Why was Empress Dowager Cixi chased to the grave by Sun Dianying to destroy the coffin and whip the corpse?

The Qing Dynasty operated in China for nearly 300 years and accumulated endless treasures. The Qing emperors who believed in geomantic reincarnation brought countless treasures to their graves. Among them, the most luxurious funerary object is Cixi, the little emperor who was arrogant and extravagant when he was young, and the funerary object after his death is also so luxurious.

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Cixi's tomb is located in Changrui Mountain in the northwest of zunhua city. From the geomantic point of view of tomb site selection, it can be described as a prosperous place. Although the feng shui is excellent, the feng shui turns, and the tomb of Cixi is always doomed to be stolen.

The security measures of the Mausoleum should naturally be foolproof, and it is difficult for ordinary grave robbers to enter the underground palace of the Mausoleum. After Cixi was buried from 1908, with the demise of the Qing imperial system, countless small grave robbers gathered in the Changruishan generation in Zunhua to covet hundreds of millions of treasures in the underground palace of Cixi's mausoleum, but until 1928, these thieves all returned empty-handed and found nothing.

With the advent of the era of warlord separatism, the good fortune of Cixi's tomb has come to an end. At that time, the great warlord Sun Dianying was entrenched in Hebei Province. Due to insufficient wages, he turned to Chiang Kai-shek for help many times. However, Jiang thought that Sun was a rabble, although he refused Sun in a perfunctory way. Sun Dianying, as a military hegemon, is unstable without paying wages. At this time, a counselor told Sun that he had hundreds of millions of property, but Sun didn't know it. Advisers revealed that the tomb of Cixi was within the scope of the army headquarters, and Sun Dianying had the idea of robbing Dongling.

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Sun Dianying, under the guise of military exercises, drove his troops into the tomb area of Cixi, and went to war. Finally, under the guidance of the local old flag bearer, he was able to bring explosives into the underground palace of the mausoleum and took away the wealth of the country. According to "Notes on Love Moon Xuan" written by Li, the great eunuch of Cixi, after Cixi's death, she wore pearls as big as eggs, and the funerary objects included gold, precious stones, jade Buddha 108, more than 700 pieces of jade arhats and steeds, with countless treasures. It was these priceless pearls and jade buried with her that made Cixi die unsatisfied.

But Sun Dianying did not spare the owl emperor who had been dead for 20 years, destroying his coffin and flogging his body. As for the reason, in view of the death of the party concerned, there is no way to verify it.

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According to records, 20 days after the robbery, Aisingiorro's descendants Zaize and others found that when they went to collect Cixi's body, they found that Cixi was covered with white hair. Fortunately, her body skeleton was complete. Zaize and others put Cixi back in the museum to seal the tomb. The treasure of the coffin is not the fate of life and death, but the disaster after death, and a generation of owl emperors can't escape the bad luck of breaking the coffin and dumping the body.

1984, when the national archaeological team excavated the tomb of the Qing emperor, Cixi kept her appearance in the coffin when she closed it for the second time in 1928, and the national archaeologists treated her skeleton and coffin with antisepsis. Today, Cixi still lies quietly in her tomb.