Three things that happened after Cixi's death have been talked about by people so far, leaving an infinite topic space.
The first thing: About how many funerary objects Cixi has, perhaps no one knows yet.
According to Li's Annotation to Aiyue Xuan, firstly, three layers of brocade quilts embroidered with gold thread jewels were laid on the bottom of the coffin, and the quilt was inlaid with 13604 pearls, 85 gems, 2 jadeites and 203 white jade, then covered with a silk quilt embroidered with 2,400 pearls, and then covered with a thin mattress embroidered with beads. These three quilts and pearls add up to more than a foot thick.
In the coffin, there is a Pian Yu lotus leaf on the head and a pink jasper lotus flower at the foot. On the shroud worn by Cixi's body, 420 large pearls were used on only two pieces of clothes, including 1 135 medium pearls, 450 small pearls, jewels of various sizes of *** 1 135, 800 pearls worn on the chest, and 35 precious stones. There are 18 mussel Buddha and 198 Buddha statues between your hands. There are more than 200 jadeite watermelons, melons, plums, apricots and peaches at your feet, a jadeite lotus root on the left and a red coral tree on the right. In order to fill the gap, 4 liters of jewelry were poured, totaling more than 1 1,000.
One of the most expensive is the 800 million-yuan-worth luminous pearl in her mouth. This bead is made up of two halves, forming an approximate sphere. It is said that 787.28 carats of rough diamond is enough to see every hair within a hundred paces at night. This bead can protect the body. When Sun Dianying was robbing a tomb, she opened the coffin. Cixi was ruddy and showed no signs of decay. This is the role of this night pearl.
The jewelry of this coffin was valued at at least 50 million taels of silver at that time, but unfortunately, these rich funerary objects were finally cheaper than the warlord Sun Dianying.
The second thing: blame the Yin soldiers for taking the road.
The burial process of Cixi can be said to be extremely extravagant. She used 7920 people to carry the coffin, plus the coffin guards who walked in front, up to tens of thousands of people. The most eye-catching thing is not the guards, but these paper soldiers and horses. These paper soldiers who look like real people are used to protect Galeries Lafayette in the underworld. On the day of the funeral, the weather was gloomy and the wind blew wildly, and the funeral procession could not open its eyes. These pale paper men look like Yin soldiers sent by the underworld to clear the way for Cixi.
The third thing: the curse of blood drops
According to Li's description, on the day of Cixi's funeral, he saw blood night flowing out of the coffin. As we all know, it is impossible for blood to flow and there will be no blood leakage after death. At that time, the thick stick hand carrying the coffin clearly saw blood dripping out of the road, so Li Rang thick stick walked at hand and covered up the blood spots with soil. In the evening, when Li tidied up the cloth, he found that there were more than 20 dead mice bleeding from the coffin. Later, this rumor came out. On the same day, someone contacted Yin Bing to clear the way, thinking that this was Cixi's curse on the Qing Dynasty.
Less than three years after Cixi's death, the Qing Dynasty perished, so superstitious people thought that Cixi's curse was effective. In fact, from the perspective of modern history, the demise of the Qing Dynasty was just a decadent dynasty replaced by a new social system, which had nothing to do with the curse.
Of course, coffin bleeding sounds a little scary. When I wrote this place myself, my mind was full of imagination. If this is true, I can imagine the fear of the person in charge of carrying the coffin at that time.
I believe that of the three major events that happened after Cixi's death, only the jewels in the coffin are true. As for the feudal superstition of the blood curse, it was just the endless resentment of the people at that time against Cixi's rule. People prefer to believe that the Qing Dynasty was destroyed by Cixi alone. Even though the Qing Dynasty was still there before Cixi died, the demise of the Qing Dynasty was the result of her curse.