Ding Dong Mausoleum in Putuo Valley is the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi, the Xianfeng emperor of Qing Dynasty. Because it is located in the east of Dingling of Xianfeng Emperor, it is collectively called Ding Dong Mausoleum.
1908, Emperor Guangxu died, and Cixi chose three-year-old Puyi as the new emperor. Today, she is honored as the empress dowager. The next day, 17 (less than three minutes), she died in a Luan Temple and was buried in Ding Dong Mausoleum in Putuo Valley.
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The tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi was in Tomb-Sweeping Day on the 9th day of March in the 12th year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1873). Emperor Tongzhi personally surveyed Feng Shui, and on 15, Pingdingshan was changed to Puxiangyu as the tomb of Empress Dowager Ci 'an, and Putuo Mountain was renamed Putuo Valley as the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi. The two tombs were designed and built by Lei Tingchang VII, and construction started at the same time in August of that year. Guangxu five years (65433). It lasted six years and cost more than five million yuan. In the 21st year of Guangxu (1895), the mausoleum of Cixi was rebuilt again, which lasted thirteen years and was completed on 1908 10/8.
Sun Dianying stole Dongling.
1June, 928, the National Revolutionary Army succeeded in its second northern expedition. At that time, Sun Dianying came to Mashan Bridge in Jixian County, which is only one mountain away from the Qing Dongling. At that time, there was a habitual bandit, Ma Futian, who found that Dongling was unguarded and went to Dongling with other gangsters to steal treasures. Sun Dianying heard the news, seized this opportunity, mobilized a group of troops, drove to Malanyu, blocked Dongling in Malanyu in the name of military exercises, defeated the horse bandits, put Dongling under martial law within three miles, and dug Dongling out conveniently.
At the beginning of July, in the name of laying mines in military exercises, Sun Dianying drove away all the guards, blocked the pass, imposed martial law, and plundered the Qianlong Yuling Mausoleum and the Cixi Putuo Guding Dongling Mausoleum. Due to the tight blockade, although there are rumors from outside, the truth is unknown. On the third day of the tomb theft, Tan Wenjiang went to Peiping to see Xu, commander-in-chief of the Sixth Army Corps, to spy on the limelight. Seeing a calm, he immediately returned to Dongling the next day and let go of the excavation.
Before the grave robbery, Sun Dianying sent a letter to Zunhua county magistrate, asking Zunhua county to hire more than 30 mules and horses on behalf of him, in order to understand the local sufferings and not raise food on the spot, so as to dispatch rations from other places. In this way, Sun Dianying paved the way for the transshipment of tomb-robbing treasures.
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Baidu Encyclopedia-Cixi