Why is the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi barren?

Cixi's life is very exquisite and luxurious. As the actual ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, since she came to power, she began to drink expensive water, which was collected by maids from the dew outside early in the morning and had to be boiled before she could give it to Empress Dowager Cixi. Cixi never drinks ordinary water, because she thinks that this kind of water that even ordinary people can drink is too demeaning for her. The collected water should be boiled slowly on a small fire to keep the taste of the spring water. The life of Empress Dowager Cixi is really extravagant. She drinks fresh breast milk every day and stays young forever.

(Empress Dowager Cixi)

Cixi, who lived such a luxurious life, also buried many treasures in her mausoleum before her death. However, Cixi never imagined that her luxurious mausoleum would be stolen by Sun Dianying.

What is even more surprising is that around the mausoleum of Cixi, nothing grows all year round! In fact, for us ordinary people, green grass is a symbol of life, even if grass grows on the graves of deceased relatives, it is very common. However, Empress Dowager Cixi did not think so. She thinks that only in ordinary graves will grass grow in front of them. She is the empress dowager, so she can't grow grass in front of the grave, otherwise she is different from ordinary people!

(still a little grass)

Why doesn't the empress dowager cixi's mausoleum grow grass? So Cixi arranged Prince Chun to be the minister in charge of building the mausoleum, and told him that no grass could grow in front of the mausoleum. This job stumped Prince Chun, so he found an experienced old supervisor, who was also somewhat embarrassed. It is very simple to grow grass in front of the grave in a short time, but it has been too difficult to grow grass for hundreds of years, and only the legendary Xixia mausoleum does not grow grass, but this technology has long been lost.

The old supervisor thought of a way not to grow grass himself. He put 100 large iron pots in front of Cixi's tomb, fried the soil in these pots, and then asked foreign messengers for herbicides. Mix the herbicide with the fried soil, stir it evenly, and then spread it on the top of Cixi Mausoleum. In this way, the mausoleum of Cixi will never grow grass again.

(Empress Dowager Cixi's mausoleum is located in Ding Dong Mausoleum, the mausoleum in the east of Qing Dynasty)

It is said that Cixi listened to it before she died? Become an outlaw? It is said that it is unlucky to grow grass in front of a grave to become a thief. This made Prince Chun suggest that grass should not grow in front of the grave. But with the previous technology, even if some herbicides were used and washed by rain, some grass would still grow.