Genghis Khan Eight White House Historical Changes

When Genghis Khan passed away, the memorial ceremony for him was held in his mourning hall, which was also called the Eight White Palaces. In the process of its transmission, Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces was influenced by the Han and the Tibetan culture.With the social and cultural changes, and comparing with traditional ways, Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces was fixed on the prairie and was renamed the Mausoleum of Genghis Khan. Now the Mausoleum, which symbolizes Genghis Khan,lies in the Gander Oboo of the Yijin Horo Banner of Ordos City, Inner Mongolian. For the Mongolians, it is the only accredited place to worship Genghis Khan in the world.The study of the Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces was started at the beginning of the 20th century both at home and abroad. So far, the study is mainly on the description of the Genghis Khan Mausoleum, sorting the materials, introductory survey and description of the Genghis Khan memorial ceremony and the memorial poems and songs. After entering the 1980s, some scholars even carry on in-depth studies on the Genghis Khan memorial ceremony from the anthropological point of view.The essay The Study of Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces' historical Changes applies the new perspectives of historical geography and gives a more comprehensive description of the historical changes of Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces, and according to the track of its historical changes, draws out a map to reflect the characteristics of its spatial changes and explores the complex factors that led to those changes, the author puts forward that the religious factor---the Mongolian people's religious belief from Shamanism to Lamaism--- is one of the important factors that influence the spatial characteristics of the changes of the Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces. The essay also try to show the changes of the Mongolian mode of production by describing the changes of the Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces' accounts and the changes of the Mongolian mode of living.The main content of the essay The Study of Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces'historical Changes can be divided into two parts. The first part is about the formation and development of the Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces. This part covers a period of 800 years. Based on the historical documents, it gives a comprehensive description of the whole process of the historical changes of the Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces, from the founding of the Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces to its fixing on the Ordos Prairie. The second part is about the characteristics of the spatial changes of the Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces. The characteristics of its spatial changes are mainly the Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces changed according to the changes of the Mongolian Khan Royal Court and the state power, and the memorial culture's change from moveable accounts to the fixed memorial mausoleum. At the same time,this part also explores the factors that led to the changes of the characteristics of the spatial changes of the Genghis Khan Eight White Palaces.