Wu Zixu was a doctor of Wu at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period. Judging from the cultural history of grave robbery in China, he is also a heavyweight. Digging someone else's grave, but also venting on the body with a whip, can be described as the most vicious grave digger.

According to Zuo Zhuan, in 522 BC, because the king of Chu was framed by Wuji, his father and brother were both killed by King Chu Ping, and Wu Zixu fled to Wu, vowing to take revenge. In 506 BC, after Sun Wu invaded the city of Chu and gained the status of "Five Overlords in the Spring and Autumn Period", Wu Zixu also found a chance for revenge.

It is said that Wu Zixu started looking for it all day, but he couldn't find it. The reason is that King Chu Ping, in order not to let the tomb site be known, ordered the killing of all the craftsmen involved in repairing the tomb. Under the guidance of an old craftsman who narrowly escaped, Wu Zixu successfully dug Chuping's tomb, dug up his body and flogged it for 300 times before stopping. This is the story of "flogging the corpse 300 times". Another way of saying it is that Wu Zixu seized Zhao Chu, the son of King Chu Ping, and tortured him, forcing him to tell the whereabouts of his father's grave. Wu Zixu succeeded.

It is also recorded in Historical Records, but Sima Qian felt that Wu Zixu's behavior had gone too far, saying "complaining about others". Modern academic circles have also triggered a dispute between "whipping the corpse" and "whipping the grave", arguing that Wu Zixu didn't whip the corpse at all, just whipping the corpse at King Chu Ping's tomb. This matter is not well recorded in the history books, and the truth of the matter is a historical mystery that can never be solved.

2. The most perverted grave robber: Liu Qu is just for fun.

There are many grave robbers who vent their anger and love money, but in the history of China, there was a grave robber who was very abnormal, just for fun. Liu Qu, the king of Guang Chuan in the Western Han Dynasty, was buried in other countries, and all of them were unearthed, mainly during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

According to the records of Taiping Guangji in Song Dynasty, Wei Xiangwang's tomb is a sarcophagus. In order to prevent theft, the entrance was filled with molten iron, and Liu sent people to dig for three days. The coffin is made of raw lacquer mixed with rhinoceros skin, which is several inches thick and can't be cut with a knife. Liu Qu sawed it with a saw. There is a jade spittoon, two bronze swords and some gold wares on the stone bed. Liu went to see one of the bronze swords, picked it up on the spot and took it away.

The rooms in Jinling cemetery are luxurious and rich. Although the coffin has rotted, the body is not bad.

Liu went to see a jade toad as big as a fist and took it back as a water tank to store water and grind ink.

Too many grave robbers are afraid. When the grave was dug up, the people inside were lifelike. Liu Qu was scared to death. He quickly told his people to stop and seal again.

3. The most professional grave robber: Cao Cao, the ancestor of touch gold.

Large-scale tomb raiding in history is all official, but Cao Cao should have set up the "official tomb raiding" at the earliest. According to historical records, he set up a "commander-in-chief" and a "gold-touching captain" in the army to study and carry out grave robbery. Cao Cao is the most professional grave robber in the history of China. It is said that in order to raise money, Cao Cao thought of burying a grave with a lot of money and had the idea of robbing a tomb.

The most famous tomb stolen by Cao Cao is the tomb of King Mangdang Mountain, which is the tomb of Liu Wu and Li Xinyu of Han Liang and Wang Xiao. This mausoleum is four times the size of the Ming Tombs in Beijing, and is called "the first stone tomb in the world".

Cao Cao personally went to the scene to direct the collection of treasures. He used the proceeds of this robbery to support his entire army for three years. What puzzles archaeologists is that the entrance of Liang Xiaowang's tomb is sealed with thousands of kilograms of boulders. There was no large lifting equipment at that time. How did Cao Cao's men open the mausoleum? Cao Cao is very professional in preventing grave robbery. Maybe he saw the disadvantages of heavy burial and the danger of being robbed. Cao Cao advocated thin burial and secret burial before his death. Historically, Cao Cao was buried in Gaoling, but where Gaoling is still a mystery.

4. The most ferocious grave robber: Dong Zhuo who wants to "fuck" Liu Che.

Dong Zhuo was originally a satrap of Hedong in Han Dynasty, and he was cruel by nature. Dong Zhuo was the biggest sinner when the tomb of Liu Che was dug. The first thief in Maoling was the Red Eyebrow Army, a peasant uprising army in the early Eastern Han Dynasty. The Red Eyebrow Army first dug up the tomb of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang and stole a lot of treasures.

By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo, who was also worried about military pay, was eyeing Maoling. Although the Red Eyebrow Army had been here before, Lu Bu found that the funerary objects were still piled all over the floor. After going in, why did Lu Bu turn over Liu Che's coffin?

It is said that Dong Zhuo has a granddaughter named Dong Bai, who is clever but born dumb. Dong Zhuo loves her too much to be cured by a famous doctor. It is said that there is a lost secret recipe in Liu Che's mausoleum, so Lu Bu should pay attention to it. Lyu3 bu4 didn't turn to the secret recipe, but found a roll of yellow silk and wrote, "Senecio, he is green." Ten days, dead. "

So this is a spell, isn't it just a sentence "Dong Zhuo can't be born"? In a rage, Dong Zhuo wanted to drag Liu Che's bones out of the coffin to "bask in the corpse", but he was persuaded by his father, the famous Confucian scholar Cai Yong. Interestingly, Dong Zhuo, who wants to be emperor instead of Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty, is superstitious. He was afraid of destroying Feng Shui and hegemony, and even sent someone to put back some funerary objects he had moved.

5. The stupidest grave robber: Huang Chao who dug the grave in the wrong direction.

Huang Chao tried every time, so he made a living selling smuggled salt. During the period of Tang Yizong and Tang Xizong, there were years of famine and countless people starved to death, and peasant uprisings broke out one after another. In 875, Huang Chao responded to the Wang Xianzhi Uprising. Huang Chao Uprising Army has strict discipline and put forward the slogan of "equality". In 880 AD, it occupied Luoyang, won the capital Chang 'an the following year, and established the peasant regime with the title of "Daqi".

Huang Chao used 400,000 rebels to dig a mountain on the west side of Liangshan when digging a tomb. It is said that almost half of Liangshan was dug, but in the end only a 40-meter-deep "Huang Chao ditch" was dug, which is still traceable. Although Huang Chao is familiar with pen and ink, compared with Cao Cao, he doesn't even have common sense of grave robbery. Besides, he is mostly an uneducated farmer, and he is not very good at grave robbery. Many grave robbers didn't open it, so it's no exaggeration to say that he is the stupidest grave robber. The structure of Ganling is so strong that the soldiers can't figure out the internal structure. As a result, they dug in the wrong direction, and Ganling escaped, otherwise it would not be preserved today.

6. The gravedigger who did the most harm: Wen Tao who tore up the Preface to Lanting.

Including Wu Zetian, there were 2 1 emperors in the Tang Dynasty. Among them, 19 Mausoleum is located in Beishan, north of Han Mausoleum, numbered as "Eighteen Mausoleums in Guanzhong" (Wu Zetian and Li Zhi were buried together in a mausoleum), but 17 Mausoleum was stolen. The culprit is Wen Tao, our envoy in the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties. The reason why Ganling was not stolen is also thanks to strange astronomical phenomena. Cheng Dachang, a poet in the Song Dynasty, said in his archaeological compilation that during the excavation of Ganling, there were extremely abnormal celestial phenomena, such as storms, lightning and thunder, and Tao Wen was scared away for fear of retribution.

Wen Tao has destroyed many precious cultural relics, so historians and archaeologists all think that Wen Tao is the most harmful grave robber in the history of China, and he is a sinner throughout the ages.

Tao Wen, who doesn't know how to write and ink, brought a number of paintings and calligraphy works out of the tomb, but what he likes is not priceless paintings and calligraphy works, but gorgeous silks and satins mounted outside. He asked his men to tear off all the silks and satins and throw them away. Historians speculate that Wang Xizhi's Preface to the Lanting Pavilion has never appeared again and may have been torn up by Wen Tao.