Emperor Qianlong, a perfect old man, was really miserable in this catastrophe. Forty days after the robbery, Puyi, who has been living in Bird, Tianjin, held a "command meeting" and decided to rebury the remains of Emperor Qianlong and his empresses. He sent a group of people, old and young, as well as imperial clan, officials, chefs and guards of the Republic of China and so on. They took the 10 bus and six buses and left Tianjin for two days. Because it was rainy season, the road was muddy and difficult to walk. The adherents who attended this heavy funeral wrote what they saw and heard in their diaries and edited it into a Collection of Thefts in Dongling. This precious information records the terrible situation of the bones of Emperor Qianlong and his empresses:
First, the bones were thrown out of the underground palace. After the robbery, the grave keeper came out. When they came to Yuling, they were surprised to see the underground palace gate in a mess, especially the human bones. "Dongling Tomb Robbery Collection" records: "One rib, two foot bones and one knee bone were found." There is no doubt that these bones come from the underground palace, that is, the bones of Emperor Qianlong and his concubines. It is really sad. Where have those grave keepers seen these? Why are the bones of Emperor Qianlong thrown outside the underground palace? It turned out that there was deep water in the underground palace, and all those treasures and bones were soaked in deep mud. After the gangsters opened the underground palace, they faced two major problems: first, there was a Wang Yang in the underground palace, and they had to fish for treasures in the water; One is that the underground palace is dark and the target can't be seen. What did we do? Soldiers and robbers found something like a sieve. Someone is fishing in the water with a sieve underground. After they fished them out, they passed them underground, waiting for soldiers and bandits to come and take them away. But when soldiers and bandits saw that something was wrong, they were not all treasures at all, but had many bones, so they took the treasure away and threw it away cruelly.
Second, the bones have gone bad. The bones of Emperor Qianlong and his concubines have been seriously deteriorated because they have been soaked in water for a long time. Imperial clan Bao recorded in his diary: "The spine was found in the brick, and the color was black". As you can imagine, due to long-term immersion in sewage, over time, their bones turned black.
Third, the head of Emperor Qianlong disappeared. Everyone looked around, and these heavily armed men came to the underground palace and found five bones, but they couldn't find the skull of Emperor Qianlong. Where did they go? Everyone, too many cooks, went through a lot of trouble. Finally, a skull was found under the east stone door that was blown down in the fourth lane. After careful analysis, it is confirmed that this is the head of Emperor Qianlong. His mandible was broken because he was crushed under the stone gate. Bao looked at Qianlong's skull and was stunned. In Bao's diary, it is recorded: "There are only deep eyes. When you look closely with a lamp, it seems that white light comes out of your eyes." Isn't that terrible? Fortunately, however, the skull of Emperor Qianlong was finally found.
Fourth, the bones can't be found. There are bones inside and outside Yuling, which are everywhere in Fangcheng, on the platform, in the pyramid-shaped mound and in the underground palace. Emperor Qianlong's "fingers and toes are impossible to find" made him a disabled person without hands and feet. Especially those spoiled queens, they are all "five or six times out of ten" in their bones, which is really pitiful.
It's a pity that Emperor Qianlong was pampered before his death, but he ended up with incomplete bones after his death.
The mystery of the theft of Qianlong Yuling
Later: 1928 In June, Sun Dianying, commander of the 12th Army of the National Revolutionary Army, prepared to rob the Dongling of Cixi, the Yuling of Qianlong and the Jingling of Kangxi.
However, if you want to rob a tomb, you must first find the entrance to the underground palace. Sun Dianying's men, Liang Langxian spoke at this time; He thought that people could be sent to look for the "treasure map" of the mausoleum in the workshop, and on the other hand, to look for experts familiar with the entrance to the underground palace, because there were many descendants of mausoleum guards and craftsmen living around the mausoleum area at that time.
Finally, through two grave keepers, I heard that a man named Su Bitaolin might know that Su Bitaolin participated in the whole process of Cixi's burial, and it was the person Sun Dianying was looking for!
A week later, on July 8, Subitulin was taken from home to the tomb of Cixi.
Cixi Mausoleum consists of many buildings, such as Long 'en Hall, Ming Building and Baocheng. Under the coercion and inducement, Soapy Tolin pointed out the entrance to the underground palace of Cixi mausoleum under the glazed wall next to the Ming building. The officers and men who dug the grave never imagined that such an important facility was in a place where everyone could see it, but they would not think about it. Sure enough, the soldiers soon dug into the King Kong Wall, and then forcibly blasted it with explosives and entered the underground palace.
Sun Dianying was divided into three groups at that time, and began to work on three tombs at the same time, and asked to finish them in three days. Successfully found the entrance of Ganling and Jingling underground palace, and was successfully stolen by Sun Dianying. What Soapy didn't expect was that Sun Dianying, after completing the excavation of three Qing tombs, pulled him into the deep ditch left by the excavation and shot him!
While Sun Dianying was stealing the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi, other soldiers were also stealing Emperor Qianlong's Yuling. This is where the strange things begin ... who is blocking the door!
The coffin is set and the personnel are evacuated. How did this natural stone stand against the door? Generally, only the people inside can finish the top door. The original secret lies in the design of the stone gate and the door shaft. The butting edges of the two doors are buckled, the upper and lower ends of the door shaft are polished into spheres, and the two stone gates are aligned with the crack of the same part, and a raised notch is reserved when chiseling. Before closing the stone gate, the craftsman put the natural stone in the stone trough on the ground and trapped it with a special tool-the 7-shaped object commonly known as crutch nail.
When all the people are evacuated from the underground palace, close a door first, and the craftsman pulls the crutch nail to make it lean forward slowly, so that it can butt with the notch reserved on the stone gate. After the stone is tilted, with the help of huge weight, the door shaft will be used to press the stone door to rotate. At this time, the craftsman quickly took off the nail, and the stone gate automatically closed until it was completely closed-the natural stones inserted in the stone trough at both ends held the stone gate tightly, and people who didn't know the trick couldn't open it at all.
And if you want to open this stone door, you have to go through that special tool, commonly known as the "7"-shaped object of crutches. This was the case when the Shimen of Dingling Underground Palace was opened. This special tool functions like a key. In ancient times, this method of "opening the door" was mastered by thieves. It is also common knowledge in the circle that a locked door can be easily opened from the outside. Archaeologists actually borrowed this theft technique. The two stone gates in Dingling are very heavy, tall and tidy, with a height of 3.3 meters and a width of 1.7 meters. The self-made stone at the top gate is 1.6 meters long, and there is still ink on it: "Seven self-made stones in Gong Xuan have not been tested".
What does this mean? Experts don't fully understand it yet, just guessing.
Even if the grave robbers open the first stone gate, they may not be able to find the second door. There are usually many lost roads in the mausoleum, and you may not be able to get out. It may not be possible to open the stone door below smoothly, because the "mechanism" behind each door is different. During the period of the Republic of China (1928), when Sun Dianying, a warlord, was excavating the tomb of Cixi, the last stone gate that entered the underground palace could not be opened. Originally, he planned to blast it with explosives for fear of destroying the treasures in the mausoleum, but he used a stupid method, and 40 soldiers rammed it in with thick wooden stakes before he was able to enter. Later, when investigating on the spot, investigators found that the stone at the top door was broken into several pieces.
While Sun Dianying was stealing the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi, other soldiers were also stealing Emperor Qianlong's Yuling. At the same time, something strange happened. Six people, including Gan Long, Empress Xiao Xianchun and Emperor Guifei of Zhejiang and Fujian, were buried in Yuling. After the heavy coffin of Qianlong was placed on the stone bed of the underground palace, four heavy dragon stones were placed in the four corners of the coffin in order to determine the feng shui line and mark the most prosperous position in Long Mai.
After Sun Dianying successfully opened the front door, the last one really became an obstacle, and it didn't help. The feeling be nasty under, had to explode. After the Shimen explosion, the soldiers were surprised to find a great miracle: the other five coffins were all on the stone bed, and they "walked" down alone, holding on to the Shimen tightly, so the soldiers could not open the door.
Did Qianlong secretly know that thieves would come to steal Yuling and "down" the top door himself? The same strange scene appeared again in 1975 when archaeologists cleaned the Yuling underground palace. Qianlong's coffin "walked" down against the stone gate again this time, playing the role of a natural stone. Some experts believe that this is due to the buoyancy of the leaked groundwater, which makes the coffin float. But why don't the other five move? Moreover, the four corners of the dried catalpa coffin are fixed with heavy stones. If it is due to the buoyancy of groundwater, there will be great waves, but the infiltrated water obviously does not have this condition. So far, experts have failed to come up with convincing archaeological findings to prove why Gan Long Coven walked around and "took care of" his grave, which became a mystery.