Where did the soul of the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song Shao Emperor, return?
Where did the soul of the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Song Shao Emperor Zhao Fu, return? This is a question that historians have been exploring, but who would have thought that this ancient topic would be unearthed in a new overnight city on the south coast of the Sea. This new city that emerged overnight is Shenzhen.
Those who have been to Shenzhen and inquired about Shenzhen's cultural landscape have mostly received answers such as Dapeng City, Hakka Walled House, Shenzhen Diaolou, Chiwan Left Fortress, and so on, and few people will mention the Tomb of the Song Shao Emperor in Chiwan. However, it is precisely this tomb of the Song Shao Emperor that is worth paying tribute to. It was a very small tomb, far from the size of a god's mausoleum. The circular mound, the ring of walls on both sides, although there are buildings of varying heights on all sides, the tomb of the Young Emperor is still hidden in the swaying green trees, which is particularly quiet.
In 1982, during the construction of the harbor in Chiwan, Shenzhen, people inadvertently discovered the home of the soul of zhao fu, the last emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Shao Emperor of the Song Dynasty. At that time, it was still a land of hazelnuts, which was an important archaeological discovery in Shenzhen. So Chiwan pushed the young emperor before the Chinese of the twentieth century.
According to the "History of Song", this little emperor also had two brothers, one was Zhao Xianzong of Song and the other was Zhao Gang of Emperor Duanzong of Song. Zhao Xian was the concubine of Emperor Duzong of Song, so after Emperor Duzong's death, Xian succeeded to the throne. And Zhao Gang and Zhao Fu were Duzong's sons, and although Zhao Gang was older than Zhao Xian, he could only look at the dragon chair and sigh. In the second year of Deyou (1276), the Yuan army invaded Lin'an (present-day Hangzhou) and captured Song Dynasty officials such as the six-year-old Zhao Xian and Empress Quan to the north. Nine-year-old Zhao Gang was succeeded by his courtiers in Fuzhou, and was replaced by Emperor Duanzong, who changed his name to Yuan Jingyan and crowned his mother, Princess Yang Shufei, as empress dowager. Although Emperor Duanzong Zhao Gang called on the military and people of the Great Song Dynasty to resist the Yuan army, the military and civilians in various parts of the south also rose up to serve the king, and there were several times to recover the lost land, but after all, the tide was falling, and the decline was difficult to save. Under the impact of the yuan army's iron hooves, Lu Xiufu, Zhang Shijie and others protected Zhao Gang's mother and son to retreat south, and finally retreated to Jing'ao. In the sea of Jing'ao, there was a strong wind, and the large boat that Zhao Gang was riding on capsized in the huge waves, "drowning several times". Zhao Gang was extremely frightened and soon died of illness in the sea. The ministers then installed his younger brother Zhao Fu as emperor, that is, Emperor Shao of Song, and changed his era name to Xiangxing. With Lu Xiufu as the left chancellor and Zhang Shijie as the taifu, he entered the cliff mountain and continued to fight against the Yuan army. During this period, some states and counties were also recovered, but it seemed that they returned to the light and were difficult to do anything.
Located forty kilometers south of Xinhui in Guangdong, facing the mighty South China Sea, Empress Yang held her young son Zhao Fu every day and presided over the imperial government on a ship. At this time, the Song army still had more than 200,000 people, more than a thousand large ships, in order to strengthen the defense, the Song army used huge cables to connect the ships, put up a chessboard-shaped ship array, and built a shed on the ship, like the battlements of the city wall, and the dragon boat on which the Young Emperor was riding was located in the center of the ship array. Faced with such a strong fleet, Marshal Zhang Hongfan of the Yuan Dynasty led an army to attack. When the attack failed, he learned the practice of burning the yellow cover in Chibi in the Three Kingdoms, loading thatch on the boat, sprinkling grease, and "riding the wind and setting fire to it." However, the Song ships were all mud-coated, and long poles were tied to the boats to resist the fire, and the ships could not be burned. The fighting lasted for a month, and the Song army was extremely tired. One day, during the yuan army's large-scale attack, the flag on one of the Song ships suddenly fell, and soon, the flags of other ships were also destroyed. Seeing that the battle situation was critical, The Taifu Zhang Shijie was in danger and was busy dispatching elite troops to the Chinese army to find the ShaoDi's ship to rescue the Shaodi. Helpless twilight fell, the wind and rain suddenly arrived, the fog was obstructive, and it was difficult to distinguish. Zhang Shijie had no choice but to cut the cable and lead more than ten ships to rush out of the battlefield to escape from the cliff mountain. In order not to let the Young Emperor be humiliated like Zhao Xian, he carried the Young Emperor on his back and jumped into the rough sea, maintaining the last integrity of the Great Song Emperor. When Empress Yang heard that the Young Emperor had died, she mourned and said sadly, "I endured the hardships of death and came here to preserve the Zhao bone blood, and now that the Zhao family bone blood is gone, what is the meaning of my life!" "He threw himself into the sea and died." There were many harems and courtiers who were martyred by the Young Emperor, and seven days later, there were more than 100,000 floating corpses on the surface of the sea. It was the second year of the Great Song Xiangxing (1279), and the Great Song died.
The History of the Song Dynasty, compiled by Yuan Ren. The Forty-seventh book of the Book reads: "... This twilight and wind and rain, the fog is thick, and there is no distance between them. Shi Jie Nai and Su Liu Yi broke off the defense and took the port with more than ten boats, and Lu Xiufu took the Wei Wang (Young Emperor) boat. The king's boat is large, and the boats are knotted, and they are not allowed to leave, but they are thrown into the sea, and the harem ministers are mostly from the dead, and on seven days, the floating corpses are out of the sea more than 100,000 people. When Empress Yang heard of her death, she mourned: "I endured the hardships of death to this point, and I am a piece of meat for the Zhao clan, and now there is no hope!" 'Then he went to the sea to die, and Shi Jie was buried on the seashore, and Shi Jie drowned himself, and Song Sui died. ”
Genealogy of the Zhao Clan. The Emperor Yumu (帝昺玉牒) says: "After the remains drifted to Chiwan, there were flocks of birds covering them, and the old monks of the ancient temple under the mountain inspected the seashore, and suddenly saw that there were remains floating in the sea, and there were a group of birds living on them, stealing them. Trying to save it, his face is like life, his clothes are not like ordinary people, he knows that it is the emperor's skeleton, and he is buried in the sun at the foot of the mountain. ”
And the folklore is that at that time, a child dressed in yellow dragon robes floated on Chiwan Beach, and a beam in the Chiwan Tin Hau Temple also collapsed for no reason at this time. Miao Zhu and the squire father and elder hurriedly burned incense to ask for help, and learned that the corpse of the child was the remains of the Young Emperor, and dongliang was the coffin sent to the Young Emperor by the Queen of Heaven. Therefore, the people buried the young emperor at the foot of Xiaonan Mountain, west of the Tianhou Temple.
At that time, Emperor Song Shaodi, who had wandered to Chiwan after drowning, was still just an eight-year-old child, and the buds of life had not yet bloomed. A dynasty sank miserably in the South China Sea, and the last emperor of the dynasty was buried in this lonely grave in such a miserable way.
But who would have thought that seven hundred years later, history was destined to rise again here. Today, it is no longer a wild place where turbid waves are cleared and foggy, but a thriving open blue sky and a harbor full of life, all of which make the past and reality unbelievably haunt. If Quanxia had known, How would Emperor Shao of Song and the great Song subjects who accompanied the martyrdom feel? Hi yeah? Sad yeah?
Shenzhen Chiwan is the place where the soul of the Young Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty returns!
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