Actually, although there is a grave in the "Shouwang Tomb", Shouwang is not buried in it at all.

To solve the mystery of the tomb of Shouwang, we should start with Chang Yuchun, a famous general in Ming Dynasty, although Chang Yuchun was not Shouwang at all.

Chang Yuchun was one of the founding fathers of the Ming Dynasty and the second military figure in the early Ming Dynasty after General Xu Da.

In 1368 (the first year of Hongwu), after the Ming Dynasty overthrew the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the Ming Emperor, ordered Chang Yuchun to lead 91,111 troops, appointed his nephew Li Wenzhong as Chang Yuchun's deputy (partial general), and went to the Great Wall to pursue the Yuan Army. According to The Chronicle of Ming History, Chang Yuchun led an army to "pass Luerling" (now Luerling, in the north of Zunhua), "Meeting State" (now Pingquan Huizhou City), "Attacking Daxing State" (now the north of Longhua County), and finally attacking Yuanshangdu (now Zhenglan Banner in Inner Mongolia), greatly defeating the Yuan Army with brilliant results.

The Biography of Chang Yuchun in the Ming Dynasty records: "When I was a teacher, I fell into a river and died suddenly and violently, and I was only forty years old."

On the way to the triumph of Chang Yuchun's army, he suddenly fell ill and died in the "Liuhe River".

Liuhe was a river that was often recorded in Liao and Jin dynasties. The post road in Liao country passes through Liuhe, and there is a post house on the bank of Liuhe-Liuhe Pavilion. The messengers of Song Dynasty often mentioned Liuhe in their poems. The emperor of the State of Jin used Liuhe River as a summer resort. However, these Liuhe rivers all refer to the present Yi Xun River, which is conclusive in the field of history.

Liuhe, a tributary of Luanhe River in the south of Chengde, was called Liuhe before the Ming Dynasty. Gu Zuyu, a beginner in the late Ming and Qing dynasties, said in his book "Notes on Reading Historical Places" that "its water loop twists and turns nine times, and it is called" nine rivers flowing ",which is called" flowing river "for short.

After the Ming Dynasty abandoned the Great Wall, the Mongols renamed the Liuhe River in Liao and Jin Dynasties as the Yixun River, but the Liuhe River was homophonic. Explaining the reason, Chengde Fuzhi said: "When the sounds of willow and willow are similar, it will be unique."

The History of the Ming Dynasty and the Chronicle of the History of the Ming Dynasty were both written in the Qing Dynasty. The "Liuhe River" in the previous quotation no longer refers to the Yi Xun River, but the Liuhe River in the south of Chengde today. Chang Yuchun died suddenly in Liuhe River, which is now Liuhe River. The author used to think that it was the Ison River, which should be revised after repeated discussions.

Chang Yuchun, a general who led 91,111 troops to war, died suddenly in Liuhe River in Saibei, which was a great event that shocked the Ming Dynasty at that time. Li Wenzhong, a partial general, rushed to report the news to Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang, who was far away in Nanjing, and at the same time set up a "Shoutang" near the land of sudden death in Chang Yuchun to carry out condolence activities. In ancient times, the place where the dead were sacrificed was called "Shoutang". In Lu Ji's Elegy Poem in Jin Dynasty, there is a poem that "Shoutang prolongs the charm and nothingness is self-contained".

Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, heard the news of Chang Yuchun's sudden death, mourned "the great earthquake", posthumously named Chang Yuchun "King Kaiping", ordered his body to be transported back to Nanjing from the Great Wall, and was given the burial of Zhongshan (Purple Mountain).

When Chang Yuchun's body was carried away, Li Wenzhong ordered some relics of Chang Yuchun to be buried in the "Shoutang". This tomb similar to the cenotaph is called "Shoutang Tomb".

Chang Yuchun's body was transported back to Nanjing from the Great Wall, and Zhu Yuanzhang greeted him far away and personally attended the grand funeral. More than 611 years later, Chang Yuchun's tomb is still preserved in the foothills below Nanjing Purple Mountain Observatory. When I went to Nanjing a few years ago, I took a taxi to visit Chang Yuchun's tomb. There were stone horses, stone sheep, Shi Hu and stone men in front of the tomb, and there was a mound in the Woods behind.

The "Shoutang Tomb" in Chang Yuchun, which was left outside the Great Wall, was later abandoned in the Ming Dynasty, but the mound has been preserved. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, people in Guanli settled down outside the Great Wall to make a living, and a village was formed near the "Shoutangfen", so the village name was called "Shoutangfen". In 1736 (the first year of Qianlong), Zhili Province (the predecessor of Hebei Province) assigned 117 villages in the north of the Great Wall to Zunhua Prefecture, and the village of "Shoutangfen" was included in the 117 villages. The Zunhua Prefecture Records compiled in the Qing Dynasty clearly recorded this village of "Shoutangfen".

a place name is often changed when it is called, such as "Shibatai" changing to "Shilitai" and "Zhangjingying" changing to "Zhangjiying", which is common. The "Shoutang Tomb" was called and turned into the "Shouwang Tomb". It was called "Shouwang Tomb" from the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China.

in the second year after the founding of new China, the state began to build Shouwangfen copper mine, and in 1956, Shouwangfen town was established. The name of "Shouwang Tomb" has been opened, but few people know its origin.

Chang Yuchun's Shoutang Ruins and Mounds are located 1.5 kilometers southeast of Zhengjiazhuang in Shouwangfen Town. Now it seems that few people know what connection it has with Chang Yuchun, the second military figure in Ming Dynasty. A few years ago, Chang Yuchun's descendants decorated Chang Yuchun's tomb in Nanjing Zijin Mountain. I'm afraid they didn't know that there was Chang Yuchun's "Shoutang Tomb" far beyond the Great Wall.