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A dry corpse was exhumed at the Beijing construction site, wearing a dragon robe with six toes, and its identity is still a mystery

As we all know, after death, the body will generally decay, but if the climate is dry, the rainfall is particularly low, and the coffin is well closed, the phenomenon of dry corpses will occur. In 2006, a construction site in Beijing accidentally excavated a dry corpse, the entire dry body is 1.73 meters long, and the body is well preserved, which is also the only dry corpse unearthed in Beijing, which aroused the curiosity of many experts and archaeologists at that time.

A dry corpse was exhumed at the Beijing construction site, wearing a dragon robe with six toes, and its identity is still a mystery

However, experts are puzzled by the body's outfit, which is buried in a Qing Dynasty dragon robe and has six toes on its left foot. According to the records on the head of the coffin, experts deduce that the owner of the tomb was buried during the Kangxi Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, but experts are puzzled by the burial in dragon robes. It is reasonable to say that only the emperor can be buried in a dragon robe after death, and other members cannot be buried in a dragon robe, even a powerful courtier like Dorgon was punished by a whip for wearing a dragon robe for burial, and the owner of the tomb was neither a member of the Qing Dynasty royal family nor a courtier like Dorgon.

A dry corpse was exhumed at the Beijing construction site, wearing a dragon robe with six toes, and its identity is still a mystery

In addition, the owner of the tomb did not cut his hair like other Qing Dynasty people, on the contrary, he kept the Ming Dynasty hairstyle. In the Qing Dynasty, successive emperors resolutely implemented the implementation of the hair cutting order, and if there was no hair cutting, even the Manchu Qing members would be punished by beheading. Therefore, such a hairstyle for the tomb owner adds to the magical color of the tomb owner.

A dry corpse was exhumed at the Beijing construction site, wearing a dragon robe with six toes, and its identity is still a mystery

Some people speculate that this yellow robe was given to him by the emperor because of this person's military achievements, but generally the person who can receive such a reward is recorded in the history books, but there is no record of this person in the "History of the Qing", so the identity of the tomb owner is still a mystery!

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