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On April 25, 1644, the Chongzhen Emperor, accompanied by the eunuch Wang Cheng'en, hanged himself from a crooked locust tree on Coal Mountain. Today, coal mountains are called Jingshan. The tree that hanged the Chongzhen Emperor was once chained by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty and stubbornly survived for more than two hundred years. However, the locust tree we see in Jingshan Park is no longer the one we saw in the past. So, why was the locust tree that hanged Chongzhen chained? Where did it go from here?
Li Zicheng did not argue, and laid down the city of Beijing but did not sit firmly in the country. After the defeat at Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng immediately fled back to Xi'an with his men and treasures. The Shunzhi Emperor, with the support of Dorgon, entered the city of Beijing. After arriving in beijing, in order to appease the hearts of the Ming courtiers, Dorgon immediately ordered the Chongzhen Emperor to be buried with emperor etiquette, and hung a ring of iron chains on the crooked neck tree, and named it Sin Locust.
This tree shows that it is very wronged, it has done nothing, why should it put a chain on itself, and it is named sin locust? Is it because this irrelevant person hanged himself here? It was really because of this that when the Manchu Qing entered the customs at that time, the banner they used was not to seize the world, but to avenge the Chongzhen Emperor. With such a layer of relationship in it, the Officials of the Ming Dynasty naturally felt doubly fond of the Manchu Qing.
Therefore, at that time, the officials who did not know why all defected to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and some people even believed that Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs, but in fact, they reached a cooperation agreement with them, and it was Wu Sangui who invited the rescue troops to restore the country. The naïve Courtiers soon realized that everything the Qing army did when they entered the customs was to seize the world. Including the burial of the Chongzhen Emperor, including the naming of sin locusts, were all aimed at seizing the Ming Dynasty.
In the 1960s, the tree's extraordinary historical significance brought disaster to itself for the second time. At that time, a large group of people were in a state of turmoil, specifically to find this tree and destroy this tree. As for the crooked neck tree we see now, it is actually a century-old tree that was transplanted from other places in 1996 to the original site of the crooked neck tree, although the location is still the same place as that year, but the tree is no longer the same tree as it was then.
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