Qianlong is one of the most famous emperors in the history of the Qing Dynasty, and also the longest-lived and longest-reigning emperor, so there are many strange things about Qianlong. For example, the Qianlong Emperor had a strange stone in the Imperial Garden of the Forbidden City, which was said to have been given to him by the great corrupt official and Yan Bu. Is this true or false? If you are also curious, the following Xiaobian will reveal the secret to you.
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The Forbidden City, now the Forbidden City, as the palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties, has also witnessed the rise and fall of history in the 600 years of turmoil. Nowadays, the Forbidden City has long been opened to the public, and countless people have stepped into the Forbidden City with curiosity, walking on the imperial road that only the emperor could walk, and also saw the classic places that often appeared in film and television dramas, such as the Royal Garden, which is one of them. The Royal Garden is in the northernmost part of the Forbidden City, built in the eighteenth year of Ming Yongle (1420 AD), covering an area of about 1200 square meters, but in addition to the Qianlong Emperor, other emperors do not attach importance to the Imperial Garden, after all, the Qianlong Emperor is the most Yaxing, like to play with some flowers, birds, fish and insects, so the Qianlong Period Royal Garden was very exquisite, so posterity called it "Qianlong Royal Garden". In addition, the Qianlong Royal Garden has the characteristics of a Jiangnan garden, with pavilions and pavilions readily available, and flowers, flowers, plants and trees are evergreen.
As we all know, the Qianlong Emperor liked to collect, so the Royal Garden was also one of the places where the Qianlong Emperor stored his treasures, such as the "Three Strange Stones" which were Qianlong's favorite stones. The "Three Strange Stones" are three peculiar stones, namely sea cucumber stone, wood transformation stone and Zhuge Baiyue stone. The sea cucumber stone looks very different from ordinary stones, like a bunch of sea cucumbers placed on the ground, and the appearance of horizontal seven vertical eight looks very messy, but this is Qianlong's treasure, and the entire Forbidden City is only one piece. Experts say sea cucumber stones are not mineral stones, but fossils formed by coral excrement on the seabed, hundreds of millions of years ago. Therefore, sea cucumber stone is a rare ornamental stone, which feels warm and moist on the hand, unlike ordinary stones.
Wood-based stone is a stone formed by hundreds of millions of years of changes in the buried ground of trees, and it has also been found in ancient mining, so it is not rare for wood-to-stone itself, but wood-based stone can form different grains. The peculiarity of the wood-turned stone in the Royal Garden is that it looks like a piece of decaying wood, but it feels like jade, which is not only deeply loved by the Qianlong Emperor, but also Qianlong wrote a poem for it: "Although Kanggan is old and tribute, it is inferior to this peak." However, what surprised the Qianlong Emperor was the third stone, the Zhuge Baiyue Stone.
In the beginning, the Qianlong Emperor's imperial garden had only two strange stones, and then suddenly a Zhuge Baiyue stone appeared. This stone is not a fossil, it is a real mineral stone, but the beauty of it lies in the pattern on it. On the left side of the stone is a touch of red, like a person wearing an official hat and bending down to worship the official, while the right side is just a dense white dot, which looks like the moon when put together, so this stone is named Zhuge BaiYueshi. It is said that Zhuge Baiyueshi was not originally a collection of the Qianlong Emperor, but a treasure of corrupt officials and Yan.
He Yan was the most corrupt official of the Qing Dynasty, and even the most corrupt minister in Chinese history, and after he was raided, he counted 800 million taels of silver, which was more than the tax revenue of the Qing court in ten years at that time, and it was not counting all kinds of rare treasures. The Qianlong Emperor abdicated as Emperor Taishang in his later years, during which he gave Zhuge Baiyueshi to the Qianlong Emperor, although the historical texts do not detail this matter, but some experts speculate that because there are too many treasures in the Hezhen family, Zhuge Baiyueshi is tired of being looked at by Hezhen, but he is not willing to throw it away, so he gives it to Qianlong as a favor.
There is actually a certain basis for such a statement. For example, Qianlong had a jade plate, which was later broken by Prince Zhe Yongxuan, so Prince Zhe Yongzhen asked Hezhen to help solve the matter, and Hezhen's solution was also very rough and simple, he took out an identical jade plate from his home cabinet, and then let Prince Zhe Yongzhen put it back in its place, and later the Qianlong Emperor did not find it. What you need to know is that the Collection of the Qianlong Emperor can be claimed to be unique, but I didn't expect that Qianlong's treasure and Yan actually had it, so the strength of Qianlong really can't be underestimated, so it is not impossible for Qianlong to get Zhuge Baiyueshi first, and then he got tired of playing and then gave it to the Qianlong Emperor. In addition, although he was a corrupt official, he was loyal to the Qianlong Emperor, and they had a good relationship in private, otherwise how could Qianlong, such a wise emperor, allow Hezhen to be allowed instead of killing him?
Nowadays, the three strange stones are quietly standing in the Royal Garden, they have long been history in the owner, but they have become witnesses of history, so many people after watching the Royal Garden leave the Forbidden City, the heart is always difficult to calm down for a long time. In fact, no one can really own anything, and those valuable things are just for us to keep for future generations.
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"The President of the Forbidden City Says the Forbidden City" by Li Wenru, Publisher: Tiandi Publishing House
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Liu Lijiang's