The ancients had a saying: "Fight father and son soldiers, fight tiger brothers", which means that what kind of father will have what kind of son. This is true, and it is very appropriate to put it on many famous generals in ancient times. The father is a general, and the son is also a dragon and phoenix among people.
There are countless such figures in history, such as the great generals Meng Xiao and Meng Tian father and son during the Qin Dynasty; Wang Qi and Wang Ben father and son, etc., are very famous "father and son soldiers".
However, not all fathers and sons are so good, and Sun Dianying's father and son in the Republic of China period are completely opposite to the ancient language. Everyone knows that Sun Dianying was a notorious tomb robber, and his son Sun Tianyi became the guardian of the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum for a lifetime.
These two fathers and sons have two different lives and different ideas, one stealing and the other keeping. It is really emotional to be able to become a family in this way.
Sun Dianying was born in 1889 in Sunzhuang Village, Yongcheng City, Henan Province, because his father died early and was unsupervised, he often engaged in some rogue land robbery, stole money and then took it to the casino to play, during which he became acquainted with many Kuomintang warlords and officials.
Around 1920, Sun Dianying joined a local non-governmental organization in Henan Province, the Temple Taoist Association, and through unremitting efforts he became the head of the meeting. Soon after, he took his men and horses to defect to the guarding envoy Ding Xiangling in Yuxi Town, and was appointed by Ding Xiangling as the company commander.
Sun Dianying's early military experience was relatively smooth, all the way from company commander, brigade commander to military commander, and the team also expanded from hundreds to five or six thousand people, and also received chiang kai-shek's love.
In 1928, the Kuomintang Ma Futianbu led an army to defect to the vicinity of Malanyu. Chiang Kai-shek ordered Sun Dianying to go after it, which was really near the Tang Tombs of the Qing Dynasty, and Sun Dianying looked at the palatial mausoleum in the distance and felt an itch in his heart, so he had the idea of robbing tombs and digging treasures.
Later, it was learned that Ma Futian was stationed here and also wanted to excavate the mausoleum, so Sun Dianying launched an attack to drive Ma Futian away in order to swallow the gold and silver jewelry alone.
In order to ensure the smooth progress of the excavation, Sun Dianying ordered his men to spread the news of the military exercise in the nearby villages and blocked the entrances and exits near Malanyu.
Located in present-day Tangshan, Hebei Province, the Qing Tombs began construction in the 18th year of Shunzhi, where a total of 161 people, including 5 emperors, 15 empresses and 136 concubines of the Qing Dynasty, were buried. The grand scale of the Qing Tombs and the magnificence of the tomb owner's identity made Sun Dianying salivate over the funerary products.
Later, Sun Dianying blew up the mausoleum of the Qianlong Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi in the name of casting mines for military exercises. They dug around the mausoleum and moved the rare treasures out of the mausoleum.
Among them, the Qianlong Emperor's 108 imperial pearls and a Nine Dragon Sword and the Night Pearl of Empress Dowager Cixi are the most precious. A total of more than 300 other gold and jade bracelets, various gemstones, tourmalines, jadeite, red corals and other treasures were all moved out by Sun Dianying, and 30 vehicles were transported.
Originally, Sun Dianying's tomb robbery was very hidden, and almost no one knew. However, after robbing the tomb, he was anxious to sell the stolen goods, and took the treasure around to look for the buyer, only to be recognized by the knowledgeable people and reported to Chiang Kai-shek, causing an uproar.
At that time, the news that Sun Dianying had excavated the Tang Tombs spread throughout the country, triggering condemnation and insults from everyone. The last emperor Puyi also learned of this incident, so he called Chiang Kai-shek to severely punish this tomb robber who dug his ancestor's grave.
Later, in order to evade responsibility, Sun Dianying gave all the stolen treasures to the senior Kuomintang officers. Among them, the Qianlong Emperor's Nine Dragon Sword was given to Chiang Kai-shek by Dai Kasa, and his affairs were not resolved after that.
More than 20 years after the Qing Dynasty Incident, Sun Dianying had become a senior general among the Kuomintang warlords and was entrusted with important tasks by Chiang Kai-shek. During the Liberation War, in order to show loyalty, he personally led his troops to make enemies with the People's Liberation Army.
Subsequently, in a battle in Tangyin, Henan Province, Sun Dianying was successfully captured by the People's Liberation Army and died in prison shortly after. The notorious grave robbers and Kuomintang reactionaries finally ended their lives.
When Sun Dianying died, his only son, Sun Tianyi, had just turned three years old. An ignorant child initially had a very high admiration for his father, but at this time he did not know what his father Sun Dianying had done.
As he grew older, he was eager to know the deeds of his father, Sun Dianying. The mother could not stand his soft and hard bubbles, and finally put everything on him and the plate. At this moment, the faith in Sun Tiantian's heart also slowly came to an end.
Since then, his father has become Sun Tianyi's heart knot, and having such a wicked father makes him feel humiliated. On the road to growing up, he has always used his father as a negative teaching material to come from the province of life.
Sun Tianyi studied Western languages and literatures at Puren University in Beijing, and after graduating from university in 1952, he was assigned to teach at the Xi'an Chinese Institute. He is diligent and rigorous in his work, and is deeply loved by teachers and classmates.
Sun Tianyi has taught 8 subjects such as linguistics, speaking and listening, and his teaching style is unique and charming, which can be described as a school of his own, and has won the support of students.
In 1986, he became a professor and dean of Xi'an Chinese College, where he worked for 40 years.
Xi'an is an ancient capital with a long history, and it has one of the strongest cultural atmospheres in China. During his work in Xi'an, Sun Tiantian had the opportunity to come into contact with the history of Xi'an and various imperial tombs.
Once, when he accompanied his guests on a tour of Xi'an, he accidentally saw the tomb of the Yellow Emperor, the tomb of Emperor Xuanyuan, the ancestor of the sons and daughters of China. After thousands of years of vicissitudes and changes, it stood quietly in a lush forest, and Sun Tiantian was shocked when he took a look.
Later, unable to resist curiosity, he walked in to take a look, but found that the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum was small and simple, and if it were not for someone pointing the way, he would not be able to see that this was the mausoleum of the ancestors of the sons and daughters of China. Compared to the tombs of other dynastic kings, this place is too shabby.
In 1992, the Party Central Committee called for the repair of the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum and established a foundation, appointing Sun Tiantian, who had been paying attention to the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum, as vice president, and two years later he took over the presidency and put the construction of the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum on the agenda. In August 2021, the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum was completed, and the former dilapidated mausoleum now has the courage and glory, and Sun Tiantian is deeply comforted.
And Sun Tiantian finally got rid of the shadow of his father Sun Dianying and became a high-ranking official, a big figure who was revered by thousands of people.
Sun Tiantian has always been a reasonable person, he knows that he can't choose what kind of father he has, but he understands what kind of life he can choose. Others say: "Tiger father has no dog", the son will always like to follow the father to arrange life, but fortunately Sun Tiantian did not.
Although he carried the name of "Son of the Great Thief of Tanglin" for many years, he guarded the Yellow Emperor's Mausoleum with heartache for the destruction of cultural relics and the idea of atonement for his father's sins. But in any case, Sun Tiantian has become a proud person, and his act of guarding national cultural relics deserves applause.