1644 On April 25th, Emperor Chongzhen, accompanied by eunuch Wang Chengen, hanged himself on a pagoda tree with a crooked neck in Jingshan Park. Today, Jingshan Park has been called Jingshan.
The tree that hanged Emperor Chongzhen was once chained by the rulers of the Qing Dynasty and survived tenaciously for more than 200 years.
However, the locust tree we saw in Jingshan Park is not the one we saw in those years. Then, why is the locust tree hanging Chongzhen chained? Where did you go afterwards?
Li Zicheng unwillingly, laid the city but didn't sit tight. After the defeat of Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng immediately fled back to Xi 'an with troops and treasures.
The emperor shunzhi entered Beijing with the support of Dourgen. When he arrived in Beijing, Dourgen immediately ordered Emperor Chongzhen to be buried with emperor etiquette in order to appease the heart of Daming courtiers, and hung a chain on this crooked-neck tree, named Xin Huai.
The tree said it was wrong. It didn't do anything. Why do you want to tie it to yourself and name it Xin Huai? Is it because this irrelevant person hanged himself here?
Because of this, when the Manchu entered the customs, the banner was not to seize the world, but to avenge Emperor Chongzhen. With such a relationship in it, Ming officials naturally had a double affection for Manchu.
So at that time, all the officials who didn't know why took refuge in Manchu. Some people even think that Wu Sangui led the Qing soldiers into the customs and actually reached a cooperation agreement with them. It was Wu Sangui who invited reinforcements to restore the country.
Naive courtiers of Daming soon realized that everything the Qing army did when it entered Shanhaiguan was to seize the world. Including the burial of Emperor Chongzhen, including the naming of guilty conscience, are all aimed at seizing the land of Daming.
In 1960s, the extraordinary historical significance of this tree brought disaster to itself for the second time. At that time, a large group of people found the tree and destroyed it under the surging crowd.
As for the crooked neck tree we see now, it is actually a century-old tree transplanted from other places to the original site of crooked neck tree in 1996. Although the location is still the same as it used to be, the tree is not the one it used to be.