Summary: 1992, a mysterious thing happened in an ordinary village in Xianghe County, Hebei Province: an ordinary old man's body changed strangely after his death. Some people say that the old man has become a fairy and has mysterious power. Others said that the old man fell asleep and woke up after a while. The old man named Zhou Fengchen was an ordinary peasant woman who died at the age of 88. In the next two or three years, many media reported this matter one after another. What happened to the old man at that time? Can the old man really wake up?

Located in Xianghe County, Hebei Province, southeast of Beijing, there is a small village called Hu Zhuangzi. 14 years ago, 1992, the death of an ordinary old man cast a mysterious color on this small village. After death, the body does not rot and is well preserved. The news spread quickly in the village. Some people say that the old lady has become an immortal, while others doubt what the family members have done to the old man. This matter is very mysterious, very mysterious. At the same time, many newspapers at home and abroad reported this news, and the event that the old man's body was not decomposed in Xianghe spread at one time.

At that time, this ordinary small courtyard received more than 100 tourists every day, including scientists, cultural figures and ordinary people who came here. Although the development of modern science and technology is changing with each passing day, there are still too many problems in our lives that we need to recognize. 10 years ago, many people heard of the mysterious incorruptibility of Zhou Fengchen, an old man in Xianghe. Now we can still find a lot of relevant information on the Internet. In some reports, people always associate the incorruptibility of the elderly with souls and ghosts, which adds a lot of mystery to this incident. So what kind of person is Zhou Fengchen, an old man in Xianghe, and what did she experience after her death to keep her body from being corroded? What is the state of the old man's body now? Like you, we are also curious about the ins and outs of the mysterious and honest incident of the elderly.

In March 2006, we came to Hu Zhuangzi Village, Xianghe, Hebei Province, and Zhou Fengchen's eldest son, Yang Shoude, received us. According to Yang Shoude, Zhou Fengchen died in Beijing on124, and was sent back to his hometown in Xianghe six months later. He was placed in a house in this small yard. 1992 fourteen years have passed, and the old man's body has not yet rotted.

In the two or three years after Zhou Fengchen's death, Yang Shoude's family built a showroom for the elderly, and it was free. It introduces the life of the old man and the changes of his body after his death in detail. Visitors first looked at the showroom, and then looked at the old man's body through the window. We observed the old man's body at close range and found that his face was dark and his body was light. His skin is dry and shrinking, and there is a layer of oil on the skin surface, which seems to be a state of long-term storage and a large amount of water loss.

At that time, some colleagues of Yang Shoude's eldest son, Yang, participated in the transfer of the old man's body. Shortly after the old man died in Zhou Fengchen, they saw his body. What is the difference between the old man's body at that time and now?

Tina Cheng: Later, when I visited with experts, I met this old man. I saw the old man. His skin color is darker than normal, and his teeth and hair are very close to what they are now.

Yang Hongwei: The color is that I feel almost the same as I am now, that is, my face is dark brown or tan, and my hair is silvery white and peaceful.

Wang Yuquan: Anyway, this kind of skin is dry. At that time, touching this kind of meat was not like us ordinary people. It feels like touching wax.

According to the family members of the elderly in Zhou Fengchen, after their death, they did not take any anti-corrosion measures for the elderly, so their bodies were kept at ordinary room temperature. Our investigation also found that this family is an ordinary family. None of the family members are studying medicine, and they have no conditions to take complicated medical anti-corrosion measures for the elderly. However, what happens to the elderly is really strange, so many people come to see them out of curiosity or superstition. Some even asked the Yang family for drinking water from the well, thinking that the old man would be immortal if he drank the water. The old lady's immortality is obviously an idealistic statement, which has no scientific basis, but why is the old man's body strangely free from corruption? Let's talk about what happened before and after the old man died.

1At the end of 992, 88-year-old Zhou Fengchen returned to his eldest son Yang Shoude's home in Beijing from Xianghe. Before returning to Beijing, the old man was hospitalized in Xianghe Hospital for several days because he was not feeling well. After returning to Beijing, the old man was weak and never ate anything but drank a little water. 1On October 24th, Zhou Fengchen died in his eldest son's home.

But strangely, after stopping breathing, Zhou Fengchen's old man's body is not as cold and stiff as ordinary people, but as usual, he looks serene. When the old man's family introduced us, they always thought that the old man was asleep at that time.

Under normal circumstances, after death, the body temperature will drop in about two hours, and the body will appear green spots of rigor mortis and corruption. Forensic medicine often determines the time of death according to these phenomena.

Forensic doctor Jia Mingchun: After death, everything within 24 hours belongs to the phenomenon of early death. The early postmortem phenomenon is mainly that the temperature of the corpse begins to drop, the corpse is cold, and then there is rigor mortis. The temperature drop varies with the climate and the cause of death. If the temperature of the body drops, some are fast and some are slow.

Because the old man's body temperature dropped slowly, Yang and his family thought that the old man was asleep and didn't disturb him, but the next day, Yang found that the old man's body began to change.

Yang: What did she say? 17 that day, she told me that afternoon. She said, "I have a great career, not only to let Xianghe know, but also to let the whole world know, and finally to let the whole world know." I didn't understand this at that time. I discussed it with my brother. I said, grandma is an ordinary old lady. How can she let the whole world know, let the whole country know?

Grandson of old man Yang: On the 25th, I found that my grandmother's fingertips turned red and her blood didn't coagulate.

In the next few days, the old man's body has been changing gradually. On the seventh day, his family found some new strange changes in the old man's body.

Yang: It is equal to the date 65438+ February 1. Grandma found a lot of blood in this position when she stopped breathing for 7 days. When I lifted my arm, it was still moving. The water can flow from here to this place, and then back to this place.

Strange phenomena followed. At this time, neither Yang's father nor his younger brother's family thought that they should deal with the affairs for the elderly as soon as possible. They stubbornly believe that the old man is asleep.

Yang: On February 3, 65438, grandma's body had a very special change, that is, she began to expand gradually, and her body expanded little by little.

At this time, the old man's body slowly turned into an airbag, and his family pressed it with their fingers, feeling very elastic.

Yang: Her whole body looks like an airbag, and her skin is very elastic. It looks like a ball after you press it. When you press it, it bounces, and her whole body expands, that is, her whole face becomes bigger and rounder.

According to family members, the old man's body continued to swell for two days, and then he began to ooze liquid slowly. Family members said that the water that could flow in the skin began to ooze.

Yang: It began to seep out in about 12 days, a little bit. With the seepage of water, gas becomes less and less. By about 65438+February 20th, grandma's body basically returned to its original state, and there was no water compared with the original, which was similar to what we see now, just 1 month.

Professor Jia Mingchun, executive director of China Criminal Science and Technology Association, believes that the body of the elderly is mummified.

Forensic doctor Jia Mingchun: If it is a corpse change, it is mainly what we said, and mummies are common.

Jia Mingchun mentioned that a large amount of water loss in a short period of time is one of the conditions for mummy formation, while Zhou Fengchen, an old man in Xianghe, vomited and diarrhea a lot during his hospitalization, and the old man lost water quickly in a short period of time.

Forensic experts believe that the expansion of the old man's body after death may be a corrupt blister produced in the process of corruption. Blisters are connected into sheets or even larger areas, which his family understands as whole body swelling. Later, the old man's body was no longer corrupt and gradually dried up, forming the state we see now. In other words, the old man's body was once as corrupt as ordinary people, but later, after the old man lost a lot of water, this process stopped and formed.

Mummies are one of the common phenomena after death throughout the ages. Many mummies have been unearthed in the northwest of China. These mummies were formed by rapid dehydration in the natural environment. Although it has not been artificially treated, the harsh and dry climate in northwest China can make people lose water quickly and form mummies after weathering.

Egyptian mummies are mummies. Egyptians believe that there is a soul after death, and a well-preserved corpse is the residence of the soul at night. They have complicated manual procedures, dealing with corpses in multiple processes and applying spices to them. The mummy finally formed is completely different from that of Zhou Fengchen, an old man in Xianghe.

In the archaeological field of China, ancient bodies have been unearthed in many places. 1985, the bodies of a couple of Yuan Dynasty were unearthed in Yuanling, Hunan. When they were unearthed at that time, their faces were lifelike and their muscles were elastic. However, after they were unearthed and exposed to the air, some changes have taken place. The medical staff dissected the female corpse and found a large amount of mercury in the abdominal cavity of the female corpse.

He Min, Hunan Yuanling Health School: It turns out that the skin is still elastic. It seems that the color of this skin has turned black. As a result, the abdominal cavity was opened and a large amount of mercury flowed out. There are about 2500 milliliters of mercury. At that time, we saw that the abdominal cavity was full of mercury, but her stomach and intestines were still relatively complete.

Why is there a lot of mercury in the abdominal cavity of the corpse? What will Mercury do?

Xia, director of Yuanling Museum in Hunan Province: The practice of pouring silver is also folk, and it became popular in the Song Dynasty. In the Yuan Dynasty, this practice was still used, that is, a folk practice, which was a preservation measure for an ancient corpse.

According to the following investigation, we got a bold guess: Maybe the old man took some special substances himself, that is, some chemical substance speculated by Professor Ji Xiaolong, which led to strange changes in her body after her death.

To confirm this speculation, we found some relics of the old man. In a pile of ordinary small objects, we found a piece of paper wrapped in red powder. According to family members, this is what the old man used to hold cinnabar. In the past, the old man often used cinnabar to drink water to calm his nerves and eliminate headaches.

Cinnabar, alias Cinnabar, is a natural ore, which can be used as medicine after being ground into fine powder. The main component is 95% mercuric sulfide, which is mainly used to treat restlessness and infantile convulsion. It is a commonly used medicine in traditional Chinese medicine. However, cinnabar has another feature, that is, it should not be taken for a long time. If taken for a long time, it will cause mercury poisoning. In addition, cinnabar can also be used as a pill coat, which has the effect of calming the nerves and preventing corrosion. Old Zhou Fengchen must know how to use cinnabar, because she learned some healing skills from Taoist priests. She also used cinnabar to relieve anxiety and irritability. We can't verify whether the elderly know the consequences of mercury poisoning, but we can speculate that if the elderly take cinnabar for a long time, they will accumulate enough heavy metal: mercury in her body. One of the symptoms of mercury poisoning is a lot of vomiting and diarrhea, which can explain the strange vomiting of the elderly during their stay in Xianghe Hospital.

In the investigation, we also found that cinnabar may be the special chemical substance mentioned by Professor Ji Xiaolong. But the old man has been dead for many years, and we can't personally prove to her about taking cinnabar. This is just a guess. So is it true that everyone who has taken cinnabar can't rot?

Jia Mingchun: There are many factors, such as environmental factors, personal factors, diseases and digestive tract factors. Individual factors are different, some can be shaped, and some can't, but after all, there are still few mummies, especially now, it is rare to form mummies in an environment like the old lady.

Through the investigation of the elderly in Zhou Fengchen, Xianghe, we can think that the mysterious and incorruptible phenomenon of the elderly body is a coincidence under the comprehensive action of many reasons. For example, in the hospitalization before the old man died, antibiotics may have destroyed some bacteria in her body. In addition, the elderly vomited and diarrhea, rarely drank water, did not eat for a week before their death, took cinnabar for a long time, and put it in a dry and ventilated room after their death. These conditions may have an impact on the body of the elderly, and they are all in line with the conditions for mummification of corpses.