Whether it is a prince or a cloth puppet, it is difficult to escape death, this is well known to everyone, so some emperors in ancient China in order to reverse this fact, do not hesitate to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to seek the medicine of immortality, but in fact, there is no such medicine or method, people always have a death.
The emperor enjoyed supreme power before he died, and his funeral after death was naturally different, and its luxury was simply incomparable to that of ordinary people, so how luxurious was the emperor's funeral?
After the death of a former person, his family built a tomb for him, and the royal family was no exception, but unlike ordinary people, people would only start to build a tomb after the death or death of the deceased, and this tomb was also a small piece of land, which looked like a mound on top. Emperors are different, as early as when the emperor is still alive, some will begin to build their own mausoleums, and some luxurious mausoleums will take decades and thousands of laborers to complete.
Nowadays, some of the World Heritage Sites in China are the tombs of the Ming Dynasty and the Eastern Tombs of the Qing Dynasty, and the Ming and Qing Royal Tombs are also relatively well-preserved buildings. The location of the emperor's mausoleum is also extremely exquisite, and the site selection and planning are all paying attention to a feng shui, reflecting the "unity of heaven and man" to highlight the emperor's imperial identity.
The luxury of the mausoleum is beyond doubt, when you are alive, you have to live in a royal palace, and the place where you are buried when you die must also be a palace, so you will build an "underground palace" for this purpose, rather than digging a pit like ordinary people, during the Qing Dynasty, Cixi's cemetery took 35 years to build.
In addition to the choice of cemetery, in the feudal era, the funeral pomp and circumstance of the emperor must be the same as when they were alive, and they must show their supreme dignity and luxury everywhere, and do their utmost to be extravagant and extravagant. The funerals of ordinary people are only related to the relatives of this family, and the death of the emperor is not only about the royal family, but also closely affects the people of this world.
In the Qing Dynasty, the emperor's funeral was called "fierce ceremony", and the ascension to the throne, wedding, birthday is the same is very important, is a major event, not by the royal family to operate, but by the state department to operate, need to be by the Ministry of Rites, Luan Yiwei and the Department of Internal Affairs to handle together, these departments of all sizes of officials need to run for this funeral, and the money consumed in this is even more countless.
The coffin after the emperor's death was not made of ordinary wood, but was made of the best Yunnan golden silk nan wood to carry the body, and the freight cost of transporting from Yunnan to the place where the coffin was made was calculated by hundreds of thousands of taels of silver. Nowadays, the market value of a good golden silk nan wood can reach 2.7 billion, and at that time it was only used as the coffin of the emperor.
After the coffin is made, it is also painted with forty-nine lacquers. The mausoleum and coffin alone will consume a large amount of money, and the funeral goods after the emperor's death are not counted, which shows the luxury of the emperor's funeral. After the emperor swallowed his breath, the time of burial was also required, and it must be an auspicious time. The corpse will be smeared with some spices to prevent mosquitoes, and the top luxurious shou clothes will be worn, and beads will be placed in the mouth.
After each emperor was buried, he needed to hold a constant ceremony and mourning activities. The emperor's descendants need to wear filial piety, wear filial piety, and officials and all the people can not seek pleasure for a hundred days, can not slaughter within forty-nine days, prohibit any marriage within a month, during the mourning period all kinds of temples, Taoist temples must ring the bell 30,000 times, the death of the emperor, not only related to the royal family, but also related to the people of the world, the death of one person, the world must mourn, this is the emperor's death of the pomp.
There were 72 people who carried the coffin, all of them from the imperial palace had to come out of the nest, and there were 64 people who led the banners and held high the flags and umbrellas of the people; the emperor's honor guard, there were as many as 1628 people, which were vast and very powerful. The bearer carrying the coffin, each shift, 128 people, was carried in three shifts.
The entire funeral procession included heavily armed Eight Banner Soldiers, Civil and Military Officials, Relatives of the Emperor and the State, and the Clan Chamber, as well as a large number of monks, Taoists, nuns, Daoists, and lamas. The entire funeral procession lasted more than a dozen miles. The last emperor's funeral in Chinese history was the funeral of the Guangxu Emperor, and its regulations were like this, and the people in the whole city had to come out to pay the funeral, and tens of thousands of people on both sides also had to kneel down to pay the funeral, which showed the grandeur and pomp of the funeral and funeral when the emperor died.
l Conclusion
To say that the funeral pomp is great, the funeral pomp after the emperor's death is undoubtedly the largest, after all, it is the funeral of the person with the highest power at that time. The funeral of the emperor completely achieved the death of one person, and the world kept filial piety for it. I have to lament once again the supremacy of royal power during the feudal dynasty.