At the end of "Golden Branch Desire", Kong Wu's brother Chen Shuang, with a group of Tianli Sect disciples, invaded the Forbidden City, and this plot was not completely made up, because in the eighteenth year of Jiaqing in the Qing Dynasty, this did happen, and hundreds of Tianli Sect members invaded the imperial palace and directly approached the Yangxin Hall, which is called "the change of decoction".
Although more than two hundred years have passed since this incident, to this day, there is still a relic in the Forbidden City that seems to be related to this, that is, the famous broken arrow on the plaque of the Longzong Gate, the most widely said, that is, this broken arrow was left by the Tianli Sect that attacked the palace that year.
Overlooking the Forbidden City from Jingshan Mountain
Introduction of the Forbidden City Longzong Gate:
This gate is one of the important gateways to and from the inner court, also known as the forbidden door, except for emergency work, courtesy of the order, the prince and ministers are not allowed to trespass, in the eighteenth year of Qing Jiaqing, a Tianli Sect rebel army attacked the Longzong Gate under the eunuch's internal response, directly to the military aircraft and the Emperor's Palace Yangxin Hall, the plaque of the door left a cluster of arrows shot in the fierce battle that year.
Even the official introduction of the Forbidden City to the outside world is said to be this broken arrow, which was left by the Tianli Sect rebel army that year.
The majestic Forbidden City, Longzong Gate is also an important gateway to the inner court, leaving such a broken arrow on the plaque, always feel very abrupt, but people think that the Jiaqing Emperor left this arrow cluster, is to always remind themselves of the lesson of that time, so this arrow cluster has never been cleaned up.
On the plaque of longzong gate next to the military aircraft, there is a clear cluster of arrows
Everything sounds reasonable, but it's full of doubts.
Suspicious point 1: The tail of the broken arrow on the Longzong Gate is cocked, obviously shooting from a high place to a low place, how is this done;
Doubt 2: None of the Qing Dynasty records have deliberately preserved the description of this arrow cluster;
Doubt three: The Tianli Sect rebel army was confused into the palace, how did the weapon of the bow and arrow be brought in.
The palace was breached, such a major event in the Qing Dynasty in the relevant materials naturally recorded very detailed, according to the record, the day of the incident, the leader of the Tianli Sect Lin Qing bought the eunuchs in the palace, when the Jiaqing Emperor was not in the palace, but was on the way back from the summer resort, so he escaped a disaster, through the internal response, the Tianli sect entered the palace from the Donghua Gate and the Xihua Gate, which was different from the forced rush into the palace in "The Desire of the Golden Branches".
However, because at that time, there were Tianli sects and people quarreling, and as a result, when they tore their clothes, they revealed their blades, which were seen by the guards on duty, and the Jingyun Gate was quickly closed, but at this time, many Tianli sects had entered the palace and gathered in the area of longzong gate, and the prince Mianning who heard the news quickly closed the palace doors and arranged for the guards to resist, due to the huge difference in strength, the Tianli sect was quickly captured and killed, and the plan was completely failed.
Stills of the Tenrikyo uprising
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="31" > bows and arrows could not be brought in at all, and there was no record of the Jiaqing Emperor asking for the retention of the arrow cluster</h1>
Judging from the records, the weapons brought into the palace by the Tianli Sect at that time were mainly swords, and they were relatively short, and long weapons such as bows and arrows could not be hidden at all, and could not be brought into the palace, and the guards who participated in the resistance mainly used swords and spears, and did not use bows and arrows at all, and it is naturally difficult to say that the arrows on the Longzong Gate were left behind when the change of the Dragon Sect.
Although the Tianli Sect uprising of that year was not successful, as for the Jiaqing Emperor himself, it was not a small thing that the palace was destroyed, and the Jiaqing Emperor blamed himself and issued a crime, but from the beginning to the end, he did not find a record of the Jiaqing Emperor asking for an arrow cluster on the Longzong Gate, after all, the Longzong Gate was the gateway to the Inner Court, if the Jiaqing Emperor really had such an order, it was impossible for the Internal Affairs Office to leave no traces in the records of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Old photo of Longzong Gate
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > the cluster of broken arrows is inserted in an odd direction, most likely acquired</h1>
Wu Kong, who was originally the deputy director of the Central Research Museum of Literature and History, had found that there was something strange about the arrows on the Longzong Gate.
From the direction of the arrow, it is clear that it is shot down from a high place to a low place, if it is an ordinary bow and arrow, it is impossible to do it, and if the crossbow machine is used, the direction is not correct.
The Forbidden City has been repaired several times, he also consulted a lot of old workers who participated in the repair and maintenance of Miyagi City, and he knew that there was more than one broken arrow on the Longzong Gate, not only on the plaque, even on the lintel, door frame and other places, there were a lot of arrows, most of which were cleared by the workers, and the traces were also smoothed out, but the hole in the plaque of the Longzong Gate was too deep, and the workers simply inserted an arrow into it. And this can explain why the arrow tail on the Longzong Gate is raised high.
Old photos of the Forbidden City
But where did so many arrows on the Longzong Gate come from? Left over from the Jiaqing period? It was absolutely impossible, if it was really left by the Heavenly Reason Sect at that time, it was absolutely impossible to leave only so many arrows in the Longzong Gate, not to mention that this was the inner court portal, inserted like a sea urchin, it was really not like words, and the Daoguang Emperor and the Xianfeng Emperor after Jiaqing could not be willing to look at it.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="36" > and there is a saying that the arrows on the Longzong Gate were actually left by Puyi and other royal people in the Sunqing Dynasty</h1>
After Empress Longyu promulgated the abdication edict, the side of the Forbidden City was still in love with the Xinjue Luo family, Puyi was not more troublesome, often messed around with a group of clan disciples, shooting arrows everywhere in the palace, and using the plaques in Longzong Gate and other places as targets, after all, Longzong Gate was very close to the Yangxin Hall, and it was indeed possible for Puyi to practice archery here.
The last emperor Puyi
Puyi's eyes are not good, is a super myopic eye, when the draft that year, he looked at the photo of Wanrong and Wenxiu, after repeated comparisons, at first circled Wenxiu as an empress, but was blocked by Duankang Taifei, which changed to Wanrong, and when Puyi saw Wanrong and Wenxiu himself, it is estimated that he was secretly glad in his heart, fortunately, Taifei blocked her.
Because of Puyi's short-sightedness, he could not shoot arrows at all, and even when Wanrong entered the palace, he originally needed to perform the "shooting ceremony" according to tradition, but the relevant divisions were afraid that Puyi would hurt Wanrong, so please order the princess to cancel this link.
In fact, to this day, there is still no sufficient evidence to prove where the arrows on the Longzong Gate came from, and the claim that the broken arrows on the Longzong Gate are left over from the Tianli Sect actually appeared as early as the book "Introduction to the Forbidden City" written by Guo Moruo in the middle and late last century, but it was only a story, and there was no specific source.
The description of the broken arrow in the book is summarized as follows: This is a glorious relic of the heroic struggle of the Chinese people!
Old photos of the Forbidden City at the end of the Qing Dynasty