The mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi was built before her death. The powerful Empress Dowager Cixi built the mausoleum twice. Empress Dowager Cixi's mausoleum is located in Qingling District, zunhua city, Hebei Province. After Emperor Tongzhi personally surveyed Feng Shui, Putuo Mountain was designated as the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi. Because the tombs of Empress Dowager Cixi, Empress Ci 'an and Empress Cixi were built at the same time, they were designed and built by Lei Tingchang, a famous Schleswig family in Qing Dynasty.
According to the Qing system, the tombs of Empress Dowager Cixi and Empress Ci 'an can only be located near the Dingling Mausoleum of Xianfeng Emperor, and only one empress can be built. Empress Dowager Cixi was very angry when she saw the memorial, and said, "You are bullying our two sisters. In which tomb are two queens buried? " The minister who undertook the tomb repair proposed to imitate the style of the Double Princess Garden. Cixi forced her to ask, "Are we toffee?" So under the threat of the powerful Empress Dowager Cixi, Ci 'an and Cixi each built a mausoleum.
After the Emperor Tongzhi selected the mausoleum site in 1873, construction started in August of that year and was not completed until June of the fifth year of Guangxu (1880). It took six years, and the two tombs cost more than five million taels of silver!
After Ci 'an's death, only the Cixi family had higher requirements for the mausoleum than Ci 'an's mausoleum. In Guangxu 2 1 (1895), Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the restoration of her Empress Dowager Cixi mausoleum, with Rong Lu, the minister of war, and Prince Qing as contractors. The restoration project is even bigger. Because Eight-Nation Alliance stopped for a while, Cixi continued to build after she returned to Beijing until 195.
Nothing grows in Cixi's mausoleum, because she specially asked Cixi to attach great importance to her home after a hundred years. Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China and fled to Cixi in xi 'an in a hurry. She didn't return to Beijing for more than a year and went to see her grave. This time, it suddenly occurred to her that if grass grows on her grave, wouldn't it be an idiom to "become an outlaw"?
This is unlucky. Thinking of this escape, Cixi felt that she could never let herself become a desperate "coach" again, so she ordered that grass should not grow on her grave.
Empress Dowager Cixi issued an imperial edict, and Prince Qing and Rong Lu had to comply with it, so they used their brains together with their deputies to try to make the cemetery grow grass.
They have tried many methods, but none of them are very good, because as long as the soil is a little moist, vigorous grass will grow, so these people want to do something, mix it into the soil and destroy the hotbed where grass needs it.
It has been suggested that it is difficult to grow grass on the wall with lime, and it is also difficult to grow grass where firecrackers fall. Inspired by these things, they focused on lime, sulfur and saltpeter. They carried out experiments, mixed these substances into the soil, and put them in a pot to stir fry, so that the cooked soil met the requirements.
Prince Qing was overjoyed. He immediately ordered a cauldron with a mouth of 100 to be set up at the edge of Cixi Mausoleum, and the soil on the top of Cixi Mausoleum was heated and stir-fried. After a month, the soil was finally fried. This method is very effective. The top of Cixi Mausoleum is really barren!
Cixi lived a luxurious life and had high demands on her mausoleum. Cixi did not calculate that her tomb was stolen twenty years after her death. 1928, Sun Dianying, a thief from Dongling, blasted her tomb with explosives, and all the funerary objects in the tomb were taken away, and Cixi's body was insulted. Nothing grows!