Whether it is a noble tomb or an emperor's mausoleum,
The dungeon is always the most noticeable place in an ancient tomb,
Because we're not only paying attention to the funerary items there, but also the people in the coffin.
As early as 2011, the skull of the tomb of Lao Shan Han was restored through scientific and technological means.
For a moment everyone exclaimed, Alas! The owner of this tomb is a great beauty in the Western Regions.
In addition, the tomb of the Zhang An family in Xi'an has also found the underground palace of the Zhang family's female dependents, in fact, we say that the underground palace of each ancient tomb
There is a family ethics drama hidden, so the women who were jealous of the emperor's side before they died
Can there still be a place for them? Can these people enter their final destination as they wish?
Male superiority over female inferiority is a bad habit in China's feudal society, and for thousands of years women have become accessories to men's lives.
But from birth to death, who is inseparable from whom, we really can't say for sure about this matter, and it is even more difficult to make a conclusion.
Why?
Because as early as the 1950s, when archaeologists walked into the Dingling Tomb of Zhu Yijun, the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty,
Found that his dungeon was a little different from what he imagined, and there were two idle rooms,
Empty, nothing.
Archaeologists took the imperial tombs of the Qing Dynasty as a reference,
Also excavated in the 1950s, the underground palace of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty was only three halls in front, middle and back.
However, the Dingling Underground Palace in front of you is five burial chambers, with two more side halls on the left and right.
For such a three-bedroom and two-hall apartment type, there are not too many records in the historical materials, only the word "Fagong" is mentioned.
What is the relationship between the Fa Palace and the five burial chambers of the Dingling Underground Palace, and the key to everything lies in deciphering the word "FaGong".
In the Records of the Ming Dynasty, we find such a sentence,
The Second Palace of Qianqing Kunning was set on fire, and the Fa Palace was in ashes for a while.
From this, it can be seen that the FaGong refers to the Forbidden City,
Wanli's final destination is the apse of these five burial chambers.
He had not been out of the Forbidden City in his lifetime, and he had no intention of moving his nest after his death.
All the gold and silver jewelry that can be moved into the underground palace and placed in the funeral boxes around themselves,
And the Forbidden City that he is in love with really can't move, so let's simply move the entire palace layout.
The three halls in the middle correspond to the Qianqing Palace, the Jiaotai Palace, and the Kunning Palace.
The left and right side cushions become the representatives of the six houses of the east and west.
Usually, the emperor and the empress lived in the apse, and the east and west halls lived in the emperor's concubines.
According to historical records, there were dozens of concubines before the Wanli Emperor's death.
Why would he rather keep two empty rooms than invite a few concubines to stay?
According to the speculation of archaeologists at the scene at that time,
It is likely that the coffin of the queen concubine was too wide to pass through the tunnel between the burial chambers, and it was forced to be parked on both sides of Wanli.
Is this really the case?
Could the designers of the Royal Underground Palace really make such a low-level mistake?
The underground palace of Dingling, which is the same as other mausoleums in the Ming Dynasty, is composed of five halls in front, middle and back, left and right,
If the concubine was buried, according to the records, she should be buried in the underground palace with the emperor,
Its position should be on the left and right side of the temple.
Martyrdom was a very cruel system in slave society,
It first originated in the Shang Dynasty more than 4,000 years ago, from the Yin Shang period to the Ming Dynasty, after the death of the emperor, all concubines who had not given birth to a princess and empress were required to be martyred.
Until the sixth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Ming Yingzong- Zhu Qizhen, before dying, he had good thoughts and left a will, exempting himself from the cruel ritual system of martyrdom, and using people to be buried, I can't bear it, this matter stops on its own.
As the fourteenth emperor of the Ming Dynasty, the Wanli Emperor - Zhu Yijun here, the original use of things for burial, the hall is naturally vacant.