There is an unnamed "Emperor's Tomb" in Zhejiang. The villagers kept the tomb for thousands of years and didn't know the identity of the owner until 2008.

Hangzhou was once the capital of Wu Yue State, and it also has a splendid history and culture.

There is usually a saying of guarding the mausoleum in history. Villages and people are often stationed near the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, and guarding the Mausoleum has even become their ancestral motto.

Sometimes, with a long history, villagers may just hear that there is an emperor's tomb somewhere, and they don't always know which emperor is buried.

There is such an ancient tomb in Zhejiang. Because it has been too long, the villagers who have been guarding the tomb for thousands of years can't remember who is buried here.

Fortunately, during 2007-2008, some archaeologists solved this problem.

This ancient tomb is located in Nanshantou Village, Wufeng Township, Cangnan County, Zhejiang Province. It has a long history. According to local residents, this ancient tomb is at least 1000 years old.

It is precisely because of the long time that the villagers can't tell the origin of it, and the locals habitually call it the "Emperor's Tomb".

Because these stones are not local, but shipped from other places, even today, this is a huge project.

An old man in the village once said: "At the earliest time, there were people living next to the ancient tomb. Every time they go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, they will go to the grave. "

It can also be inferred that these villagers may be the people guarding the imperial tomb, but this is a tradition formed over the years, and they don't know who they are guarding.

Even so, we all know that this ancient tomb has at least a long history, so we all respect it very much, and Nanshantou Village is famous in the local area because of its existence.

Some villagers said: "It may also be that people thought that the feng shui of the imperial tomb was definitely good, so simply moving with the ancestral grave can also get the feng shui of the emperor."

In this way, it aroused the interest of archaeologists. Either way, there will be a reason. People in the village always say that there may really be an emperor's tomb here.

In 2007, the memory of Cangnan News Network came here. They explored for a long time, but they didn't find any written information about the tombstone, and they couldn't see any clues.

Under such circumstances, they had to visit the local villagers to find out where the mausoleum came from.

The villagers here all know that it has been said for generations that this is an imperial tomb, so this village is also called "Imperial Tomb Village".

According to the story of Zhang Ting Tun, their ancestors also migrated from other places. Since their ancestors migrated, they also have a rule here:

Sacrificial ceremonies are held every year in Tomb-Sweeping Day, July 30th and New Year's Eve.

And this kind of ceremony, at least seven generations have done this, and it is still continuing today.

"Now most of the villagers in this village moved here more than 200 years ago, that is, since then, the name of the emperor's tomb has continued.

Nanshantou village is also a good place. When the cemetery was built more than 20 years ago, two tombs were found on the hillside 40 to 50 meters above the ancient tomb.

It is said to be an empty tomb in the Ming Dynasty, leaving only two iron chains for hanging coffins, but the coffins have disappeared, and some people say that they have been stolen.

Therefore, protecting the imperial tomb is also the responsibility of everyone in the village. "

The so-called emperor's tomb is the tomb of Qian Chu, the loyal King of Wu Yue, and Luoyang's tomb is just a cenotaph.

This statement immediately aroused the shock of local archaeologists.

Everyone is also very curious. Who is this emperor who doesn't sound very famous?

1875, the epitaph of Qian Chu was included in the "Shi Guo Shi Er Yan Zhai Zhi" edited by A Qing Wang Yan, which was the first record of Qian Chu's epitaph.

This also shows that in history, Qian Liu's tomb was stolen.

According to the Records of Luoyang County, especially in the early years of the Republic of China, there were many grave robberies in Luoyang and many epitaphs were unearthed. After several circulations, many of them have gone abroad.

Fortunately, after the epitaph of Qian Chu was unearthed in Luoyang, it was finally placed in the Stone Carving Hall of Luoyang Museum.

This epitaph is an important cultural heritage of Luoyang. There are more than 2000 words on it, and the life story of Qian Chu is also introduced.

Qian Chu is the grandson of Qian Liu and the son of Qian, the second king of wuyue. Since the age of 65,438+00, he has served as the commander of the inner government.

Later, after the death of Qian, Qian Kui, a loyal monarch, succeeded to the throne, and Qian Chu was specially brought back to take part in the related work of presiding over the Prime Minister's Office.

In 948, General Hu took the opportunity of a banquet in Qian Qi to make a scene in Ukraine and Vietnam, put the former emperor under house arrest, and abolished the name of King Zhong Xun.

Qian Qi

But the general always felt that he was not suitable to be emperor, so he thought of a good way: let Qian Chu succeed to the throne, so as to keep his position.

Qian Chu felt a little inappropriate and refused to push it off again and again.

However, under Hu's repeated demands, Qian Chu had to agree to such a request, and also put forward his own conditions: to keep his younger brother.

Hu also agreed to this condition, so Qian Chu was also made a state of Yue.

At this time, Hu is undoubtedly a famous minister. He spoke many times in the hope of executing Qian Qi, but Qian Chu just didn't agree, and sent his own confidant to protect his younger brother.

On one occasion, an assassin was sent to Hu's head to withdraw money directly, and was finally stopped by people in Qian Chu. Such a plot finally failed to come true, and later Hu He died in fear.

It is also from this time that Qian Chu's governance ability can be gradually reflected.

He made great efforts to rule the country and ordered the exemption of tax arrears over the years, which won popular support. He also placed thousands of people in Songjiang, dug up the land for farming, and reached the level of "China has no wasteland".

In 953, there was a rare drought in China, and some people had to sell their children and girls because of life. After hearing about these things, Qian Chu ordered the government to redeem all the sold children and seize the time to open the warehouse, which greatly alleviated the disaster.

During the years of Qian Chu's reign, almost all other parts of the world were at war, while Wu Yueguo maintained relative peace on the whole, and Qian Chu was also loved by the general public.

Due to historical reasons, in fact, strictly speaking, Qian Chu did not claim the title of emperor, but always put himself in the position of "king".

He also loved Buddhism very much all his life, and the famous "Leifeng Pagoda" was built under his auspices, which enshrined the snail hair of the Buddha.

After the Dalagni Jing was unearthed, later generations also found that in the open-book position, they wrote:

Wu Yueguo, the marshal of the world's military forces and horses, and Qian Chu will repair the Xiguan Tower brick with 84,000 volumes and dedicate it forever.

More than 60 extremely precious cultural relics were found in the site of Leifeng Pagoda, which finally caused a sensation.

In 974, Zhao Kuangyin crusaded against the Southern Tang Dynasty, and also aimed at the vast areas in the south of the Yangtze River. Qian Liu was well aware of Zhao Kuangyin's intentions, and because of his national strength, he also rejected the proposal of the late ruler of the Southern Tang Dynasty to help him. Later, he sent troops to help the Song Dynasty destroy the Southern Tang Dynasty.

After the downfall of the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wu Yueguo also ended up with a cold lips and teeth, and was teetering from then on.

However, a complicated interest dispute cannot evaluate a person's quality. Qian Chu was the last king, but he was very capable, very wise, good at sizing up the situation, and had close ties with Song Taizong.

In this way, even if wuyue perishes, the people under it can avoid the interference of war to the greatest extent.

Moreover, several sons of Qian Chu are also very capable under his training, and the development of the whole family is quite good.

For example, Qian has made great achievements in literature and is the backbone poet of "Kunxi Style". Ouyang Xiu later concluded that the "three highs" of reading time were inspired by money.

In 988, Qian Chu died suddenly in Nanyang. As for the final cause of his death, there are also some opinions that Song Taizong did it.

For thousands of years, there have been different opinions about the tomb site of Qian Chu, which is also based on Qian Chu's high status in the south of the Yangtze River, mainly because the people have great respect for the monarch, so an ancient tomb of unknown origin in Taizhou was once regarded as Qian Chu's tomb to worship.

In the literature related to the early Qian Dynasty, there is also a clear record of the tomb site: Tao (Li) was buried in Xianxiang, Beimangshan, Luoyang County, Henan Province.

The so-called burial was also written by Song Taizong, because ten years before Qian Chu's death, there was a measure of "returning the soil to the Song Dynasty", which also accelerated the unification of the Northern Song Dynasty. Later, the Song Dynasty divided him into Huaihai King and Hannan King.

Arguably, Song Taizong has been buried, and the epitaph was also unearthed from Luoyang, where people should be buried.

However, according to Huang Zhengrui's research, after the death of Qian Chu, according to the requirements of the Song Dynasty, it was agreed to send Qian Chu's body to Luoyang via Nanyang.

According to Qian Chu himself, returning to Songshan is also one of his wishes. The so-called Songshan Mountain is now Nanshantou Village.

Based on this background, Song Taizong's orders can't be violated, and Qian Chu's wishes can't be met, which is also a big knot in the family. After reasoning, everyone thought of a good way: change the set meal.

They put Qian Liu's cenotaph in the coffin, and then sent it to Luoyang after Kaifeng, so the epitaph also appeared in this position.

Qian Chu's coffin was specially escorted by Qian's cronies, all the way from Hangzhou to Southern Yan, and finally found a time to be buried.

In fact, there is also a record of the tomb of Qian Chu in Pingyang County Records, in which it is mentioned that the tomb of Qian Wang is in Songshan, Guiren Township.

It is also for this reason that Qian Liu's burial only satisfied his personal wishes, and Song Taizong and others could not know it. Later, it finally became the "Tomb of the Unknown Emperor".

After so many years, the imperial tomb still covers an area of about 300 square meters, just because it has been in disrepair for a long time, and now there are not many things left.

Later, six private houses were rebuilt next to the tomb, and the main tomb became a place where villagers piled firewood, and the fourth and fifth grade Ming halls were also reclaimed into two farmland.

However, it is difficult to hide the glorious past of the tomb owner.

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