In costume dramas, there are always some plots that will say: the ancient emperor is not dead, the cemetery has long been prepared, and some even go to see it with their own eyes, do they curse themselves?
In fact, it is because of "fear of death", this "fear of death" is afraid of being excavated after death, after all, he was born with unlimited scenery. And the ancients believed that after death, they would live in another world, and the emperors of these people naturally wanted to continue the power and wealth of their lives until after death, and at the same time, in order to prevent someone from stealing their own cemetery, they tried thousands of ways: poisoning, setting up organs, building fake tombs, pouring mercury...
However, many emperors died before the day the cemetery was repaired. It is said that there have been 83 dynasties recognized by the world in the past five thousand years in China, and there are 661 well-documented emperors in the past dynasties. Although these emperors were in different eras, they all had one thing in common: short lives.
Among them, only more than 200 emperors can really find the time of birth and death, and their average life expectancy is only 39.2 years. There are 339 emperors who died normally, 322 who died unnaturally, and the method of death is very strange: laughing to death, gas death, falling into the toilet and drowning... No one may believe it, but it really exists.
After all, in a chaotic world, the strange method of death is not strange. However, although there was an emperor who died normally, after his death, he was "dissected" by his courtiers to make a dish - "bacon", so he was jokingly called "bacon emperor". He was Emperor Taizong of Liao, Yelü Deguang, and the son of Yelü Abaoji, the founding emperor of the Liao Dynasty.
Drying people into a "dish" is simply not too scary, what is going on?
It is said that it was because the Central Plains were in a state of fragmentation at that time, and the people were constantly in turmoil. At this time, Yelü Deguang, who had unified the Khitan at this time, thought that the time was ripe, so he ordered a large-scale attack on the Central Plains, but he underestimated the force of the Central Plains at that time, the people of the Central Plains did not yield, all armed forces unanimously resisted foreign enemies and resisted the Khitan invaders, and many Liao soldiers were constantly annihilated and defeated, and had to retreat.
On the way back, because Yelü Deguang and khitan soldiers had been living in the north, they were accustomed to the severe cold in the north, and they could not bear the heat of summer. As a result, he contracted a fever that did not go away, so severe that he could not cool down by heaping ice cubes all around him and swallowing ice into his stomach.
Even so, he did not listen to the doctor's advice and restrained his indulgence. Still doing my own thing, I also scolded the doctor: "You are all unlearned, I have a fever, I am afraid that the body is obviously very good and is about to vent fire to the female color, how can I stay away from the female color!" Finally, because of his indulgence, when he walked to Luancheng, he vomited blood and cried out for his life, at the age of 46.
People are dead, but things are not over. The news of his death was soon known to empress dowager Shulu (Yelü Deguang's mother), who loved him the most, and she was so distraught that her beloved son would die suddenly, claiming that "to see people die and to see corpses", but it was a hot summer, and the distance back to the Liao kingdom was so far away.
How can the body be transported back intact and not decayed before returning to the Liao Kingdom? This was a great embarrassment to the courtiers who accompanied them to the war. At a moment when the courtiers were very anxious, a cook stepped forward, and he made an opinion: Why don't you make the emperor a? What is "羓"? "羓" is equivalent to what we now call bacon.
At that time, the northern nomads liked to eat cattle and mutton, sometimes killing a cow or a sheep, and could not eat it for a while, and in the summer, the herders would hollow out the internal organs of the cattle and sheep and brine them with salt, which would become a "cate" that would not rot.
If this method is really adopted, it means treating the emperor as an animal. But other than that, there really is no other way. The ministers could only agree to adopt the chef's approach.
The cook had dissected many sheep, but this time it was the dissector, first "clicking" a knife, then "slithering" the contents of Yelüd's bare stomach outwards, and finally sprinkling the body with salt... It was then loaded into a sealed salt jar and transported back to Daliao.
After returning to her homeland, the empress dowager also held a solemn soul-summoning ceremony for Yelü Deguang, probably seeing that the "bacon son" was too pitiful, and she was angry with the cook and beheaded him. And this method of preserving the corpse was not passed down in the end, and Yelü Deguang became the only "mummified" emperor in Chinese history.