When the Qing tombs were selected, the temples and Taoist temples were all moved out, but what was the mystery of leaving a Erlang temple?
Jingling is the mausoleum that suffered the most disasters in the Qing Dynasty, including both natural disasters and man-made disasters. The so-called man-made disaster is the man-made destruction and theft of the mausoleum, of which the underground palace is the most harmful.
Some people may ask: Since the Dongling Mausoleum in the Qing Dynasty is a treasure trove of geomantic omen, why didn't it keep the Wandai Jiangshan and its ancestral graves in the Qing Dynasty from being stolen?
There is a story widely circulated in the Dongling area of the Qing Dynasty:
Shortly after the Qing Empire entered Beijing as its capital, Changrui Mountain in Zunhua, not far from Beijing, was designated as a mausoleum area. Because the mausoleum area is a yin house, the feng shui quality of the yin house is related to the rule of the Qing Dynasty and the reproduction of future generations, so there are no graves and temples in the mausoleum area. Therefore, all temples, Taoist temples, tombs and residents in the mausoleum area need to be moved out. When Qing officials were inspecting the mausoleum area, they accidentally came to a hill in the southeast of the mausoleum area, and unexpectedly found that there was a very small temple on the hill-Erlang Temple.
In addition to a gatehouse and a courtyard wall, Erlang Temple at that time had only three main halls, in which the statue of Erlang God was dedicated, and the scale was very small. So Minister Jianling built a new Erlang Temple in the back hill of Malanyu as it was, and sent someone to carry the Erlang statue in the original temple to the new temple in a sedan chair. The next day, when people took shovels and pickaxes to demolish Erlang Temple, they found that the statue of Erlang God was still sitting in the temple. When people sent people to the new temple to look at it, the mud statue was really gone, and everyone felt very strange. So the statue of Erlang God was moved to the new temple for the second time, but the clay statue came back the next day, so it was moved twice in a row and came back twice. If the idol can't be moved, the temple can't be demolished. This worries the officials who are in charge of moving the immigrants to the temple, so they have to tell the emperor the whole story. Emperor Kangxi was also puzzled when he received the letter. The next day, after he ascended to the DPRK, Emperor Kangxi told the civil and military officials of the Manchu Dynasty about this strange thing and asked the ministers what good strategies they had. The ministers looked at each other, but they were at a loss.
Emperor Kangxi had to leave for the pilgrimage, return to Ganqing Palace, and lay on the dragon bed gloomily to ponder this matter. Thinking about it, I suddenly saw an auspicious cloud floating in the sky. I saw a god standing on the cloud, with three eyes and a piercing helmet. clear voice said, "The Emperor of the Qing Dynasty heard this, and I am Erlang God. I have come to tell me why I am not going to the new temple. The mountain in front of the original temple was Monkey Mountain, and tens of thousands of monkeys were suppressed at the foot of the mountain, all of whom were descendants of the Monkey King, and all of them were skilled in martial arts. If I leave the original temple, these monkeys will come out and make a mess of the world. In order to make your Qing Mausoleum solemn and peaceful, I want to keep Monkey Mountain in Yongzheng, and I can't move to other places. " After that, Xiangyun rose and disappeared in an instant.
Emperor Kangxi suddenly sat up. It was a dream. Recalling the words of Erlang God in my dream, I felt quite reasonable. I sent someone to the field to inquire. It turned out that there was a monkey mountain in front of Erlang Temple. Emperor Kangxi immediately sent a message to the officials in charge of the relocation of the mausoleum, and they were not allowed to move the temple again. At the same time, the original Erlang Temple was rebuilt and the scale was expanded. The main hall was changed from one to five, three east and west halls were added, and two flagpoles were added. And reshape the statue of Erlang God, and add images of Guan Yu and Lv Zu.
However, because the statue of Erlang Temple was moved twice for no reason, the monkey suppressed at the foot of Monkey Mountain took advantage of the opportunity that the statue of Erlang God was moved away, and a monkey came out. A few years later, Sun Dianying, who was a bandit, stole the ancestral grave of the Qing Dynasty-the Qing Dongling.
Although this is only a folk legend, there is indeed a hill called Monkey Mountain in the southeast of the Mausoleum of the Qing Dynasty, and there is indeed an Erlang Temple built on the hillside to the north of Monkey Mountain. Weng Tonghe, an important figure in the late Qing Dynasty, mentioned resting in this temple in his Diary when he was in charge of building the Huiling of Tongzhi Emperor. Although it is not clear who built Erlang Temple, who maintained and used it during the Qing Dynasty. However, it is really incredible to build a temple in the forbidden area of the imperial tomb, both then and now.
on February 12, 1912, the Qing dynasty perished, and the Republic of China was founded. As the ancestral tomb of the Qing royal family, the Qing Dongling was a private property and was protected by the government of the Republic of China. However, during the period of the Republic of China, warlords of various factions in China scuffled with each other, and the promise of the government of the Republic of China became a piece of waste paper, so incidents of looting and theft of articles from the tombs of the Eastern Qing Dynasty occurred from time to time.
In July, 1928, the first robbery case made in Sun Dianying shocked the world occurred in the Qing Dongling. In September of the same year, the abdicated Xuantong Emperor Puyi sent Zaize and others to the Qing Dongling to investigate the theft of the Qing Dongling in detail. At that time, the Qing Dongling they saw was a broken and desolate scene. When they investigated the Jingling, they left such a historical record:
Jingling: a stone statue was injured by ivory; Clouds were lost around the small tablet pavilion, and three pieces of ceiling were lost; The doors and windows of the kitchen library are all lost, and there is a loss between the purlins; The doors and windows, sill frames and purlins of the East-West Korean houses are all lost; The wooden frame of the east and west classes was completely lost and the wall collapsed; The plaque of Longen Gate is missing, the door leaves are all preserved, the door nails are missing, and there are no beams and ceilings; The stone fence of Long 'en Hall was damaged, and the partition, sill frame, window lattice and ceiling were all lost. The shrine was completely lost, and the partition fan of the Buddha building lost four pieces; The glazed door sill frame is completely lost; The copper cylinder keeps one; The stone pillar on the west side of Erzhumen is broken; Stone platform five supplies are damaged; The door leaf, partition window and ceiling of the Ming building in Baocheng are all missing, and the fang is not complete. The bronze stoves, deer and cranes displayed in front of the Long En Temple were all lost.
Sleeping in Princess Garden of Jingling: The wooden frame of the east and west classes was completely lost, and the walls collapsed; Two doors and purlins are all lost; Temple shrine, doors and windows, sill frame and ceiling are all lost; The glazed door frame is completely lost. .......
Since then, due to the lack of management, the disaster in Jingling has continued to expand.
in October, 1928, the third of the six stone pillars of the archway gate fell to the south and broke into three pieces. It was not until August 1, 1978 that the inverted stone pillars were glued and repaired as before.
for some unknown reason, the stone pillar to the west of the second pillar gate of Jingling fell to the west and broke into two pieces. When the Jingling archway door was restored in 1978, the two-column door was restored together.
in the 194s, the stone railings on the three-way three-hole arch bridge on the mangeugou in front of the Long 'en Gate in Jingling were knocked down by a group of ignorant and radical people, and all of them were smashed. It was not until the maintenance of Jingling in 19% that the stone railings were re-carved and installed, and basically restored to their original appearance.
For Jingling, the most serious damage was not the ground building, but the underground palace was stolen. The underground palace is the most important core building in the mausoleum building, and the purpose, value and significance of the mausoleum are all there-because the owner of the mausoleum sleeps here.
The underground palace of Jingling was stolen twice.
The first time happened in July, 1928. When Sun Dianying illegally dug the Yuling Mausoleum of Longdi and Cixi Mausoleum, he also sent people to dig the Jingling Mausoleum, but the underground palace was not dug. The underground palace of Jingling escaped a robbery because it was rumored that when the Jingling was stolen, it was forced to stop because of the underground flood. Therefore, afterwards, in the place of Jingling Mausoleum Gate, it was found that there was a business card for the commander Chai Yunsheng and the brigade commander Han Dabao.
The second time happened on December 22nd, 1945. The underground palace of Jingling was stolen, and all the buried treasures were stolen. Among the bandits who robbed the underground palace of Jingling, some small leaders were outsiders. For example, Zhao Lianjiang was from the village of Shuchengzi in the seventh district of Jixian County, Yang Zhicao was from Chixiayu in Jixian County, and some were locals. For example, Guan Zenghui (also called Guan Laoqi) was from Yuda Village in Dongling, Tian Guangkun (Tian Laoqi) was from Nanda Village in Dongling, Zhang Dezhong was from Xigou Village in Dongling, and Wang Shaoyi was from Dongling.