Genghis Khan's Mausoleum is the symbol of Genghis Khan and is a place where this great man worshiped. Located in Ordos City on the Ejinhoro Somu of Ejinhoro Grassland, occupies land of 20,000 square metres, a sacre place honoring this great man. The beautiful grassland and mysterious culture display the majestic appearance of the emperor's mausoleum of the Great Grassland Empire, which has become a grassland culture tour-sight and an important national culture-relic unit.
Genghis Khan's Mausoleum has also become the Top-Forty Tour Sights of China, one of the Top-Hundred Patriotism Education Bases and also one of the firstling of the national AAAA level beauty spots. Genghis Khan's Sacrificial Ceremony is the firstling of the national immaterial cultural bequest.
Genghis Khan's Mausoleum whose main body is resplendent and magnificent mausoleum palace is composed of several relic sights as the Sulte Alter etc., the relic sights are in harmony with natural beauty of Bayanchahug Grassland and thus built an unique grassland scene and cultural sight.
Genghis Khan's Mausoleum is rich in history and culture. It exhibits the grand and splendid past of Mongols, Targod, the people that has been guarding the mausoleum for more than 800 years, has perfectly inherited the sacrificial ceremonial culture and the royal court culture. Genghis Khan's Sacrificial Ceremony, which is unique in form, variety in content and rich in conotations, reveals the source of Mongol culture. Not only is Genghis Khan's Mausoleum a holy cordial of mongolian culture but it also is a valueable cultural treasure of nation and peculiar cultural haritage of mankind.
This ancient and magical land is the well-known place, Ordos. The name "Ordo" derived from Genghis Khan's palace tent Ordo. It's said that on his first western expedition, Genghis Khan and his army once made their way across the Ordo Plateau. He saw that the plateau boasts rich of water resources and beautiful grass, a land of excellent geomantic quality, and he was so intoxicated at the scene that he dropped his horsewhip to the ground. His attendants wanted to pick up his horsewhip but were stopped by Genghis Khan. He could not help expressing his admiration and chanted: "a place where flowers and deer inhabits, a home where hoopoes give birth to their babies, a terra where the declined dynasty revives and a garden where grey-haired man enjoys his life". And he told his attendants: "after I died, bury me here".
After Genghis Khan passed away, Ordos "built a mausoleum that lasted for posterity. a god for enshrinement of ordinary people, and built in immortal 'Eight White Yurts' ", that is the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan.
The Mausoleum of Genghis Khan is made up of three interlinked grand halls in traditional Mongolian architectural style, which stand majestic between the blue sky and the green grassland.
Throughout the lengthy historical changes, the Darhut people have perfectly preserved the "Eight White Yurts" of Genghis Khan from generation to generation, together with the mysterious sacrificing culture and the etiquette culture in the royal court during the Mongol Empire in the 13th century.
Xilamuren Grassland
