After the tomb of Cixi was stolen, the whereabouts of a jade lotus were unknown, what was the use of this object?
After the death of Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty, many rare treasures were buried in her mausoleum as funerary items, including night pearls, emerald watermelons, and gold silk quilts and other valuable treasures, in fact, in addition to these there is a jade lotus, although the value can not be compared with other treasures, but also Cixi is very fond of, so after death will be this jade lotus room Cixi coffin, then what is the use of a jade lotus root?
Li Lianying, a eunuch who was always favored by Cixi, once recorded this jade lotus in the "Notes on Ai Yuexuan", although it was not particularly valuable, but the workmanship was very delicate: the left side of the jade lotus root had three sections, with gray mud smudge, and a branch such as green lotus leaves, pink lotus flowers, and black water chestnuts grew on the lotus. It can be seen that this jade lotus is already a very rare fine product in jade, but since Sun Dianying stole the tomb of Cixi, the whereabouts of this jade lotus are unknown, and perhaps it has long been lost overseas.
As we all know, Cixi is very fond of gold and jade cultural relics, so like this fine workmanship of jade, Lafayette naturally loves to let go, but if you want to say that this jade lotus is really useful, in fact, to start from Cixi's hobbies, Cixi believed in Buddhism in his later years, and the lotus flower has a special meaning in Buddhism, such as Guanyin's cushion is the lotus platform, so the jade related to the lotus is naturally a Buddhist article, and in his later years Cixi's self-cultivation nature is very fond of Buddhist supplies.
In fact, there are many other Buddhist jades in Cixi's tomb, which are often played with by Cixi, but unfortunately these jades have been looted by Sun Dianying, and most of the funerary items have been sold by him at a high price and lost overseas, although the whereabouts of some cultural relics have been known, but it is difficult to buy back, so now many of our national treasures are in overseas museums or private collectors. Don't know when they will be returned to their owners?