According to historical records, as early as the late period of slave society and the early period of feudal society, there was the first eunuch, until the last eunuch in China, Sun Yaoting, died in 1996 at the Guanghua Temple in Houhai, Beijing. Today's xiaobian for everyone to bring the introduction is a eunuch in Chinese history, although the scale is not as large as the Qin Tombs and Qianling Tombs, but it is the best preserved ancient tomb in China.
During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the dynasty stipulated that eunuchs must be appointed by eunuchs, which also created the inherent impression of eunuchs in the world, and it was also the first time in history that eunuchs met with eunuchs. Although the eunuch was only a slave, with the emperor's trust and his own ambitions, there were also images of Wei Zhongxian, Zhao Gao, and Li Lianying calling the wind and rain in the imperial court, as well as the images of Zheng He and Cai Lun, who had made other achievements and had a good reputation. Today I want to introduce another eunuch named Tian Yi.
Through the three dynasties of Jiajing, Longqing and Wanli, from the age of 9 when he was only a palm eunuch on the emperor's side to his death at the age of 63, Tian Yi has been a eunuch in the palace and is deeply appreciated by the Wanli Emperor, so his mausoleum is also very different from other eunuchs. In the Ming Dynasty, eunuchs were only Sipin officials, but Tian Yi's mausoleum specifications reached the level of a yipin chancellor. Not only are there stone statues specially arranged in front of the imperial tomb on the Shinto, the tomb table, and the dragon sculpture on the mausoleum, all of which prove the status of Tian Yi at that time.
There are many exquisite carvings in the cemetery, in addition to the most common plant patterns, animal patterns, but also added social life, court songs and dances and other special themes, with the vicissitudes and mystery of China for hundreds of years, leaving valuable wealth to future generations, especially those Ming Dynasty buildings, but also became a treasure in the history of architecture.
Tian Yi's mausoleum, also known as Cixiang Nunnery and Shixiang Furnace Nunnery, is located at the foot of Cuiwei Mountain in Beijing's Shijingshan District, and in addition to the above-ground ruins, the underground palace of Tian Yi's tomb is also open to the public. People who have been there have all said that it is gloomy and dark inside, the lights are eerie, and there is a musty smell that has not seen the sun for a long time, which makes people shudder. Due to the many times the tomb has been stolen, the burial artifacts and even the coffin have been looted, and there is only a stone bed and an epitaph with clear handwriting.
The rest of the attraction is the museum exhibition room located on the side of the ground building, which is the only eunuch museum in the country, which popularizes the formation and history of eunuchs, famous eunuch stories, and displays the objects of eunuchs. The most creepy exhibit is a sculpture of an ancient castration process, and a dry corpse, which is simply creepy and does not look at the popular science of this history.
Although they are glorious and rich after death, the pain before death is only cold and warm drinking, and the eunuch is a deformed existence, like wrapping small feet, which is a man-made disability, so that they live on countless different pains than ordinary people. The theft of the tomb also seems to mean that the glory and wealth that cannot be retained in life, the 54-year eunuch career, the bitterness and hardship during the period, can never be understood by others.