Sun Quan also robbed tombs, which sounds very novel, right? In fact, he is not only a tomb robber, but also a tomb robbery maniac, since becoming emperor in 229 AD, Sun Quan began to rob tombs for a living, almost stealing well-known tombs in the territory.
As the king of a country, Sun Quan will certainly not personally take the Luoyang shovel to explore the cave and dig the hole, but act as the boss behind the scenes and direct others to do it. Under his command, he stole the tombs of Wu Rui, the first "King of Changsha" in history, and Infant Qi, the third king of Nanyue, all of which are clearly documented. As for other unknown tombs, it is not known how many were stolen.
Stills of Sun Quan in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
Wu Rui, the first king of Changsha, is a noble person of Changsha people, without him there would be no changsha city today, so Changsha city specially built a provincial key cultural relics protection unit - Wang Ling Park to protect the tombs of the Wu Rui family.
Speaking of Wu Rui alone, most people may not know much about it, but his ancestor Wu Wang Lu is certainly not unfamiliar to everyone, especially Fu Cha, the son of Wu Lu, the monarch who died because of his indulgence in Xi Shi's beauty, is even more familiar to everyone. From different versions of the legend, it is confirmed that Wu Rui is the descendant of Wu Wang Lu or Fu Cha.
Changsha WangLing Park about Wu Rui's tomb introduction
In the rebellion at the end of Qin, Wu Rui, because of his anti-Qin merits, helped Liu Bang seize the Han throne and became one of the seven kings with different surnames that Liu Bang had divided. Later, several other kings with different surnames were eradicated by Liu Bang one by one, and only Wu Rui's Changsha kingdom was able to die well.
Changsha is said to be a country, in fact, there is only one county, the area is small, and there are only a hundred thousand people in the country. However, it is small and small, but it is the throat of the South Vietnamese countries, and it is the gateway to block the South Vietnamese countries from marching into the Central Plains, and it has an extremely important geographical location. Liu Bang killed the other kings with different surnames and left only Wu Rui's State of Changsha, largely because of its important position, fearing that it would unite with the South Vietnamese states to rebel.
Changsha Wangling Park is empty, and the scenery is not bad
Unfortunately, Wu Rui, the king of Changsha, did not last long, and in 201 BC, Wu Rui, who had only been the king of Changsha for one year, died on the way to conquer the Kingdom of South Vietnam, only 40 years old.
After Wu Rui's death, he was buried in the city of Beijin in the northwest of Linxiang in the same manner as a prince. Li Daoyuan of the Northern Wei Dynasty visited the site of Wu Rui's tomb and recorded Wu Rui's tomb in the Water Classics xiangshui notes: "... Guang more than sixty-eight zhang..." In the Han Dynasty, ten feet was one zhang, four feet was about one meter, and 68 zhang was about 170 meters, which showed that Wu Rui's tomb was indeed large enough, otherwise it would not have attracted Sun Quan's attention.
There is no written record of what treasure Sun Quan stole from Wu Rui's tomb, but he stole the tomb materials from Wu Rui's tomb anyway.
Statue of Wu Rui, King of Changsha
The tomb material is the wood used for the tomb. In ancient times, it was very common to steal wood from cemeteries, temples or old palaces, because coffin boards, temples and palaces were made of high-quality wood, and even the poorest people would think of ways to get a good coffin for the dead. At that time, the State of Wu was first built, a large number of palaces and temples were to be built, and the demand for wood was very large, and it was natural that Sun Quan would steal tomb materials.
Incredibly, Sun Quan actually used the tomb materials obtained from the tomb robbery to build a temple for the old son and grandson!
Stills of Sun Jian in the TV series "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"
It is said that at that time, there were many mountains and trees near Changsha, and the wood used to repair the temple was available everywhere, but Sun Quan used the wood dug up from the tomb of the dead man to repair the father's temple, which made people very incomprehensible, and it was also a place where Sun Quan was widely criticized. What is even more excessive is that he built a temple for Lao Tzu but never personally worshipped it, but only sent the chief political officials of Changsha to sacrifice on his behalf every year. In the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, it is said that Sun Quan is a great filial piety, where is his filial piety? Sun Quan's theory that he is a great filial piety is either Luo Guanzhong's own imagination, or Sun Quan and his Lao Tzu have a vendetta, only respecting their mothers, not their fathers.
Whatever the reason, Sun Quan's use of tomb materials to repair his father's temple is somewhat of the meaning of "fooling ghosts".
Sun Quan's tomb robbery also caused a strange event, which is like "living to see a ghost".
Shortly after the tomb of Wu Rui was stolen, a person who had participated in the tomb robbery went from Hunan to Anhui, and on the way met an officer of the rank of lieutenant, and the tomb robber was very surprised and asked the officer: "How do you look like Wu Rui, the king of Changsha?" But it's a little shorter. ”
The officer was also surprised and asked, "I am a descendant of Wu Rui, how could you possibly see him?" ”
The man then told the story of helping Sun Quan rob the tomb.
It turned out that after Wu Rui's coffin was opened, Wu Rui's body did not decay at all, "his appearance is like life, his clothes are immortal", and at this time, Wu Rui has died for more than 400 years.
That descendant of Wu Rui was named Wu Gang, who was the sixteenth grandson of Wu Rui.
The theft of Wu Rui's tomb soon spread among his descendants, who were quite surprised and angry. They moved Wu Rui's tomb back to their hometown and buried it in the depths of a cave, which still exists today. And the tomb of Wu Rui in Changsha has become an empty shell. If it weren't for Sun Quan's tomb robbery, Changsha would now have at least one more tourist attraction.
After the excavation of Wu Rui's tomb, Sun Quan was still not dead hearted, and he started the idea of the tomb of Zhao Tuo, the king of South Vietnam.
The ancient State of South Vietnam was centered on present-day Guangzhou, including the Pearl River Basin and a vast area of the South China Sea. The first generation of The King of Nanyue, Zhao Tuo, was very wealthy, and his tomb naturally contained countless treasures. However, because Yue Tuo's anti-tomb robbery methods were well done, until the Three Kingdoms period 300 years after his death, his cemetery had not been discovered, and although Sun Quan sent people around to investigate, he did not find a single clue.
However, in the process of investigation, Sun Quan accidentally found the tomb of Zhao Infant Qi, the third generation of The King of South Vietnam. According to the "Cantonese Spring and Autumn" record, when Sun Quan opened Baby Qi's coffin, he found that he was wearing a golden jade robe, the ornaments on the clothes were made of pure gold, and the coffin contained 36 gold seals and three bronze swords with exquisite dragon-like patterns. I think there will be many other funerary items.
We don't know how many large tombs were dug during Sun Quan's reign, but after his death, his own tombs do not seem to have been spared, including the tomb of his brother Sun Ce. This is probably the "heavenly cycle, retribution is not happy".