Emperor Wu Dong and Sun Quan were the first emperors in ancient and modern times to dig graves
Sun Quan was a famous person named Zhong during the Three Kingdoms period. He was the founding emperor of Wu. He was also the first person to rob the tombs of ancient emperors, and the first person to rob the tombs of the Nanyue King!
So, before we officially talk about Sun Quan’s tomb robbery, we have to talk about what a tomb robber is. Don't think that if you pick up the Luoyang shovel yourself, you are called a tomb robber. In fact, the real tomb robbers did not do it themselves with shovels, they were all bosses and commanders behind the scenes.
Sun Quan’s tomb robbery, as well as Shi Jilong, Wu Zetian, Zhu Youxiao, and Li Hong who will be mentioned later, are all the same thing.
The Birth of Emperor Wu Dong
Sun Quan, a well-known family member, the well-known ancient Chinese military classic "The Art of War" was written by his ancestor Sun Wu. Sun Wu later came to the State of Wu and was recommended by Wu Zixu, another tomb robber mentioned earlier, and was reused by King Helu of Wu. Since then, the Sun family has become famous in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, affecting their descendants.
But Sun Quan became emperor because of his old son Sun Jian, not because of Sun Wu's influence. Sun Jian was one of the fierce generals in the late Han Dynasty. He successively served as Sima, Qilang, and Changsha prefect, and became general Polu, so he was also called "Sun Polu".
Sun Jian’s experience is not simple. In the first year of Zhongping, when Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty Liu Xie was on the throne, Sun Jian and You Zhonglang general Zhu Chu killed the Huangta Army together. The most noteworthy thing is that he once joined forces with Yuan Shu and other princes to attack Dong Zhuo, and was Dong Zhuo's most feared opponent.
Sun Jianshi was the king of Changsha and he fought in Changsha.
However, many coalition forces were wary of Yuan Shu and Sun Jian's overt and covert cooperation. When Sun Jian went to attack Hua Xiong, Yuan Shu did not provide food and grass. Although Sun Jian finally defeated Hua Xiong, he was also in danger for a time. In 192 AD, when Yuan Shu sent him to attack Liu Biao in Jingzhou, Huang Zu was shot to death by Liu Biao's troops. His body was transported back to Jiangdong and buried in Qu'a. He is only 37 years old. After Sun founded the country, he established Sun Jian as "Emperor Wu Lie".
Why talk about Sun Jian first and then Sun Quan’s tomb robbery? There are two reasons for this. First, it was because Sun Quan became emperor, which was the basis for Lao Tzu's offering of wine; second, it was also because of Lao Tzu that Sun Quan got the tomb robber's dog-skin plaster.
Sun Jian gave birth to four sons, Sun Ce, Sun Quan, Sun Yi, Sun Kuang and a daughter Sun Shangxiang. Not only was Sun Jian himself powerful, but his children were also important figures in the Three Kingdoms period. She is the wife of Sun Shangxiang, the king of Shu, Liu Bei. When Sun Quan wanted to return to Jingzhou "borrowed" by Liu Bei, she listened to Zhou Yu's "ingenious plan" and married her sister to Liu Bei, who had lost his wife in middle age. However, she fell into Zhuge Liang's trick. As a result, Sun Quan lost his wife and lost his troops. Therefore, Sun Jian is the "overlord" of the Wu Kingdom, Liu Bei's father-in-law, and the "abbot" of the Shu Kingdom. This is "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms". There is no Sun Shangxiang in "Three Kingdoms".
Sun Quan is the second son of Sun Jian, and his brother Sun Ce is also a very outstanding figure.
There is a saying in the AD year that brothers Sun Ce and Sun Quan had strange signs in their mother's womb. When Sun Jian's wife was pregnant with her eldest son, Sun Ce, she dreamed that the moon was flying into her arms. When she was pregnant with Sun Quan, she dreamed that the sun was in her arms. After listening to Mrs. Sun Jian's statement, Be in Heaven firmly asserted that "the sun and the moon are the essence of yin and yang, and are symbols of great wealth and great honor."
As Sun Jian said, both brothers have become extraordinary people.
When Sun Jian attacked Jingzhou, he was ambushed and killed by Huang Zu. His eldest son Sun Ce inherited his father's business. Sun Ce did not lose his father's hope and made many heroic friends, including Zhou Yu, Zhang Zhao, Zhang Hong and so on. He laid the foundation in Jiangdong, became the "bully" of Jiangdong, and was named Marquis of Wu by the Eastern Han Dynasty court. In 199 AD, Sun Ce led his army to defeat his old enemy Huang Zu and avenge his father.
Sun Ce was young and beautiful, and was called "Sun Lang" at the time. He and Zhou Lang were like brothers and eventually became brothers-in-law. He married Gong Qiao's two daughters, Da Qiao and Xiao Qiao. This glorious story is still told today. If things continue like this, the future emperor of Wu will not be like Sun Quan, but Sun Ce may not have the emperor's destiny. In April 200 AD, while he was out hunting, he was assassinated by his old enemy Xu Gong and died young. In this way, the throne foundation laid by his father and brother was transferred to Sun Quan. After Sun gained power, he did not dare to forget his eldest brother's achievements and established Sun Ce as "King Huan of Changsha".
In 221 AD, Emperor Wen of Wei Cao Pi, who was the first to proclaim himself emperor, named Sun Quan "King of Wu", but Sun Quan was unwilling to proclaim himself king. After Liu Bei established the capital, Sun Quan proclaimed himself emperor in Wuchang in 229 AD, and was known as the "Great Emperor" in history. Wu was born.
Sorry for robbing the tomb of Laozi Temple.
After Sun Quan became emperor, he robbed tombs.
It turns out that when ancient emperors founded their country, they would set up "seven temples", that is, seven temples to worship their ancestors, namely the "four relatives" temple, the "two temples" temple and the ancestral temple. Among them, the Taizu Hall is in the middle, with San Zhao and San Mu on the left and right.
According to the information disclosed in "Sou Shen Ji", Sun Quan did not completely follow this rule after becoming emperor. He only built a temple for his old man Sun Manjian. This temple is known as Wu Dong's "ancestral temple" and its ruins were located in Linxiang County, Changsha County at that time.
But what confuses future generations here is that since it is an "ancestral temple", it should be built together with the capital, which is both convenient for worship and more orthodox. But Sun Quan did this for two reasons. One is the "blessing theory". At that time, Sun Jian successfully suppressed the peasant uprising including the Huangta Army in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, and was worshiped as the governor of Changsha by the imperial court. The Sun family launched an army against Qin and Dong Zhuo, all starting from Changsha. Changsha was indeed the blessed land of the Sun family.
The second is "Feng Shui theory". Song Dynasty's "Song Book Li Zhi Liu" quoted "Dividing Ancient and Modern Things" and said that when Sun Jian's father passed away, Sun Quan asked a Feng Shui master to bury him in his hometown of Fuchunbu in Zhejiang. Suddenly, a stranger asked him, do you want to be the fairy emperor or the fourth emperor? Sun Jian said he wanted to be emperor. So the man pointed to a random place. Sun Jian was so surprised that he believed the man and buried his father in that place. Once the Fuchun River was flooded, a narrow sand belt formed around Sun Jian's father's grave. An old man said that your children and grandchildren will get rich in Changsha in the future, and it turned out to be true.
But after Sun Jian's temple was built, Sun Quan did not offer sacrifices. He only sent officials from Changsha to offer sacrifices on his behalf every year. Sun Quan's behavior was widely criticized by historians in the future. He believed that Sun Quan did not regard his father as his "ancestor" at all, and he did not respect the monarch. It's just a show.
What makes historians’ criticism even more intense is that the source of the wood used to build the temple was stolen from tomb robbers.
They were dug out from other people's ancestral graves and used to build the Laozi Temple using the dead man's coffin boards. Historians call it "I have never heard of it" and are very surprised and puzzled by this.
At that time, there were many trees and abundant wood near Changsha, but the forest resources were not as abundant as they are now. Sun Quan built a temple for Lao Tzu, which really seemed like a "fool". But some people think that Sun Quan did a good job, full of the color of "breaking the four olds" advocated by Mao Zedong in the 1950s and 1960s, and having the flavor of a "revolutionary" who changed customs and customs.