After the death of the ancient emperor, they must set up a tomb of doubt, confuse the tomb robbers, after setting up the tomb, posterity will not find the real tomb of the owner of the tomb, the most outrageous is the Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang, when the funeral thirteen coffins out of the city, the burial scene is very spectacular.
Martyrdom was the previous funeral system of the Qin and Han Dynasties, in which the concubines and concubines around the killer served the deceased in the underworld. After the death of Qin Shi Huang, Qin II executed all the harem women of his father's life, and the heavens hated people. After Liu Bang became emperor, he abolished this inhuman custom. By the time Zhu Yuanzhang became emperor, this system was restored. Later, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty imitated it, and after the death of Zhu Di, the ancestor of Ming Chengzu, he was buried with more than 30 palace concubines.
Back to Zhu Yuanzhang. In the case of the early death of crown prince Zhu Biao, Zhu Yuanzhang, in accordance with the traditional etiquette system, made Zhu Biao's eldest son and eldest grandson Zhu Yunjiao the emperor's grandson. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Yunjiao succeeded to the throne and was known as "Emperor Jianwen". Zhu Yunjiao obeyed the edict and, according to the ancient system, all the harem concubines who had not given birth before Zhu Yuanzhang's death were executed and buried, and a number of palace women died. As for how to execute these martyrs, it has always been a mystery, some say that mercury poisoned. Some say it's strangling. But according to the Records of Sejong sejong of the Joseon Dynasty, it should be hanged. "Emperor (Ming Chengzu Zhu Di) collapsed, and the palace people martyred more than thirty people. On the day of death, all are paid to the court, and they are paid, and they are led to the ascension of the church, and the cries shake the temple. A small wooden bed was placed in the hall, and a lanyard was placed on it, and the head was taken into it, and the bed was removed, and all the pheasants died of their necks. ”
As can be seen from the above, it is for the martyred concubine to stand on the small bed, and after the neck is put into the rope noster, the eunuch suddenly pulls it down
The small bed of the noodles was sucked away. At that time, the new emperor, Zhu Di's eldest son, Emperor Mingrenzong Zhu Gaozi, also personally came to the scene to say goodbye to them, which was actually "imprisonment". The two beautiful women han and choi who were chosen by North Korea to enter the palace were also executed.
Then, so many martyrs must be buried in coffins and then buried in xiaoling. Moreover, the number of people buried was quite close to the number of "13". Therefore, on the day of the burial, it is understandable that the thirteen city gates simultaneously carry the coffin outward. At that time, the citizens of Nanjing must have come out to see Zhu Yuanzhang on the day of his funeral, but because the imperial court "cleared the street", they could only look at it from a distance, because there were many coffins, and you passed it on to me, and there was the story of "carrying the coffin at the thirteenth city gate". In turn, it became a big strange thing in Nanjing.