In the ancient Egyptian civilization, pharaohs were often mummified for dehydration after their deaths, which was convenient for preservation, and although ancient China also treated the deceased monarchs with embalming, there was no such custom as the Egyptians, but in Chinese history, there was still an emperor who was also treated as a mummy.
In the tenth century, the Khitan clan continued to grow, and Yelü Abaoji led his people to conquer the west and open up territory, and after his death, his second son, Yelü Deguang, succeeded to the throne.
As early as 922, at the age of 20, he was appointed by his father as the Grand Marshal of Terracotta Warriors and Horses, and participated in important wars such as Pingzhou, Youzhou, and Dingzhou in the Southern Expedition, and later followed Taizu to eliminate the Bohai State, in 926, after the death of Yelü Abaoji, Yelü Deguang oversaw the government and ascended the throne, that is, Liao Taizong.
On the basis of his father, Yelü Deguang continued to march south, and he implemented the division of Hu and Han, fixed taxes, rewarded farming wars, and developed production. This made the Khitan clan more powerful, and in 946, it successively launched a conquest to the south, destroyed the Later Jin, and the glorious Yelü Deguang swept through the Central Plains, and he also changed the name of the country from Khitan to Daliao. Therefore, in a strict sense, Yelü Deguangcai should be the founding emperor of the Liao State, and he and his father Abaoji are like nurhaci's relationship with emperor Taiji.
However, because of Yelü Deguang's continuous southern expeditions, and conniving at his subordinates to plunder and plunder, it also led to the continuous resistance of the civilian Han armed forces, in 947, under pressure, Yelü Deguang had to strike back to the north, but on the way to evacuate the Central Plains, the 45-year-old Yelü Deguang was infected with a fever disease, and when he went to Luancheng to kill Hulin, Yelü Deguang, who was getting worse and worse, spat out blood and cried out for his life.
In fact, when Yelü Deguang was critically ill, the ministers had already sent the news to the capital of the Liao State, Shangjing, but Empress Shulu sent a message: "To be born to see people, to die to see corpses." "At this time, Yerushalayim has died, which is a great annoyance to the ministers, how can this be good? At that time, it was a hot summer, and there was still a long way to go to the capital!
Just when the Taiyi and the Wenwu Officials were helpless, an imperial cook on the side carefully proposed the idea: "Why don't you just make the emperor into a sword?" ”
What is 羓? It turned out that when the Khitans were grazing, they would hollow out the internal organs of cattle and sheep in the summer, and then dehydrate them with salt brine to make dry food that was easy to carry, which was actually equivalent to the bacon in the Central Plains.
As soon as this suggestion was proposed, the fire naturally refused, how could the emperor be made into bacon? Isn't this to treat him as a first-class ascension and desecrate the dragon body! However, after careful consideration, there was no other way, so the officials could only implement the chef's proposal. Of course, the "羓" made by the emperor naturally cannot be compared with ordinary items, so it is called the emperor.
The historical records of later generations have recorded this, "Zizhi Tongjian": "To kill Hu Lin and pawn." The Chinese people cut their abdomen, counted the salt buckets, and carried them to the north, and the Jin people called them 'Emperor Yan'. According to legend, Empress Dowager Shu was also shocked when she saw the emperor's appearance, but the ministers also did things according to the empress's will, so they did not punish them.