Ming Taizu Mausoleum is the first mausoleum in Ming Dynasty, located seven kilometers south of Fengyang County, Anhui Province. Ming Taizu Mausoleum was built by Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of Ming Dynasty, for his parents and sister-in-law. When it was first built, it occupied an area of about 20,000 mu. It was founded in the 26th year of Yuan Zheng Zhi (A.D. 1366) and completed in the 12th year of Hongwu (A.D. 1379). In the second year of Hongwu, it was recommended as Lingying Mausoleum and later renamed Huangling Mausoleum. The Ming Tombs mainly include imperial city, brick city and earthen city, with more than a thousand palaces, tombs and stone carvings. Since the late Ming Dynasty, man-made destruction and wind and rain erosion have destroyed palaces and temples, leaving only tombs and stone carvings. Ming Tombs, Nanjing Ming Tombs and Beijing Ming Tombs are a system. Although the Ming Mausoleum is not the mausoleum of the emperor, it is "magnificent and heavily guarded", with hundreds of palaces, fasting palaces and official halls. The mausoleum is 257 meters long and has 32 pairs of stone statues. The inscription on the tomb was written by Zhu Yuanzhang himself. The number of stone statues and exquisite carving are the highest in all previous dynasties. Its artistic style is excellent. 1982, the ancient city of Emperor Zhongdu and the stone carvings of Huangling in Ming Dynasty were listed as the second batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council.