He was the most miserable emperor of ancient times, his head was made into a wine glass, and he was played with by a "high monk" for a hundred years!
It is said that "if you are backward, you will be beaten", but sometimes if you are not backward, you will be beaten, because there is no "gun" to support the regime. A typical representative of history is the Song Dynasty, which emphasized literature over military force. The Song Dynasty was a rich dynasty, and this is the consensus of everyone. But this dynasty is also very tragic, especially the fate of the emperor is even more lamentable, such as Song Huizong and Song Qinzong directly became prisoners, suffered humiliation, and finally died in a foreign country. In the history of the Song Dynasty, after the death of an emperor, the head was directly made into a wine cup, which was played by the elite of the Yuan Dynasty for nearly a hundred years, and finally Zhu Yuanzhang took it back and buried it.
This sad emperor is the fifth emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhao Yun of Song Lizong, who can be said to be a very important emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, who reigned for 40 years, which was the longest reigning emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty. In those 40 years, he could have done something big. However, during his reign, he was addicted to wine and ignored political affairs for a long time, resulting in the power of Jia Xiangdao controlling the government and the people not having a good life. However, even if Song Lizong had a thousand ways not, after all, he was still an emperor, how could his head be made into a wine glass after his death?
It all starts with the evil monk Yang Lian Zhenjia, who was good at robbing tombs, and he was appointed by Kublai Khan in 1277 as the president of jiangnan Buddhism, who was in charge of Buddhist affairs in Jiangnan. From the moment he assumed this position, Yang Zhenjia had already set his sights on the tomb of Song Lizong, that is, the Yongmu Mausoleum located on The Palace Mountain in Fusheng Town, Shaoxing City. After Yang Zhenjia opened the coffin, he found that the body of Song Lizong, who had been soaked in mercury, was well preserved, so he hung the body of Song Lizong upside down on the tree in front of the mausoleum and drained the mercury. When Yang Zhenjia left, in view of the large size of Song Lizong's head, he cut it off and took it away. After Yang Zhenjia brought the head back, he played with it every day, and soon he ordered the craftsmen to polish the head, inlaid with gold and silver jewelry, and made it into a beautiful wine glass.
Six years after Song Lizong's skull was in his hands, the evil monk was sentenced to death for political reasons, and the devastated skull naturally fell to the Ruling Class of the Yuan Dynasty. They thought that the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty would have a good burial of Zhao Yun's skull, but as a result, they intensified their efforts and played with it as a trophy! It has to be said that the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty were too big-hearted, and how to drink wine with a skull could be swallowed was controversial. During the Ming Dynasty, when Zhu Yuanzhang heard about this incident, he ordered the search for the skull of Song Lizong.
Many people originally thought that Zhu Yuanzhang's search for Song Lizong's skull was also to show his imperial temperament, and as a result, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always been serious and harsh, was moved when he found Song Lizong's skull, which was more of a sad and lamentable emotion. The Yuan Dynasty and the Song Dynasty were not feuds, and the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty did not have to treat the former emperors in this way. Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang held a funeral ceremony, temporarily placing his head in the northwest direction of the south gate of Nanjing, and waited until the original damaged Song Dynasty imperial tomb was repaired, and then buried the head back to the same place to comfort the spirit of Song Lizong in heaven.