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The cause of death of the Guangxu Emperor.
Although rumors continue, historians generally believe that he died of natural illness.
Until November 2008, the special research group on the "Cause of Death of the Qing Guangxu Emperor", composed of the Qingxiling Cultural Relics Management Office, the Reactor Engineering Research and Design Institute of the China Institute of Atomic Energy Research, the CCTV Qing History Documentary Film Team and the Forensic Laboratory and Appraisal Center of the Beijing Municipal Public Security Bureau, officially released the "Qing Guangxu Emperor Death Research Work Report" to the outside world.
They used nuclear analysis and forensic methods to scientifically examine Guangxu's hair, bones, and clothing, and determined that Guangxu Emperor was indeed poisoned by arsenic. ”
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Suizhou Zeng Guo... Tomb of Marquis Yi of Zeng
The land of present-day Suizhou - history books record the Suiguo during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods.
After 1978, the tomb of Zeng Marquis was found in Suizhou, especially since 2011, the two tomb groups of Zhou Zenghou Tomb in the west of Yejia Mountain and the tomb of Zhou Zenghou in the east of Wenfeng Pagoda have been excavated successively.
Huang Fengchun, the archaeological leader of the two tombs, believes that the biggest difficulty in studying Zeng Guo is that this ancient country has no written records in the history books.
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In 1986, archaeologists unearthed a thin, soft, flat paper with a depiction of mountains, rivers and other patterns in the Western Han Tomb in Tianshui, Gansu, which is the earliest known paper object on the mainland.
This overturned previous claims that Cai Lun invented papermaking, and Cai Lun only improved papermaking on the basis of his predecessors.
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The Tao Te Ching, which has been handed down, has been tampered with.
In 1973, a number of ancient books were unearthed from the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha, including the Tao Te Ching, divided into two versions. After sorting and restoring, people found that there are hundreds of differences between this version and the popular Tao Te Ching, some of which are even subversive.
For example, we are familiar with the "late bloomer", and the book version is "the big instrument is exempt". Previously, we often used "late bloomer" to motivate and forge ahead, and as soon as the book version came out, we realized that we completely misunderstood Lao Tzu's meaning.
For example, "the good do not argue, and the debater is not good", in fact, "there are not many good people, and many people are not good"; "Great Debate", the book version is "Big Win Like a Victory". The entire book does not mention the word "debate" anywhere, and it never opposes the debate of different voices and different opinions.
For example, "with benevolence", the handwritten version is "give good heaven", and the heirloom version changes "heaven" to "benevolence" and "heavenly way" to "humanity", the meaning of which is self-evident.