In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu, the Thirty-seven-year-old Guangxu Emperor suddenly died violently in the palace, and Cixi, after receiving the news of Guangxu's death, also went west the next day in peace. According to the Tai Doctor, Guangxu's condition suddenly turned critical, and before he died, he rolled around in bed, shouting that his stomach hurt, and after his death, his tongue was black and yellow. The cause of death is very strange.
Guangxu was indeed tragic, not only did the cause of death be unknown, but even the mausoleum began to be built after death. This is the last mausoleum to reduce the fat of the imperial tomb, but it was built in a vacuum. In this way, Guangxu was able to enter the earth five years after his death, and Cixi had been buried for four years.
Why did archaeologists vomit after opening the Guangxu Mausoleum?
Twenty-five years after Guangxu was buried, the Chongling Underground Palace was stolen and excavated. The tomb robbers pried open the bricks and stones from the front of the wall inside the square city, and punched a robbery hole in front of the glass shadow wall, the front of the glass shadow wall was the king kong wall, and behind it was the tomb passage of the underground palace, and the gang hit a U-shaped robber hole around the king kong wall, successfully avoiding the king kong wall and entering the tomb.
After entering the tomb passage, these people used the fir pole wood chips to open the top door stones of each stone door and enter the main burial chamber. They used axes and other tools to chisel out the coffin of Guangxu, looting all the gold and silver jewelry inside, and the Empress Longyu next to them was not spared. Compared with Qianlong and Cixi, Guangxu's body was not destroyed.
In July 1980, the cultural relics department decided to carry out rescue excavations of the stolen Chongling Tombs. Archaeologists judged according to the size of the cave and the situation in the tomb, the tomb robbers may be a father and son, one large and one small, which made many treasures in chongling survived. Archaeologists dug the tomb passage and successfully entered the underground palace.
Since the Tomb of Chongling has been in communication with the outside world since it was stolen, the tomb chamber in the middle of summer is very damp, and a large number of water droplets have formed on the top of the tomb. In the burial chamber, Empress Longyu's coffin had been opened, and the bones were facing the sky on their backs. The coffin on the left is Guangxu's, and there is a hole in the lower left of the front of the coffin.
Archaeologists climbed into the Guangxu coffin to clean up, and found the remains of Guangxu crawling face down. After the coffin was opened, it was found that Guangxu's flesh had basically decayed, and the inside of the coffin was surrounded by pastes like mud. The archaeologists took some broken bones and hair in order to conduct tests and uncover the mystery of Guangxu's death.
The disgusting scene occurred when the coffin of Queen Longyu was handled, and the archaeologists searched the surrounding treasures with their hands and found that the body was surrounded by a paste like ketchup, and it was the kind of thing that stuck to the hand in the shape of a wire, which instantly made the cleaners run out of the burial chamber and vomit.
What is strange is that these viscous substances do not have any peculiar smell, and the coffin of Queen Longyu at this time looks like a sauce jar of sauce that we usually eat, but the color is slightly different, and the black viscous substance inside the coffin completely envelops Longyu's corpse, and everyone present is disgusted after seeing it.
The main reason why such a disgusting viscous substance can appear is because the tomb and the coffin are opened, which is produced in a humid environment. Later, after further confirmation by archaeologists, it was found that these viscous substances were not produced by corpses, but were used to prevent various wood chips to be soaked in water to form mud.
Why did archaeologists boil after opening the Guangxu Mausoleum?
The archaeologists had been mentally prepared before entering the tomb, but the scene in the tomb still shocked everyone. In addition to some coffin sawdust and Guangxu's hair and clothes scattered all over the ground, the remaining treasures in the mausoleum were stolen, which made everyone feel very disappointed, but accidents often happened inadvertently.
Just when people were cleaning up Longyu's bones, archaeologists were surprised to find that there was a purse around Longyu's waist, which contained more than a hundred jewels, and the tomb robbers did not find it at that time. Just when the archaeologists were carrying away Guangxu's corpse, they accidentally found Guangxu's hands clenched in fists, which aroused great interest.
At that time, it was considered whether he had something related to his cause of death in his hand, and then the archaeologists could not wait to break Open Guangxu's hands, in his right hand was a Hetian jade play, and in his left hand was a conjoined jade ring. Both of these treasures were priceless national treasures, which excited all the people present.
In addition, the Guangxu coffin is surrounded by five-colored woven gold Sanskrit Dravidian satin and various colors of gold dragon color satin with a total of thirteen layers, and some of the Sanskrit on the enclosure are relatively complete, and the written words are Tibetan incantations. The inner enclosure of Longyu coffin is three layers, and the purple woven gold is also Sanskrit. Both coffins are made of precious nan wood, and the four walls of the coffin are written with Sanskrit mantras.
Experts conducted laboratory analysis of the relics of Guangxu collected
The experts spent five years on the Guangxu Emperor's bones and hair analysis, they started from the arsenic content in Guangxu's hair, using a series of modern professional and technical means, through a variety of simulation experiments, the Wenguan Office provided Guangxu's body hair, bones and clothes and other samples repeatedly tested and studied.
It was eventually concluded that the cause of Guangxu's death was caused by acute gastrointestinal arsenic poisoning. The report shows that the concentration of arsenic contained in Guangxu's hair is very high, and the content of each section varies greatly, and the highest arsenic content is as high as 2400 micrograms per gram, which is dozens of times the content of the environmental samples inside and outside the coffin, indicating that the arsenic in its hair is not caused by the outside world.
In addition, the distribution curve of this arsenic content is very different from that of chronic poisoning, indicating that it is not caused by chronic poisoning. Therefore, the cause of the high content of arsenic on Guangxu's hair can only come from its own contamination. Later, the distribution of arsenic content and arsenic germform analysis revealed that Guangxu arsenic poisoning died.
The cause of death of the Guangxu Emperor, although conclusions have been drawn through experiments. However, some scholars still believe that although this conclusion is very convincing, it cannot be used as a final conclusion, and more evidence is needed to support it.