In the course of our thousands of years of history, feudal society has occupied a considerable proportion. In the strict feudal dynasty, the feudal monarchy determined that the emperor was the absolute leader of the country. This supreme power has made countless princes flock to us, sitting on our vast country, and there are countless beautiful concubines.
When the emperor was born as an emperor, he was very honorable, dressed in fine clothes and food, and had no worries in his life. And in the process of growing up, he will also receive the best education, as well as the service of many palace women and eunuchs. After becoming emperor, he had unlimited power, from the establishment of the monarchical state by Qin Shi Huang to the peak of the absolute monarchy of the Qing Dynasty. Whether it is the power of life and death or the livelihood of the people, the emperor alone has the final say.
Therefore, once the emperor of a dynasty dies, it is quite important, and most of the emperors of successive dynasties will start to build tombs for themselves when they are alive. So once an emperor dies, the tomb has been repaired. However, according to the custom, once the emperor died, it was usually a few months after being put into the coffin before being mourned and buried in the imperial tomb.
Usually, after someone dies, we will only store it at home for two or three days and put it in the spiritual hall. These two or three days are also time for the friends and family of the deceased to mourn and mourn. This tradition continues to this day, and today we pay homage to the deceased in special places such as funeral parlors.
It is no problem to store it for how long it is for our modern deceased, because now we are very mature in both anti-corrosion technology and cold chain technology. But in ancient times, this was not an easy thing to do to hurt the people and money. However, as a monarch of a country, even if you work hard and hurt the people and money, you can reflect the dignity of a country's monarch.
Thousands of years of ancient civilization, the wisdom of the ancient working people is really infinite. In the case of underdevelopment in ancient times, after the emperor died, there was also a relatively mature anti-embalming technology, which could ensure that the body could not be decomposed for several months. Moreover, this custom began in the Western Zhou Dynasty, when there was a professional term called "bathing corpses". And for this purpose, a corresponding department has been set up, and there are special people to do this, called naked people.
After the emperor's death, these professionals and palace people in the palace will do a comprehensive cleaning and disinfection of the emperor's body. Even details such as fingernails and toenails are cleaned up, which is also to reduce the growth of bacteria. After cleaning up your body, the next thing to do is disinfect. In ancient times, liquor was a commonly used disinfectant, which would coat the emperor's body with liquor to reduce the multiplication of bacteria.
In ancient times, the parents paid attention to the skin of the body, so they would not do any antiseptic work on the emperor's internal organs and the inside of the body. After cleaning and disinfecting the surface of the body, it is necessary to put on a very solemn and gorgeous birthday robe for the emperor. Then put the emperor's body in the coffin, and our tradition will put a lot of valuable funerary items to show the dignity.
Moreover, the ancients believed that putting a night pearl in the mouth of the deceased had the effect of ensuring that the corpse was incorruptible, so the noble royal families of successive dynasties would have a night pearl in their mouths after their deaths. It is said that the pearl of the night that Cixi was buried with was finally set on Song Meiling's slippers. In addition, many spices and Chinese herbs were placed in the emperor's coffin to hide the smell emitted by the body. When the coffin is built, the workers will use a lot of grass and wood ash and charcoal and other water-absorbing things to put into the coffin to ensure the dryness in the coffin. We learned the method of storing ice cubes very early on, and the emperor who died in the summer would put a lot of ice around the coffin to slow down the decay of the corpse.
The entire burial process is very complex, and there are many professional processes that take a lot of time. Generally, it takes a month to prepare from death to burial, and such burial techniques can also ensure that the degree of decay of the body at the time of the tomb is not serious.
After the death of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the coffin was placed in the Qianqing Palace, and it was very convenient for the nearby imperial princes and ministers to mourn, but it took several months for the envoys of distant vassal states and other countries to come to Beijing, and it was recorded that Kangxi's coffin was placed in the funeral palace for four months, Yongzheng was released for a month, and Qianlong was released for six months before entering the imperial mausoleum, so the important purpose of this was to facilitate the people of the world to come to mourn.
In a strict monarchical dynasty, a lot of manpower and material resources will be consumed from the emperor's tomb to the burial. The rare treasures of the funeral are innumerable, and the imperial tombs of successive dynasties are very magnificent, and the anti-theft technology is also in place. Some emperors will even be buried secretly in order not to be disturbed by the world after death, and then build a luxurious mausoleum to divert the eyes of the world, such as Genghis Khan and Qin Shi Huang, the Xi'an Terracotta Warriors and Horses we are familiar with are not the real mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, and the real tomb of Genghis Khan is not well known to the world.