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.
The funerary objects are worth 100 million taels of silver.
Cixi is a famous "luxury" queen mother in history. She loved pearls, agates, precious stones, jade articles, gold and silver vessels and other treasures before her death. After her death, the treasure buried in the coffin was worth as much 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 yuan.
How did the grave robbers open Cixi's coffin? This used to be a mystery. It was not until many years later that a book called Miscellanies of Shizaitang revealed the memory of a company commander allegedly involved in grave robbery that the mystery was solved.
According to the company commander, in order to pry open the inner coffin of Cixi, the golden lacquer outer coffin was smashed by bandits' knives and axes. After the robbers removed the cut wood, they found a coffin painted red. Officials worried that the knife and axe would damage the treasure in the coffin, and ordered the bandits to pry it open carefully with a knife.
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2 Revealing the Empress Dowager Cixi's Mausoleum: The buried jewels are worth 120 million silver.
"At that time, the coffin was opened and the glow was full. Every soldier was holding a big flashlight, and the light was taken away, and everyone was frightened. Looking down at the coffin, Empress Dowager Cixi is lifelike, with white and hairy fingers ... There is no jewelry in the coffin, but the big one is basking in it. ≌ sieve martingale What happened? What's wrong with the little S? Degree? Hey? I'm sorry! ? br/>；
Empress Dowager Cixi's mausoleum building can be called the three wonders of Jin Mu stone carving.
Cixi's mausoleum is the most exquisite one in the Qing tombs, and it can be called the golden wood and stone.
Jin Linglong: According to the records of the Qing Dynasty, more than 4,592 Zijin Ye were used in the three halls alone, and more than 2,400 golden dragons were painted inside and outside the hall, with 64 columns wrapped in semi-solid bronze gilded dragons. All five bats on the wall were screened out for gold. Although this real glory was looted by grave robbers, today we can still see the luxury remnants and fragments of "the only gold".
"Mujue" refers to the fact that the beams and Fang of the three main halls are all made of top-grade wood. This kind of wood with hard wood and fine texture is now on the verge of extinction, and its value can be called "inch wood and inch gold". Cixi's coffin is made of precious golden nanmu.
"Stone essence" means that all the stones in Cixi's mausoleum are made of fine white marble, and the stone carving pattern is unique. On the white marble railing of Long 'en Hall, the patterns of "flying in front of the phoenix" and "chasing the dragon" are carved with relief techniques. These 76 pillars are engraved with auspicious peaks. Below the phoenix are two dragons carved inside and outside the pillar, forming a unique shape of "one phoenix presses two dragons", symbolizing the supreme power of Cixi before her death. The Phoenix Long Dan stone carving in front of the temple is a treasure among the stone carvings.
The tomb of Cixi was stolen, and the Yuling of Qianlong was bombed by Han, the battalion commander of Sun Dianying.
What the grave robbers didn't expect was that the underground passage during the Qianlong period was full of water. After a long time, the water was four or five feet deep, and the passage was steep and slippery, so the soldiers who rushed into the underground passage were caught off guard. Many people slipped in the stagnant water and died of fright and suffocation.
Compared with the tomb of Cixi, which was stolen at the same time, what happened to Qianlong and the Five Empresses in Yuling was even more tragic. After the two tombs were stolen, the person in charge of the aftermath of the Qing Dynasty entered the Yuling underground palace and found the bones scattered all over the place. Except for the body of Emperor Jiaqing's mother, Empress Xiaoyi, who was intact, others could not tell which was the emperor's and which was the empresses', so they had to bury the bones in the coffin.
After the bones in the two tombs were collected again, the Yuling Mausoleum and Ding Dong Mausoleum were closed. It was not until the founding of New China that the Qing Dongling Management Office reopened two tombs and cleaned the underground palace.
Yuling was built when Emperor Qianlong was alive. Although the funerary objects have been looted by Sun Dianying, the immovable stone carvings in the underground palace are still amazing.
Yuling is known as "underground Buddhist temple" and "treasure house of stone carving art". On the walls and ceilings of the underground palace, statues of Buddha and scriptures are carved everywhere, like a treasure house of stone carving art. Although the styles and shapes of statues of Buddha are different, they are all lifelike.
On the top of the "golden coupon" where the coffins of Gan Long and two Empresses were placed, there were three Buddha flowers engraved, the flower heart was composed of Sanskrit and Buddha statues, and there were many scriptures engraved around the golden coupon, with about 30,000 words.
Steal treasures from priceless jewels. Death is not peaceful!