After Arut's death, because Emperor Tongzhi's Huiling Mausoleum had just been chosen for construction, she and Emperor Tongzhi's Zi Palace were temporarily placed in Longfu Temple in Dongling. On September 18, the twelfth year of Guangxu (1886), Emperor Guangxu asked Empress Dowager Cixi to personally escort Zi Gong to Longfu Temple in Dongling, where it stayed for three and a half years.
Build mountains and mausoleums. According to the national customs of feudal society, after the new emperor ascends the throne, he should choose an auspicious place and build a mausoleum. However, Emperor Tongzhi reigned for 13 years, and Empress Xiaozheyi was buried together with Emperor Tongzhi in Huiling, which never mentioned the mausoleum. It wasn't until Emperor Tongzhi passed away and was eager to be buried that Cixi had to send ministers to choose the site for Emperor Tongzhi's mausoleum in Dongling and Xiling. Minister Xiangdu took the Feng Shui officer to visit the mountains and rivers of Dongling and Xiling for more than two months. After repeated comparisons and selections, he finally believed that Shuangshan Valley in Dongling and Jiulong Valley in Xiling had the best Feng Shui. The dragon spirit of Dongling's Shuangshan Valley stretches out, the hall is wide and flat, the city is well-organized, and the barriers are complete. "There are big mountains behind for support, and Jinxing Mountain in front for light. On both sides of Jinxing Mountain, there are Wanfu Mountain facing to the left, and Elephant Mountain standing on the right." "It is a truly auspicious place."
On February 23 of the twelfth year of Guangxu (1886), Cixi summoned Minister Xiangdu. Cixi inquired in detail about the Xiangdu Mausoleum site, and Prince Gong Yi? gave the reply. Finally, the focus was on whether to use Shuangshan Valley in Dongling or Jiulong Valley in Xiling. Cixi asked the ministers for their opinions, and Yi? replied: "With reason, Jiulong Valley will be good; with emotion, I will not dare to say anything." The intention of Shanyu. The "reason" mentioned by Yi? refers to the "Zhao Mu Xiangjian" system stipulated by Emperor Qianlong. According to this system, Emperor Xianfeng was buried in Dongling, and Emperor Tongzhi should be buried in Xiling. The "love" Yi? refers to the love between father and son, and the love between mother and son. Emperor Xianfeng's Dingling Tomb and Cixi's Putuoyu Dingdong Tomb were both built in the Dongling Tomb. If this was taken into account and Jiao'er grew up under his knees, Emperor Tongzhi should be buried in the Dongling Tomb. Yi? is very tactful and good with words. He clearly preferred to choose Shuangshanyu, but said "I dare not speak", intending to let Cixi make her own decision and avoid being charged with undermining the "Zhao-Mu Xiangjian" system. Cixi was such a shrewd person. She immediately understood Yi?'s thoughts and immediately decided to designate Shuangshan Valley in Dongling as the site of Huiling Mausoleum. Prince Chun Yi?, Zuodu Censor Shi Kuiling, Minister of Household Affairs Ronglu, and Acting Minister of Industry Weng Tonghe were appointed as ministers. The ground was broken at noon on March 12, the first year of Guangxu (1875), and construction started at noon on August 3. After three years of intense construction, by September of the fourth year of Guangxu's reign (1878), Huiling, Huifei's garden dormitory, the Ministry of Rites, the Eight Banners, the House of Internal Affairs, and the barracks were all completed. Although the regulations of Huiling are inferior to those of previous Qing imperial mausoleums, its wood is all hard and precious nanmu. Therefore, Huiling is known as the "bronze beams and iron pillars".
The emperor and empress were buried. According to the auspicious decision made by the Qin Tian Jian, Emperor Tongzhi and Empress Xiaozhe were buried in the Huiling Underground Palace on March 26, the fifth year of Guangxu (1879). March 21, cinnabar stele at Huiling of Guangxu.
The empress dowager of the two palaces of Emperor Fengzhi left Beijing and went to Dongling to attend the ceremony of enthroning Emperor Tongzhi and his queen. On the 23rd, he arrived at Longfu Temple in Dongling and stayed there. On the 24th, Emperor Tongzhi's Zi Palace and Queen Xiaozhe's Zi Palace were moved to Huiling from their temporary resting place in Longfu Temple. After Emperor Guangxu knelt to see him off, he walked from Jiandao to Huiling and paid a respectful visit to Fangcheng, Minglou and the underground palace. Then he knelt down at Shenke to welcome Emperor Tongzhi and Empress Xiaozhe from the Zi Palace to Huiling. Both Zi Palaces were parked in the Long'en Hall. On March 25, Emperor Guangxu paid a memorial ceremony in front of the Zi Palace of Emperor Tongzhi and his empress, and then moved the two Zi Palaces to the Lu Hall in front of Fangcheng and enshrined them on a dragon cart. On the 26th, Empress Xiaozhe's Empress Zi Gong was buried in the underground palace along with the Emperor's Zi Gong. The Zi Palace of Emperor Tongzhi is enshrined in the middle of the coffin bed, and the Zi Palace of Queen Xiaozhe is enshrined on the left (east) side of Emperor Tongzhi. The head of the coffin faces north and the tail of the coffin faces south. The posthumous titles and posthumous treasures of Emperor Tongzhi and Empress Xiaozhe were placed on the gem pedestals on the left and right sides of the underground palace before they were buried in Zi Palace. After the ministers withdrew from the underground palace, Emperor Dunyi's concubine (i.e. Huifei Fucha) and others entered the underground palace to pay respect to Emperor Tongzhi and Empress Xiaozhe's Zi Palace. The concubines of Emperor Dunyi who entered the underground palace may include Concubine Yu, Hesheli, Concubine Xun, and Concubine Xilinjueluo. They said their final farewells to their husband, Emperor Tongzhi, and Queen Alute.
Of the four widows of Emperor Tongzhi, when Emperor Tongzhi passed away, the oldest concubine Yu was 19 years old, and the youngest imperial concubine Fucha (Huifei) was only 16 years old. They had just entered the prime of life and had begun their decades-long marriage. A long widowed life. After exiting the underground palace, Emperor Dunyi and his concubine paid homage in front of the stone altar as usual. The stone door of the underground palace was closed, and the funeral was completed.
The underground palace was stolen. The first major robbery in Dongling that shocked China and the world occurred in July 1928. Warlord Sun Dianying robbed the underground palaces of Yuling Mausoleum and Cixi Mausoleum of Emperor Qianlong. In August 1945, after Japan surrendered, some bandits and lawless elements in the Tangling area took advantage of the turmoil and the chaos of regime change to commit the second major robbery in Tangling. The tombs stolen this time include the Jingling Tomb of Emperor Kangxi, the Dingling Tomb of Emperor Xianfeng, the Huiling Tomb of Emperor Tongzhi, and the Ci'an Tomb (Dingdong Tomb of Puxiangyu). So many tombs were stolen and the losses were even more serious than last time.
According to the "World Daily" on April 22, the 35th year of the Republic of China (1946), "The Three Tombs of the Qing Dynasty were stolen in December of the 34th year of the Republic of China. 1. Tongzhi Huiling, coffin Two of them were treated together, and one of them accompanied the concubine. The corpses looked as if they were alive. On the table in front of the gold coffin were Tongzhi's emerald seal and a gold watch. Jewelry, jade, metal and other items inside and outside the coffin were put in sacks and weighed with an incense burner. , about twenty kilograms of gold."
According to the "North China Daily" on May 29, the thirty-fifth year of the Republic of China: "The Huiling robber's confession is abbreviated: November of the thirty-fourth year. During the period, under the command of the commander, civilians were recruited to excavate Huiling and used explosives to blow open the stone gate. There were four shelves on the first floor, one with the emperor's green seal and one with the queen's green seal, and the other with books and printing. There is nothing on the second and third floors. There are two coffins on the fourth floor. Use an ax or a hammer to split the coffins. From the imperial coffin, take out a gold ink cartridge weighing half a kilogram, a bagua weighing four taels, and a gift from the United States. There is a gold watch inlaid with white beads on the four sides, two strings each of white beads, two strings of twenty-four white beads, a jade ring finger, a gold brazier, and a jade pipe. Take out a phoenix crown from the back coffin. , a pair of white jade bracelets and a pair of gold bracelets, a string of jadeite, pearls, agate and wooden beads, a gold nine-link chain weighing three taels, a phoenix hairpin, an agate ring, a gold-inlaid white bead ring, and a green plaque. One long green hairpin, and other scattered items cannot be counted."
These funerary objects in the coffin of Queen Xiaozhe and the funerary objects in the coffin of Emperor Tongzhi were all stolen.
After Huiling was stolen, because Dongling was unmanaged at the time, the hole was not blocked until 1952 when the Dongling Cultural Relics Depository was established in the Qing Dynasty. Since the entrance of the cave has not been blocked for a long time, many local people have visited the underground palace. Local rumors say: The body of the empress in the Huiling underground palace was not rotten at all, and her face was as lifelike. She was stripped naked, her stomach was cut open, and her intestines were spilled all over the floor. There was a rumor in the society that the empress died by swallowing gold. In order to get the gold, they removed her intestines from beginning to end. Poor Queen Arut. A hundred years after his death, he ended up like this.