policy of keeping China closed to the world will prove to<\/p>\n

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    To get back to Beijing, a woman working on the reception at the ticket office offered to take me to the bus station in the village Shimenzhen for 10 yuan (1.2 euros). This has cemented my suspicions that the bus driver on my way here was also supposed to drop me off at that station, but he instead decided to take the side road just to drop me off to the main entrance of the tombs. She also helped me to buy the tickets. They only accepted WeChat \u2013 the most popular Chinese mobile phone payment app, which does not work for me since it does not support foreign credit cards so I paid her with Alipay \u2013 another mobile phone payment app \u2013 and she bought the ticket for me with her WeChat.<\/p>\n

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    I have spent around 2 hours exploring the Tombs. You can stay there a lot longer, especially if you do not bypass the Sacred Way and other \u201cintroductory\u201d sights to the main tombs. I normally wouldn\u2019t but it was really, really cold that day. You do spend 6-7 hours in the bus, but I still think it was worth it. It is a beautiful place and for me, Empress Dowager Cixi is one of the most fascinating figures in the entire Chinese history, so being on the place where she was buried and her corpse was later desecrated\u2026 what can I say, I am a history freak.<\/p>\n

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