When the Qianlong Emperor was buried, the "shroud" appeared to be just an ordinary covering, and when Sun Dianying robbed the tomb of the Qing Dynasty Tombs, when he saw this covering, he did not look at it squarely, but took down the golden treasure on the top of the covering and took it away, and the covering was mercilessly discarded in the Yuling.
No one thought that this piece of cloth that Sun Dianying did not look down on at all, decades later, not only auctioned for a sky-high price of 130 million yuan, but also became a unique leader in the collection of literary and art works, if Sun Dianying learned this truth, it is estimated that the intestines are remorseful, so what is the reason for making a seemingly ordinary cloth auction for 130 million yuan?
The history of the "shroud" at the time of Qianlong's burial
In fact, the "shroud" mentioned today is not an ordinary covering, but a priceless work of art, which was made by the Tibetan Living Buddha himself and later given to Qianlong, and there were three pieces similar to this covering in that year, one to Kangxi, one to Qianlong (the largest one), and the other to Cixi.
It is precisely because the significance represented by this kind of covering is extraordinary (opened to light), so when Qianlong died and was buried, it became Qianlong's "shroud", but Qianlong did not expect that after a hundred years of his death, he and this shroud were treated inhumanly.
In 1928, because of the problem of military expenditure, Sun Dianying, in the absence of any way, focused on the Yuling Tomb of Qianlong and the Dingdongling of Cixi, both of which were extremely extravagant people in their lifetime, and those who were slightly familiar with some qing dynasty history understood that the wealth of the two was numerous.
Those huge wealth before his death, after his death, was naturally also brought into the mausoleum by the two people, whether it was the night pearl in the mouth of the legendary Cixi, or the Nine Dragon Sword carried by Qianlong, it was definitely a priceless treasure, plus Li Lianying's dictated "Notes on Loving Yuexuan", which recorded a lot of Cixi's funerary products of that year, which can be described as all kinds of valuable, making Sun Dianying itch and difficult.
Finally, Sun Dianying did not resist the attraction of these treasures, went to the Qing Dongling Under the guise of military exercises, and began a huge tomb robbery journey against the Qing Dongling, Sun Dianying and others launched a crazy tomb robbery of Cixi's Dingdongling and Qianlong's Yuling, and they did find the night pearl in Cixi's mouth and stole it, while Cixi's body was casually discarded aside.
Qianlong's bones were also discarded by Sun Dianying and others, and the most precious things in Qianlong's funerary products, including the Nine Dragon Sword and the Chaozhu made of 108 jewels, were all taken away by Sun Dianying and others.
At that time, when Sun Dianying and others were turning over Qianlong's bones, they found a seemingly ordinary shroud with some treasures on it, Sun Dianying and others did not understand what it was, so they took the treasure away, discarded it aside, and put it together with Qianlong's bones.
Sun Dianying and others gained a lot in the Qing Dynasty Tombs, and it took a whole 30 trucks to transport the treasures obtained from the tomb robbery, it can be said that Sun Dianying made a fortune in this move, not only solved the problem of military expenses, but also made a windfall.
After the end of the tomb robbery, because the influence of Sun Dianying's behavior was too bad, many newspapers published the ugly appearance of their tomb robbery, causing people from all walks of life to criticize and write about it, at that time, Puyi and some Qing Dynasty widows learned that the tombs of Qianlong and Cixi had been robbed by Sun Dianying, they were very angry, Puyi was so angry that he stomped his feet and constantly exerted pressure, hoping to severely punish Sun Dianying.
After Sun Dianying learned that someone was going to clean up after himself, he quickly began to dredge up all aspects of the relationship, and after relying on many parties, Sun Dianying's tomb robbery was over. Puyi and the Qing Dynasty widow saw that Sun Dianying was safe and sound, and there was no way but to spontaneously organize to repair the mausoleum, in the process of repairing the mausoleum, a widow found the cover that was thrown on the ground, he picked it up and carefully observed, he determined that it was the cover that Qianlong once had, so he quietly hid it and took it away, he was worried that this cover would be stolen again.
The widow was still very careful to keep the covering, and when he returned, he embroidered the covering inside a robe to protect the covering, and he did not even tell anyone important information about the covering, not even his own children.
That is, because no one knew any news about the covering, so after the death of the widow, the secret of the covering in the robe was buried, and it was not until decades later, in 2005, that the covering began to appear at auction for the first time, when the auction price of the robe was only 80,000 yuan, and no one was willing to bid, and finally it was auctioned.
At the auction, there was a person who was quite interested in the robes, this person we called Mr. Qin, after the auction of the robes, Mr. Qin took the initiative to find the auctioneer and offered that he was willing to buy the robe for 90,000 yuan, and the auctioneer was of course happy to sell it to Mr. Qin.
After Mr. Qin took the robe home, he found the secret inside the robe, it turned out that under the robe, there was a cover full of scriptures and a complicated process, with past experience, Mr. Qin concluded that this cover was valuable, and later he found many experts to identify it, and finally concluded: This cover is the shroud on Qianlong's body, and its value is endless.
In 2008, the cover appeared at auction for the second time, Mr. Qin sold it to a mysterious woman for a high price of 65.5 million, but only two years later, the cover was bought by a mysterious man for 130 million yuan, and since then, the news of this sky-high price of the cloth has disappeared into the long river of history.
Perhaps many people are more curious, obviously it is an ordinary cover, why can it be auctioned for a sky-high price of 130 million, and even continue to increase the price? Regarding this doubt, I have to say more about the preciousness of this covering.
Why can this cover be sold for 130 million?
In fact, the reason why this cover cloth can be auctioned for a sky-high price of 130 million is nothing more than the following three reasons:
The first reason is that the process of this covering is very complicated, when the Tibetan living Buddha used silk weaving, not only the process is complex, but also took three years to make, this piece of silk covering is 2 meters long and 1.38 meters wide, all of which are made by hand using silk, and the value is naturally not cheap.
The second reason is that the selection of materials for this covering is very precious, the materials used for the 2-meter-long covering are all fluff, the fluff at the end of the Tibetan antelope tail and the gold wire woven, the collection of these raw materials can be imagined, and the value of the covering that can be made of such precious raw materials can be imagined.
Of course, in a strict sense, in fact, the two reasons for the front are not the most important, to say that this cover can be auctioned for 130 million sky-high prices, in fact, is still the historical and cultural significance behind it, first of all, from the historical significance, this cover is qianlong used, Qianlong is one of the most well-known emperors in the Qing Dynasty, this cover followed Qianlong for many years, the historical significance behind it naturally needless to say.
According to the results of the study, a total of 72 kinds of scriptures have been embroidered on the top of the cloth, and these scriptures are embroidered on the cloth in Tibetan and Sanskrit, respectively, these scriptures are worthy of study by future generations, and the cultural significance represented behind it needs not to be said more, and everyone can understand.
It can be said that anything made of precious materials in the world can be clearly marked, but once it comes to historical and cultural significance, its value cannot be simply measured and evaluated in an instant, and the reason why this cover can be auctioned for a sky-high price of 130 million, and even higher in the future, its real value comes from the historical and cultural significance represented behind it, which cannot be measured by price.
epilogue
As history continues to move forward, many of the national treasures that were once lost have returned to the embrace of our motherland, but such as the night pearl in Cixi's mouth and the Nine Dragon Sword carried by Qianlong, but their whereabouts are still unknown, they also have the same important historical and cultural value as this cover, I hope that one day we can return to the embrace of the motherland, so that while witnessing the treasure, we can also understand the wonderful historical story behind it!
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