Li Zicheng, formerly known as Li Hongji, was born as a postman. In the second year of Chongzhen (1629), he joined the Zhangcunmeng Rebel Army. Later, he turned and joined Gao Yingxiang's army. With the continuous growth of the rebel army, Li Zicheng, who is brave and good at fighting, is called the champion. In the ninth year of Chongzhen, he became the champion. 1644, Li Zicheng led the Dashun peasant army into the city, overthrowing the rule of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop. Soon, in the Battle of Shanhaiguan, Dashun Army was attacked by Ning Guan, Wu Sangui and the Qing army, and was defeated. Li Zicheng hastily held the enthronement ceremony in Wuying Hall of the Forbidden City in the Ming Dynasty, then set fire to the palace and hastily withdrew from the city which had only stayed for 42 days.

Later, facing the pursuit of the Qing army and Wu Sangui, Li Zicheng was defeated in several wars and forced to move to the north and south. When he marched to Jiugong Mountain in Tongshan County, Hubei Province on 1645, he led 20 troops into the mountain to scout the terrain (also known as fighting for food) and was suddenly attacked by villagers. Li Zicheng lost contact and disappeared.

To this day, there is still no exact statement about Li Zicheng's disappearance and cause of death. Based on various records and rumors, there are roughly two representative views: died in Jiugong Mountain? And then what? Zen hidden clip mountain temple said? .

According to documents such as Ming History, Chronicle of Xiaotian and Yi Shi in Southern Xinjiang, when Li Zicheng led the Dashun remnant army to Jiugong Mountain in Hubei, he saw that the trend of breaking the king had gone and the team gradually dispersed. He led 20 people riding into the mountain and was killed by villagers Cheng Jiubai and Jin with iron hoes. This is also recorded in Tongshan County Records during the Tongzhi period.

But? Jiugongshan was killed? There are still two doubts. First, Prince Azig of the Qing Dynasty said in his report that Chu Zhuangwang's remains? Cann't tell when a corpse rots. Then He Tengjiao, Minister of the Ministry of War of the Ming Dynasty, said in a report to the Tang King? Li Zicheng was beheaded in Jiugong Mountain, but Qin Bing accidentally lost his head? . As can be seen from the reports presented by the two men, neither of them was present at the time of the incident, nor did they personally check the authenticity of Chu Zhuangwang's remains, so the tone was vague and inexplicable, perhaps from his subordinates.

Wang Chuang was first questioned by Shen Yuelu, a scholar of the Republic of China. Jiugongshan is dead? He thought that it was not Li Zicheng who died in Jiugongshan after the defeat, but his ministry Sun Moumou, who died of old age in the 13th year of Kangxi (1674) in Lingshan Temple, Jiashan, Shimen County, Hunan Province. Can you really believe such a bizarre statement?

Shen Yuelu's inference is mainly based on the elaboration of Li Zicheng Biography written by He Lin, a magistrate in Yongzhou during Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty. After on-the-spot investigation and careful inquiry of local old people and monks, He Lin thinks that Li Zicheng did not die in Jiugong Mountain, but created an illusion to confuse and get rid of the pursuit of Qing army and Nanming government army. In the process of fleeing from Hubei police to Lizhou, Hunan, most Dashun soldiers saw that it was difficult to break the king, so they found another way.