Great disaster in Beijing during the Ming Dynasty

May 20, 1625 (May 6, Hy Tong Thien Khoi 6th), in the ancient capital of the Ming Dynasty, the King of the southwestern palace (now Tuyen Vu gate), a region where a disaster occurred With heavy vandalism, the listeners still feel horrified, and it's hard to understand.

That morning, the sky was clear, suddenly there was a sound like a scream.From the northeast, gradually moving to the southwest of the city, heaven and earth eroded, dark as ink, wanted houses to collapse. The tangled tangled, like five colors, smoke-like steam in the shape of a lingzhi to reach the sky high, long before melting. East to the big street of Thuan Thanh gate, north to the picturesque street, up to three to four miles, circumference 13 miles, tens of thousands of houses, more than twenty thousand people turn into ash, stone bricks, rubble tiles from above it fell. Fragments of human bodies from head, shoulders, ears, nose to limbs were thrown down from the sky.

On the street, pieces of human bodies piled up , stinking. The catastrophe died. Trick, cow, horse horse, chicken and pig also all died. In Tu Kim Thanh, more than 2000 artisans are constructing, from the high scaffolding, the shocking and falling to the bone. Inoculation of the mortar was turned on even the roots flew far away. On Pho Ma avenue, a stone lion weighing up to 2500 kg was also flown out of Thuan Thanh's door. Royal elephant stables in Tuong Lai street completely collapsed, startled elephants panicked and rushed out and scattered.

Many victims died in a bizarre posture, on Thua An Tu street, 8 people carrying a girl walking on the road, the disaster struck, the broken palanquin was located between the road, the girl in the palanquin and 8 The person who has been turned away will disappear. At the back market gate, a guest from Thieu Hung was talking to 6 people, suddenly lost his head, body and limbs poured things to the ground, but the other 6 were unharmed.

One thing that everyone is surprised is the dead, the wounded or the peaceful person, then in the moment the disaster strikes, all of their clothes are stripped naked and naked. In Nguyen Hong Khue Street a palanquin is carrying a girl passing by, disaster strikes, part of the roof of the roof is punished away, the girl in it is stripped of clothes and all the jewelry, but the person is finished whole intact. A person who works as a marketing officer for a certain government house, when a disaster strikes only a glimpse, from shoes and shoes to socks all is stripped, amazed at the strangeness. There was a man who was crushed on his thigh, saw around him, men and women were naked and naked. Some people took a piece of tile to cover the enclosed area, some used a bundle of legs to cover it, some were covered with bedspread, a piece of torn dress to cover . Everyone looked at each other badly and laughed, there was no other way. There was a lover of a certain official buried under the rubble, heard someone on the top shouting: "Is there anyone in this room?" Then cried, "Save me". By the time she hurriedly picked her up, she knew that on her body she did not have a body covering. The clerk rescues her in a hurry to take off her cloak, then let her ride on the roman to her mother's house.

Where are everyone's clothes stripped off? After the disaster, some people reported that all clothes flew to Tay Son, tens of miles away (1 mile China ~ 0.5 km - ND), most of them were on the tops of trees. The person in charge of the Ministry of Households (the civil affairs custodial agency under the Ming dynasty) Truong Phuong Khue appointed "Head of the Committee" (ie, an examiner) to check there, as it was; at Xuong Binh Chau School in Xishan, clothes were piled up. Jewelry, money, dishes . nothing is missing.

On the occasion of the 360 ​​year round since Beijing suffered the disaster in 1986, Beijing Geological Society and more than 20 mass organizations , held a scientific conference on the cause of that terrible disaster. Scholars of each opinion can not agree. There are mainly points of view: Given that electrostatic atmospheres cause, or because earthquakes explode the arsenal of gunpowder or due to the forced action of Earth's fusion . Those views are also new. bizarre and bizarre, but difficult to explain, while the calamity falls, the temperature is low and there is no fire. Especially the phenomenon of stripping clothes is very strange.

The emperor at the time was Thien Khoi Chu Do Hieu, who said that the disaster was due to his lack of good cause, and the "tribulation crime" to reprimand himself. But considering it carefully, that terrible disaster can only be considered an unprecedented mysterious phenomenon.