Where is the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi?

The tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi is in the Dingdong Tomb. A year after her death, she was buried in the underground palace in October of the first year of Xuantong. Because Cixi's coffin contained a large number of priceless funerary objects, a tomb robbery disaster was triggered. Twenty years later, it was robbed and looted by the warlord Sun Dianying, and all the treasures were taken away.

The tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi was on the Qingming Festival, the ninth day of March in the twelfth year of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty (1873). Emperor Tongzhi personally inspected the feng shui and changed Pingding Mountain to Puxiangyu on the 15th and named it Ci'an. The tomb of the Empress Dowager, Puxiangyu is now located in Zunhua City, Hebei Province.

The two mausoleums were designed and built by Lei Tingchang, the seventh emperor of the Qing Dynasty. The construction started at the same time in August of that year and was completed at the same time in June of the fifth year of Guangxu (1880). It took six years and a lot of money. With more than five million taels, the Cixi Mausoleum was rebuilt again in the 21st year of Guangxu (1895). The project lasted thirteen years and was completed on October 18, 1908.

The Cixi Mausoleum has the Long'en Hall, which is gilded with gold, dragons on the pillars, and white marble platforms. It is full of ambition. There is an underground palace in the mausoleum, and a large number of gold, silver, jewelry, jades, and agate are buried in the mausoleum. Cixi was wearing a quilt, woven with tens of thousands of characters, inlaid with hundreds of pearls, bright yellow silk and satin, priceless, and there are countless treasures in the mausoleum.