Guanling, formerly known as "King's Tomb", is located 3 kilometers northwest of dangyang city, Hubei Province, facing Qushui and Jingshan Mountain. It, together with Jiezhou Guandi Temple in Yuncheng, Shanxi Province and Guanlin in Luoyang, Henan Province, is known as the three major temples in China, with a history of 1800 years.

The tomb of Guan Yu in Chengdu was built in the Shu and Han Dynasties, and it is a cenotaph.

Guanlin, located in Guanlin Town, Luolong District, Luoyang City, Henan Province, was the burial place of Guan Yu, the general of Shu State during the Three Kingdoms Period. It is one of the three major temples at home and abroad, and it is called "Lin" alone among thousands of temples. It is the only ancient classic building in China that integrates burial, temple and forest.

Guan Yu's tomb, the above three places, is not a secret burial. It has been there for thousands of years, so no one has found it.

Photo of bones unearthed from Guan Yu's tomb

It is said that Guan Yu's head and headless body have been dug up. But there is no authoritative official release, and the authenticity is in doubt.

As the saying goes: "Master Guan, rest in Luoyang, lie in the sun, and return to your hometown". At present, there are three Guan Yu tombs recognized by Chinese historians, one in Guanzhuang Village, Luoyang City, Henan Province, one in Chengguan Mausoleum, dangyang city City, Hubei Province, and one in Guan Yu Tomb, Chengdu City, Sichuan Province.

It is said that Guan Yu's tomb in Guanzhuang Village is the place where Guan Yu's head is buried. In a heavy rain in 1979, experts found a human skull in an ancient tomb in Guanzhuang village, with a tiger's head card next to it. It is speculated that this is probably the head of Guan Yu.

It is also said that the place where Guan Yu's headless body was buried was also excavated, as well as the Qinglong crescent moon blade and two female bodies.

However, these are all rumors of future generations. Although there are pictures and texts, there is no authoritative organization to publish them, and its correctness needs to be verified.

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The origin of "Master Guan, pillow Luoyang, lying in the sun, returning home";

In the twenty-fourth year of Jian 'an, Guan Yu defeated Maicheng and was soon killed by Sun Quan. Sun Quan gave Guan Yu's head to Cao Cao, who buried him in Luoyang as a vassal. At the same time, Sun Quan buried Guan Yu's body as a vassal in Dangyang, namely Guanling, also known as Dangyang Mausoleum. Shu Han built a cenotaph for Guan Yu in Chengdu, that is, the tomb of Guan Yu in Chengdu, in order to summon the soul for sacrifice. Therefore, the folk also called Guan Yu "pillow Luoyang, lying in the sun, returning to his hometown."

References:

Guan Yu-Baidu Encyclopedia

Guan Yu's true bone restoration map

Guan Yu's body was found as follows:

Guan Yu is immortal, and later changed to Yunchang, a native of Xie Xian County, Hedong, nicknamed "Beard". In his early years, he followed Liu Bei around and became brothers with Liu Bei and Zhang Fei. Therefore, although Guan Yu was treated well by Cao Cao, he took the opportunity to leave Cao Cao and follow Liu Bei. After Battle of Red Cliffs, Guan Yu helped Liu Bei and Zhou Yu attack the southern county where Coss was stationed, and then Liu Bei's power gradually grew, while Guan Yu was guarding Jingzhou for a long time.

In the twenty-fourth year of Jian 'an, Guan Yu gradually gained the upper hand in the military friction with Coss, then went hand in hand by land and water, surrounded Xiangyang and attacked Fancheng, and used the heavy rain in autumn to drown the seventh army, destroying all the troops that came to rescue, and then surrounded Fancheng. Guan Yu shocked China, which made Cao Cao once have the idea of moving the capital to avoid Guan Yu's sharpness.

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The book The History of the Three Kingdoms does not record the date of Guan Yu's birth. Later generations have been controversial about Guan Yu's origin. In Guandi Temple in Changping Village, Yuncheng City, Shanxi Province, there is an inscription on the tombstone of Mu Houzu, a general in Guanzhuang, 19 years ago.

People remember that Guan Yu was born on June 24, the third year of the Han Dynasty, and both the Monument to the Field set by Guan Yu in Shipangou in the second year of Chongzhen and the Record of Guan Di compiled in the twenty-first year of Qing Qianlong believed that Guan Yu was born on June 22, the third year of the Han Dynasty.

Photographs of bones unearthed from Zhuge Liang's tomb

Since 2000, the tomb of Zhuge Liang, which has been difficult to find, has finally been discovered by archaeologists in Dingjun Mountain, Shaanxi Province. There are not only countless strategies in the tomb, but also the construction of the tomb conforms to the number of weeks and days, which hides the mystery.

One of the findings is that archaeologists have washed away Liu Chan's grievances for thousands of years.

So what discovery made experts come to such a conclusion?

"When the coffin is lifted to the south, it can be buried when the rope is broken." This was Zhuge Liang's last move before he died.

Zhuge Liang's life is full of wisdom and close to the devil. In order to prevent the grave from being disturbed by outsiders after death, he came up with this wonderful plan.

According to historical records, after the First World War, Zhuge Liang was in a hurry, and his old illness recurred and his health went from bad to worse.

Knowing that he was dying, Zhuge Liang told his adopted son Liu Chan that he could not be buried in a beautiful way after his death. He just needs to put himself in the most common coffin, and then carry the coffin like walking with new ropes and new poles. The rope broke and the thick stick broke, so he could be buried.

At the same time, in order to prevent Sima Yi of Wei from taking the opportunity to counterattack Shu, Zhuge Liang also took the opportunity to come up with a good plan to kill two birds with one stone.

On the one hand, he asked Liu Chan to publicize that he would be buried in Dingjun Mountain after his death, and asked his relatives to pay their respects on the day of burial, so as to attract Sima Yi's attention and achieve the purpose of confusing the fake with the real.

On the other hand, he told Liu Chan that Sima Yi had lost his whole life, and he would take this opportunity to send troops to test the reality. At that time, he only needed to carry his woodcut statue on his back, and he could scare away Sima Yi and Wei Jun.

Sure enough, Sima Yi was very excited after getting the news and personally led the troops to find out the truth. As a result, an old man appeared in front of the Shu army, smiling without a word. It was Zhu Gekongming. Sima Yi became suspicious and thought that he had been ambushed, so he was scared and fled. This is the famous "death of Zhuge scared away the living Zhong Da" in history.

By this time, Zhuge Liang had indeed passed away. According to Zhuge Liang's entrustment, Liu Chan arranged for four soldiers to carry Zhuge Liang's coffin all the way south.

It was summer, and it was extremely hot in Bashu area. Four soldiers were sweating and exhausted before they walked far away.

Four people secretly complain in their hearts. The coffin is made of new ropes and new poles. It is impossible to take off without half a year's journey. They don't want to suffer like this. So the four men discussed it, found a place casually, cut the rope, buried the coffin in a hurry, and then returned to Liu Chan to receive the reward.

When Liu Chan heard that the four men had fulfilled their adoptive father's wishes, he gave them a generous reward.

But before long, Liu Chan felt something was wrong. Adoptive father's coffin is made of new ropes and bars, so it is impossible to break it so quickly.

So Liu Chan ordered the four soldiers to be tortured, and soon all four soldiers revealed the truth.

Liu Chan was furious and ordered the direct killing of four soldiers who lied about receiving rewards.

But just after the murder, Liu Chan regretted it, because he had not had time to ask his adoptive father where he was finally buried.

I think this is Zhuge Liang's last strategy before he died. I have to say Zhuge Liang's grasp of human nature is simply terrible. He assumed that the coffin carrier would bury his coffin at will because of fatigue, and then the coffin carrier would be beheaded by angry Liu Chan, and the true location of his coffin was never known.

So, is Liu Chan really so reckless? Can't he really help Liu Adou?

After Zhuge Liang's Millennium Tomb was discovered by archaeologists, an incredible story surfaced, which also made archaeologists wash away Liu Chan's thousand years of blame and injustice.

People always say that Liu Chan has no ambition and is as timid as a mouse, so he is called Liu Adou who can't get up.

But when you learn the following story, it may subvert your understanding of Liu Chan.

In the tomb of Zhuge Liang in Dingjun Mountain, experts found that this tomb was built by Liu Chan after Zhuge Liang's death.

At that time, in order to keep secret, Liu Chan didn't gather too many people, but only selected 77 skilled craftsmen. In order to shorten the construction period and reduce the flow of workers, Liu Chan also prepared chefs for these 77 craftsmen.

After confirming the number of people, Liu Chan gave them a big box. Liu Chan told them that this was their salary and asked them to supervise each other. They have to wait until the project is over before they can open the box.

In this way, these 78 people have been supervising each other during the construction of the tomb and never left the construction site.

By the night before the completion, the workers couldn't resist their curiosity, thinking that the project would be finished tomorrow anyway, and it would be all right to open the box tonight.

In this way, 77 workers opened the big box while the cook was cooking.

All the workers were stunned by what they saw. In the box, there is a glittering gold ingot!

Everyone counted carefully, and there were exactly 77, but soon someone asked, where is the cook who cooks?

If you don't give it to him, it will definitely cause trouble, and then everyone's money will be difficult to get.

Rich and touching, some craftsmen suggested that the cook was only responsible for cooking, and did not work hard to build the tomb, so he simply took the cook away as soon as he finished.

Other craftsmen agree with this.

In this way, the poor cook died under the siege of everyone.

The craftsmen cut up the gold ingot and saw a sumptuous dinner in the hall, so they regarded it as a celebration banquet and began to eat and drink.

But what they didn't expect was that it didn't take long for them to feel a sharp pain in their stomachs, and soon all 77 craftsmen died.

It turned out that when they were discussing the plan, the chef happened to hear their malicious thoughts.

So the cook was prepared to strike first and added poison to his dinner, but the cook didn't expect these craftsmen to strike so soon.

In this way, 78 craftsmen and chefs who built the tomb for Zhuge Liang died tragically, and no one except Liu Chan knew the location of the tomb.

Some people say that Liu Chan deliberately dropped a gold ingot to let craftsmen and chefs kill each other.

Others said that Liu Chan was simply stupid.

However, this chef was specially selected by Liu Chan for the workers. How could he possibly remember the total wrong?

It can be seen that Liu Chan, like Zhuge Liang, can easily solve the problem of hidden graves by taking advantage of the weakness of human nature.

So does Zhuge Liang's tomb really exist? Where the hell is it?

According to historical records, Zhuge Liang asked Liu Chan to announce that he would be buried in Dingjun Mountain before he died.

Archaeologists found that there is indeed a mountain named Dingjun Mountain in Mianxian County, Hanzhong, Shaanxi Province, and there is indeed a grave at the foot of the mountain. But what puzzles the experts is that there is a more magnificent tomb of Zhuge Liang less than 100 meters away. There is a stone tablet in front of the tomb, which is engraved with the tomb of Zhuge Liang, the prime minister of the Han Dynasty.

This is a little strange. Why are there two tombs of Zhuge Liang less than 100 meters away? Is Zhuge Liang more than one person?

Just when the experts were puzzled, the staff at the scene put forward such a suggestion.

They told experts that if they want to identify the authenticity, they can start with a plaque given to Zhuge Liang by Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty.

At the end of Qing dynasty, war broke out. A non-governmental organization called Anbailiao rose up because it was not ruled by the Manchu government. Under the siege, the Qing dynasty occupied more than 200 counties.

Legend has it that An Baili sent troops to the foot of Dingjun Mountain to continue to capture Mianxian County, but suddenly they saw countless flags flying on Dingjun Mountain. Later, they learned that Zhuge Liang's mausoleum was buried under Dingjun Mountain, and they all ran away in fear.

When the governor of Shaanxi informed Emperor Jiaqing of this matter, Jiaqing was very happy and personally wrote a plaque for Zhuge Liang.

The governor of Shaanxi was naturally happy to see that the emperor was convinced of this matter.

Later, Shaanxi Governor led troops to crusade against An Baili and passed Dingjun Mountain on the way.

When he saw it, Zhuge's tomb was about 100 meters away from Dingjun Mountain, not "at the foot of Dingjun Mountain" as he said in the memorial. Afraid that the emperor would know about it, the governor of Shaanxi quickly ordered people to build a new tomb of Zhuge Liang at the foot of Dingjun Mountain.

Originally, things passed like this. Unfortunately, after a while, another official passed by Dingjun Mountain. He was a die-hard fan of Zhuge Liang. He saw Zhuge Liang's new tomb with great momentum, but there was no tombstone.

Out of kindness, the official asked the local craftsman to carve a tombstone and stand in front of the new grave.

Since then, Zhuge Liang's two ancient tombs can no longer distinguish between true and false.

Fortunately, in a temple not far from the foot of Dingjun Mountain, a monk witnessed the whole process. In order to prevent future generations from confusing the authenticity of Zhuge Liang's tomb, the monk recorded and marked it early.

With the help of the abbot and monk, the experts finally found out that among the two ancient tombs, the one without tombstone is Zhuge Liang's real grave.

Indeed, as recorded in the book, archaeologists did not find Zhuge Liang's body in the tomb, and the funerary objects were unpretentious, mostly military history books and the like.

Later, the local government carried out more maintenance and protection of this cemetery, and it also became a very famous historical attraction.

The third call aggravated his state affairs, and he gave his sincerity to two generations. Zhuge Liang, with his unique wisdom and charm, has attracted countless history lovers to explore the truth.