According to the description of the person who collected his body, Chongzhen wore a blue robe, did not wear a hat, covered with hair, and wore red shoes on one foot and only white brocade socks on the other foot. To tell the truth, the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty was not a "local tycoon gold" who was dangling every day as staged on TV, most of the time, he wore plain clothes, not to mention the Chongzhen Emperor who liked simple life and let the empress personally mend his socks.
What was even more tragic about Chongzhen was that when he died, no one cared to collect his body. So who buried him in the mausoleum?
I have read relevant materials on caiye online before, and it is recorded in the "Guo Yu", "Liu Kou Zhi" and "Record of Sin" that Li Zicheng was buried.
After Li Zicheng conquered the capital, he looked around for Chongzhen, with the meaning of "living to see people, dead to see corpses", the rebels turned the palace upside down, and did not find Chongzhen's figure, and finally, the rebels found the body of Chongzhen Emperor in Coal Mountain, at this time, Chongzhen and the eunuch Wang Cheng'en had been hanged for three days.
Li Zicheng rushed to hear the news, saw the Chongzhen Emperor wearing a shawl, hanging on the crooked neck tree, and quickly ordered people to release the corpses of the Chongzhen Emperor and the eunuch Wang Cheng'en, at this time, Li Zicheng found that the Chongzhen Emperor's blue robe had a line written on it, asking the rebels not to harm innocent people.
Probably after Li Zicheng saw the sentence on the blue robe of the Chongzhen Emperor, "Let the thief split the corpse, do not hurt the people alone", he was touched by the enthusiasm of the Chongzhen Emperor to worry about the country and the people, so he ordered people to put the bodies of Chongzhen, Empress Zhou, and the eunuch Wang Cheng'en into a willow coffin, and painted the Zi Palace of the Chongzhen Emperor with red paint, painted the Zi Palace of the Later Zhou Dynasty with black paint, and also replaced Chongzhen with a winged crown, a jade jade, and a gold boot, and then Li Zicheng ordered that the bodies of Chongzhen and Empress Zhou be sent to Changping Prefecture. He also arranged for the officials of Changping Prefecture to bury Chongzhen and Empress Zhou according to the specifications of the empress.
It can be seen from this that although Li Zicheng rebelled against the Ming Dynasty, in his heart, he still followed the etiquette, and his practice of ordering a thick burial of Chongzhen is commendable.
After the Qing Dynasty entered the customs, in order to win over the ming dynasty's widows and alleviate various contradictions, the Shunzhi Emperor deliberately allocated silver from the imperial court, and in accordance with the regulations of the imperial tomb, repaired the mausoleum for Chongzhen, and also ordered the subordinate Jin Zhijun to write an inscription for Chongzhen, and at the same time, in order to thank the eunuch Wang Cheng'en for his loyalty, let Li Wei write an inscription for the eunuch Wang Cheng'en, who died with Chongzhen at that time. At the same time, Chongzhen's mausoleum was changed to "SiLing", which is also one of the Ming Tombs.
During the Qianlong period, Qianlong also pulled out funds to repair the mausoleum for Chongzhen, rebuilt the Ming Tower and the Temple of Grace, and built the Baocheng Wall. However, the size of the Siling Tombs was still much smaller than that of other imperial tombs.
Chongzhen was diligent and diligent before his death, his life was simple, although he was full of ambition and reorganized the national program, but it was difficult to rebel, and he finally became the king of the subjugated country, after his death, the old rival Li Zicheng ordered a generous burial for him, Zhao Yigui collected donations to implement, and the Qing court repaired it, which can also be regarded as a little comfort to him.