At the noon gate of Nanjing's Ming Imperial Palace, there is a very eye-catching stone, which is the famous "blood stone". There is more than one "bloodstained stone" in China, and each of them has its own magic.
Bloodstones in Nanjing
There is a strange "bloodstained stone" in the noon gate of the Ming Dynasty Forbidden City, which is blue-gray in color, mixed with clusters of brown markings, and looks like blood seeping into the stone. Legend has it that this stone is also related to the incident of Fang Xiaoru's blood splashing the palace gate that occurred here more than 500 years ago.
Fang Xiaoru, a native of Ninghai, Zhejiang, also known as Mr. Zhengxue, was a famous university scholar in the early Ming Dynasty, but also a representative of conservative Confucian culture, known for his foolishness and loyalty.
In 1402, Zhu Di, then the king of Yan, led his army from Beijing to Nanjing, and conquered the city of Nanjing in one fell swoop, forcing Emperor Jianwen to burn himself to death. Zhu Di was then declared emperor, that is, Ming Chengzu of the Ming Dynasty. At that time, Fang Xiaoru's reputation in the literati circle was quite large, and Ming Chengzu had the idea of using Fang Xiaoru to enlist readers to correct his name, so he issued a holy decree and invited Fang Xiaoru to serve in Beijing. Unexpectedly, Fang Xiaoru swore to death, and cursed Zhu Di for stealing the throne, Zhu Di was furious, and wanted to use the torture of exterminating the ten races to force Fang Xiaoru to comply, how could Fang Xiaoru look at death as if he were home, and finally Ming Chengzu really ordered people to destroy Fang Xiaoru's ten tribes, including his friends and students, and more than 800 people were beheaded in this incident, which is also a bloody case unheard of in history. According to legend, the bloodstain stone was stained with Fang Xiaoru's blood.
Suzhou bloodstone
In addition to the bloodstained stone of the Ming Imperial Palace, there is also a blood-oozing stone in Suzhou Tiger Hill, known as the Thousand People Stone. What is its origin? According to legend, under the stone of a thousand people is the tomb of King Yan Chuang of Wu. King Wu had requisitioned a lot of labor to build his tomb before his death, and he was afraid that the craftsmen would leak the arrangement of the mechanism, so after the tomb was built, he beheaded the craftsmen one by one on the thousand-man stone, and the blood seeped into the stone. Whenever it rained, blood would seep out, as if indicting the world of King Wu's cruelty.
Is there really a lot of blood in the bloodstain? If the answer is yes, why hasn't the blood dried up after thousands of years?
Causes of bloodstones
In fact, this is a far-fetched statement based on historical events, in fact, bloodstains are sedimentary rocks, and sedimentary rocks are mostly composed of limestone. Limestone was formed on the seafloor by depositing the remains of a large number of calcareous paleontology more than 300 million years ago. During this period, iron oxide and manganese oxide from the sea also participated, and bee-brown clumps and stripes were formed, which became stone stones. With the movement of the earth's crust, part of the mountain is formed. In the end, it was mined by craftsmen as a material for the construction of palaces, and in fact it has nothing to do with blood.
Bleeding only occurs in animals, and when the animal's skin is injured, the capillaries will ooze blood. But some stones also bleed, do you believe it?