More than 300 years have passed since the "crooked neck tree" of Emperor Chongzhen was hanged. What is the current situation?

The "crooked neck tree" hanging from Chongzhen is still in Jingshan Park, but time has passed. The original tree has already disappeared due to some historical problems. The current tree was transplanted more than 20 years ago.

Although later scholars praised and criticized the Ming Dynasty, there is one thing undeniable that the emperor of the Ming Dynasty is the most sturdy king in Chinese history . The belief that the emperor guarded the gate of the country and that the king died of sheji went through every period of the Ming dynasty. Among them, "the king died of sheji" refers to the self-hanging of Chongzhen Coal Mountain.

1644 on March 18 of the lunar calendar, Emperor Chongzhen saw Li Zicheng's army break into the city. He first ordered all his concubines to commit suicide, and then killed his own daughter. The next day I arrived at Meishan, north of the Forbidden City, and found a locust tree with a crooked neck hanged and died.

On the third day after Chongzhen's death, the body was found by Dashun Army. It was displayed at the Donghua Gate and later buried in the tomb of Concubine Tian. After the Qing army entered the Pass, in order to win over the hearts of the Han people, Chongzhen was buried in Siling again, and the crooked neck tree on Meishan was chained, which was called "Sin Sophora".

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty hoped to keep this sinful tree, because this tree is a witness to the demise of the Ming Dynasty and a symbol of the rise of the Qing Dynasty. At the same time, this tree can also alert future generations to the throne and let them make a difference.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, during the invasion of China by the Eight-Power Allied Forces, the chains on the Huaihua Tree were looted. In 1966, the bark of the locust tree was stripped by the Red Guards, causing the locust tree to wither and die. Later, in order to remember the history, in 1981, the park management office planted a small locust tree, but because the tree was only the size of the mouth, an old locust tree about 150 years old was replanted in 1996. .

It is precisely because of the above-mentioned reasons that the original sin locust has disappeared, and now the sin locust is more of a symbolic meaning.