How did Yong Zhengdi die?
According to Records of Sejong in Qing Dynasty, Yong Zhengdi fell ill on August 21st in the 13th year of Yongzheng (1735), and "worked as usual" and died on the 23rd.
After Yong Zhengdi's death, according to his secret storage method, Prince Li Hong of Sizibao succeeded to the throne. Temple number Sejong, posthumous title Jingtianchang Yun Jian Biao Wen Wu Yingming Kuan Ren Xin Yi Rui Sheng Da Xiao Zhi Cheng Xian Di, buried in the Tailing Mausoleum of Qing Dynasty.
The mystery of Yong Zhengdi's death.
As for the cause of Yongzheng's death, the historical records are very simple, only that Yongzheng was seriously ill in the palace of Yuanmingyuan the day before and critically ill the next afternoon. He called the minister urgently and died that night. What caused the death of Yongzheng is not recorded in historical materials. Zhang's personal records made him "terrified" when Yongzheng was bleeding. The reason for Yongzheng's sudden death was not recorded in official books, which naturally aroused people's doubts. In addition, there were many legends and comments about him at that time, which easily aroused people's doubts, so various statements about dying came into being.
die of illness
Some people say that Yong Zhengdi "died of a stroke".
assassinate
The assassination of Lv Siniang.
The most popular folk story is that there was a chivalrous woman named Lv Siniang whose father and grandfather were both killed by Yongzheng because of the literary inquisition. In retaliation, Lv Siniang cut off Yongzheng's head. Therefore, when Yongzheng was buried, he had to cast a golden head.
(2) The eunuch in the palace was assassinated
There is also a legend that in the ninth year of Yongzheng, maids-in-waiting eunuchs Wu Shouyi and Huo Cheng tied them to death with ropes while they were sleeping in Yongzheng, and were cured with the medicine of Doctor Zhang.
Poisoning by Dan medicine
Historians have done a lot of research on the archives of the Qing Dynasty in recent years, and more and more historians believe that Yongzheng was most likely poisoned by taking Dan medicine. If it was suspected that it was poisoned by Taoist Dan medicine, Yang thought it was "poisoned by bait Dan medicine" in the book Study on Yong Zhengdi and His Secret Fold System. In view of Yong Zhengdi's close relationship with Taoist priests, it is very possible to eat Dan medicine poisoning by mistake.
Swallow an aphrodisiac
Long-term lust for women, even taking aphrodisiacs indiscriminately, may be one of the direct reasons for Yongzheng's final sudden death. There is a saying in Korean historical materials that "Yongzheng was terminally ill in his later years and could not be used for a long time below the waist". There is no need for North Korean envoys to deliberately fabricate and attack Yongzheng in their reports to their own kings. This historical data can be used as auxiliary evidence of physical wear and tear in Yongzheng's later years.
Yong Zhengdi's anecdotes and allusions.
Sponsor scholar
When Yin Zhen was a prince, he liked traveling incognito and making friends with chivalrous men. One year, I went to Hangzhou to go boating in the West Lake. Just came out of Kinmen, I saw a scholar selling Chinese characters, and his brushwork was quite accurate. Yin Zhen asked him to write a couplet. There is a word "autumn" in it, but the scholar wrote the word "fire" on the left. Yin Zhen asked, "Did you write the word' autumn' wrong?" The scholar said that there was nothing wrong, and then took out a famous post and opened it for Yin Zhen to compare. Yin Zhen said, "Since you are so learned, why don't you become famous? Why do you want to sell words here for a living? " The scholar said, "My family is poor. I can't even support my wife and children. I can only make a living by selling words. How dare I think about being rich or expensive! " Yin Zhen generously said, "I have money here, so I can help you win a reputation. Just don't forget me. " The scholar was very grateful, and later he really won fame and entered the Hanlin.
At this time, Yin Zhen also ascended the throne. One day, he saw the name of the scholar from the roster, remembered his trip to Hangzhou and called him in. Yin Zhen casually wrote a word "He", deliberately wrote the word "Kou" on the left, and then showed it to the scholar. Scholar unknown so replied that it was a typo. Yin Zhen smiled. The next day, Yin Zhen asked the scholar to go to Zhejiang with the imperial edict, and the governor of Zhejiang got the imperial edict, which read: The scholar was ordered to sell calligraphy in Yongjinmen for another three years before he could come to work. The scholar suddenly realized.
Love Buddhism
When Yong Zhengdi was young, he liked to read Buddhist scriptures, return with monks, and discuss the Buddha's purport in gathering clouds and asking for heaven, calling himself "Breaking the dust" and "Yuanming". At the beginning of his reign, he compared himself to "explaining the Lord" and attended the ceremony with the literary sense of the monk, which aroused the opposition of the courtiers. Denying participation in politics, but taking a moderate attitude towards history. In his later years, he practiced in the palace and personally accepted disciples. He overhauled the famous ancient temple, gave titles to monks, supported the Zen school, wrote "Selecting Magic and Differentiating Different Records", participated in the sectarian struggle in Buddhism, and published a book "Quotations of Imperial Selection" to explain his Buddhist views. Yong Zhengdi had frequent contacts with Taoist priests, and put Lou Jinyuan, Jia Shifang, Zhang Taixu and others in the palace. However, in a rage, Jia Shifang, once known as the "envoy", was executed. Yong Zhengdi took a fancy to Buddhism and Taoism because he realized the consistency in Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism: "The enlightenment of the three religions is also at home, and the theory is the same, and the Tao is parallel but not contradictory." In other words, it is to educate ordinary people how to be a person and how to be a person. He used Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism as tools to rule the thoughts of his subjects in order to strengthen his feudal autocratic ideological rule. At the same time, Lan Ruo's position must be improved, because he used to be a shaman. But he is not a Buddha, he wants to control monks, and Buddhism is not allowed to control him. As the son of heaven, Yong Zhengdi is the supreme ruler of ordinary people. He pretends to be an authoritative interpreter of Buddhism, and intervenes in the internal affairs of Buddhism in a large amount, similar to a spiritual leader. He is both a secular king and a French king, which makes his rule a close combination of political power and theocracy and more sacred.
Yongzheng's Buddhist works mainly focus on Zen Buddhism, which is unique to Buddhism in China. To appease Lamaism is only to prevent Tibetan rebellion. Yongzheng once claimed to be a "Yuanming layman", edited Gude's Zen language into 19 volumes of Quotations from King James, and learned Zen from the Zhangjia Buddhists. Zhangjia Buddhist College is responsible for translating all Tibetan scriptures into Manchu. Emperor Sejong, who claimed to be the blood of Zen, compiled the Quotations of Yongzheng Imperial Selection, and wrote the Selected Magic Record and the Distinguished Record. The imperial edict above requires local officials to strictly investigate and ban monks from Fazang and Hongren, which is actually the protection of the king.
The Lama that Yongzheng made friends with was Zhang Jia (Zhang Jia) Lama, not Putuo Mountain in Zhejiang Province, which was overhauled by Tibet Yongzheng. Yongzheng also wrote many Buddhist scriptures, mainly China Zen, with more than one million words.
garments in Western style
Yong Zhengdi was the first man in China to wear a suit, and his portrait is still preserved in the Forbidden City. The energetic emperor likes to enjoy western things such as clocks and watches. He wears a suit to satisfy his curiosity.
Imperial glasses
Glasses first appeared in Florence, Italy in 1289, which is an important invention of Europeans. Yong Zhengdi likes western glasses very much, but this does not mean that Yong Zhengdi is arty. He is really dizzy and needs the help of glasses. According to incomplete statistics, the manufacturing department specially produced 35 pairs of glasses for Yong Zhengdi, including crystals, tea crystals, ink crystals, glass glasses and so on. Yong Zhengdi keeps these glasses everywhere and takes them with him everywhere. In Yong Zhengdi's palaces in ouchi and Yuanmingyuan, and even in his sedan chair, there are special imperial glasses. Not only that, Yong Zhengdi also distributed glasses to the craftsmen who threw ashes as a practical welfare treatment.
Obsessed with Dan medicine
Yongzheng was also interested in Taoism. He was especially lucky that the Taoist priest in Beijing's Longhu Mountain was named Lou Jinyuan, and he was named the abbot of Sipin Longhu Mountain Hall and Qin 'an Hall, and he was called "Zheng Miao's real person".
Yong Zhengdi became interested in alchemy as early as when he was a prince. At that time, the main purpose of an alchemist was to show his father that he did not seek the throne, but only devoted himself to an alchemist. He also wrote a poem called "Burning Dan": "Draw sand as medicine, pine and cypress around the cloud altar. The furnace contains yin and yang fire, both inside and outside. Yongzheng's obsession with Dan medicine is the last emperor in China's ancient history who loved Taoist priests and was obsessed with Dan medicine.
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