There is an emperor who has not only been dug up, but even his bones have been burned, so who is this unfortunate emperor? Those emperors in the middle and late Ming Dynasty were more unreliable than one, there were Zhengde Emperors who ran away from the palace to play missing at every turn, there were Emperor Tianqi who did not work well and played furniture in the Chengtian Mansion Palace, and the most outrageous was the Wanli Emperor lying in Dingling. Wanli has a lot of absurd and outrageous things, the most famous point is that he loves to make money, openly forcing the ministers of culture and military affairs everywhere to give him a share of the money, and the Wanli Emperor especially loves to copy the home of the minister, he feels that which minister has money in his family, he will randomly accuse him of copying his home. In addition to the Wanli Emperor, he loved to spend money, he was very generous when he was alive, and when he died, he had to spend it again, and Wanli spent a whole eight million taels of silver for himself to build a tomb.
In May 1956, the excavation work was officially launched, along the cracks in the Dingling City Wall workers began to dig down, digging less than a meter, someone found a stone strip built on the wall, it seems to be carved a few words, wiped the soil on it, the three words of the tunnel door are clearly revealed, here is the entrance to the Dingling Underground Palace Tunnel, and then digging, a complete tunnel door appeared in front of everyone. Near the tunnel gate, a worker also dug up a small stone stele with a line inscribed on it: This stone is sixteen feet deep and five feet deep. The so-called King Kong Wall is the tomb wall of the Ming Dynasty Great Necropolis, that is to say, knowing the location of the King Kong Wall means knowing the location of the Underground Palace. According to the prompts of the stone stele, a few weeks later, the archaeological team finally found the Diamond Wall of the Dingling Underground Palace, and there is a mysterious trapezoidal opening on this Diamond Wall, which should be the entrance to the Underground Palace when the Wanli Emperor was buried more than 400 years ago. Found the entrance to the underground palace, it is reasonable to hurry inside, but the staff involved in the excavation, especially the front-line workers and masters, are not willing to be the first to enter the underground palace, and no one even dares to be the first to tear down the wall bricks. For everyone, although the excavation of the imperial tomb is the first time in the world, but everyone has heard of Sun Dianying's dongling treasure theft, when the Cixi Underground Palace was opened, the poisonous gas and dark arrows in the underground palace, the soldiers who first went down to the underground palace lost their lives, who knows if there will be the same organ in the underground palace of the Wanli Emperor?
In addition, there was a strange thing at that time, just when the archaeological team wanted to arrange for people to remove the wall bricks, the originally cloudless sunny day suddenly became cloudy, and it rained heavily. In order to ensure safety, the archaeological team decided to first open a small gap in the Wall of Kongo, and then send only one person to explore the way to the dungeon, fortunately, there were no legendary organs and poison gas in the dungeon, and nothing happened after people entered. With the help of the bright light of the flashlight, they saw a door carved from a whole piece of Han white jade, opening the gate of the underground palace, and archaeologists entered the tomb of the ancient emperor for the first time ever. It is a stone palace made of huge strips of stone, for the front, middle and rear three halls, the front hall of the underground palace is empty, there is nothing inside, and the nave is like a large living room, which has seats carved in white jade, and the seats are decorated with various dragon-shaped patterns, showing the majesty of the royal family. In front of the seat there are two huge dragon-patterned blue and white porcelain cylinders containing yellow wax, which is the legendary eternal lamp, and the wax is still full of a cylinder, and this long lamp has long been extinguished. Entering the apse, the coffins of the Wanli Emperor and the two empresses were placed in the middle of the apse, and around the coffin was a wooden box where the burial goods were placed, most of the boxes had decayed, and many of the burial goods were exposed, but many of these things that had been placed underground for hundreds of years were still shining with dazzling luster. Except for a small number of sacrificial gifts, most of them were living utensils used by emperors and empresses during their lifetimes, and both gold, silver, jade and porcelain were extremely exquisite and luxurious. The most abundant here are various pure gold food boxes, golden and white jade wine jugs and wine glasses, and silver plates and silver bowls. Archaeologists entered the Dingling Underground Palace, cleared out a large number of treasures, and finally only the coffins of the Wanli Emperor and the two empresses were not opened, and the archaeologists carefully opened the coffins, which was the first and so far the only emperor's coffin opened by archaeologists.
Taking the complete 11 layers of funerary items, archaeologists found Wan Li's body in the inner coffin, leaving only a dry skeleton, and only a golden silk crown on the head could attract everyone's attention. This crown weighs one pound and six two, woven with 10 thin gold threads as thin as a hair, and the process is extremely complex, even with today's technology to copy the same crown is difficult to do. In the coffins of the two queens, archaeologists found four dragon and phoenix crowns, all of which are woven with gold, jade, pearls and precious stones, and this nine dragon and nine phoenix crown alone is inlaid with 3500 natural pearls and 195 pieces of various colored gems. In addition to jewelry and jade, there are also a large number of textiles in the Valley of Light of Wanli and the Empress, and there are 36 pieces of gold thread dragon robes alone, according to the level of craftsmanship of that year, it takes 10 years for a craftsman to weave such a dragon robe. In the 50s of the last century, our level of science and technology was still relatively low, resulting in many precious ageing treasures that were seriously damaged after excavation, such as the dragon robe, and the dazzling dragon robes we see now are actually imitations copied from the excavated originals, and the real original cultural relics have become fragments soon after they have been unearthed.
In addition to the dragon robe, what is even more unfortunate is that the emperor and empress's several golden silk nan wood coffins, because they were broken and somewhat rotten, were later imitated with cement, and then these golden silk nan wood was thrown to the back mountain, and when people went back to find it, they were gone, and they were picked up by the local people. Legend has it that these people who picked up the golden silk nan wood later had an accident, they made the wood of the coffin into furniture and put it at home, and later there were many problems, such as various diseases, or someone died strangely, whether it was really because of the reason for using the emperor's coffin to beat the furniture, no one is sure. However, Wan Li and the two empresses were still miserable in the end, and the three bones were burned to ashes by the young generals, and the emperor and empress of the tangtang emperor did not have any bones. In this imperial tomb, we can see not only countless treasures, but also the consequences of the fall of an emperor. Just when Wan Li was hiding in the harem, indulging in wine, and spending a lot of silver to build a mausoleum for himself, a strong ethnic minority tribe north of the Great Wall arose and rapidly expanded southward, which was the Manchus.