The "fill in the blanks" jewelry in the coffin is worth 2.23 million taels of silver. Cixi is a famous "luxury" Empress Dowager Cixi in history. She loved pearls, agates, precious stones, jade articles, gold and silver utensils and other treasures before her death. The value of the treasures buried in the coffin was as high as 200 million taels of silver. Li was the most trusted eunuch of Empress Dowager Cixi, and he was one of the participants when Empress Dowager Cixi buried the treasure in the coffin after her death. Li and his nephew's Notes on Aiyuexuan recorded in detail the types, quantity, location and value of Cixi's funerary objects. In Cixi's coffin, the bottom was covered with a 7-inch-thick gold-woven cushion, which was inlaid with pearls 12604, 85 precious stones and 203 white jade. The brocade mattress is covered with a layer of silk mattress embroidered with lotus flowers, and there are 2400 pearls on the silk mattress. Covered with Cixi is a gold woven Dalagni quilt, which is made of bright yellow satin and twisted gold thread, with 25,000 words of Dalagni scriptures on it. The quilt is decorated with 820 pearls. After the grave robbers took the pearls, they abandoned this priceless quilt in the ground. 1979 discovered it when cleaning the underground palace. The quilt is also covered with 6000 pearls, which is also priceless. When Cixi died, she wore a crested phoenix inlaid with pearls and precious stones. A pearl in the crown weighs four taels and is as big as an egg. At that time, the value of 10 was more than two thousand silver, and the value of rockhopper can be imagined. With a pearl in his mouth, it is said that hair can be seen within 100 step at night; There are three beads hanging around the neck, two are pearls and one is ruby; Wearing a gold silk skirt, embroidered beaded coat, kicking boots, holding Yu Lian. Beside him, there are jade Buddha statues, as well as various gems and corals. It is said that when the treasure was buried, undertaker found a hole in the coffin, so he poured 4 liters of pearls and 2,200 pieces of red, blue and emerald. These "fill-in-the-blank" jewels alone are worth 2.23 million taels of silver. It is said that the most precious funerary object in Cixi's coffin belongs to the Nine Linglong Pagoda carved by white jade, which is said to be a "smoke stream". Legend has it that there are four jadeite watermelons in Cixi's coffin, two with white skin and yellow seeds and two with green skin and white seeds, which are worth 6 million taels of silver. It is reported that the treasures stolen from Cixi Mausoleum were either used for bribery by Sun Dianying and others, or sold, destroyed or even smuggled out of the country, and most of them are still missing. It is said that in order to escape guilt, Sun Dianying once gave Song Meiling the Pearl of the Night, which Cixi called. There is a jade cabbage in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, which is the treasure of its town hall and probably the lost property of Cixi Mausoleum. But with the passage of time, no one can tell where these stolen treasures went.

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