Ancient people all had some superstitious ideas, so they paid great attention to their own affairs. Princes and nobles of all dynasties prepared their tombs with great care. Empress Dowager Cixi is no exception. When she was alive, she liked luxury and arranged her own affairs extremely carefully. Burial objects are dazzling, and everything is priceless. The degree of luxury even exceeds that of the Forbidden City, and the mausoleum system has been rebuilt repeatedly to make yourself comfortable after death.
But what Cixi didn't expect was that she was robbed by a group of greedy robbers shortly after she was buried in the mausoleum. In order to get the treasure buried in the tomb, Sun Dianying actually started to dig graves and rob tombs. He led his men to blow up the underground palace. This group of robbers swarmed in, searched all the treasures in the mausoleum, opened the coffin of Cixi, and snatched the jewels beside her, pearls in her mouth and the shroud.
According to records, when the coffin was opened, Cixi was lying on her back, with a vivid face and full skin, and her body was not rotted. This surprised the soldiers who robbed the tomb at that time. Actually, it's nothing to be surprised about. In order to prevent the corpse from rotting, the ancients invented many methods, such as using cinnabar mercury to prevent corrosion and sealing the coffin to isolate the air. It can effectively prevent the corpse from rotting.
Cixi died shortly after her tomb was stolen. Good anti-corrosion measures and short burial time have created conditions for Cixi's body not to rot. But it has been circulated among the people, and it stinks on the day when Cixi was buried. Since the body was well preserved when the tomb was robbed, where did the stench come from on the day of burial?
As we all know, Cixi died the day after the death of Emperor Guangxu. On her deathbed, she chose three-year-old Puyi as the new emperor. Although both mother and son are dead, the funeral cannot be held together. Although the Qing Dynasty at that time was riddled with holes, the composition of ancestors could not be chaotic. According to the ancestral system, courtiers need to hold a funeral for Emperor Guangxu first, and then a ceremony for Puyi's accession to the throne. Although Cixi really came to power at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the affairs of Empress Dowager Cixi were always less important than those of the emperor, and the succession of the throne was not guaranteed. A year passed from Guangxu's busy funeral to Puyi's accession to the throne.
Because it took a year for Cixi to be buried, on the day of burial, there was a stench in the funeral procession. People asserted that it must be because the body of Empress Dowager Cixi had been parked for too long, and the body rotted and stinked.
Actually, that's not the truth. After all, Cixi is a member of the royal family. In order to ensure the dignity of Cixi, the royal family will never let Cixi's body stink. As for the source of the bad smell, it is because the funeral procession is too large, and hordes of chariots, horses and livestock are bound to be excreted. Most of this smell comes from horse excrement.
Moreover, ancient times were very particular about sacrifice, along the way? Tea? At least regularly? Eight taels of sesame oil, four charcoal cakes, ten cookies and eight taels of white sandalwood? Cixi, the smell of these sacrificial supplies is good enough.
Cixi's funeral procession is so huge that it is no less than the emperors before the Qing Dynasty, and the luxury of the mausoleum is first-class among the emperors of past dynasties. It's a pity that Cixi can never be in the mausoleum? Sleep? . Many people think that it is precisely because the Empress Dowager Cixi's tomb is so luxurious that it attracts grave robbers, and even the tomb of the ancestor Gan Long has been dug up. In fact, this is not unreasonable. If Empress Dowager Cixi's style was not well known all over the world, Sun Dianying would not be preoccupied with grave robbery.