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In November 1650, Emperor Shunzhi's "father and regent" Dorgon accidentally fell off his horse and was injured while hunting in the northern part of the Great Wall. On December 31 of the same year, Dorgon died in Kara City outside Gubeikou at the age of 39.

When Emperor Shunzhi heard of his father's sudden death, he was extremely sad. Not only did he wear mourning clothes and go to Wuli outside Dongzhimen to personally welcome Dorgon's body, he also posthumously named him "Emperor Chengzong of Qing", showing his loving father and filial son.

Unexpectedly, just two months later, everything took a turn for the worse. In February 1651, Emperor Shunzhi stripped his father of all honors, completely erasing him from the Qing imperial family, and even destroyed Dorgon's tomb. It was not until two years later that he admitted that "it seemed too much."

The ancestral graves were dug up, not by the people

In the ancient society that emphasized etiquette and law, digging up other people's tombs was extremely hateful. From the Han Dynasty to the Ming Dynasty, all tomb robbers or digging up other people's tombs were capital crimes, and the "Old Book of Tang" even defined it as an unforgivable crime, a crime punishable by beheading.

Digging up other people's tombs is both illegal and extremely immoral. However, there was a dynasty known for its benevolence, righteousness and propriety that dug up the ancestral tombs of the previous rulers, even at the cost of bearing the infamy.