What is the truth of "thirteen doors leaving the coffin at the same time" after Zhu Yuanzhang's death?

Zhu Yuanzhang left a rich cultural heritage to Nanjing. In addition to Xiaoling Mausoleum, the longest existing wall in the world, Nanjing Ming City Wall, is also a masterpiece of Zhu Yuanzhang. In the Ming Dynasty, there were thirteen gates in the inner city and 18 gates in the outer town, which were called "thirteen gates inside and eighteen gates outside".

Legend has it that when Zhu Yuanzhang was buried, he also set up a "maze". On the same day, thirteen city gates appeared at the same time. This sentence has been circulated for 600 years and is one of the most classic jokes of Nanjing people. There used to be a folk song in Nanjing: "There are three monsters in Nanjing. Longtan girl is like an old lady, radish is sold as a side dish, and thirteen doors carry coffins. " In fact, the legend of Zhu Yuan's burial was a representative thing in Nanjing.

Some people may think it is nonsense, but it is not groundless. It is recorded in historical materials. For example, there is such a passage in Zhu Guozhen's Emperor Wang Zheng in the Ming Dynasty. On the day of Zhu Yuanzhang's burial, he was "led and buried."

Separate burial is a kind of cover-up, one of the steps to implement secret burial, and a typical feature of anti-grave robbery.

In the history of grave robbery in China, Zhu Yuanzhang was not the only ancient king who left a will before his death, demanding to "secretly deal with" himself. The earliest secret burial was Zhao Tuo, the king of South Vietnam mentioned in Sun Quan's grave robbery. After Zhao Tuo's death, there was a "secret tomb" with many doors and coffins when he was buried. Where its tomb is, it has not been discovered so far, and Sun Quan's hard work in that year was all in vain.

The most famous secret burial legend happened after the death of Cao Cao. Legend has it that on the day of burial, the coffin was carried out from all the gates of Yecheng. At present, it is not clear where Cao Cao is buried, and finally the mystery of "72 suspected graves" comes to an end. Kings in the Sixteen Kingdoms period also liked "secret burial". For example, Xerox, the owner of the post-Zhao dynasty, held funerals at the gates in the middle of the night and carried the coffin into the mountains in the dark.

Seeing this, some readers may ask, isn't Zhu Yuanzhang buried in Xiaoling with Queen Ma Xiuying? What's the point of secret burial? This is the right question.

Legend has it that Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to cause the effect of not being buried in Xiaoling after death, and never wanted to be a grave robber. Before the coffin was released from the Thirteen Gates at the same time, Zhu Yunwen had carried Zhu Yuanzhang's big coffin directly into the Xiaoling Mausoleum from the secret passage of the palace.

However, some people think that when Zhu Yuanzhang was buried, the real coffin was not carried into Xiaoling Mausoleum at all, especially after the Ming Dynasty emperor Judy moved to Beijing, which was once very popular.

Shortly after Zhu Yuanzhang was buried, it was reported that he was not buried with Ma Huanghou, but was buried alone in the Chaotian Palace in the west of the city. This is the so-called "high emperors shed, and the palace is not in the mausoleum".

Chaotian Palace is located in the west gate of the city, with Sanqing Hall in front and Datong Mingtang in the back. Now it is the seat of Nanjing Museum. Originally a smelting city built by Fu Cha, the King of Wu, the Purple Pole Palace was built here by Yang Pu, the King of Wu in the Five Dynasties. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it was renamed Xiangfu Palace, Tianqing Hall, Mysterious Hall and Yongshou Palace. In the 17th year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1384), Zhu Yuanzhang rebuilt this palace and renamed it. Upon completion, officials will be asked to "celebrate the ceremony here".

Legend has it that under the Sanqing Hall in front, "it is the real burial place of Ming Taizu".

Since then, many people have believed this statement. All the representatives of Eastern Zhejiang School in Qing Dynasty said in the poem "From Chaotian Palace to Xiaoling Mausoleum" that "Zhong You's clothes are right and wrong, but his bow and sword are more suspicious. Jade box beads are hard to find, and the tablet of divine power can be seen. The founding of the People's Republic was not ashamed of Han Zu, and Sun Di's successor was to learn from Cao Pi. At that time, it was ridiculous to set up a mountain mausoleum. Whoever gave the order was disobedient. "

From all the poems, people have doubts about the orthodox view that Zhu Yuanzhang was buried in Xiaoling Mausoleum in Ming and Qing Dynasties.