We in China since ancient times on the funeral of this matter is particularly important, film and television dramas will often play such a fragment, what sell the body to bury the father, in order to bury the deceased in the soil, do not hesitate to sell themselves as slaves, the family conditions are better, not to mention, to pick a piece of feng shui treasure land, pay attention to a grand pomp, invite a special band to play, and even invite special people to cry mourning, in short, how to do decently, ordinary people are still so, not to mention the royal funeral, not to mention, But the person we are going to talk about today is very special, she is of royal origin, her position is very prominent, but after her death, her coffin has been parked for 37 years.
This person is who said that you are certainly not strangers, he is the red man in the film and television drama, Borzigit Bumubutai, so everyone may be a little strange, another name, Xiaozhuang Empress, nicknamed Da Yu'er, this is also an outstanding female politician, a lifetime of training to assist Shunzhi, Kangxi, two emperors, and contributed to the arrival of Kangqian's prosperous world, that is a meritorious ah, such a veritable Lafayette, how her posthumous affairs should also be done is beautiful, How could it be that he had not been buried in the ground for 37 years after his death, and even if he was buried 37 years later, he was buried in a particularly strange place, neither following her husband to bury in the Northeast ZhaoLing, nor buried in the Qing Dongling Tomb near Beijing, but outside the feng shui wall of the Dongling Tomb, a mausoleum was built alone.
Empress Xiaozhuang
This matter is very confusing, let's talk about who is responsible for this matter, this person is not unfamiliar, he is also a big red man in the film and television drama, Xiaozhuang's grandson, the Kangxi Emperor, so why did the Kangxi Emperor not build a tomb for his grandmother, it is impossible to say that it is too busy to take care of it, because the kangxi emperor's most nervous time in this life is the eight years from the twelfth to the twentieth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, even the eight years of pacifying san francisco, he also built a Jingling for his own Empress Xiaochengren, and also built a XiaodongLing for Empress Renxian. This can be seen that it is not because of lack of time to build a mausoleum for his own imperial grandmother, it may be because of bad feelings? This is even more impossible, because in the 26th year of Kangxi, Empress Xiaozhuang's illness was already very serious, and the Kangxi Emperor was very anxious, in order to be able to pray for Empress Xiaozhuang's sincere blessings, he decided to personally walk to the Temple of Heaven, not to ride a horse or sit in a sedan car, all the way hard not to say, when praying for blessings, he also said such a passage, he said that if you are large or poor, I would like to reduce the age of my subjects, and increase the life expectancy of the empress dowager, several years of life, the meaning is very clear, if my imperial grandmother's limit arrives, I will reduce my life expectancy and continue it to my grandmother.
You are the ninth and fifth of the honor, can you say such a paragraph, does this feeling still need to be said, and this is not just for the Kangxi Emperor, he is grateful to his imperial grandmother from the bottom of his heart, first of all, the life of a Kangxi Emperor was given by his grandmother, the Kangxi Emperor had a serious illness when he was young, many people know about the disease of smallpox, then at that time, smallpox, can you survive then God, this is an incurable disease. The key is that he is still infected, the palace must not be able to stay, so he moved Xiao Xuanye to a temple outside the palace, this temple is called Fuyou Temple, this behavior is called "avoiding pox", at that time the Kangxi Emperor's father, the Shunzhi Emperor was not very concerned about him, and later the Kangxi Emperor himself recalled that he did not get the love of his father and mother, and their feelings were very distant, but his grandmother, who cared for himself with all her heart, also sent his own personal maid, who took care of him day and night, It is equivalent to pulling yourself back from the ghost door, overcoming this smallpox and saving a young life.
Kangxi
And Kangxi's throne is also given by the grandmother to escort, it is said that before the Shunzhi Emperor died, he did not want to pass the throne to this son, but wanted to pass it to his brother, but at that time, as a mother, Xiaozhuang strongly opposed, insisting that the father pass on the son, so as to pass on to which child, Xiaozhuang put forward a key suggestion at this time, saying that it would be passed on to the one who had smallpox, and it would never be obtained again, so it was decided that there was a later Kangxi Emperor, such feelings, You said that the Kangxi Emperor could not be grateful to his grandmother who loved and cared for him, but with such good feelings, why would the Kangxi Emperor let his grandmother live and stop in a coffin for 37 years?
Regarding this matter, there are many speculations in history, one is the "Providence Theory", saying that when Xiaozhuang came out of the funeral, he wanted to carry the coffin all the way to Zhaoling in the northeast and look for her husband, but just when passing through The Tanglin Tomb, the coffin suddenly became very heavy, and it seemed that it was about to be lifted, and the barman who carried the coffin was ready to rest for a while, who knew this rest, when he wanted to lift it, he couldn't lift it, this coffin seemed to grow on the ground, and they had no choice but to quickly report this matter to the Kangxi Emperor. Then in the evening he had a dream, it was the imperial grandmother who gave him a dream, this coffin is not moved, this is the arrangement of heaven, you don't have to transport me to the northeast, in the place where the coffin is stopped, bury me there, the Kangxi Emperor woke up and wanted to do it, the horizontal vertical can not be lifted, can only be built in this coffin place to build a temporary temple, put the grandmother first. After all, even if the ancients were superstitious, they could not stop the coffin for 37 years because of a dream.
The next one is "the empress dowager's marriage theory." Saying that this empress dowager married her uncle Dorgon, you want to say, the history books do not record this family affair, you are making things up here. To be honest, there are two main sources of this statement. Saying that this Dorgon often goes to the inner courtyard of the palace, this inner courtyard of the palace, everyone knows that it is where the emperor and the concubines live, you Dorgon is not the emperor, you have nothing to run there to do, some people say that he just went to meet with Xiaozhuang. Another is that after Dorgon's death, the Shunzhi Emperor opened Dorgon's coffin and beat his corpse with a whip to relieve his hatred, if it were not for the blood feud between uncles and nephews, it would be a great shame, as for the opening of the museum to whip the corpse. These are just speculations, everyone listens to a story, even if this "empress dowager's marriage" is a real thing, the Kangxi Emperor will not be embarrassed for 37 years, because the Manchus have a marriage custom called "inheritance marriage", that is, after the death of the husband, the wife must be inherited by the family, otherwise the whole family will be said to have no ability, so this matter seems normal to the people in the Qing Palace at that time, and it will not lead to the coffin being stopped for 37 years without burial.
Dolgun
Then let's take a look at the third saying, "Testament Says", saying that Xiaozhuang himself left a will: "Emperor Taizong Wen's Zi Palace, who has been enshrined for a long time, should not be lightly moved for me, but I am in love with Emperor Ru and Ru, and I cannot bear to go away. Xiaozhuang's will expressed two meanings, the first is to say "humble and immovable", my husband Huang Taiji is more honorable than me, he has been buried, the underground palace is also sealed, don't open it because I can easily open it. Another is, I really want you two grandfathers, don't let me go to the Northeast Zhaoling, too far away from you, just find a good place near the Xiaoling Tomb, just bury me.
In this way, Xiaozhuang's will is clear enough, why can the Kangxi Emperor be entangled for so many years, and find a place to bury near The Tomb of Xiaoling. But this is not easy to arrange, first of all, according to the traditional customs, the husband and wife are to be buried together, in order to meet the requirements of Empress Xiaozhuang, for the Kangxi Emperor is to break through the tradition and change the ancestral system, but this is not the most important, because for the funeral of his grandmother Xiaozhuang, the Kangxi Emperor has broken a lot of traditions, for example, he cut off his own braids, you should all know that the braid is of great significance to the Manchurians, according to the imperial regulations, only the former emperor died, the successor emperor can cut off the braids, As a sign of mourning, after the death of Xiaozhuang, the Kangxi Emperor had already broken through the ancestral system and cut the braids. There is also a "stop for more than a year", that is, to let the grandmother's coffin be parked in the Forbidden City for the New Year, according to the regulations of the Manchurian nobility, if there is a funeral years ago, the coffin must be moved out of the palace before the Chinese New Year's Eve, otherwise it is not auspicious. Xiaozhuang died on the twenty-fifth day of the 26th month of the Kangxi Dynasty, only five days before the New Year, when the princes and ministers played the song, and at the latest on the night of the 29th of the 29th month of the Month of Kangxi, they hurriedly removed Xiaozhuang's coffin from the palace, and the Kangxi Emperor said angrily: "If you have any taboos, you should bow down." What is unlucky to rush to me is that I don't want to move my grandmother out and want to accompany my grandmother for the New Year.
Seeing this, I guess you have doubts, since the Kangxi Emperor has already done this job, why not directly follow the request of his grandmother, because he has no way, according to Zhou Li' saying: "The burial of the first king is in the center, with Zhaomu as the left and right." That is to say, in the Qing Dynasty, the Xiaoling Tomb of the Shunzhi Emperor has been centered, and the people who enter later have to build a mausoleum around the Xiaoling Tomb, and the generations are smaller than him, so how can Xiaozhuang, the mother of the Shunzhi Emperor, enter it.
ZhaoXi Mausoleum
And because Kangxi did not want to wronged his grandmother, the most important thing for the ancients to build tombs and tombs was feng shui, the so-called "Longsha Cave water is not beautiful, the situation is reasonable and auspicious." All in all, there must be good feng shui in order to bury your important people here, but the location of the temporary temple, one has no mountains, the other has no water, and the terrain is not good, a plain, the future will certainly not be conducive to the discharge of water, in this mausoleum, the underground palace must seep water, can the Kangxi Emperor bear to bury his most important grandmother here.
So this "will said" may be the real situation, Empress Xiaozhuang is to her grandson out of a big problem, want to complete the grandmother's wishes, and do not want to wronged the grandmother, for the best of both worlds, the Kangxi Emperor has been thinking for 37 years, in his lifetime, he did not come up with a perfect strategy, had to throw this big problem to his son Yongzheng Emperor, Yongzheng Emperor just succeeded to the throne, the prince and minister came to urge, this matter must be solved, this coffin has been outside for many years, you have to hurry into the underground palace, ah, ah, But the problem is still that problem, and how will he solve it.
To say that this angle of thinking about the problem is not the same, this matter is not the same, the Yongzheng Emperor decided to directly in the position of the Temporary An Fengdian Temple, digging a pit and digging the underground palace, before and after only ten months, he finished what his father had not done in the past 37 years, some people should be curious, how did he solve the feng shui problem, the Yongzheng Emperor said: "Since Empress Xiaozhuangwen an Fengfeng, my Holy Zuren Emperor, who has a long history, Haiyu Qi'an, descendants and grandchildren, want to filial piety to Empress Wen, in the spirit of heaven is extremely safe. He meant that if the feng shui in this place was not good, how could it bless the Kangxi Emperor for 61 years of reign, how could he bless the country with peace and prosperity, and how could the people live and work in peace and contentment. People used this trick to block the mouths of the yo-yo crowd.
And the custom problem of husband and wife burial was also solved by the Yongzheng Emperor, he gave a special name to the mausoleum of Empress Xiaozhuang, called ZhaoxiLing, why say that he can solve the problem by taking a name, here to tell you, the mausoleum of the Shunzhi Emperor is called Xiaodongling, that is, in the middle of the Shunzhi Emperor's tomb, Xiaozhuang is the empress of the Emperor Taiji, although the mausoleum is far away, but the orientation is indeed in the west of the Emperor Taiji Zhaoling, so it is called Zhaoxi Mausoleum. The Kangxi Emperor probably couldn't have imagined that this problem could be solved in this way, and the Yongzheng Emperor was not perfunctory, and the repair of the mausoleum for Xiaozhuang was quite careful, and the large roof of the general empress dowager's mausoleum was of the heavy eaves and mountain style, but the roof of the heavy eaves was built for Xiaozhuang, which can be said to be the highest specification in all the empress dowager mausoleums of the entire Qing Dynasty.
Yongzheng
Even the Yongzheng Emperor also built a Shinto monument pavilion for Xiaozhuang, which is not a general breakthrough in the ancestral system, women in the past were not erected, but the Yongzheng Emperor insisted on erecting a monument to Xiaozhuang, and there were ministers who questioned it at the time, but the Yongzheng Emperor said: "The Zhaoxi Mausoleum is far from the Zhaoling Tomb, and it is different from the Xiaodongling Tomb and the Secret Tomb of Filial Piety, and the Special Monument Pavilion should be built." "In this way, Xiaozhuang was given a stele of the Gantu Donkey."
In this way, although Xiaozhuang was not buried in time, her descendants were all doing their best for her sake, and the final site selection can be regarded as a fulfillment of her dream, and this woman who has paid a lifetime of hard work for the rule of the Qing Dynasty finally has a belonging under the arrangement of her grandson.