How did the Emperor Yang Di die in history? Statement 1: The guards strangled them alive.
Determined to lose everything, Emperor Yang Di often looked at himself in the mirror in his later years and said to Hou Yaozong and his officials, "If you have a good head and neck, who should be embarrassed!"
However, when the death of Emperor Yang Di came, the guards defected. Yang Di was afraid of being beheaded, so he untied a ribbon from his body and gave it to the chief of the guards to strangle himself alive. He died at the age of 50. At the same time, his two sons and a grandson were executed. After the death of the emperor, the filial piety queen and the imperial secretary made three small coffins out of bed boards, filled with alkali and buried them in a hurry. Later, Michael Chen, the governor of Jiangdu, reburied him under the stage of Wugong in the west of Jiangdu and moved to Tang Lei.
According to folklore, because Emperor Yang Di did many evil things, no matter where he was buried, it would thunder. The mausoleum of Emperor Yang Di was gradually abandoned. It was not until the Jiaqing period of the Qing Dynasty that Ruan Yuan, a Yangzhou scholar living near Tang Lei, was rebuilt that he found an existing monument of Ruan Yuanli, engraved with the four characters "Yang Di Ling" inscribed by Bing Yi, a calligrapher and Yangzhou magistrate at that time.
Statement 2: He was killed by the rebel Yu Wenhuaji.
The late ruler of Southern Dynasties died in 604, the year when Yang Di ascended the throne. At that time, the ambitious new emperor gave the deceased a derogatory term "Yang", which meant that he was addicted to drinking and drinking all his life and neglected government affairs. Obviously, he is mocking the king of subjugation. Unexpectedly, however, after 14, Emperor Yang Di himself was also called "Emperor Yang Di".
In the 14th year of Daye (665438+April 1 1), Yang Di was killed by rebel Yu Wenhuaji in Jiangdu on March 11th. Before Yang Di died, Yu Wenhuaji incited rebels to surround him. When Yang Di heard this change, he quickly changed his clothes and fled to Xige. Pei Gantong, Ethan and Ma Wenju, who were captured by the rebels, said: "I really owe the people; As for your generation, Rong Lu is the best, and so is He Nai! What is the first evil thing today? " And ordered Feng Deyi to declare the crime of Yang-ti. Emperor Yang said, "Qing is a scholar, why do you do it?" Ti stepped down in shame for a moment. Zhao Wanggao, the son of Emperor Yang, is only twelve years old. The emperor was frightened here, and the rebel Pei Gantong beheaded him, and blood splashed on his clothes. Yang-ti tried to commit suicide by drinking poisoned wine, but the rebels refused, so he ordered Linghu Daxing to kill him at the age of 50.
In the Sui Dynasty, Chen Ling, the satrap of Jiangdu, found the coffin of Emperor Yang-ti, prepared the ceremonial guards of Emperor Yang-ti, and reburied it in the West Wu Palace of Jiangdu Palace. At that time, the sacrificial princes were buried on both sides of the tomb of Emperor Yang. After Tang Ping went to the south of the Yangtze River, Tang Lei was reburied with the ceremony of the emperor.
The discovery of Yangdi Mausoleum in Yangzhou has aroused people's attention to many unsolved mysteries that have been sleeping for thousands of years. Yang Diling was accidentally discovered in Yangzhou, which attracted wide attention from the national archaeological community and readers. On April 2013 15, Yangzhou Cultural Relics Bureau held a press conference, and officially announced that one of the two tombs excavated was Yang Diling.
Although the identity of the owner of the tomb has been confirmed, must this tomb be built by Tang Gaozu Li Yuan for Emperor Yang Di? What does the epitaph say about Emperor Yang Di, who is considered a tyrant? There are still many unsolved mysteries.
The epitaph confirmed that the owner of the tomb was Emperor Yang Di. When the reporter arrived at the archaeological site in Cao Zhuang, Situ Village, Xihu Town, Hanjiang District, Yangzhou, the archaeologists were enclosing the tomb with blue colored steel. The archaeological site is located in a real estate development project. Archaeological work has been suspended because of major discoveries, and another tomb will be excavated after expert argumentation.
At the press conference, Shu Jiaping, director of Yangzhou Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology, said that some ancient broken bricks were found during the construction at the end of last year, but archaeological work was difficult to carry out due to too much construction waste. After the Spring Festival this year, the land on the construction site was completely leveled, and the archaeological team entered the site and discovered two brick-room ancient tombs through exploration. The excavated tomb of Yang Di, including the tomb, ear room and tunnel, is 8.2 meters long and 5 meters wide, which can only be regarded as a small and medium-sized tomb. At that time, I didn't expect that this was actually a mausoleum.
He said that the mausoleum of Emperor Yang Di had been stolen in history, and the previous house was built above the mausoleum, so the top of the mausoleum was destroyed. In the tombs, archaeologists found more than a dozen cultural relics, such as copper paving, jade belts, copper coins, nails, etc., which are small in number but of high grade.
Four copper heads are not only gilded, but also huge, and should be used on coffins. The bread gold outside the jade belt is what people often say is gold inlaid with jade. These two kinds of funerary objects can not be enjoyed by ordinary officials, which proves that the owner of the tomb is extraordinary. However, archaeologists have not found the remains of coffins and bones in the tombs, which may be related to the relocation of Emperor Yang Di's mausoleum many times in history.
The most powerful evidence to prove the identity of the tomb owner is the epitaph, which clearly reads "Tomb No.1 of the late Emperor S". In the epitaph, "the 14th year of the great cause of S" is 6 18 years when the emperor was hanged by a traitor, "the emperor collapsed in Yangzhou" and "……… in the hall", which clearly points out the burial place of the emperor after Xiao's death. According to these contents, experts determined that the owner of the tomb was Emperor Yang Di.
This archaeological site is located in the west of Yangzhou, and Yang Diling, which was previously announced as a cultural protection unit, is located in Huai 'er Village in the north of the city, about 5 kilometers apart. Tang Lei, where Huaier Village is located, is the location of Yang Di's mausoleum in Tang Dynasty.
According to historical records, after Yang Di's death, Xiao Huanghou first buried him in Liu Zhutang of Jiangdu Palace. Later, General Chen Ling thanked him and buried him under the stage of martial arts. After the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan moved his mausoleum to Tang Lei as an imperial gift. Shu Jiaping said at a news conference: "There is a clear record that Yang Di was reburied in Tang Lei in the early Tang Dynasty, but now the cemetery has been found in Cao Zhuang, 5 kilometers away, and the reason remains to be solved by archaeological excavations. It is still a mystery whether this place is a martial arts stage or not and what it has to do with Jiangdu Palace and Tang Lei. "