During the Republic of China period, there was a tomb robber whose name was Sun Dianying. Sun Dianying and his troops, under the guise of military exercises, used cannons and explosives to almost semi-openly excavate the Yuling Tombs in Qianlong and the Tanglin Tombs in Cixi, and the "Tanglin Thieves" have been famous all over the world ever since. After the death of Sun Dianying, the "Great Thief of Tanglin", what happened to his descendants? The son is a big man!
The small warlord Sun Dianying, a thief famous. In 1928, Sun Dianying was ordered to garrison bandits in the Qing Dongling area of Hebei Province, and when he saw the Empress Fulitang of the Qing Dongling, he decided to rob the tomb and seize the treasure. Subsequently, Sun Dianying blockaded the Qing Dongling area in the name of exercises, and with his troops blew up the tombs of Cixi and Qianlong, obtaining a huge amount of treasure. But soon after, Sun Dianying's theft of the East Window of the Tanglin Tombs occurred, and he had the name of the Tanglin Thief.
Sun Dianying's explanation for the theft of treasures in Tanglin was that "the Manchu Qing killed three generations of my ancestors and had to avenge the revolution. Sun Yat-sen had allies and the Kuomintang, and he revolutionized the Manchu Qing Dynasty; Feng Huanzhang (Feng Yuxiang) used the barrel of a gun to force the palace and drove the last emperor Puyi and his royal family out of the palace. My grandson Dian Ying didn't have a few guns, only the lives of the dead. No matter what others say about robbing tombs or not stealing tombs, I am worthy of my ancestors and worthy of my compatriots!" Therefore, in "Those Things of the Ming Dynasty", Sun Dianying became a descendant of the famous anti-Qing general Sun Chengzong, of course, it does not matter that you say that he is a descendant of Sun Chuanting.
However, after the Japanese Kou launched the war of aggression against China, Sun Dianying, who had a bad track record, fought with the Japanese Kou many times in bloody battles, worthy of the identity of a Chinese soldier. For example, in 1933, when the Japanese Kou launched an attack on Rehe Province, the Rehe War of Resistance broke out, and the Northeast Army was about to collapse, Sun Dianying led his troops to fight fiercely with the Japanese at Chifeng for seven days and nights, and then Sun Dianying led his troops to fight against the Japanese Kou many times.
Sun Dianying only has one son, named "Sun Tianyi", born in June 1931, Sun Tianyi was accused of being the son of a "tomb robber" by outsiders, which made Sun Tianyi very distressed. In 1952, Sun Tianyi graduated from the Department of Western Languages and Literatures of Fu Jen University in Beijing and began to work at the Xi'an Chinese Institute after 1957. From 1986 to 1998, he began to serve as a professor and dean of Xi'an Foreign Chinese College. Sun Tianyi has translated many important works and has been awarded many important awards. Sun Tianyi's father, Sun Dianying, was the biggest destroyer of the Qing Tombs, but his son, contrary to his fate, became a respected "big man".