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Dragon bed found in Zhoukou, Henan Province, how much is it worth?

In Chinese history, no dynasty can be like the Ming Dynasty, the backbone, "the son of the king to protect the country, the king died of the gods" this sentence is the best summary of the Ming Dynasty. But the Ming dynasty can not escape the cycle of history, "the world's momentum will be divided"! In 1644 AD, Chongzhen Emperor hanged himself on Coal Mountain, the Ming Dynasty also fell. Qing dynasty on the Ming dynasty royal family members carried out a frantic massacre, Zhu Yuanzhang's children and grandchildren finally died in battle, the remaining small number of Zhu's children and grandchildren can only flee to the mountains to live in anonymity. Now, more than 300 years later, there is a small village in Henan province, the village people are surnamed Zhu, they say they are the descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang, and have a "dragon bed" can prove it.

Henan zhou xihua county fish forest platform village of a Zhu collector collection of wooden frame bed, after expert identification, was determined to be the late Ming dynasty imperial descendants supplies. This wooden bed body red lacquer, 2.2 meters long, 1.37 meters wide, 2.4 meters high, heavy materials, tall. The whole for mortise and tenon structure, carving is tedious and elaborate, exquisite, on the frieze board and both sides of the phoenix play peony and dragon head decorative patterns. Because of the carving of the dragon's head decorative pattern, so this bed is also called "dragon bed" by experts.

Additionally, experts also found a lot of Ming Dynasty objects in Yulintai Village, Xihua County, Zhoukou, Henan Province. What is even more strange is that all the villagers in Yulintai Village, Xihua County, Zhoukou, Henan Province are surnamed Zhu. According to the collection of the dragon bed of the villagers Zhu Xingguang's introduction, its through the interpretation of historical materials and supporting examination found that his family should be Zhu Yuanzhang twenty-five sons, Yi Wang Zhu Muyi's descendants.

Experts are examining the identification of the dragon bed, in addition, according to the village inside the old man's story, the original each family's house in the hall of the hall hangs a very large rattle, when I was a child do not know what it means. Later analyzed, it is clear that the "big sound" that is "big Ming" metaphor.

In addition, through the analysis of Zhu Xingguang's grandfather two brothers, grandfather Zhu Deshun, grandfather brother Zhu Deliang should be used at that time is a cryptic name, Zhu Yuanzhang's eldest son of Zhu Biao sent the word of the two words "Shun" and "Liang". In the late Qing Dynasty and Republic of China, Zhu Xingguang's father's generation also used a hidden name, but obviously used Zhu Yuanzhang to give Yi Wang's pie in the word "dian" of the word, his great-uncle Zhu Qindian, his second uncle Zhu Xiandian, his father Zhu Yingdian, his youngest uncle Zhu Shangdian, the second master's son Zhu Mingdian, and there are also many of the same village and the same generation with the word "dian" of the word. The same village and the same generation, there are also many with the word "dian". More interesting is Zhu Mingdian two sons of the nickname of a monk called a standard, which is to indicate that they do not forget the meaning of the master of the Ming dynasty.