Generally speaking, when the emperor dies, the final holy decree is of course a testament to personnel arrangements, but there are exceptions. For example, the first emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Emperor Taiji, although he had always been in poor health because of the death of Hai Lanzhu, there was no precursor to his death. On the ninth day of the first month of August in the eighth year of Chongde, he suddenly died suddenly in the harem of Shengjing, at the age of fifty-two. Because of the haste, there was no will left, which also caused a fierce struggle for the throne between his nephew Dorgon and his eldest son Hauge.
Judging from the historical materials currently discovered and published, the "Fengtian Commandment" promulgated by Chongde on the eighth day of the eighth month was completed on the eighth day of the eighth month of the eighth year of Chongde, which was the last holy will of the Emperor Taiji, because he died that night. This edict was issued by Emperor Taiji as the emperor of the Qing Dynasty to the current Gulun Erqita special marriage edict.
At the beginning of the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, although the soldiers were strong and strong, after all, they were only trapped in a corner, surrounded by strong enemies, and dangerous. At this time, the Manchu high-level people practiced the national policy of "continuous affinity in the north". Simply put, it was to encapsulate the Mongol tribes into their own lineup in the form of marriage and challenge the Ming Dynasty. In particular, the Mongolian Horqin tribe is even more close to the Manchu high-level. Emperor Taiji not only married a number of Horqin women, including Empress Zhezhe, Xiaozhuang, Hailanzhu, etc., but also married his third daughter, Princess Gulun Duanjing, to Heqitat, and the edict reads:
Fengtian carried kuan wen rensheng emperor system: since the opening of the world, there are people in the world, the female is called the princess, so the jade leaf is precious. The son-in-law is called a donkey, so he shows the friendship of love, and has not tasted it since ancient times. Now is the great throne, loves the ancient past, fixed the system of sealing the horse, Zirqi Tan, the original descendant of the lord of the Horqin kingdom of the town of Shuishui. Princess Trmon was called a donkey. Do not be proud and arrogant, and do not be gracious and dare to be slow. Erqi is more diligent, exhorted to obey morality, and respect it! Don't live up to your fate. The eighth day of the eighth year of the eighth year of the Great Qing Dynasty.
The Qi Tan in the edict is The Qitat, which is a harmonic sound in the Mongolian translation of the Han Dynasty. At that time, this edict was written in Manchu, Mongolian and Chinese languages, and the content was completely consistent. Even without translation, we can understand the general meaning. Following the example of the ancient emperor, Emperor Taiji made his daughter a princess and married Chitat, hoping that his son-in-law would repay the emperor's favor and live up to his love.
This edict shows the historical background of the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and is also an important witness to the Manchu-Mongolian marriage at that time, which can be described as precious and extraordinary. For Chitat's descendants, it is a symbol of glory, which has been kept secret until modern times, when it was not made public. However, it is this extremely valuable cultural relic that has inexplicably disappeared, becoming a major regret in the historical and cultural relics circles.
Because this "Commandment of Heaven" is extremely important, it was made of gold and silk at that time, with different materials and the same content. The Golden Edict is divided into two pages, connected by buttons in the middle, which can be opened and folded, and each page weighs up to 4 taels. The silk edict is framed in a scroll style, composed of vermilion, lake blue, stone blue, milky white, and bright yellow silk on the front, and rice paper on the back, which is extremely delicate. It is 501.5 cm long and 31.5 cm wide, surrounded by a double-line border surrounded by 42 multicolored cloud dragons and auspicious clouds. Manchu is written on bright yellow silk, Mongolian is written on milky white silk, and Chinese is written on vermilion silk, which is orderly and not chaotic.
However, these two edicts, one after the other, have the same fate and disappear into our field of vision. The golden edict was discovered during the land reform in 1947, when The fields, cattle and sheep, grain, carriages and horses and other belongings of Grandpa Huhe Gegachasong Jinhai Rubu were distributed by the turned-out peasants, and his twelfth brother also explained the whereabouts of several cultural relics such as the Golden Commandment.
At that time, the Liberation War was entering its most critical period, and the local peasant association decided to support the front line by sending this golden edict together with several other cultural relics to the northeast to exchange some temporary currency. However, when a trader surnamed Bai came to Shenyang with three backbone cadres of the peasant association to exchange for money, he fled with half of the money and never appeared again, and the whereabouts of the gold edict were unknown.
The edict is divided into two types: gold and silk, the good and evil of gold have antecedents and consequences, and the disappearance of the silk edict is always a mystery. Roughly before liberation, Wangqin Guru Danoyan, a descendant of The Left Banner Chagan Nol EreZhil Tutaiji, handed over the Silk Commandment Edict to the relevant departments. For a long time, this precious cultural relic has been stored in the Kezuo Zhongqi Archives. Until the spring of 1997, it suddenly disappeared from the safe, and its whereabouts are still unknown, which is also a pending case. At this time, it was exactly fifty years since the disappearance of the Golden Edict.