History is the memory of things that have been said and done. —Carl Baker
Everyone knows that one of the most famous women in modern China is Empress Dowager Cixi at the end of the Qing Dynasty. Today I want to talk about not some of her deeds before she died, but what happened to her after her death.
After Cixi's death, she spent a hundred million silver, and the treasures in it were innumerable, all of which were brought into the coffin by her, which was equivalent to a small treasure house, which was very valuable, so many people stared at her cemetery. After her death, a warlord named Sun Dianying pried open her cemetery in an attempt to find treasure in it, make a fortune, and subsidize his army.
Qingling had been coveting him for a long time, and finally at a chance, he opened Cixi's cemetery, scavenged inside, and took away many good treasures from before, the emerald pearls on it, even the night pearl contained in her mouth. But when I came across something, I looked at it, and immediately took it away in disgust, and continued to take some other valuable wealth. However, this time the operation was in a hurry, and in order to hide his eyes and ears, he used the excuse of the army exercise to clear the field, which was too much fanfare, so he took the funeral goods in a hurry and left.
Later, the tomb of Cixi was not peaceful because of this sweep, and more than ten years later it was once again looted by tomb robbers, this time the damage was more serious, many objects were taken away, at this time people began to realize the value of antiques, in addition to those gold and silver jewelry, even some of the utensils used were also taken away, but these people touched that thing, and like the previous people, they were very disgusted, and stayed in the cemetery and did not take it. It turned out that this item was a robe worn on Cixi's body, this robe was a dragon robe, something that Cixi had worn before she was born, but those people did not dare to take it when they saw it on the body of a dead person, and they also felt very dirty, so no one moved twice, but stayed inside.
After the founding of New China, archaeologists excavated this dress, but found that it was an ancient cultural relic with great research significance and high value, and now this cultural relic has reached the price of millions. This dress is also one of the few objects that Cixi left behind in later generations, because many other things were secretly divided.
After death, cixi took so much valuable wealth to accompany her to the funeral, but the result was that she could not be buried, and she could not even get a burial. It seems that we should still have an indifferent mentality, and we can't pay too much attention to these external things. The most important thing for people is to be happy, even if they have the wealth of the whole country to squander, they still cannot control their own destiny.