Why did the golden coffin of Cixi become a red coffin? What is the truth, people don't know whether to cry or laugh?

Since Cixi paid great attention to the luxury of coffin materials after her death, she spent hundreds of thousands of silver on a coffin. Later, it was invaded by grave robbers, and the surface of the coffin was damaged. So later, in order to repair the coffin, protect cultural relics and control its cost within a certain range, the surface of the coffin was painted with red paint, so the golden coffin of Cixi gradually became a lipstick coffin.

First of all, this golden coffin of Cixi is of extraordinary origin, and its luxury and building materials alone are amazing. Because Cixi was extremely luxurious before her death and spent a lot of money, she certainly didn't want to wronged herself after her death. In order to make her living conditions catch up with her life, Cixi spent a lot of time on the coffin. In order to build a coffin that matches her identity, Cixi specially sent her Li to the mast factory of the coffin customization center to customize the gold-painted nanmu coffin. Later, the coffin was wrapped with 13 layers of yarn-dyed golden dragon satin. In order to ensure the splendor of the coffin, it was painted with 49 layers of gold paint.

Secondly, this golden coffin of Cixi is extremely luxurious, and the transportation cost of light materials reaches 100,000 taels of silver, not to mention the completion of the whole coffin. However, since the past dynasties, tombs have been too luxurious and will be destroyed, and Cixi is no exception. 1928, Sun Dianying, a grave robber, extended his talons to the tomb of Cixi and put gold and silver treasures in it. Because the inner and outer surfaces of Cixi's coffin are all real gold, it was cut several times and it was simply broken.

Then Puyi got the news that the first task was to repair the golden coffin of Cixi, but the cost of repairing the golden coffin was too high for some of them to bear, so they had to choose to decorate the coffin with red paint, and then the coffin became red and yellow. Because of the exquisite craftsmanship of Cixi's golden coffin, it has been lost in later generations, so it was further decorated by the later Cultural Relics Protection Center. However, after all, it is not as extravagant and wasteful as Cixi. She can only paint the coffin completely with red paint.

Finally, this is the process of Cixi's golden coffin becoming a red coffin step by step. It is precisely because Cixi pays too much attention to the luxury after death that it leads to this ending.