According to Yu Shanpu's Sun Dianying Dongling Stolen Treasure:'? The building of Cixi Mausoleum is luxurious, surpassing the tombs of all emperors in Qing Dynasty, especially the jewels buried in coffins are more precious. " In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (A.D. 1908), after Cixi died on October 22nd, eunuch Li attended the funeral service and recorded the buried treasures one by one. '
He also said:' The bandits first robbed Cixi of the big jewels around her body-jade watermelon, Chinese cabbage, Yu Lian, coral trees and so on. Then take away all the jewels under Cixi, then put Cixi's body on the coffin, grab the dragon robe, tear off underwear, take off shoes and socks, and search all the jewels around her. Cixi's teeth were also pried open and the pearls in her mouth were taken away.
This article quotes Sun Dianying as saying: She (Cixi) has a luminous pearl in her mouth, which is divided into two parts. When closed, it is a sphere, transparent and dull. When it was closed, it showed a green cold light, and her hair could be seen within a hundred steps at night.
It is said that this treasure can keep the body from melting. It is no wonder that after Cixi's coffin was split open, Lafayette seemed to be asleep, only seeing the wind, his face turned black and his clothes were not suitable. I gave the Pearl of the Night to Mrs. Jiang (Song Meiling) on my behalf.
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1June, 928, Sun Dianying, a warlord in Henan province, nicknamed Sun Ma, went straight for the Qing Dongling in the name of beating bandits. Engineers blasted the tomb, blasted the King Kong wall at the underground entrance of Empress Dowager Cixi, opened the passage to the underground palace, knocked down the stone gate and entered the tomb, stealing a large number of rare treasures from the coffin in the golden coffin.
Cixi loved pearls, agates, precious stones, jade articles and gold and silver utensils before her death, and the treasures buried in the coffin after her death were worth as much as 120 million silver. The bottom of Cixi's coffin is covered with a pearl brocade plate woven with gold thread, which is 7 inches thick. There are more than 0/0000 pearls, 85 rubies and more than 200 white jade. There is a silk mattress embroidered with lotus flowers on the brocade mattress, which is covered with 2400 pearls weighing five points.
Cixi's body is covered with a Tony quilt woven with gold thread, and the bottom is bright yellow satin with twisted gold thread. It is made up of 25,000 Dalagni classics with Chinese characters and more than 800 pearls. There are countless pearls and precious stones embedded in the rockhopper on the head, of which only one pearl is worth about100000 to 20 million taels of silver.
After this grave robbery case was reported, it shocked the world, and people from all walks of life in various places condemned it by electricity, demanding that the murderer Sun Dianying be severely punished and the treasure be recovered. Chiang Kai-shek ordered Yan Xishan to investigate the grave robbery.
Sun Dianying gave Dai Li the two largest scarlet beads in the dried dragon neck beads, and then asked Dai Li to give a Kowloon sword to Chiang Kai-shek, the leader of the National Government. Gave the emerald watermelon to Song Ziwen; Song Meiling got the pearl in Cixi's mouth, and Song Meiling decorated it with embroidered shoes.
Baidu Encyclopedia-Cixi Night Pearl
People's Daily Online-Revealing the First Exposure of Rare Night Pearl in Cixi Mausoleum (Figure) 8