Zhou Ding's tomb is the tomb of Zhu, the fifth son of Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming dynasty, someone guarded the tomb, but in the Qing dynasty, no one looked after it. When later generations discovered it, the tomb had been stolen.
Legend has it that Li Zicheng, the leader of the peasant uprising army at the end of the Ming Dynasty, ordered the excavation of the stolen hole in the tomb's "middle room", with the aim of venting personal anger, breaking Long Mai and retaliating against the siege of Kaifeng for the first time. There is no evidence for this statement, but it is circulated among the people.
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The discovery of King Zhou Ding's mausoleum;
1938 At that time, an old man named Qiao Hei in Wang Jiacun cultivated land in front of a gentle slope at the eastern foot of Laoshan Mountain in Juzi. After a cow leg was pushed into the hole and pulled out, Joe put the bullwhip in the hole, but he couldn't reach it. Old Joe found the young people in the village and dug the hole out bit by bit. It turned out to be a tomb door. Old Joe's land is actually the tunnel in front of Wang Ding's tomb in Zhou Wang.
So it attracted people from all over the country to watch the fun. People carefully opened the stone gate, walked into the main hall of the tomb and found the stolen hole above the tomb. I don't know when the tomb of King Zhou Ding was stolen. The location of the stolen cave not only made people lament the high level of grave robbers at that time.
Stealing the hole directly down the mountain, hitting the top of the coffin accurately, and cleverly avoiding the huge bluestone gate set up to prevent grave robbery, just as described in popular grave robbery novels. As for how magnificent the original mausoleum was and what treasures were in it, it has become an eternal mystery.
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