Introduction The golden splendor of the Forbidden City, the Ten Thousand Gates of the Red Wall Palace. The Taihe Hall is clean and quiet, the Shenwu Building is high and deeply nourishing; the Jinshui Bridge Baining Shouxiu, the Nine Dragon Wall Colored Royal Flower Fen, the forecourt and backyard are royal, and the wonders of the world are rare. - "Forbidden City"
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was in chaos, and Zhu Yuanzhang unified the world and founded the Ming Dynasty, with the capital at Nanjing. After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, Zhu Yunjiao ascended the throne, but at that time there was the Battle of Jingnan, Zhu Di became the new emperor, he has always had the idea of moving the capital, after several years of preparation, the Forbidden City was also completed, the Ming Dynasty officially moved the capital, after the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty still chose to set the capital in Beijing. Both the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty carried out a lot of repairs and expansions to the Forbidden City, and finally evolved into the Forbidden City we see now.
1. The Forbidden City was stolen
With the advent of the new era, the feudal imperial system has become history, and the Forbidden City has evolved into the Palace Museum, in which every cultural relics collected is an absolute priceless treasure and has a deep historical and cultural value. But because of this, it has aroused the covetousness of many people, who try to steal the cultural relics of the Forbidden City to seek private interests for themselves. Although the security measures of the Forbidden City are very strict, over the years, it has also been stolen several times, including a man who used "light gong" to steal 1.5 billion yuan worth of cultural relics in the Forbidden City, and only after his arrest did he reveal the secret of light gong.
Now the security of the Forbidden City is extremely strict, under the blessing of various high-tech, it is difficult to steal cultural relics from the Forbidden City, but decades ago, security can only rely on people, so it has given many people with suspicious intentions the opportunity. On August 16, 1958, after several days of rain in Beijing, it finally cleared, and Tian Yi, the cultural relics administrator of the Forbidden City, came to the Forbidden City for inspection as usual, and this time he found a different place. Tian Yi found that a piece of glass in the Yangxin Hall had been broken, and when he saw this scene, he did not dare to move much, for fear of destroying the scene, and hurriedly reported the news to the Security Section.
Second, a master of light work?
The security section soon arrived, and after careful reconnaissance, a small trail of blood was found under the glass window, and it was speculated that the thieves must have come in from here. Later, after cleaning, it was found that a large number of cultural relics were lost, the most valuable of which was a gold book from the Kangxi period. According to later experts, the original batch of cultural relics that were lost was worth at least 1.5 billion. More importantly. The cultural relics in the Forbidden City cannot be measured by money, and the historical and cultural value they contain is incalculable.
After investigating the situation, the Security Section found that the case was not something they could solve, so it handed the case over to the police. After careful inspection of the scene, the police came to a conclusion that the thief stole cultural relics by flipping through the high walls of the Forbidden City through light exercises, and then entered the Yangxin Hall to steal cultural relics. However, this conclusion makes many people puzzled, after all, in everyone's impression, many people can indeed do the cornice wall, but the wall as high as the Forbidden City is definitely not solved by the cornice wall. At that time, an idea was born in everyone's mind, could it be that this thief was a legendary master of light skill? It was even possible to climb over the high walls of the Forbidden City.
3. Bandit Wu Qinghui
The loss of cultural relics this time is a major case, and soon began a large-scale search, what is unexpected is that the thief who was highly praised by the police was arrested and arrested not long after, and his light work was also unveiled. Born in 1940, the thief, a young man who had been idle since childhood, came to Beijing in 1958 from his hometown in Shandong to look for a job, when he took a residence in the home of his sister Wu Guisheng.
Wu Qinghui's job search trip was not smooth, so he had the idea of returning to his hometown in Shandong, but he did not plan to come to Beijing in vain, he was ready to see the Forbidden City once and then go. Later, he came to the Forbidden City, and as a result, when he visited, he found the cultural relics displayed in the Yangxin Hall, and he had a bad intention in his heart. So he simply did not leave the Forbidden City that day, but hid in the toilet of the Forbidden City, and at night, he broke the glass of the Yangxin Hall and stole the cultural relics.
So how did Wu Qinghui escape? The gate of the Forbidden City is guarded by a security section, and there are towering palace walls around it, is it really true that he has light merit? In fact, the reason why he was able to escape from the Forbidden City was very simple, not because of any light work, but because at that time, the Ningshou Gate outside the Yangxin Hall was being repaired, not only accumulating a lot of building materials, but also a tall scaffolding. When Wu Qinghui first came out of the Yangxin Hall, he used building materials and scaffolding to climb over the palace wall, and then fled.
epilogue:
Wu Qinghui did not get any good results in the end, he was ready to return to his hometown after escaping from the Forbidden City, but because he had no money, he chose to evade the ticket, and was caught by the conductor, who found a large number of cultural relics from his body, and the people stole all the stolen goods, and finally handed over to the police. Later, after a court trial, Wu Qinghui was sentenced to life imprisonment. We must also learn from Wu Qinghui's story, although money is a good thing, but if it is money at the cost of breaking the law and committing crimes, we must not touch it, otherwise there will be no good results.
Resources
Forbidden City
The Forbidden City Thief