Cixi’s body was stripped naked and a big gash was cut at the corner of her mouth.
After Cixi’s death, her body was stripped naked and she suffered such humiliation
Empress Dowager Cixi is one of the most powerful women in Chinese history. Empress Lu of the Han Dynasty, Wu Zetian of the Tang Dynasty and Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty are the three most outstanding women in Chinese history. Throughout her life, Empress Dowager Cixi entered the palace as a child. Accompanying the king until the young man killed the eight ministers who threatened her power, the life of the Empress Dowager Cixi was full of legend, and she can be said to be the most story-telling female figure in history.
But the luxury of the Empress Dowager Cixi during her lifetime did not make her peaceful after her death. Just a dozen years later, Sun Dianying led the army to blow up Cixi's mausoleum and looted a large number of treasures in the mausoleum. Even the body of the Empress Dowager Cixi was not spared. According to the memories of the soldiers who rushed into the tomb at that time, after searching for the treasures in the tomb, the soldiers came up with the idea of Cixi's coffin, so they used an ax to split open the tomb of Cixi. When they opened the inner coffin, they found that Cixi's body was lifelike, with a face like a living person, as if she was asleep. At first, everyone was shocked, but within a few minutes, everyone reacted and snatched the treasures around Cixi, and even Two soldiers had their thoughts changed. Seeing that Cixi's face was life-like and her skin was delicate, they even wanted to kill her. However, they failed because of the obstruction of their superiors.
Of course, the Empress Dowager Cixi would never have imagined that she would suffer such humiliation after her death. Not only were her clothes stripped off by soldiers, leaving only a pair of red trousers, but also a line was cut out at the corner of her mouth. Later, someone recalled that the big hole was mainly used to take out the rare luminous pearl placed in Cixi's mouth. It was precisely because of the luminous pearl that the Empress Dowager Cixi's body did not rot. At that time, the luminous pearl was stuck deep in the throat, and the soldiers struggled for a long time and couldn't get it out, so they had to cut the corner of Empress Dowager Cixi's mouth with a knife and take out the luminous pearl.
Later, when the elders of the royal family went to collect the bones, they all cried bitterly. No one thought that this strong woman who had been in the political arena for more than 40 years would end up like this. It was really disappointing. People deplore. Puyi, who was in Changchun at the time, was even more distressed after hearing the news. He personally led the civil and military officials to mourn the Empress Dowager Cixi and Emperor Qianlong. However, the instigator of the incident, Sun Dianying, got away with it because he gave gifts to dignitaries, while Cixi The Empress Dowager's body could only be hastily collected and buried, which became the greatest humiliation in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
What’s the mystery of the Empress Dowager Cixi’s three burials? ?Lafayette? Empress Dowager Cixi not only had many strange experiences during her lifetime, but also had an even more incredible experience after her death: Cixi's body was buried in the same coffin three times in 76 years. , the remains are still intact.
First time in the coffin: Cixi was buried in the coffin the day after her death in 1908
Flying domineeringly, changing the mausoleum system again and again
Tongzhi 5 years , the Dingling Tomb of Emperor Xianfeng was completed. According to the Qing system, the tombs of his two queens, Ci'an and Cixi, could only be located near Dingling, and only one queen's mausoleum could be built. At that time, it was decided to build a mausoleum for the two empress dowagers, with their coffins and coffins placed side by side. Cixi was very angry after reading the memorial: "In which mausoleum are two queen mothers buried, and even the concubines who sleep in the concubine's garden are separated from each other? Isn't this clearly bullying our sisters?" ?The ministers who undertook the construction had no choice but to propose that they imitate the style of the two concubines' garden bedrooms and build a treasure city, a treasure roof and an underground palace side by side in the east and west of the backyard of the mausoleum.
Unexpectedly, Cixi asked: "Are we two concubines?" Who says we are not worthy of each of us building a tomb? ?This is breaking the mausoleum system again, but who dares not to listen? Therefore, on the Qingming Festival, the 9th day of March in the 12th year of Tongzhi, the 18-year-old Tongzhi went to Dingling. After performing the Fu Shi ceremony and the feast ceremony for Emperor Xianfeng, he went to the nearby Pingding Mountain and Putuo Mountain to check the Feng Shui. On the 15th, Pingding Mountain was renamed "Puxiang Valley", which is the auspicious place for Ci'an for thousands of years; Mount Putuo was renamed "Puxiang Valley", which is the auspicious place for Cixi for thousands of years. The construction of the Shuangling Tombs started at the same time in August of that year and was completed at the same time in June of the 5th year of Guangxu's reign. It took 6 years and cost more than 5 million taels of silver. < /p>
How many treasures were buried with Cixi? His confidant eunuch Li Lianying personally participated in the ceremony of burying the treasure in Cixi's coffin.
According to the "Notes of Aiyuexuan" written by him and his nephew: Before Cixi's body was placed in the coffin, three layers of gold-wire beaded brocade mattresses and a layer of pearls were laid on the bottom of the coffin, which was one foot thick. On the head are green lotus leaves; at the feet are pink tourmaline lotus flowers. Wearing a pearl phoenix crown, the largest pearl on the crown is as big as a chicken egg and is worth 10 million taels of silver. There are 27 Buddha statues carved in gold, precious stones, jade and green beside him. On both sides of the feet were placed emerald watermelons, melons, cabbages, and more than 200 peaches, plums, apricots, and dates made of precious stones. A jade lotus is placed on the left side of the body, and a jade carved coral tree is placed on the right side of the body. In addition, there are 8 jade horses, 18 jade arhats, and more than 700 pieces in total. After the burial, four liters of pearls and 2,200 gems were poured into the coffin.
A coffin of rare treasures will naturally lead to great disaster. Only 20 years after she closed her eyes, another robber who was just as clever as her in looting and excavation reached out to her and destroyed her coffin and dumped her body.
Twenty years after Cixi’s death, that is, from July 4 to 10, 1928. Warlord Sun Dianying robbed Emperor Qianlong's Yuling Mausoleum and Cixi Mausoleum, destroyed the coffins and dumped the bodies, and looted all the burial treasures. Cixi's body was thrown out of the coffin, the pearl in her mouth was picked out, and her shirt was stripped off, leaving only a strip of vagina.
The third coffin: In 1984, the Cultural Relics Bureau cleaned the inner coffin and removed the body.
On February 17, 1979, the Dongling Tomb Cultural Relics Depository of the Qing Dynasty cleaned up Cixi’s underground palace. Because they had to open the underground palace of Cixi and the above-ground buildings of Ci'an Mausoleum in time for May Day, the leaders of the depository decided to save Cixi's inner coffin until the off-season for tourism.
At the beginning of December 1983, tourism had entered the off-season. The leader of the custodial center decided to clean Cixi's inner coffin. On December 6, after the cleanup team opened the coffin lid, they saw a large yellow satin quilt covering the coffin tightly, with two pieces of clothing covered on the quilt. Obviously, this was the original state when Zaize and others were re-interred in 1928, and it has not been touched for 55 years. For the sake of safety, the leader of the depository decided to close the coffin lid first, seal the underground palace, and report the matter to his superiors.
On January 4, 1984, the State Administration of Cultural Heritage sent several experts to form a 10-person team with the Qing Dynasty Tomb Cultural Relics Custodian to clean Cixi’s inner coffin.
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The next day, the cleanup team took off the two pieces of clothing from the quilt and found the small yellow bags containing Cixi's nails and teeth. After the yellow satin was rolled away, Cixi's remains appeared in front of her eyes. Her face and upper body were wrapped in yellow silk, and she wore trousers on the lower body. The trousers were embroidered with the word "Shou" all over, and she wore a sock on one foot. The body was lying on its back, with its head tilted slightly to the left, its right hand on its abdomen, its left arm hanging naturally on the left side of its body, its eyes sunken into holes, and a ribbon tied around its waist. The body is still intact, with a total length of 153 centimeters.