Fa Song Mausoleum
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"Fa Song Tombs" is an early article in ancient literature that clearly talks about robbing royal tombs. The text takes the core event of Yang Lianzhenjia, a monk from the Western Regions in the early Yuan Dynasty, who robbed the imperial mausoleum of the Southern Song Dynasty as the core event, showing a fleeting tragedy in the change of power between the Song and Yuan Dynasties. In 1285, Yang Lianzhenjia, the general manager of Buddhism in the south of the Yangtze River and a Tibetan monk, took advantage of the power of Sang Ge, a powerful official in the Yuan Dynasty, and led a crowd to excavate and destroy the six tombs of the Song Dynasty in Shaoxing, and looted the tombs of the six emperors including Gaozong, Xiaozong, Lizong and their concubines. Countless treasures were lost, and Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty drained mercury from the corpses hanging upside down and cut off their heads to make magical objects. Countless actions would seem outrageous today. This looting, which lasted for several months, completely ruined the face of the Song Dynasty and scattered all the cultural relics. The complex political game, religious fanaticism, cultural symbols, etc. Hidden behind the entire tomb robbing incident have triggered long-term thinking for future generations.
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