Why is Cixi buried in the East?

November 15th, Guangxu thirty-four years (1908). Empress Dowager Cixi, who ruled the Qing Dynasty for 48 years, died. At the age of 74. Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu died one day apart. Guangxu died a day earlier in front of Cixi. Cixi arranged Puyi's succession before she died. At that time, Puyi was only three years old, and all court affairs were handled by Puyi's father, Regent Zai Feng.

▲ Cixi

There's a saying? People are in awe, people are dying? After the death of Empress Dowager Cixi, Regent Zai Feng was busy with his son's accession to the throne. The remains of Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Guangxu were left unattended in the palace. At this time, Princess Rongshou Gulun, the eldest daughter of Prince Gong (Ghost 6), lost her temper and found Regent Zai Feng to reprimand loudly. When your son becomes emperor, he doesn't care about the funeral of the queen mother? ? Regent Zai Feng is responsible for the funeral of the Queen Mother.

According to the regulations of the imperial court, Zai Feng first buried Emperor Guangxu in the Qing Xiling, and then placed Empress Dowager Cixi in the underground palace. After a year of funeral preparation, a grand and luxurious funeral was held for Empress Dowager Cixi in 1909 10, and was buried in the east of the Qing Dynasty. Without princess royal's planning and urging, the funeral of Empress Dowager Cixi would have been hastily buried.

Then, as Yi Guifei of Xianfeng Emperor and Empress Dowager Qing, why was Cixi buried in Dongling instead of Xiling? Because according to China tradition? Higashionishi is small, but East is expensive? The provisions of the. Cixi can't be buried in Dongling under any circumstances. For example, the eldest son of the emperor was canonized as the Prince of the East Palace, the queen of the emperor's main palace lived in the East Palace, and the second-class one lived in the West Palace. Cian is the queen of the official palace, so she is called the empress dowager, followed by Cixi, who lives in the West Palace, so she is called the empress dowager. There is no objection that Cixi is buried in Dongling, but why is Cixi buried not only in Dongling of the Qing Dynasty, but also in the east of Ci 'an after the Eastern Empress Dowager? I have summed up this problem, and there are three main statements.

▲ Cian

1. What is Cian, the empress dowager of the East Palace? Due south and eight north? Empress dowager cixi was promoted from the palace to the empress dowager, but she was different. She was promoted to empress dowager only because of the glory of her son Tongzhi Emperor. It turns out that she is just a concubine. Therefore, all aspects of status and treatment are not as good as the East Palace. For example, the location of the mausoleum is one of them, and the location of Dongling in Ci 'an is better than that of Xiling. However, Cixi is a crafty woman. How does she live alone? She had a brainwave and proposed a way to win or lose chess. Whoever wins will choose the tomb first. Think about it, Cixi came prepared. Cian is a loyal and honest person. How can she be the opponent of Cixi? As a result, Ci 'an fell, and Cixi chose Dongling Dongling as she wished.

2. Empress Dowager Cixi stole Cian Mausoleum. Legend has it that Empress Dowager Cixi had a strange dream one night, dreaming that she was buried in Lingxi, Dong Qing by Ci 'an after her death. This dream inspired Cixi greatly. She thinks that if Ci 'an dies before herself, how to bury her is not up to her, so the vicious Cixi really poisoned Empress Dowager Cixi and buried her in the west of Qingling. Later, in order to continue to live a luxurious life after death, Cixi repeatedly used it? In disrepair? As an excuse, he spent a lot of money to repair his mausoleum.

3. The view that the east side was originally the tomb of Cixi holds that the names of Dong Taihou and Empress Dowager have nothing to do with their status and qualifications. It is even more impossible to determine by the orientation of their tombs. Empress Dowager Cixi is called the Queen of the West because she lives in Palace of Gathered Elegance and Changchun Palace in the west of the Forbidden City. Similarly, Empress Ci 'an is called the Empress Dowager of the East because she lives in Zhongcui Palace in the east of the Forbidden City. It is precisely because they live in different directions that their names are determined. In this way, it is probably a permanent mystery why Cixi was buried in the east of the Qing Dongling.