According to the description in "The Big Mansion", on the morning of the sixth day of May (AD 65438+May 30, 0626), the sky in the capital (Beijing) was bright, and suddenly there was a loud noise, like the sky was falling, filled with smoke, and it was getting dark. Suddenly, a strong wind blew, and people, livestock, trees, bricks and stones were all caught in the air. At the same time, there was a low earthquake, houses collapsed and flames soared, destroying thousands of houses. At the same time, the ground subsided and some people were trapped underground. Zhu Youxiao was having breakfast when the accident happened. Suddenly, he found the hall shaking. I don't know what happened. He was scared and ran away. He jumped out of the door and hurried to the Jiaotai Hall. The eunuchs were shocked, and only one chamberlain followed him. Unexpectedly, when I first arrived at Jianji Temple, I suddenly flew off a piece of mandarin duck tile, which hit my chamberlain right on the head. Suddenly, my brains went into pears and I fell to the ground and died!
Emperor Xizong also forgot him and ran to the Jiaotai Hall in one breath. There was a big table in the corner of the hall, and he hurried in to avoid the robbery. After the explosion, the news quickly spread all over the country, and both nobles and ordinary people felt very scared. They thought that this disaster had a lot to do with the political corruption and the autocratic state of eunuchs at that time, and it was a warning from heaven to the emperor. Under the pressure of public opinion, the emperor had to write a "culpable of punishment", saying that he would "make efforts to save the repair" and never let this phenomenon happen again, and allocated 12 thousand gold from the state treasury to help the victims. The explosion caused many deaths and injuries, but these were not enough to shock people. Many strange phenomena in this explosion make people feel uneasy. For example, in this disaster, people disappeared. According to records, the company commander Yang Yi pedestrians, including seven people with horses and men, disappeared. The female sedan chair walking in Chengen Temple Street was damaged in the middle of the street afterwards, and all the female passengers and eight bearers in the sedan chair were missing. There are 36 teachers and students in the West Pavilion, all of whom disappeared after the explosion!
In addition to the strangeness of the initial disappearance, the strange "undressing phenomenon" is even more puzzling. According to historical records at that time, in this incident, no matter men or women, no matter life or death, no matter at home or on the road, many people were stripped of their clothes, shoes and hats, all naked. For example, it is recorded in "The Emperor of Heaven" that "the injured men and women are naked, somehow." There is a story in "Old News of the Sun": A female sedan chair passed by Justin Street, only to hear a vibration. The sedan chair was about to be lifted off, and all the clothes of the female guest were scraped off. She sat naked in the sedan chair without hurting her flesh. Where are their clothes? According to Guoque, after the earthquake, those clothes were found hanging on the treetops of the western hills. There were piles of clothes in Changping County, as well as utensils, jewelry and silver thread. According to some historical records, there were some strange signs before the explosion. As recorded in The Story of Lin Dong, on the second night of May, hundreds of erratic flames appeared at the corner of Qianmen Building, and in a short time, these flames merged into a ball with big wheels!
According to "Miscellanies of the Weather", on the morning of the 6th, there was a temple of fire in Houzaimen, and strange music came from it, sometimes loud and sometimes quiet. The guard was about to go in and check it out when suddenly something like a big fireball flew. Soon, there was a deafening explosion in Dongcheng. What does this flame and fireball have to do with the Big Bang? For more than 300 years, historians and scientists have been studying and discussing the explosion in Wang Gong factory, but there has been no conclusion. Many people think that it was caused by the gunpowder explosion of the handicraft arms workshop Wanggong Factory, which was located at the center of the explosion at that time, so this disaster is also called "the strange slaughter of Wanggong Factory". However, according to the estimation of explosion experts, according to historical records, this strange disaster is equivalent to the energy of 30,000 tons of black powder explosion. However, the powder stored in the Maharaja Hip Factory does not exceed several hundred tons at most, so it is impossible to form such a big impact!
Some people think that this kind of disaster may be caused by falling meteorites, according to the records of "Fire in Hurricane", "Iron Slag Falling in Xi 'anmen Area", and directional shock waves and craters. However, after the explosion, no meteorites were found at the scene. Seismologists believe that the disaster was caused by an earthquake. Others suggested that it was a thermonuclear explosion of an invisible volcano, and some even thought it was an alien invasion, UFO arrival and so on. But neither view is convincing enough. Some experts have analyzed the causes of more than a dozen explosions that are considered possible, and combined with historical records such as disaster process and damage scope, they believe that this incident is mainly natural disasters, and gunpowder explosion is the fuel. But what is a natural disaster? Is it the result of natural disasters or concentrated natural disasters? There are still not enough arguments to prove it!