After Emperor Nurhachi died in 1626, his ashes were collected in a jade funeral urn. Warning: The following section is ambiguously canon. It contains information that originates in a source that has not been deemed definitively canon. In 1903, the ashes were stolen from their resting place in Peking. The remains were ferried downriver from Shanghai aboard the Rising Moon by a gang of bandits led by Shen Ch'un on behalf of a secret society looking to overthrow the Manchus in favor of a representative government.