Regarding Zhu Changxun, the son of the Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, in addition to his son becoming the first emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, the biggest topic should be the posthumous affair.
That is, whether this product has been stewed into "Fluke soup" by Li Zicheng.
It is said that at the middle of the night of the twentieth day of the first month of the fourteenth year of Chongzhen, the defenders of Luoyang City opened the north gate and welcomed the rebel army of Li Zicheng, the king of the invasion, into the city.
Zhu Changxun, the Prince of Fu, fled to ying'en Temple outside the city, but was captured early the next morning by the rebels, and Li Zicheng scolded him for his crimes.
A long-standing theory is that Zhu Changxun was thrown into a pot by Li Zicheng and stewed with a few deer, and named it "Fulu Soup".
Is this matter true or false, and does Zhu Changxun have any bones left? What about Zhu Changxun's own epitaph?
1, Zhu Changxun was indeed stewed into a broth
The claim that Zhu Changxun was stewed into a broth is not uncommon in many historical materials in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and it can be said that it is undisputed.
As stated at the end of the Chronicle of the Ming Dynasty:
After Zhu Changxun was captured by Li Zicheng's rebels, he was on his way to the residence of the Fu King's mansion and met Lu Weiqi, the former Shangshu of the Nanjing Army.
Of course, Lü Weiqi also became a prisoner of Li Zicheng, and Lü Weiqi saw Zhu Changxun's look of encouragement, afraid that this cargo would lose the face of the imperial court, and all the way he was telling the bones to be tough!
"The name is very heavy, do not humiliate yourself!"
However, how much courage Zhu Changxun could have, and it was already hard to wipe away tears without crying, and when he was escorted to Li Zicheng, he was almost scared to pee and change his pants.
"The king saw that he was free from fear, and begged for his life."
He has been kowtowing to Li Zicheng and begging for his life, but how can Li Zicheng bird him? The public scolded Zhu Changxun for doing many evils, and he wanted to live or the next life.
So Zhu Changxun was dragged down and executed.
Yes, Zhu Changxun was executed by Li Zicheng, not directly thrown into the hot soup pot, but this does not mean that Zhu Changxun escaped the disaster.
Because Zhu Changxun still has a flesh of more than three hundred pounds, how pity would it be if he did not "waste utilize"? The key is how to encourage morale?
"The thief kills him, and weighs more than three hundred and sixty pounds of flesh." ("Deer Tree Chronicles, Breaking Through the Difficulty")
Therefore, Zhu Changxun's flesh was processed, it is estimated that it is similar to the process of eating Tang monk meat, it must be washed and washed first, the debris must be removed, and then chopped into clean pieces of meat, and finally thrown into a large pot and boiled with venison.
"Take the king as the thorn, and eat it with venison meat, and call it 'Fulu wine.'"
"菹", there is a chopped, chopped into meat sauce meaning, meaning that Zhu Changxuan fat ball-like body, chopped and boiled with venison, after cooking the big guys will eat it, and a nice name - Fluke wine.
Of course, there are also those who say "Feast of The Flow":
"Cut the thrush into strands, cook it with venison, and eat it with thieves, and it is called the Feast of Fulu." ("Deer Tree Chronicles, Breaking Through the Difficulty")
Here is the same meaning, that is, after Zhu Changxun was chopped into pieces, he cooked it with venison, and then the rebels shared the food.
In addition, the Ming Dynasty Northern Sketch has a similar record:
"The thief will put wine in the assembly, take the king as the pine, mix the venison and eat it, and call the Fulu wine."
In addition, materials such as the "Annals of The Little Shy" and the "Later Collection of The Book of Shi Kui" are also similar statements.
However, it is also clarified here that Zhu Changxun was not a big living person who was thrown into the pot, but was cooked after disposing of his body.
Is it possible?
The answer is yes.
Because Zhu Changxun, the Prince of Fu, had a lesson from the past, Henan Province (Luoyang) sentenced Bai Shangwen to death after the rebels broke the city.
The result? Bai Shangwen's body was directly divided up by the local starving people, that is, literally divided and eaten, and instantly became a white bone.
"When there was a great famine in Henan, Bai Shangwen fell to his death, and his body was eaten by the hungry people and was destroyed in an instant." ("The Chaos of Li Zicheng at the End of the Ming Chronicle")
Since the hungry people are so hungry that they have begun to eat people, it is not incomprehensible for Li Zicheng to follow this trend, especially to win the hearts and minds of the people.
After all, turning over the twenty-four histories, what year did there not be "cannibalism"? "Diary of a Madman" is not an exaggeration.
2, Zhu Changxun was only bloodletting
As mentioned earlier, after Zhu Changxun was executed, his flesh was made into "Fulu wine" by the rebels, and then everyone happily had a dinner.
But there is obviously a problem here, how can such a thing as eating meat and drinking soup be named wine? Although the rebels did drink at the time.
If you want to say that it is called a Fluke Cocktail Party, a Fluke Wine Banquet, and a Fluke Broth, there is no controversy that can be understood, but it is called "Fluke Wine", and it seems that this is not the case.
So in addition to the mainstream theory that Zhu Changxun was stewed into a broth, there is also an explanation of the true meaning of "Fluke wine":
That is, zhu Changxun's blood was mixed with venison, stirred and cooked, and then drunk in a large bowl of wine.
Isn't this really "Fluke"?
As recorded in the Suikou Jiluo Vol. VIII, The Drainage Mat:
"The thief drank in the palace, recommended the king to yu, and drank his blood, and tasted it: 'This Fluke wine also.'" ”
Li Zicheng led the rebels to occupy the palace of the palace to drink, tied Zhu Changxun and put it on the board, and emptied his blood like slaughtering livestock. The blood is then poured into the venison and stirred, and after tasting, it is named "Fluke Wine".
There is no mention here that Zhu Changxun's flesh was divided.
Of course, there are also said that the so-called "Fluke wine" is to mix the blood released by Zhu Changxun with the blood of the deer, and then pour the wine into it and mix it.
"Kill the king of Fortune and recommend yu, mixed with deer blood and wine, and drink it: 'Fulu wine.'" ("Sending To the Garden, Volume 9, Crack mail")
Here seems to be the true meaning of "Fulu wine", that is, mixing the blood of the Fu King with the blood of the deer, adding wine and drinking it.
Instead of throwing Fu Wang's meat and venison into the pot and stewing, so just from the name, this seems to be more realistic.
Materials such as "Ming Confucianism Case, Zhongjie Lü Yushi Mr. Wei Qi", "Huo lu volume I", "Ming Dynasty Narrative" and other materials also hold such a more reasonable statement.
This key statement was also adopted by the History of ming compiled by the Qing Dynasty.
"When King Fu was killed, he became a soldier and shook the blood of the king, and tasted it with a miscellaneous deer, and was named 'Fulu Wine.'" (The Tale of the Ming Dynasty Thief)
Therefore, the "History of Ming" that Zhu Changxun was boiled into broth is a statement that the Qing Dynasty maliciously smeared Li Zicheng, but in fact it is not true.
Because although the saying that Zhu Changxun was stewed in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was popular, the writers of the "History of Ming" eventually chose the "mixed flesh and blood theory", of course, this is only to inherit the previous generations.
Since Zhu Changxun's body had not been divided, where had his three-hundred-pound meat ball gone? Will it be well preserved?
This leads to a third niche theory, that Zhu Changxun's flesh was properly buried, and even the flesh and blood were not released.
3. Zhu Changxun's flesh is well preserved?
In fact, this statement does not have any effective evidence, it is nothing more than a "Spring and Autumn Brushwork" in the history books.
For example, the posthumous events of King Fu described in the "Ming Shi And Kings V":
"The next day, the thief persisted and was killed."
In Zhu Changxun's biography, neither does it say that he was chopped up and boiled into broth, nor does it say that he was bloodied to make wine, but only that he was executed.
Therefore, some researchers believe that Zhu Changxun's flesh is intact and has not been excessively abused by Li Zicheng.
Moreover, after Zhu Changxun was executed by Li Zicheng, the two minor officials around him cried and begged for the body to be collected for him, and even said that they would die without regrets:
"The king does not want to be born, and the beggars a coffin to collect the bones of the king, and the powder has nothing to hate."
In the end, the rebels were also touched by the righteousness of these two people, and allowed them to collect the body of Zhu Changxun and bury it, and after burying Zhu Changxun, they hanged themselves and died.
Therefore, some researchers believe that since Zhu Changxun's men can collect his body, the flesh must be well preserved, so there is no such thing as being stewed and bloodletting.
But this matter is more controversial, after all, even if you lose your head on the execution ground, it can be said that you have collected the bones, which does not mean that the body is preserved intact.
At least from the "Biography of ming shi liu thief", the two offerings of Zhu Changxun's flesh should have been spared blood.
In addition, there are books like this that are vague in terms of "Chongzhen Shilu":
"Self-inflicted responsibility is followed by loss, and then he is killed."
It only said that it was killed, but did not say how it was killed, and what the fate of the body after being killed was.
This cannot be counted as evidence that Zhu Changxun's flesh is intact.
To say that the evidence of the real nature of the real hammer is to say that Zhu Changxun's own epitaph, on which the events of his life and death are:
"Suddenly tens of thousands of rogue thieves attacked the capital city, the civilian army fled, and Wang Du stepped forward to resist the festival, accusing the thieves of scolding. On the twenty-first day, he died. ("Daming Fuzhong Wang Yuanzhi")
His own epitaph is also the same as the previous record, but also the posthumous events are extremely vague, and a "death" is confused.
Was it chopped up and boiled into broth, or was it bloodshot into wine, or was it just a matter of execution? None of them are clear.
But many people regard it as evidence of Zhu Changxun's complete physical integrity.
In fact, this epitaph is a joke, perhaps you have seen the epitaph, the record of Zhu Changxun's heroic scolding of thieves before his death.
Regarding such a generous and awe-inspiring record of Zhu Changxun, it can almost be said that it is the only record of the epitaph, and other history books show that this cargo knelt down before his death and begged Li Zicheng to spare his life.
Why did The Image of King Fu in his epitaph suddenly rise taller? Without him, let's just look at the person who wrote the epitaph:
"Filial piety to the king by song weeping blood book stone."
The tragic bull that can shape Zhu Changxun is originally his son Zhu Yousong himself, so he understands everything, right?
Zhu Yousong was still on the epitaph, boasting that the imperial court attached importance to Zhu Changxun's funeral, just as Zhu Changxun died normally:
"On the third day of the Shang Dynasty, the special dispatch of the Qi's ministers, the inspection of the government, and the sacrifice and burial of the superior, all funerals are regarded as the times of the clans, and the generous gifts are given."
In fact, these are not necessarily true or false, especially the record of Zhu Changxun scolding thieves before his death, which can be said to be extremely nonsense.
Because Zhu Yousong did not know what happened to Zhu Changxun at all, after Luoyang City was taken by Li Zicheng, Zhu Yousong ran naked and fled for his life.
"Wang Shizi fled naked." (The Tale of the Ming Dynasty Thief)
Moreover, Zhu Yousong mentioned in his epitaph that Zhu Changxun's body was officially buried two years after he was killed, that is, in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen.
"On the eighth day of the first lunar month of the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, he was buried in the plains of mt. ("Daming Fuzhong Wang Yuanzhi")
What Zhu Yousong said here is very vague, is it to bury Zhu Changxun's complete body in Mount Yao? Or did he bury Zhu Changxun's scattered skeleton in it?
Or is it just a crown tomb?
It is true that Zhu Yousong mentioned the burial place of King Fu, and the tomb of King Fu was actually excavated later, and it was stolen and destroyed before the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Since then, it has been leveled into cultivated land, and no excavated cultural relics and bones have been obtained, and the so-called excavation of Zhu Changxun's bones is pure nonsense.
Regarding the source of the epitaph, the official answer of the local antiquities bureau is:
"The epitaph was stolen and excavated before the founding of the People's Republic of China, and it was lost in the village, and in the 1980s, it was collected by the Mengjin County Cultural Management Committee."
Therefore, from the perspective of various information, Zhu Changxun should have been executed by Li Zicheng, and his blood was emptied and buried by his subordinates. Two years later, he was relocated to Mount Yao by his son Zhu Yousong, and either it was a crown tomb inside, or it would not be a complete corpse.
But the crown tomb is likely to be even greater.
(A word of family, seek common ground while reserving differences, thank you for reading)