Guangxu is really miserable. Not only is the cause of death unknown, but even the mausoleum was built after death. This is the last mausoleum to reduce fat according to the Mausoleum, but it was repaired in a daze. In this way, Guangxu was buried five years after his death, while Cixi had been buried for four years.
Why do archaeologists feel sick after opening Guangxu Mausoleum? In the 25th year of Guangxu, the underground palace in chongling was stolen. Grave robbers pried open diamonds from the front of the inner wall of Fangcheng, and made a stolen hole in front of the glass screen wall, with the King Kong wall in front and the underground tomb behind. The gang made a U-shaped stolen hole around the King Kong Wall and successfully avoided the King Kong Wall and entered the tomb.
After these people entered the tomb door, they pried open the top stones of each stone gate with Chinese fir sawdust and entered the main tomb. They used an axe and other tools to open an exit on Guangxu's coffin, and all the gold, silver and jewels in it were looted, and the Jade Dragon Queen next to it was not spared. Compared with Qianlong and Cixi, Guangxu's remains were not destroyed.
1July, 1980, the cultural relics department decided to conduct a rescue excavation of the stolen chongling. According to the size of the stolen cave and the situation in the tomb, archaeologists judged that the grave robbers might be a father and son, one big and one small, who kept many treasures in chongling. Archaeologists dug up the ancient tomb and successfully entered the underground palace.
Because chongling has been connected with the outside world since it was stolen, the tomb is very humid in midsummer, and a large number of water drops are formed on the top of the tomb. The situation in the grave is that the coffin of the Jade Dragon Queen has been opened and her bones are on her back. The coffin on the left is Guangxu, and there is a cut at the lower left of the front end of the coffin.
Archaeologists climbed into Guangxu's coffin to clean it up and found Guangxu's body lying face down. After the coffin was opened, it was found that Guangxu's body had basically rotted, and the coffin was surrounded by mud-like paste. By the way, archaeologists took some broken bones and hair for testing, thus uncovering the mystery of Guangxu's death.
The disgusting scene happened when dealing with the coffin of the Jade Dragon Queen. Archaeologists searched the surrounding treasures with their hands and found that the body was surrounded by paste like tomato sauce, and it was the kind of thing that stuck to their hands in a wiredrawing way, which instantly made the cleaner run out of the tomb and retch.
Strangely, these sticky things have no peculiar smell. At this time, the coffin of the Jade Dragon Queen looks like the sauce jar we usually eat, but the color is slightly different. The black sticky things in the coffin completely wrapped Yulong's body, and everyone present was disgusted.
The reason why such disgusting sticky substances can appear is mainly because tombs and coffins are opened, which are produced in a humid environment. After further confirmation by archaeologists, it was found that these sticky substances were not produced by corpses, but mud formed by soaking various sawdust in water for anticorrosion.
Why did archaeologists boil again after opening Guangxu Mausoleum? Archaeologists had already made psychological preparations before entering the tomb, but the scene in the tomb shocked everyone. Except some coffin sawdust and Guangxu's hair and clothes scattered on the ground, all the treasures left in the mausoleum were stolen, which made everyone feel very lost, but accidents often happened inadvertently.
While people were cleaning up the bones of Yulong, archaeologists were surprised to find that there was a wallet at Yulong's waist, which contained more than 100 pieces of jewelry. The grave robbers didn't find it at that time. Just as the archaeologists were carrying Guangxu's body, they accidentally found Guangxu's hands clenched, which aroused great interest.
At that time, it was considered whether there was anything related to his death in his hand, and then the archaeologists couldn't wait to break Guangxu's hand. He holds a hetian jade handle in his right hand and a jade ring connected together in his left hand. These two treasures are priceless national treasures, which excited everyone present.
In addition, there are three layers of five-color woven Sanskrit Dalagni satin and various colors woven Jinlong satin around Guangxu's coffin. Some of the Sanskrit in the tent is complete, and the words in the book are all Tibetan spells. The inner shed of Yulong coffin is three layers, and the purple woven gold is also Sanskrit. Both coffins are precious nanmu, and the four walls of the coffin are written in Sanskrit.
Experts analyzed the collected Guangxu relics. Experts analyzed the bones and hair of Emperor Guangxu for five years. Starting with the arsenic content in Guangxu's hair, they used a series of modern professional technical means to carry out various simulation experiments, and repeatedly tested and studied the hair, bones and clothes of Guangxu's remains provided by the cultural management.
Finally, it is concluded that Guangxu's death was acute gastrointestinal arsenic poisoning. The report shows that the concentration of arsenic in Guangxu's hair is very high, and the content of each cut is very different. The highest arsenic content is as high as 2400 micrograms per gram, which is dozens of times the content of environmental samples inside and outside the coffin tomb, indicating that the arsenic in its hair is not caused by the outside world.
In addition, the distribution curve of arsenic content is completely different from that of chronic poisoning, indicating that it is not caused by chronic poisoning. Therefore, the high arsenic content in Guangxu's hair can only be caused by its own pollution. Later, the analysis of arsenic content distribution and arsenic species showed that Guangxu died of arsenic poisoning.
Although the cause of death of Emperor Guangxu has been concluded through experiments. However, some scholars still believe that although this conclusion is very convincing, it cannot be taken as the final conclusion, and more evidence is needed to support it.