On March 19, 1644 (April 25, 1644), Chongzhen committed suicide by hanging himself on coal hill with the eunuch Wang Cheng'en at the age of 33. Before his death, he wrote a big book in a blue robe: "Seventeen years after he ascended the throne, although he was a bandit and a bandit, and the heavens were angry, all the ministers were mistaken, causing the rebels to directly attack the capital." Death, faceless ancestors in the ground, to remove the crown, to cover the face. Let the thief split the corpse, and do not hurt the people. This was the last time he had put the responsibility for the subjugation of the country on others, saving face to himself.
The Da Shun army entered the inner city of Beijing in the early morning of March 19, and at first did not know the whereabouts of the Chongzhen Emperor. At that time, there were many rumors in the city, or that the Chongzhen Emperor had seized the door and fled before the city was destroyed, and was now on the way south, or that he had left the palace to hide in the homes of the people. The DaShun army could not find any trace of the Chongzhen Emperor in the palace, and while sending the general to lead the army to pursue the south, he issued a notice: "The Lord saves the people from water and fire, and destroys the capital." Qi Chongzhen escaped from the Forbidden City, and those who could take the lead were rewarded with gold and gold, and those who hid cursed the whole family. "
It was not until the twenty-first day that the body of the Chongzhen Emperor was found in Coal Mountain. The Da Shun army dragged Chongzhen's body down the mountain, and Li Zicheng ordered two door panels to display the Chongzhen Emperor outside the Donghua Gate along with the corpse of Empress Zhou, who had committed suicide. When the Ming officials and the people of the capital heard about it, they went to watch and saw the corpse covered with hair, barefoot on one foot and socks on the other, and the clothes were disheveled, and the situation was quite miserable. Li Guozhen, the bo of Xiangcheng, "went to the mud head, staggered to the ground, and cried in front of the Zi Palace on his knees." The peasant army captured him and saw Li Zicheng. He "touched the steps with his head, and the blood flowed to the surface" Li Zicheng persuaded Li Guozhen to surrender. Li Guozhen said: If I surrender, I must promise three things: First, the tombs of the Ming Emperors cannot be excavated and destroyed; second, the Chongzhen Emperor is buried with the Heavenly Son; and third, the Crown Prince and the Second King cannot be harmed. Li Zicheng agreed one by one.
But the difficult thing is that the Chongzhen Emperor did not pre-build a mausoleum before his death. According to general custom, an emperor began to build a mausoleum for himself after he took the throne. However, in the early years of Chongzhen, the imperial public opinion scholars traveled all over the mountains in the Mingling area of Tianshou Mountain, and did not find a place with good feng shui, so the construction of a mausoleum for the Chongzhen Emperor has been dragged down. Four years ago, Zhang Tianshi of Longhu Mountain finally found a feng shui treasure land near Jizhou, but it was calculated that it must be built after the year of Jiashen (that is, the seventeenth year of Chongzhen) to be auspicious. Therefore, the Chongzhen Emperor never had time to build a tomb for himself.
Because the Chongzhen Emperor did not have his own mausoleum, Li Zicheng decided to bury the Chongzhen Emperor in the tomb of Tian Guifei.
Tian Guifei, the favorite concubine of the Chongzhen Emperor, died on July 15, 15th year of Chongzhen, and the construction of her cemetery was built by Chen Biqian, a servant of the Ministry of Works. But ground construction was not completed, and the Ming Dynasty was already extinct.
The burial was on the third day of the first month of April, because there was no coffin, Xu Zuomei, the head of the Dashunli government responsible for supervising the funeral, temporarily decided to take Tian Guifei's coffin out of the original wooden rafters, move it to the right side of the stone bed, and the coffin was placed on the left side of the stone bed after Ci'an Zhou, and finally put the coffin of the Chongzhen Emperor into the Tian Concubine's coffin and parked in the middle of the stone bed. Before the coffin, an incense vessel was set up, and the lantern was lit, so the two stone doors were closed and the tunnel was filled in.
On the sixth day of the first month, Zhao Yigui led the donation of the villagers to the funeral home to pay tribute. After the sacrifice, a hundred men were allocated from the three villages near the West Mountain Pass, each of which was prepared with baskets, and the graves were piled up for the Chongzhen Emperor. Zhao Yigui and Sun Fanzhi donated silver and five taels to buy bricks to build a five-foot-high wall around Tsuka. The funeral ended hastily.
After the Qing Dynasty lorded zhongyuan, in order to buy people's hearts and entrap the Han landlord class to serve the Qing court, the tomb of the concubine who was buried with the Chongzhen Emperor was named "SiLing", and the Chongzhen Emperor was reburied, and the above-ground garden and sleeping building was built.
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