There is a tomb in China that was buried with strange and sinister events, and even to this day, science cannot explain it

In China, people have always been superstitious about ghosts and gods. In traditional Chinese culture, ghosts and gods are seen as different states of being, with ghosts being phenomena that arise after the death of various creatures. 

Thus, stories about eerie happenings at tombs are always abundant, and if even the tombs of common people are restless, it is natural that the tombs of emperors would be even more mysterious. 

Today, we're going to talk about the tomb of the first emperor of the Han dynasty, Liu Bang. This tomb was originally built as a place to pay respects to Liu's ancestors and has some very interesting stories.

In the beginning, Liu Bang was just a small village head in Pei County. Who would have thought that such a small person could become the emperor of the Han dynasty, wielding immense power? When he was young, people didn't take him seriously and he received a lot of contempt from his fellow villagers. 

But when he became successful, he naturally wanted to return to his hometown in glory, showing off in front of those who had previously looked down on him. Liu Bang, who had already become an emperor, was exactly like this. However, Liu Bang was not content with just his own glory, he also wanted his deceased ancestors to have some glory as well.

By doing this, he hoped that the spirits of his ancestors in heaven would feel proud of this upstart and that people could see Liu Bang's filial piety. But what should be given to the dead?

A magnificent tomb emerged, and thus the Han Imperial Ancestral Mausoleum was born. After four hundred years of continuous maintenance by the descendants of the Han Dynasty, the Han Imperial Ancestral Mausoleum has expanded from the tomb of Liu Qing, the great-grandfather of Liu Bang and the founder of the Liu clan, and has become a complex of tombs and exhibition halls at Feng County. 

There are many supernatural legends about Liu Qing in folklore, the most classic of which are "the phoenix perching on the wutong tree" and "the ants building the tomb".

Legend has it that there was a lush wutong tree in front of Liu Qing's home. One day, during a violent storm, a phoenix flew against the wind and perched on the wutong tree in front of Liu Qing's house. People believed that Liu Qing was about to have good luck. 

Soon after, Liu Qing died, and his family fell into poverty for a long time. They could not even afford a coffin, so they had to cut down the wutong tree and use it as a coffin. 

During the funeral, thunder and lightning suddenly struck, and heavy rain poured down. The rain was so heavy that people could not open their eyes, so they hastily buried the coffin in the pit where the wutong tree used to stand, and then each went back home. 

The next day was sunny and clear, and people came to build the tomb, but they found that the grave had already been built into a large mound by the ants. The auspicious phoenix dug the grave for Liu Qing, and the hardworking ants built the tomb for him, implying that Liu's family was blessed by heaven. 

After this event, Liu Bang proclaimed himself emperor and became the founding emperor of the four hundred years of the Han Dynasty. 

The common people were very superstitious about these two events. Such supernatural events cannot be verified or explained by science today, but these stories are not entirely unreasonable or purely superstitious. There are still many things that science cannot explain.