After the mausoleum was built, Empress Dowager Cixi came to pay her respects in person. The minister who presided over the construction of the mausoleum asked Empress Dowager Cixi to place a personal treasure in the golden well, which is called tomb treasure in geomantic omen and has the function of exorcising evil spirits and protecting the mausoleum. Empress Dowager Cixi has always been superstitious. I heard that the treasure of the town tomb has such a great function, so she put the pearl bracelet worn on her wrist into the golden well. This pair of pearl bracelets is Cixi's favorite thing. It is made of extremely precious East Pearl produced in Heilongjiang River Basin. 18 dongzhu is round and full, and its volume is huge, which is priceless. After the bracelet was put into the golden well, Cixi regretted it, but she was afraid that taking it back would affect the feng shui of the mausoleum. After all, this is her future, and mistakes are no laughing matter. In the second year after the two tombs were repaired, Empress Ci 'an died, and Cixi, who was in power, started construction again in the 21st year of Guangxu (1895) on the pretext that the tombs were in disrepair, until the death of Empress Ci 'an in 1908, which lasted 13 years. In August of the 24th year of Guangxu (1898), Cixi imprisoned Emperor Guangxu, killed six gentlemen, including Tan Sitong and Yang Rui, in the Reform Movement of 1898, and announced the political training, which was called the Reform Movement of 1898 in history. I didn't expect ministers of various countries to have a good impression on Guangxu's political proposition of making great efforts to govern and reform, and opposed the practice of imprisoning Guangxu. In order to appease the feelings of foreigners, Empress Dowager Cixi is going to hold a banquet in the Summer Palace to entertain the wives of foreign ministers of various countries. In order to shine at the banquet, Cixi not only rushed out brand-new auspicious clothes, but also asked Li to try on some fashionable hairstyles and remember the pearl bracelets. Xiao Lizi, if only you could wear that string to the dinner party, alas! ? The speaker has no intention, but the listener has intention. Li knew that the queen mother was thinking about the pearl bracelet, but she couldn't find such a precious East Pearl for the time being, so she made a second string and had to get the original one back from the golden well quickly.
Thinking of this, he said to Cixi, Lafayette, it's a pity that the pearl bracelet was thrown into the golden well. You might as well take it back and let it stay with you! ? Cixi is worried that taking it back will affect Feng Shui. Li said with relief. It is a fact that there are so many other treasures in the golden well, not too many and not too few. Besides, if Lafayette is really worried, it is the same to put a few other treasures in. ? Empress Dowager Cixi made up her mind after hearing this, and asked Li to bring some treasures and rushed to Zunhua overnight to get the pearl bracelet back. At the dinner party, Cixi wore this pair of pearl bracelets to shine brilliantly, winning compliments from the wives of foreign ministers of various countries, and Cixi's vanity was greatly satisfied. Since then, this bracelet has been accompanied by Cixi. After the death of Cixi, bracelets were put into the underground palace as funerary objects.
Maybe it's destiny takes a hand. Twenty years later, the warlord Sun Dianying robbed the Ding Dong Mausoleum where Cixi was buried. Not only the priceless treasures such as jade cabbage and jade watermelon in the tomb were plundered, but even the pearls in Cixi's mouth and the pearls on Dalagni's quilt covered on the corpse were not spared. This pair of pearl bracelets disappeared and never appeared again.