What paranormal did emperors encounter in history?
After Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang became the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, he felt that Chang Yuchun, the king of Kaiping, had made great contributions and gave him several beautiful women. However, Chang Yuchun's wife is a super jealous woman, and Chang Yuchun is afraid of lion roars, so she dare not "enjoy" these beautiful women. On one occasion, a "royal beauty" brought Chang Yuchun a bowl of bird's nest soup. Chang Yuchun couldn't help but look at her jade hand, so Chang Yuchun's wife cut off the arm of the "royal beauty". Zhu Yuanzhang was furious when he learned that Chang Yuchun's wife was about to be taken into the palace.
On the second day in court, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered two sturdy eunuchs to bring a pot of soup for Chang Yuchun and other officials to taste. I saw that the soup was sticky and muddy, and its content was quite complicated. I don't know what ingredients it was cooked with. After Chang Yuchun and all the ministers tasted it, Zhu Yuanzhang said that it was "the soup of jealous women" that was "unprecedented and unprecedented". It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang cut Chang Yuchun's wife into pieces, chopped it into a paste and cooked it into a "jealous woman soup".
According to the edition of Miscellaneous Tan under White in the late Ming Dynasty, after Zhu Yuanzhang cooked Chang Yuchun's wife into "Jealous Woman Soup", there was no peace every night, and the ghosts of "Jealous Jealous Lady" came into Zhu Yuanzhang's dreams every night, which made him miserable. Even weirder, on one occasion, when Zhu Yuanzhang went to visit his "land of eternal happiness" (ming tomb), he "bumped into" Chang Yuchun's wife in broad daylight. She walked straight up to Zhu Yuanzhang and pointed at his nose and cursed him, saying that she would not only make Zhu Yuanzhang restless before his death, but also make him restless after his death ...
When Zhu Yuanzhang ordered the body-guards to arrest the murders of Chang Yuchun's wife, she suddenly disappeared like a native grandson. Zhu Yuanzhang was in a panic and didn't know what to do. It is said that Zhu Yuanzhang was afraid that after his death, Chang Yuchun's wife's ghosts would really trespass on the underground, which made him restless in the underworld. So he adopted the advice of Feng Shui masters and designed ming tomb's Shinto as a bend to prevent Chang Yuchun's wife from trespassing on the underground, who could only "go straight" but not "beat around the bush". Bai Xia Zatan also said that the straight design of Shinto in Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum would have dug up the tomb of Sun Quan, the Dongwu emperor who "blocked" Shinto, and Zhu Yuanzhang ordered craftsmen to "turn the Shinto into a bend", just bypassing Sun Quan's tomb. At this time, the minister in charge of building ming tomb asked Zhu Yuanzhang whether the tomb of Sun Quan should be preserved. After thinking for a moment, Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Sun Quan is also a hero. Leave him to watch the gate for me ..."
When commenting on Zhu Yuanzhang's "meeting ghosts in the daytime", some later doctors said that Zhu Yuanzhang did not rule out mental illness and auditory hallucination in his later years.
2 Weird case of driving a car in a panic: Zhu Di
According to Bai Xia Zatan, during the Yongle period of Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Di was emperor in Nanjing, there was a minister named Jing Qing, whose official position was the imperial capital of Zuo Shu. He entered the DPRK with a sharp blade and wanted to assassinate Zhu Di, the Yongle emperor who was crowned by bathing monkeys, and avenge Zhu Yun's grave in Ming Huidi. Because of the revelation, he was caught by the body guard on the spot. Zhu Di was furious, ordered Jing Qing to be killed, and hurt his whole family. Later, he did not feel avenged, and all the villagers and neighbors related to him were put to death, and the whole village where Jing Qing was located was in ruins. After the Jing Qing family and the old friends were wiped out, Zhu Di was still in Yu Nu, so he ordered the guards to peel off Jing Qing's skin, put it in thatch in his belly, and hung it in the left door of Chang 'an. Incredibly, a few days later, when Zhu Di passed the left gate of Chang 'an on a chariot, there was a bolt from the blue, and a sudden gust of wind blew everywhere, flying sand and stones. When Zhu Di, who had a ghost in his heart, was terrified, the wind swept the skin of Jingqing people hanging on the gate to the sky. This human skin, wrapped in the strong wind, went straight to the outside of the cloud nine and stunned thousands of witnesses on the ground. Just when everyone was surprised by this mysterious thing, Pijing crossed the dark clouds again, drifting in the sky like a kite with a broken line, and the wind shuttled through several knife holes in the skin, making a frightening cry of the devil. This strange thing of strange birthday shocked the people, and also shocked the well-informed Yongle Emperor Zhu Di! The distraught Zhu Digang was about to tell his subordinates to go home. This erratic person, Pijing, fell straight in front of Zhu Di and scared Zhu Di in the car on the spot. This "supernatural" incident made Zhu Di seriously ill and could not go to court in January.
According to Bai Xia Za Tan, because too many people were slaughtered by Ming Chengzu in the Battle of Jing Nan, when he was emperor in Nanjing, he killed thousands of "Hui Di's best friends" on the grounds of chiseling Yangshan tablet. Zhu Di, who was afraid of ghosts and gods, was already very scared, and now there is a strange case of skin-shaking driving. The superstitious Zhu Di thinks that Nanjing is "too suffocating" After Zhu Di established his capital in Beijing, Yao Guangxiao, the imperial minister, built two bronze giant clocks for him. Some historians speculate that this is because Zhu Di, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, hoped to build these two powerful clocks to protect his safety. There is only one left of these two big clocks, weighing more than 4 kilograms and 7 meters high.
After Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, he also took the advice of Yao Guangxiao, a "national teacher", and removed some building materials from the Ming Palace in Nanjing for the construction of the Beijing Palace. This move is not to save building materials, but to "exorcise evil spirits". Yao Guangxiao believes that although Zhu Di moved the capital from Nanjing to Beijing, it is still inevitable that there will be ghosts following him, and these ghosts will definitely work in the Beijing Palace. In order to "exorcise evil spirits", the Beijing Palace should be doped with some building materials of the Nanjing Palace. Because Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming emperor who dominated the world, lived in Nanjing Palace for many years, the palace was full of domineering, and the building materials in the official office would be "influenced" by this arrogance. Yao Guangxiao, on this basis, will have a "domineering" building materials doped in the Beijing Palace, will be able to "exorcise evil spirits".
When commenting on this incident, later generations said that Zhu Di, the emperor of Ming Dynasty, specially ordered the master of kite flying to use "darkness" to fake this sensational "skin-shaking driving" incident in order to move the capital to Beijing.
3 "present life" after Jiang Ziwen's death
During the transition to the Three Kingdoms at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Sun Quan, who lived in the east of the Yangtze River, built a stone city in Jinling, Chu (now the site of Qingliangshan Stone City in Nanjing). After the Stone Town was built, Sun Quan issued a decree to change Moling County into Jianye County, and the county administration was moved from Moling Pass to Stone Town. Nanjing folk proverb says that "Moling came first, then Jianye came", which is the history.
Jiang Xin, a native of Guangling (present-day Yangzhou), was a commander of Moling County in the late Eastern Han Dynasty. On one occasion, he led his troops to chase robbers to the foot of Zhongshan, and was ambushed by thieves, died in the line of duty and was buried at the foot of Zhongshan. When Sun Quan was in charge in Nanjing, a number of Soochow officials said that they had seen Jiang Ziwen riding a white horse, holding a white feather fan and his attendants on the eastern suburb avenue more than once, with the same style and pomp as before. Several Dongwu officials played in the hope that Sun Quan would pay attention to and attach importance to this strange thing that has never been heard in ancient times. However, Sun Quan not only disagreed, but also reprimanded several officials for "playing absurdity". Unexpectedly, one night Sun Quanjing met Jiang Ziwen in his bedroom, and they had a good talk about governing the country and the people. Sun Quan also personally sent Jiang Ziwen out of the palace and watched him leave on a white horse. When Sun Quan witnessed Jiang Ziwen's departure, he was surprised to find himself standing alone outside the bedroom competing for a robe. Sun Quan suspected that he was just sleepwalking, so he asked the guards who were on duty outside the bedroom how he left the dragon couch and how he came outside the bedroom. How dare all the guards "gossiping" about the emperor? They only said assiduously that Corporal Li Xian, the emperor, just watched a handsome man riding a white horse, holding a white feather fan and wearing the official clothes of the former dynasty leave the palace ...
Sun Quan focused on the past, and he didn't know whether he was in a dream or not. Back to the bedroom, Pan Huanghou told him that she witnessed Sun Quan get up and send a handsome man out with a white feather fan in his hand and a power official uniform. She wanted to dissuade him, but there seemed to be a fateful boulder, and she couldn't speak. She could only watch Sun Quan go out hand in hand with the handsome man who broke into the bedroom at night. At this moment, Sun Quan suddenly remembered the "absurd memorials" written by several ministers a few days ago. After pondering over them repeatedly, he felt that they were right and "what they played was not empty". Therefore, Sun Quan appropriated a huge sum of money to set up a temple in Jiang Ziwen, which was "manifested after death", and renamed Zhongshan Shan Jiang. Several Dongwu officials "bumped into" Liu Cun, the original small village in Jiang Ziwen, which was riding a white horse and holding a white feather fan. Sun Quan renamed it Baima Village. In addition, Sun Quan also ordered local officials to build a temple for the sacrifice of Jiang Ziwen, known as "Jiangwang Temple". As place names, the remains of Baima Village and Jiangwang Temple still exist today.
According to Nanjing folklore, Sun Quan gave preferential treatment to Jiang Ziwen, and Jiang Ziwen was also kind. During the Three Kingdoms period, Jiang Ziwen appeared many times to help the Soochow regime, which established its capital in Nanjing, so Sun Quan named him the God of Zhongshan and renamed Zhongshan Shan Jiang. It is said that Jiang Ziwen, who was remarkable for his great power, appeared miracles repeatedly in the battle of Feishui, and also appeared many times to rescue the drought. Therefore, many emperors of the Southern Dynasties who later established their capital in Nanjing studied Sun Quan, and they repeatedly bestowed gifts on Jiang Ziwen. When the Southern Qi Dynasty was in a coma, Jiang Ziwen was even made emperor. It is also said that Jiang Ziwen was later sealed to the underworld and became the first king of Qin Guang, the seven halls of Yamaraja.
Did Sun Quan really meet Jiang Ziwen, a former official who came back from the dead? Obviously impossible. Xu Jingran, a petty official in the Western Jin Dynasty, said in his book Nighttalk under the Candle that Sun Ce, Sun Quan's brother, wanted to harm Zuo Ci because he didn't believe in his magical powers. As a result, he was rewarded, not only because he lost points among the ministers and the people, but also because he was "disrespectful to the gods". Sun Quan was afraid of repeating the same mistakes, so he pretended to be a ghost, and "climbed up" with Jiang Ziwen, who was "resurrected from the dead" in the eyes of Chinese people, to show that he was not a "mortal", and to unite the hearts of the ruling and opposition parties, so that the herdsmen could control the ministers. The author thinks that Xu Jingran is quite insightful about "Sun Quan meets Jiang Ziwen at night".
as the saying goes, if there is a ghost in your heart, you will bump into it. Jiang Ziwen, Sun Quan's night party, was nothing more than a lie made up by him in order to improve his position, but it was turned into a legend in which people and gods were connected by the following flattering ministers, which was in line with the idea of divine right of ancient monarchies. Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Di were frightened by people's skin, because after they ascended the throne, they killed too much to consolidate their dominant position, and there were ghosts in their hearts, coupled with the rich imagination of ordinary people, which evolved into a series of "supernatural" events.