Kublai Khan ruled Yuan Shizu for thirteen years, and the Yuan Army attacked Lin 'an, the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty. Song Lizong's wife, Queen Xie Daoqing, took the five-year-old emperor and members of the Southern Song Dynasty royal family out of the city and knelt down to meet the commander-in-chief of the Yuan Army. Thus the Southern Song Dynasty was declared extinct.

In the second year after the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, Yang Lian Jia Zhen, a Tangut, was appointed by Kublai Khan of Yuan Shizu as the president of the Buddhist capital in the south of the Yangtze River, in charge of Buddhist affairs in the south of the Yangtze River. However, Yang Lian Jia Zhen is not a real monk, but a generation of demon monks. He is greedy for money and beauty. In order to grab wealth, he paid attention to the imperial tombs in the Southern Song Dynasty.

At that time, Jia Zhen of Yang Lian used his unique identity, and with the acquiescence of then Prime Minister Sanger, brazenly plundered the tombs of the emperors and queens of the Southern Song Dynasty in Qiantang and Shaoxing, and even the tombs of princes and ministers who had lived for fifteen years.

The scale of this robbery is very large. According to the records of Yuan Shizu in this century, Jia Zhen in Yang Lian "has a grave for every 100 people, and four people died", that is, a * * * excavated a tomb of1kloc-0/and four grave keepers died. The company is responsible for loading and transporting all the gold, silver, jewelry, jade and other articles buried in the tomb. And throw the bones of the Southern Song Dynasty emperor on the barren grass slope, and let the wind and rain beat.

Among the emperors who robbed tombs, Song Lizong's bones suffered the most. Song Lizong has been in power for more than 40 years, and his funerary objects are also extremely rich. However, Yang Lian Jia Zhen not only stole Song Lizong's funerary objects, but also put pearls in his mouth, hung Song Lizong's body upside down on a tree, and let the mercury in Song Lizong's stomach flow out for his use.

Finally, Yang Lian Jia Zhen took off Song Lizong's head, chopped it, inlaid it with gold and silver, and made it into a skull wine vessel, which was euphemistically called "Emperor's Skull Cup". It was well known and hated by everyone, including Zhu Yuanzhang, who later became Ming Taizu. Later, Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled against and breached the Yuan Dynasty, and ordered Wu Mian, the minister, to look around for a wine vessel with the head of Song Lizong, and finally found it. They were buried in Cheng Jiao Temple first, then got the map of Zhejiang, found the location of Song Lizong's mausoleum, and put the head back.