Qianlong Tomb Interpretation of the Mystery of the Stolen Qianlong Yuling Mausoleum
Qianlong’s Tomb Interpretation of the Mystery of Qianlong’s Yuling Tomb Stolen
Emperor Qianlong, a king who wished everything he wanted, also had his own dissatisfaction. For example, the much-publicized Yuling theft case fully illustrates this. This question. In July 1928, the rogue warlord Sun Dianying brazenly robbed Emperor Qianlong's Yuling Mausoleum. The first method is to smash. Their engineers used sharp weapons, such as pickaxes and hammers, to smash down the stone doors. We saw signs of being hit by sharp weapons between the two stone doors on the spot. However, the effect was not significant, that is, they were not broken open. The second is collision. They did not hit the stone gate with people, but with big pieces of wood. We saw that there were thick pine and cypress trees everywhere on Houbao Mountain in Yuling. The old guard of the mausoleum recalled that the tomb-robbers cut down the big pine tree on Houbao Mountain. Then, a dozen young and strong soldiers hugged the trunk of the big pine tree and rushed straight to the stone gate. Broken. It should be said that this method was very effective, and the stone door was basically knocked open in this way. Third, the dynamite exploded. The fourth stone gate was blocked by a coffin, so the soldiers used explosives to blow it open.
Emperor Qianlong, a perfect old man, was really miserable in this catastrophe. Forty days after the robbery, Puyi, who had been living in Zhangyuan, Tianjin, held an "imperial meeting" and decided to rebury the bones of Emperor Qianlong and his concubines. He sent a group of more than 70 people, including the old and the young, as well as clan members, officials, kitchen servants, and guards of the Republic of China, in 10 small cars and 6 large cars. They set off from Tianjin and walked for two days, because it was precisely During the rainy season, the roads are muddy and difficult to walk. The elders who participated in the re-interment wrote down what they saw in their diaries and compiled it into the "Donggin Robbery Compilation". This precious material recorded the tragic remains of Emperor Qianlong and his concubines:
First, the bones were thrown out of the underground palace. After the robbery, the tomb guards came out. They came to Yuling and were shocked to see a mess outside the underground palace door, especially human bones. "A Compilation of Dongling Robbery Cases" records: "One rib, two foot bones, and one knee bone were recovered." These bones undoubtedly came from the underground palace, that is, the bones of Emperor Qianlong and his concubines. It is really amazing. How miserable. Where had the guardian of the tomb seen this? Why were the bones of Emperor Qianlong and Empress thrown outside the underground palace? It turned out that there was deep water in the underground palace, and the treasures and bones were soaked in the deep muddy water. After the gangsters opened the underground palace, they faced two big problems: one was that there was a vast ocean in the underground palace, and they had to find treasures in the water; the other was that it was dark in the underground palace and the target could not be seen. What should we do? The soldiers and bandits found something like a sieve. Some of them were in the underground palace and used the sieve to fish it out in the water. After fishing it out, they passed it to the underground palace and waited for the soldiers and bandits above to pick it up. However, when the soldiers and bandits saw something was wrong, they were not all treasures at all, but there were many bones. So, they took away the treasures and threw away the bones cruelly.
The second is that the bones have deteriorated. The bones of Emperor Qianlong and his concubines had deteriorated greatly due to being soaked in water for a long time. Baoxi, a member of the clan, recorded in his diary: "I found a spine in a brick, and it was all black." It is conceivable that due to being soaked in sewage for a long time, their bones turned black over time.
Third, Emperor Qianlong’s head was missing. Everyone searched everywhere. These burial personnel came to the underground palace and found five corpses, but they could not find the skull of Emperor Qianlong. Where did it go? Everyone was at a loss, and after all the troubles, they finally found it on the fourth level. A skull was found under the east stone door that was blown down. After careful analysis, everyone confirmed that it was the head of Emperor Qianlong. His mandible was shattered due to being pressed under the stone door. When Baoxi held Qianlong's skull and looked at it, he was shocked. "Baoxi's Diary" recorded this: "The eyes have only deep sockets. If you look closely with a lamp, it seems that white light is shooting out of the sockets." This is not scary. ? But, fortunately, the skull of Emperor Qianlong was finally found.
Fourth, the bones could not be found. There are corpses everywhere inside and outside Yuling. They are everywhere on the square city, on the platform, in the tomb passages, and in the underground palace. Emperor Qianlong's "finger and toe bones cannot be found." Emperor Qianlong became a nobody. Disabled people with hands and feet. Especially those pampered concubines, whose corpses are "not even alive", which is really pitiful.
It is really a pity that Emperor Qianlong and his wife were pampered and well-off during their lifetime, but ended up with incomplete bones after their death.
The mystery of the theft of Qianlong’s Yuling Tomb
The story: In June 1928, Sun Dianying, commander of the 12th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, prepared to rob Cixi’s Eastern Tomb and Qianlong’s Yuling Tomb. , Jingling of Kangxi.
However, if you want to steal the mausoleum and seize the treasure, you must first find the entrance to the underground palace. Sun Dianying's subordinate Liang Langxian spoke at this time; he thought that he could send people to find the "treasure burial map" of the mausoleum that was circulating in the public. They were looking for someone who was familiar with the entrance to the underground palace, because at that time, there were many descendants of tomb keepers and mausoleum builders living around the mausoleum area.
Finally, two mausoleum guards found out that a man named Subitolin might know that Subituolin participated in the entire burial process of Cixi and was exactly what Sun Dianying wanted to find. People!
A week later, on July 8, Subitolin was taken from his home to the Cixi Mausoleum.
The Cixi Mausoleum consists of Long'en Hall, Ming Tower, Baocheng and other buildings. Under coercion and inducement, Subitolin pointed to the entrance of the underground palace of Cixi Mausoleum, under the glazed screen wall next to the Ming Tower. The officers and soldiers of Dioling never thought that such an important facility would be in a place where everyone could see it, but no one would think about it. Sure enough, the soldiers quickly dug up the diamond wall, and then used explosives to forcefully blow open the diamond wall and enter the underground palace.
Sun Dianying was divided into three groups, working on the three tombs at the same time, and required them to be completed within three days. The entrances to the Qianling and Jingling underground palaces were successfully found successively, and Sun Dianying successfully stole the tombs. What Subituolin didn't expect was that after Sun Dianying completed the excavation of three Qing tombs, he was pulled to a deep ditch left by the excavation of the tombs and shot!
Sun Dianying was stealing Cixi's tombs. At the same time as the mausoleum, soldiers from another group were also plundering the Yuling Mausoleum of Emperor Qianlong. The strange thing starts here... Who is blocking the door!
The coffin is set and the people exit. How does this tap stone hold up the door? Generally, the door can only be completed by people inside. It turns out that the secret lies in the design of the stone door and the door shaft. The butt edges of the two doors are buckled and the upper and lower ends of the door shaft are polished into a ball shape. An extra raised groove is left in the middle of the two stone doors at the same location as the door seam. mouth. Before closing the stone door, the craftsman placed the tap stone in the stone groove on the ground and used a special tool - a "7"-shaped object commonly known as a nail to trap the tap stone.
After everyone evacuated from the underground palace, one door was closed first, and the craftsman pulled the nail and slowly leaned it forward to connect it with the reserved notch on the stone door. After the stone strips are tilted, the huge weight will force the stone door with the door shaft to rotate. At this time, the craftsman quickly removed the nail, and the stone door automatically closed until the seams were completely closed. The two ends of the stone inserted into the stone groove held the stone door tightly, and people who did not know the trick could not open it at all.
And if you want to open this stone door, you have to use a special tool, a "7"-shaped object commonly known as a nail. This was the case when the stone door of the Dingling Underground Palace was opened. This special tool has the same function as a key. This method of "opening the door" was mastered by thieves who broke into homes in ancient times. The locked door can be easily opened from the outside. It is also common sense in the circle. Archaeologists actually borrowed it. of this stealing technique. The two stone doors of Dingling are very heavy, tall and neatly made, 3.3 meters high and 1.7 meters wide. The natural stone on the top door is 1.6 meters long, and there are still ink marks on it: "None of the natural stones of the seven gates of Xuan Palace have been tested."
What does this mean? Experts still don’t fully understand it, they are just guessing.
Even if the tomb robber opens the first stone door, he may not be able to find the second door. There are usually many confusing passages in the tomb, and he may not be able to get out; he may not be able to open the lower door smoothly. There are many stone gates, because the "mechanism" behind each gate is different. During the Republic of China in 1928, when the warlord Sun Dianying was excavating the Cixi Mausoleum, the last stone door into the underground palace could not be opened. He originally planned to use explosives to blow it open, but for fear of damaging the treasures in the mausoleum, he instead used 40 soldiers to smash it with thick wooden stakes. They found a stupid way to get in. Later, investigators at the scene found that the tap stone on the top of the door had been broken into several pieces.
While Sun Dianying was stealing Cixi's Mausoleum, another group of soldiers were also stealing Emperor Qianlong's Yuling Mausoleum. During this period, something strange happened. There are 6 people buried in Yuling, including Qianlong, Empress Xiaoxian Chun, and Emperor Zhemin. After Qianlong's heavy coffin was placed on the stone bed of the underground palace, four pieces of stone were placed at the four corners of the coffin in order to determine the feng shui line and calibrate the direction of the most prosperous dragon veins. Very heavy Longshan stone.
After Sun Dianying successfully opened the first few doors, the last one really became a stumbling block. He could not open it no matter what, and hitting it would not help. In desperation, he had no choice but to blow it up.
After the stone door exploded, the soldiers were surprised to find a huge miracle: the other five coffins were all on the stone bed, and Qianlong "walked" down, blocking the stone door tightly, so that the soldiers could not open the door.
Did Qianlong have some underground knowledge and knew that thieves were going to rob Yuling, so he "came down" to hold the door alone? The same strange scene appeared again in 1975 when archaeological experts were cleaning the Yuling underground palace. Qianlong's coffin This time he "walked" down again and pushed against the stone door, which acted as a running stone. Some experts believe that this was caused by the buoyancy of the leaking groundwater, which caused the coffin to float up. But why didn't the other five coffins move? Moreover, the four corners of Qianlong's coffin were fixed with heavy stones. If it was due to the buoyancy of groundwater, there would have been huge waves, but the water that seeped in obviously did not have this condition. As for the top door of Qianlong's coffin, experts have so far failed to come up with convincing archaeological findings to prove the reason why Qianlong moved around the coffin and "guarded" his own tomb, and it has become a mystery.