There is an unnamed "Emperor's Tomb" in Zhejiang. Villagers have guarded the tomb for thousands of years. The identity of the tomb owner was not known until 2008.

Hangzhou was once the capital of the Wuyue Kingdom, and was also the birthplace of brilliant history and culture.

In history, there is often talk of guarding the mausoleum. Villages and people are often stationed near the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum, and guarding the mausoleum has even become their ancestral motto.

Sometimes, in the long history of the past, villagers may have only heard that there was an imperial mausoleum somewhere, but they may not be able to figure out which emperor is buried.

There is such an ancient tomb in Zhejiang. It has been so long that the villagers who have guarded the tomb for thousands of years can no longer remember who is buried here.

Fortunately, between 2007 and 2008, archaeological experts solved the mystery.

This ancient tomb is located in Nanshantou Village, Wufeng Township, Cangnan County, Zhejiang. It has a very long history. According to local residents, this ancient tomb has a history of at least more than a thousand years.

It is precisely because it is so old that the villagers cannot tell its origin, but the locals habitually call it the "Emperor's Tomb".

Because these stones are not local, but transported from other places, even today, this is still a huge project.

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From this, it can be inferred that these villagers may be the people who guard the emperor's tomb. However, this has formed a tradition over the years, and they do not know who the people they guard are.

But even so, everyone knows that this ancient tomb has at least a long history, so everyone respects this ancient tomb very much. Nanshantou Village is also famous locally because of the existence of this ancient tomb.

Some villagers said: "Maybe in the past, everyone thought that the feng shui of the emperor's mausoleum must be good, so they simply moved it along with the ancestral tomb, so that they could absorb the emperor's feng shui."

This has aroused the interest of archaeologists. No matter what kind of statement there is, there will be a reason. The villagers always say that the emperor's tomb is here, so this is really a possibility.

In 2007, reporters from Cangnan News Network came here. They searched for a long time, but they did not find any written information about the tombstone, and they could not find any clues.

Under such circumstances, they had no choice but to go to the local villagers to investigate and find out where the tomb came from.

The villagers here all know that generations of ancestors have said that this is the tomb of the emperor, so this village is also called the "Emperor's Tomb Village".

According to the old man Zhang Tingtun, their ancestors also migrated from other places. Since their ancestors migrated, they also have a rule here:

Every time during the Qingming Festival, On July half and New Year's Eve, sacrificial ceremonies will be held.

This kind of ceremony has been done for at least 7 generations, and it still continues today.

"Most of the villagers in this village moved here more than 200 years ago. From that time on, the name "Emperor's Tomb" has been continued.

Nanshantou Village is also a good place. When the cemetery was built more than 20 years ago, two tombs were discovered on the hillside 40 to 50 meters above the ancient tomb.

It is said that they are from the Ming Dynasty. Only the two iron hooks for hanging the coffin were left in the empty tomb, but the coffin was no longer known where, and some people said it was stolen.

Therefore, everyone in the village was responsible for protecting the emperor's tomb. The so-called emperor's tomb is the tomb of Qian Chu, the king of Wuyue, and the tomb in Luoyang is just a tomb.

This statement instantly shocked local archaeologists.

Everyone is also very curious, who is this emperor who does not sound very famous?

In 1875, Qian Chu's epitaph was included in the "Twelve Yanzhai Jinshi Guoyan Lu" compiled by Wang Jun of the Qing Dynasty. This was also the first record of Qian Chu's epitaph.

This also shows that in history, Qianchu's tomb was stolen.

According to the records of "Luoyang County Chronicle", especially in the early years of the Republic of China, there were many tomb robbing incidents in Luoyang area. Many epitaphs were unearthed. After several circulations, many of them went to foreign country.

Fortunately, after Qian Chu’s epitaph was unearthed in Luoyang, it was eventually placed in the Stone Carving Hall of the Luoyang Museum.

This kind of epitaph is an important cultural heritage of Luoyang. There are more than 2,000 words on the epitaph, and it also introduces Qian Chu’s life story.

Qian Chu is the grandson of Qian Liu and the son of Qian Yuanguan, the second king of Wuyue. He has served as the commander of the internal government armies since he was 10 years old.

Later, after Qian Yuanguan passed away, King Zhongxun Qian Zhu succeeded to the throne and specially brought Qian Chu back to participate in the related work of presiding over the Prime Minister's Office.

In 948, the general Hu Jinsi took advantage of the night banquet of King Qian of Wu and Yue to raise troops and cause trouble. This directly brought Wu and Yue into chaos. The original emperor was also placed under house arrest, and King Zhongxun's rule was abolished. name.

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But this general always felt that it was not suitable for him to become emperor, so he thought of a good way: let Qian Chu succeed to the throne, so as to maintain his position .

Qian Chu felt that something was inappropriate and was unwilling to shirk it again and again.

But under Hu Jinsi's repeated requests, Qian Chu had no choice but to agree to such a request, but he also put forward his own conditions: to keep his brother.

Hu Jinsi also agreed to this condition, and Qian Chu was elected King of Wuyue.

By this time, Hu Jinsi was definitely a well-known minister. He spoke out many times in the hope that Qian Chu could be executed, but Qian Chu refused and sent his confidants to protect his brother.

On one occasion, Hu Jinsi even sent an assassin to directly take the money and kill his head, but was eventually stopped by Qian Chu's people. Such a plot failed to come true, and Hu Jinsi later died in fear.

It was from this time that Qian Chu's governance skills gradually emerged.

He worked hard to govern and ordered all taxes owed over the years to be waived, which won the hearts of the people. He also arranged for thousands of people to go to Songjiang to open up land for farming, so that there was "no abandoned land in the territory."

In 953, a rare severe drought occurred in the territory, and some people were forced to sell their children and daughters because of their livelihood. After Qian Chu heard about these things, he ordered the government to issue brocade and silk to sell the children who had been sold. Redeem them all and seize the time to open positions to alleviate the disaster to a great extent.

During the years when Qian Chu was in power, the rest of the world was almost always in war, but Wuyue State maintained a relatively peaceful situation on the whole, and Qian Chu was also loved by the people.

Due to historical reasons, strictly speaking, Qian Chu did not proclaim himself emperor, but always placed himself in the position of a "king".

He also loved Buddhism very much in his life. The famous "Leifeng Pagoda" was built under his auspices to enshrine the Buddha's conch and hair.

After the "Dharani Sutra" was unearthed, later generations also discovered that in the opening position it was written:

Wu Yueguo, the general of the world's soldiers and horses, has one coin. Chu made 84,000 volumes of this sutra and put them into the bricks of the Xiguan Pagoda to be enshrined forever.

More than sixty extremely precious cultural relics were also discovered at the Leifeng Pagoda site, and these cultural relics eventually became a sensation.

In 974, Zhao Kuangyin launched a crusade against the Southern Tang Dynasty and also targeted the vast Jiangnan area. Qian Chu was well aware of Zhao Kuangyin’s intentions and refused the Southern Tang Dynasty’s proposal to send troops to aid due to national strength. , and later sent troops to help the Song Dynasty eliminate the Southern Tang Dynasty.

After the fall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the Wuyue Kingdom also fell into a state of despair and was on the verge of collapse.

However, complex interest disputes cannot evaluate the quality of a certain person. Qian Chu was the last king, but he was extremely capable and very wise. He was good at assessing situations and had a close relationship with Song Taizong.

In this way, even if Wu Yue is destroyed, the people under his rule will avoid the chaos of war to the greatest extent.

Moreover, Qian Chu's sons are also very capable under his training, and the entire family has developed quite well.

For example, Qian Weiyan has made great achievements in literature and is a backbone poet of "Xikun style". Ouyang Xiu later concluded that "San Shang" during his study time was inspired by Qian Weiyan.

In 988, Qian Chu died suddenly in Nanyang. As for the final cause of his death, some people believe that it was Song Taizong who did it.

For thousands of years, there have been different opinions about the location of Qian Chu’s tomb. This is also based on Qian Chu’s extremely high status in Jiangnan. Mainly because the majority of people respected this monarch very much, so a place in Taizhou was once included. The ancient tomb of unknown origin is worshiped as Qian Chu's mausoleum.

In the documents related to Qian Chu, the tomb site is also clearly recorded: Tao Gongyuan (li) of Xianxiangli, Beimang Mountain, Luoyang County, Henan Prefecture.

The so-called burial was also the work of Song Taizong, because ten years before Qian Chu's death, there was a measure to "return soil to the Song Dynasty", which also accelerated the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty. Later, the Song Dynasty He was successively divided into various titles such as King of Huaihai and King of Hannan.

It stands to reason that Song Taizong has already been buried, and the epitaph was unearthed from Luoyang, so the person should be buried there.

However, according to Huang Zhengrui's research, after Qian Chu's death, in accordance with the requirements of the Song Dynasty, it was agreed that Qian Chu's body would be sent to Luoyang via Nanyang.

But according to Qian Chu’s own wishes, it was also his wish to return his soul to Songshan. The so-called Songshan is now Nanshantou Village.

Based on this background, Song Taizong's orders cannot be violated, and the failure to satisfy Qian Chu's last wish is also a major concern of the family. After much thinking, everyone came up with a good way: subcontracting.

They put Qian Chu's tomb into the coffin and then sent it to Luoyang via Kaifeng, so the epitaph also appeared in this position.

Qian Chu's coffin was specially escorted by the Qian family's cronies from Hangzhou to Nanyan, and finally found an opportunity to be buried.

In fact, there is also a record of Qian Chu's tomb in the "Pingyang County Chronicle", which mentions: The tomb of King Qian is in Songshan, Gui Nhon Township.

It is precisely for this reason that after Qian Chu was buried, he only fulfilled his personal wishes and could not let Song Taizong and others know about it, and then it finally became an "unknown emperor's tomb."

After so many years, the emperor's tomb can still cover an area of ​​about 300 square meters, but because of its disrepair, there is not much left.

Later, six private houses were rebuilt next to the tomb, and the main tomb became a place for villagers to pile firewood. The fourth and fifth-level halls were also reclaimed and turned into two farmlands.

However, these cannot conceal the glorious past of the tomb owner.

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