It is said that it is for this reason that there has never been a phenomenon of folk grave robbers digging Guandi Temple.
However, the credibility of this reason is not high. People often say that the sky is above us, and we always pray for God's blessing, but is it true that no one stole the temple to worship the Jade Emperor? Once a person is jealous, no matter who you are, you can steal it. There must be some extreme behaviors in special periods. If you can't even eat, who cares if you are the Jade Emperor or Guanyin Bodhisattva? Grab it, grab it, smash it, smash it. In the face of hunger, no god is worthy of worship.
In fact, Guan Yu's tomb was stolen by private grave robbers. This refers to the real tomb of Guan Yu in Luoyang, where Guan Yu's head is buried.
Then some people may ask, why should we emphasize Guan Yu's real tomb? Still fake? What about Guanlin in Luoyang?
Today, Guanlin in Luoyang was actually built on the basis of Guandi Temple in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. It is located in the south of Luoyang, which seems to be very consistent with the statement in the history books that Cao Cao buried Guan Yu fifty miles south of the city, but there are great loopholes in it.
According to the location of Luoyang City during the Han and Wei Dynasties at that time, the Luoyang City mentioned in it was not Luoyang City as we know it now at all, but was actually about 30 miles east of Luoyang City. There are still Han and Wei relics here, which further confirms this statement.
According to the specific location of Guan Yu's tomb in history books, it is 4 or 50 miles away from today's Guanlin. The most important thing is that the direction is not consistent at all. This is the only one, and now there are countless Guanlin in Luoyang.
Of course, there must be a tomb of Guan Yu in Luoyang, but we can only look for it with the records in the history books.
Located in the south of the ancient city of Han and Wei Dynasties, there is an abandoned Guanzhong, at the junction of Jin Meng and Yanshi. In fact, in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, there used to be a tombstone in this Guanzhong area, which read "Guan Di Tomb of King Wu 'an Protecting the Country, Hanshou Pavilion". Unfortunately, the awareness of cultural relics protection in China was not high at that time, so this tombstone was put into the water for flood control.
The stones in Guanzhong were also used by the local people without authorization, which became very broken and collapsed at 1979. When the archaeologists in Luoyang arrived in Guanzhong for investigation, they found human skulls and sacrificial objects.
To the surprise of archaeologists, there is a human skeleton at the entrance of the tomb. After analysis, archaeologists believe that this skeleton is an early grave robber. It is a great pity that most of the sacrifices in the tomb were stolen by grave robbers.