The earliest recorded tomb robbery was in the Western Zhou Dynasty, more than 2700 years ago. Later, the wind of thick burial arose, and tomb robbery was even more unscrupulous, and the Tenth Volume of Lü's Spring and Autumn, "Meng Dongji, Peaceful Death", wrote: "The thick burial of the world is also similar to this... The number of subjugated countries is innumerable, and the tombs are all innumerable. Isn't it sad that the whole world is fighting for it? ”
The emperors of the past built their own cemeteries, but they were eventually stolen. Looking at this Qin, Han, Tang, Song and other dynasties, how many imperial tombs have safely spanned this thousand years? Not to mention these imperial tombs, even the tombs of the princes and generals have not been spared. The Liu family of the Han Dynasty went out with a gravedigger, Liu, and liked to go to the tombs of the ancestors of the jurisdiction.
The ancients were still more civilized to rob tombs, after all, the tools were limited, mainly relying on digging holes and digging. Although gunpowder was invented early on, the ancients did not seem to have adopted it as the preferred method of tomb robbery. But in the eyes of Sun Dianying many years later, nothing worked with explosives, but it was just a tomb, and the "boom" could be done without a sound.
The tombs of the emperors are all in the underground palace, but the entrance to the underground palace is not so easy for the living to find. Sun Dianying also understood this, so he found a person, who was said to have participated in the construction of the Cixi cemetery. Sun Dianying's tomb robbery was divided into two ways, and one of the people was responsible for stealing the Tanglin Tomb.
Dingdongling was stolen quite easily, and the entrance to the underground palace was just below the glass wall on the side of the Ming Tower. At that time, Sun Dianying's reason was to train troops, so he only had three days, so the tomb robbery was quite rough, and all of them were forcibly exploded. These sounds sounded to the people in the vicinity, who only thought it was a military training.
Another group of people and horses was the theft of the Qing Yu Tomb. Yuling is qianlong's mausoleum and is buried with six people: Qianlong himself, two empresses, and three imperial concubines. When Sun Dianying stole the Yuling Tomb, the beginning was quite smooth, and when he reached the last door, he exhausted all the ways and could not open it. At this time, the explosives came in handy again, and after the stone door was blown open, the scene in front of them frightened a group of soldiers who robbed the tomb.
Qianlong's coffin was dead against the stone gate, which was why the stone door could not be opened alive or dead. The other five coffins are on stone beds. This phenomenon is really difficult to explain, around Qianlong's coffin, there were heavy Longshan stones pressed at the beginning, that is, I was afraid that the coffin would shift, which was the best place for feng shui.
How could Qianlong's coffin have run alone, and still be against the tomb door?
There are also many sayings.
One of them was that Qianlong's grandfather knew that someone would rob the tomb and appeared, but he had never spelled explosives. This statement is a rip-off at first glance.
There is also a saying that Qianlong's coffin used the buoyancy of water, according to the description of the later heavy mortuary, the underground palace at that time was in a mess, only to see several sections of white bones floating in the muddy water, which was really maddening.
However, why did only Qianlong's coffin float?
The history books are recorded, when the Yuling Underground Palace was built, it was found that there was water leakage, and after that, it took some brains to solve the problem of water leakage, until Qianlong was officially buried, and there was no more seepage. So, why did there be water in the dungeon later? Experts have yet to find the answer. To this day, this problem of stagnant water has persisted.
What is even more amazing is that almost 50 years later, everyone witnessed Qianlong's arrival.
It is said that in 1975, when archaeologists were cleaning up the Yuling Tomb, the stone gate was resisted, and this time it was still Qianlong's coffin. If the same strange thing happens again, it is not as simple as "accident", it should be some kind of power, but no one has solved this strange phenomenon so far.
At that time, Qianlong arrived at the door to scare the soldiers who robbed the tomb half to death, and at the same time, there was another thing that also frightened the heavy mortuary.
It is said that in August of the year when Sun Dianying blew up Yuling, Puyi sent someone to clean up the stolen cemetery, and when cleaning up yuling's bones, a strange scene appeared again. In that year, Sun Dianying blew up the Qingling Underground Palace, not only plundered the treasure, but also did not give up the corpse, and the Yuling Underground Palace buried six people, including Qianlong, all of whom became a pile of messy bones, only a female corpse.
The diary reads: "Just when everyone gave up searching, a female corpse appeared in the northwest corner of the underground palace, which was not only complete, but also looked like a living person." "Imagine, in such an environment, is it very frightening to suddenly appear a lifelike corpse?" The Manchu Qing dynasty elders all believed that she was Empress Xiaoyi, the birth mother of the Jiaqing Emperor.
At that time, these strange things are still a mystery, especially the arrival of Qianlong, which happened twice in a row, and if it is explained according to the convention, it will not make sense at all.
Empress Xiaoyi personally thinks so, when Sun Dianying robbed the tomb, she was already soaked in the water, and perhaps it was precisely because of this that she escaped the disaster. However, if this is true, is it difficult for her to soak in the water by herself?
It seems that the answer to these two mysteries should have other explanations, and it will be time to find this answer.
It is said that after the theft of the Qingling Tombs, after the media announced it, the whole country was in an uproar, demanding that the tomb robbers be severely punished, and it is said that Sun Dianying used the stolen treasures to bribe the "people in power" at that time, and the matter was later closed.
Resources:
【"Lü's Spring and Autumn", "The Great Thief of Tanglin"】