Seven mysteries in the history of China.

The seven mysteries in the history of China are:

1, the mystery of Laozi's customs clearance

According to historical records, Lao Tzu went out to Hangu Pass in the west and was ordered by Yin, leaving a 5,000-word masterpiece "Tao Te Ching" in the history of China thought. Then he rode on a big green cow and went west, but there was no news.

This has aroused the interest of many archaeologists and historians, and so far no conclusive evidence has been drawn. Some people say that I went to India through quicksand, while others say that I went to India to preach and taught a great disciple like Sakyamuni. Many people in the past dynasties thought that this statement was just made up by Taoism in order to raise itself and belittle other religions.

Some people say that Lao Tzu settled in Lintao, Gansu Province in his later years, and taught retired elders to refine inner alchemy, maintain health and cultivate monasticism. After gaining the Tao, he "soared" on Lintao Transcendental Platform. Others made wild guesses, saying that the law and order was poor at that time, and someone might rob halfway, resulting in accidental death.

2. The mystery of life and death in history

Shi is the first of the four beauties in ancient China and the first female spy in China. As the protagonist of Yue, there are always different opinions about the ending of Wu's sinner stone. Some people say that Gou Jian sank into the river, and the article "Mozi Qin Shi" said: "Shi Zhishen ('Shen', ancient Shen') is also beautiful."

Taiping Yu Lan quoted the records of the stone in Wu Yue Chun Qiu written by the Eastern Han Dynasty: "After Wu died, the more people died in Yue Shi." The word "floating" here also means "sinking". Clothing is a leather bag.

In later poems, the drowning of stone was mentioned many times. Li Shangyin's poem Jingyang Well says: "The water outside the Wu Palace is broken, and the muddy mud is still buried with stones"; Pi Rixiu's poem "Museum Wagong Nostalgia": "I don't know where the water burial is going, Xiyue Bay wants to be effective." This shows that in the Tang Dynasty, people recognized the saying that the stone was submerged.

3. The mystery of Xu Fudong's crossing

What Qin Shihuang wanted most was a long life. Later, he heard that there is Penglai Fairy Island in the East China Sea, where there is Ganoderma lucidum, which can be eaten forever. He sent Xu Fu to lead 500 boys and girls and 3,000 craftsmen across the sea to the east. Later, Qin Shihuang did not expect to receive a letter from Xu Fu until his death.

Some people say that the navigation skills were poor at that time, and they were all wiped out in a big storm. Sima Qian first recorded the history of Xu Fu in Historical Records, but did not explain where Xu Fu drifted. Later generations thought it was Taiwan Province Province or Ryukyu, and some people said it was America, but most people thought it was Japanese.

Xu Fudong's crossing to Japan was originally proposed by the late Zhou Dynasty and the early Shang Yi in the Five Dynasties. Said: "Japan, also known as Japan, is in the East China Sea. During the Qin Dynasty, Xu Fu brought 500 boys and girls to this country. Today, people like Chang 'an ... In the northeast, there are mountains called "Mount Fuji" and "Mount Penglai" ... Xu Fu came here and called Penglai. Today's descendants are called Qin. "

Yi Chu said that this statement comes from Japanese monk Hiroshi. Ouyang Xiu, a writer and historian in the Song Dynasty, also thought that Xu Fudong had spent the day in Japan. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, a Japanese monk went to Nanjing and presented Ming Taizu with a poem entitled "Xufu Temple in front of a wild bear".

Li Shuchang and Huang Qixian, diplomatic envoys to Japan in the late Qing Dynasty, paid a visit to Xu Fu's tomb and wrote poems and inscriptions. In The Origin of the Japanese Nation, Xu said that during the pre-Qin period, a large number of people immigrated to Japan along the southeast coast of China, and the boys and girls led by Xu Fu were one of them. "It must be true that Xu Fudong crossed the sea."

Up to now, there are many remains of Cui Fu activities in Japan, such as the tomb of Cui Fu and his emissaries in Wakayama Prefecture, Cui Fu Palace, the "Land Cui Fu" monument in Saga Prefecture of Jiuzhou Island, the Cui Fushi House, the Cui Fu Shrine, and the Gionee Shrine dedicated to Cui Fu. Some scholars believe that Xu Fudong's crossing the sea in Japan is only a legend, and there is no reliable historical document to prove it.

4. The mystery of Yang Guifei's life and death

What is the fate of beauty Yang Guifei? According to historical records, in June of the 15th year of Tianbao (AD 756), Luoyang fell, Tongguan fell, Xuanzong of the prosperous Tang Dynasty fled with other ministers, and his beloved concubine Yang Guifei died in Mayi. However, there is a difference of 108 thousand miles between the ode of the literati and the account of the historian, so there are still many questions about Yang Guifei's final destination.

One view is that Yang Yuhuan may have died in a Buddhist temple. The Biography of Yang Guifei in Old Tang Dynasty records that after the imperial generals Chen and others killed Yang's father and son, they strongly demanded to be executed on the grounds that "future troubles still exist". Tang Xuanzong had no choice but to bid farewell to the imperial concubine and ordered it. Yang Guifei hanged herself in the Buddhist temple.

Some people think that Yang Guifei may have died in the disorderly army, which can be seen from the descriptions of some Tang poems. Many poems, such as Du Mu's "Horse Roars Blood, Flying Feather Gun", "Blood Buries Concubine", and "Going Out of Mind, Burying Blood in the Air, Growing Grass Sorrow", all think that Yang Guifei was killed by the disorderly army in Magang, rather than being forced to hang herself to death.

There is also a saying that Yang Guifei finally fled to Japan. Under the escort of Chen's cronies, Yang Guifei fled to the south, set sail near Shanghai today, drifted at sea, went to Kuruyamachi, Japan for a long time, and finally spent her old age in Japan. However, what kind of life and death situation is still puzzling.

5. The mystery of Song Taizu's sudden death.

In 960, Zhao Kuangyin launched a mutiny in Chen Qiao. He became emperor in 17 and died in 976. There is no clear record of his cause of death in the official history. There are only two simple sentences in the history of the Song Dynasty: "The emperor collapsed in the Hall of Long Live and was fifty years old." "It was ordered by Du Taihou and passed to Taizong." So his death has always been a mystery.

The history of Song Taizong has also raised a series of questions: after Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, why didn't he change the nine-year treasure with only two months left into the first year of Taiping and the first year of rejuvenating the country in a hurry according to the practice of changing the yuan in the following year? Since Du Taihou had a testamentary edict that "the emperor is located in his younger brother", Song Taizong once named Huang Sao as the "Kaibao Queen", but after her death, why didn't she provide funeral services according to the queen's etiquette?

There are indications that Song Taizong's accession to the throne is abnormal, so how can future generations not doubt it? Modern academic circles have basically affirmed that Song Taizu was indeed a sudden death, but there are some new theories about the specific cause of death.

First, from a medical point of view, it is believed that Taizu died of manic depression inherited from his family.

On the one hand, it is acknowledged that there is a deep contradiction between Taizong and Taizong, but it is considered that the "candle axe sound" incident is only an accidental emergency. The reason is that Emperor Taizong molested his favorite concubine, Lady Shi Fei, while sleeping, and was discovered and angered by Emperor Taizong. Taizong knew that he could not get his brother's forgiveness, so he killed him.

6. The mystery of Wen Jian's life and death in Ming Dynasty.

After Zhu Yuanzhang's death, in the first year of Wen Jian (1399), Judy, the prince of Yan, rebelled against the imperial court in the name of "frontier evil". Judy was succeeded by the prince in the fourth year of Wen Jian, which lasted for four years. Just when Judy invaded Nanjing, the Nanjing Palace caught fire and his whereabouts were unknown.

Since then, rumors about fleeing are endless, and Ming has always been uneasy about it, which has almost become a heart disease for him. For hundreds of years, the whereabouts of Emperor Wen Jian has been a historical unsolved case. To sum up, there are two main theories: "burning to death" and "fleeing".

After Judy ascended the throne, he felt that the uncertain Emperor Wen Jian had an invisible pressure on him, so he sent many confidant ministers to visit everywhere. During the Yongle period, Zheng He's entourage included many guards, who were obviously used to secretly visit Emperor Wen Jian.

Ming Chengzu once distributed the Book of Monks and Taoists to monasteries all over the world, rearranged the list of all monks, and conducted a comprehensive survey of monks. Since the fifth year of Yongle (A.D. 1407), in the name of looking for the immortal Zhang Sloppy, people have been sent to search everywhere, covering all parts of the country for more than 20 years.

7. The mystery of Li Zicheng's life and death.

Li Zicheng is from Mizhi, Shaanxi. He was born in poverty, but he was brave and good at fighting, with awe-inspiring benevolence and righteousness. He worked as a post and a border guard, and finally joined the peasant uprising army to fight against the Ming Dynasty, and it grew stronger and stronger. Hundreds of thousands of troops were invincible, and finally overthrew the Ming Dynasty, which was politically corrupt, economically collapsed and crumbling.

However, because Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty guarding Shanhaiguan, lured the Qing army into Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng led his troops out of Beijing and moved to Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei and other places, and finally disappeared. Some people say that Li Zicheng was killed in Jiugong Mountain. The conclusion of Ming History is that the self is dead and the corpse is indistinguishable.

It was based on a report made by Azig, a general of the Qing army who was pursuing Li Zicheng at that time, that Li Zicheng soldiers tried their best to escape into Jiugong Mountain with only 20 cronies, and were besieged by villagers, unable to escape, and hanged themselves. He sent an autopsy, but the body was decomposed and unrecognizable.

Another basis is that He Tengjiao, the general of Nan Ming in Hunan and the minister of the Ministry of War, reported to the Tang King that his Ministry beheaded Li Zicheng at the foot of Jiugong Mountain, but he lost his head. However, this "death" theory is hard to believe. Because Li Zicheng is a very talented and courageous person, and has always been a sworn enemy of the imperial court.

However, in fact, Jiugong Mountain was very calm at that time, and so were the hundreds of thousands of troops. Then, why is there a saying of "being killed" and it is widely circulated among the people? Presumably, this is a smokescreen bomb put by Li Zicheng and his gang as a delaying tactic.

On the one hand, the threat of Li Zicheng's death can dispel the hostility of the Nanming Dynasty to this army, and the next step may be to unite against the Qing Dynasty; On the other hand, it also made the Qing Dynasty think that once the time was right, Li Zicheng could make a comeback.

It is also said that Li Zicheng lives in seclusion in Jiashan Temple. It is said that in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Zhang Qiongbo, the incoming Yunnan Tongzhi, visited Jiashan Temple in Shimen on the way to his post and talked with the abbot of the temple about the past and the present. He hit it off quite instantly, met each other after a brief encounter, and was regarded as a confidant. A few years later, he revisited Jiashan Temple and the abbot was dead.