The strange things that happened when Cixi was building the mausoleum. Why were there hundreds of cauldrons at the construction site? What was the secret behind it?
The reason why these hundreds of cauldrons appeared at the construction site was to fry the soil around Cixi's mausoleum so that weeds would not grow on the soil. The construction team did this because Cixi heard that weeds growing around the mausoleum was a bad thing, so she didn't want weeds growing around her own cemetery. She asked the people who built the mausoleum to ensure that no grass would grow around her mausoleum for a hundred years. The person responsible for building Cixi discovered this method after consulting ancient books.
Cixi lived a very luxurious life, with food, clothing and housing, without exception. Even the mausoleum after her death was built very luxuriously. She felt that only the mausoleum filled with gold and silver treasures was the most luxurious one. In her imagination, even the clothes she wore when she died were luxurious. For her mausoleum, she also asked a Feng Shui master to measure the Feng Shui for her, and chose a Feng Shui treasure land to build Cixi's mausoleum. She was very particular about it, for fear of making any mistakes.
The person in charge of building Cixi's mausoleum was someone whom Cixi trusted very much. He knew what Cixi's imagined mausoleum looked like. When he was building the mausoleum, he built it very large and looked very impressive. Not only the appearance is like this, the inside of the mausoleum is also magnificent and filled with gold and silver treasures. Cixi was very satisfied with the design of the mausoleum, but after her on-site observation, she saw the weeds around the mausoleum and felt that it was not good.
She heard that weeds growing on her tomb were very unlucky. Cixi thought that she could not have anything to do with bad luck, so she ordered the person who built the mausoleum to find a way to keep grass from growing around the mausoleum. To be honest, this is really difficult to do. But the people who built the tomb accidentally saw an ancient book recording that if the soil is fried, no plants will grow on the soil. This man experimented and found that this method worked, so he asked someone to set up hundreds of pots in front of the tomb just to fry the soil.