Strange scenes have occurred in many emperors in history when they were born, such as Liu Bang's mother meeting a dragon in the wild before he was born; zhu Yuanzhang's entire room was red when he was born; and the chimney of cao fu's family was yellow smoke when he was born...
We all know that these accounts were intentional and not necessarily what really happened. Historically, it is common for strange situations to occur when a character is born, but it is not uncommon for strange situations to occur at the time of death.
For example, in the death of Lü Yan, in March of the seventh year after Gao, she once went out to pray for the blessings of the gods, and when she returned to the palace, she met a beast, which looked like a black dog, and it suddenly sneaked under Lü Yan's armpit, and then suddenly disappeared.
After Lü Yan returned to the palace, he asked for divination, and the divinator said that king Ruyi of Zhao, in order to avenge himself, transformed into a black dog to hurt Lü Yan, and then Lü Yan's armpits were injured and never healed.
Zhao Wang Ruyi was the younger son of Liu Bang, born of Liu Bang and Lady Qi, and one of them was loved by Liu Bang. In the last few years of Liu Bang's life, he felt that his health was getting worse and worse, realized that his time was running out, and began to worry about what would happen after he got up. What he was most relieved about was the future fate of his pet concubine Lady Qi and the young King Ruyi of Zhao, and he knew that Lü Yan was fierce and narrow-minded, afraid that after his death, the poor mother and son would be retaliated against by Lü Yan.
Therefore, Liu Bang repeatedly tried to depose Liu Ying, the crown prince born to Lü Yan, and wanted to make his younger son Liu Ruyi the new crown prince, but at that time, Lü Yan and Liu Ying's power was already very strong, and they were supported by almost all the courtiers. Every time Liu Bang mentioned the matter of deposing the prince, he would be opposed by almost all the ministers, so he never succeeded. On the other hand, Lady Qi's mother and son have almost no supporters in the DPRK, and almost no ministers are on their side.
Before Liu Bang died, he was more and more worried about the future safety of Lady Qi's mother and son, and he made up his mind to make Liu Ruyi the crown prince, but he still failed, and Liu Ying's master uncle Sun Tong fought with death, and he threatened Liu Bang: "If you really want to abolish the prince, kill me first!" Liu Bang sensed that Liu Ying's power was unshakable, and feared that if he forcibly changed the crown prince, he would probably repeat the mistake of the Qin Dynasty's infighting, so he could not change the crown prince as he wished until his death.
After Liu Bang's death, Lü Yan really took revenge on Lady Qi's mother and son, she first imprisoned Lady Qi in Yongxiang, and at first Liu Ruyi sat in zhao guo, and Lü Yan did not dare to take lady Qi. However, Lady Qi was later insulted and wrote a letter to Complain to Liu Ruyi, and Liu Ruyi went to Chang'an alone in a hurry, and walked into Lü Lu's trap herself.
Emperor Hui of Han, Liu Ying, had always been protecting Liu Ruyi, and he personally went to Bashang to take Liu Ruyi back to Chang'an, and then stayed away from him, fearing that if he left half a step, Lü Yan would attack Liu Ruyi. However, when everyone was lax, one day Liu Ying got up early and went out hunting, and the young Liu Ruyi could not get up from sleep, so Liu Ying went out alone, and as a result, just after returning to the palace, she heard the bad news that Liu Ruyi was killed.
Not long after, Lü Yan gave another hand to Lady Qi, and she asked Lady Qi to be made a "human", and forced Liu Ying to personally see Lady Qi after being made into an adult. After Liu Ying saw Mrs. Qi's tragic situation, she had a psychological breakdown, and since then she has been ill and has been relieving her worries with wine day and night, just to escape from reality. Because of excessive indulgence in wine and poor physical and mental condition, Liu Ying died in her twenties.
Lü Yan's jealousy and ambition made many people die innocently, and finally in the seventh year after Liu Ying's death, her life also came to an end.
The history books record that Lü Yan was killed by Liu Ruyi's ghost, this is not the truth, in my opinion, she is likely to be infected with the rabies virus and died.
Lü Yan was injured by a creature that looked like a black dog, was injured in March, and was directly critically ill in July, and died a few days after his critical illness.
The incubation cycle of the rabies virus is three months, and Lü Yan is only about three months apart from injury to critical illness, and people will die within seven days after the onset of rabies, and Lü Yan just died soon after the illness.
It is speculated that Lü Yan was most likely bitten by a mad dog infected with rabies on the way back to the palace, and later died of rabies.
The rabies vaccine was only developed at the end of the nineteenth century, which was an incurable disease in ancient times, and although Lü Yan was the empress dowager, he did not have the ability to find a god to cure his illness.
Lü Yan, who had been in power for a while, eventually died of rabies, a cause of death that was difficult for Lü Yan and the historians to accept. The historian attributed the cause of Lü Yan's death to the zhao king Ruyi, and there was also a sense of revenge in it, so the cause of Lü Yan's death was recorded as such.