Empress Dowager Cixi was buried in Ding Dong Mausoleum after her death. She enjoyed all the splendor before her death, but after her death, she was still extremely luxurious, and there were countless treasures buried with her. Legend has it that when Cixi died, she put a night pearl in her mouth, which is said to keep her bones from melting.
1928, Sun Dianying, then commander of the 12th Army of the Sixth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, led an army to blow up Ding Dong Mausoleum and looted the rare treasures in the Mausoleum.
The pearl in Cixi's mouth was not spared. It is said that bandits opened Cixi's coffin and saw her face as if she were asleep. Sun Dianying recalled: "It was because she had a big pearl in her mouth.
Empress Dowager Cixi was buried in Ding Dong Mausoleum after her death. She enjoyed all the splendor before her death, but after her death, she was still extremely luxurious, and there were countless treasures buried with her. Legend has it that when Cixi died, she put a night pearl in her mouth, which is said to keep her bones from melting.
1928, Sun Dianying, then commander of the 12th Army of the Sixth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, led an army to blow up Ding Dong Mausoleum and looted the rare treasures in the Mausoleum.
The pearl in Cixi's mouth was not spared. It is said that bandits opened Cixi's coffin and saw her face as if she were asleep. Sun Dianying recalled: "It was because she had a big pearl in her mouth.
This bead separates quickly, but when it is closed, it shows green cold light, and you can see your hair within 100 steps at night. "Bandits pried Cixi's mouth open with bayonets and stole the night pearl.
When the Qing royal family reburied Cixi, they noticed that Cixi's lips were broken, which seemed to be caused by grave robbers taking pearls. After the robbery, Sun Dianying paid bribes everywhere with stolen jewels to get away with it. It is said that he gave this pearl to Song Meiling, and this rare gem in the world disappeared.
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The earliest record of Empress Dowager Cixi's burial of the Night Pearl appeared in the tomb robbery case compiled by Nanhai Yinzi 1928: "No.51 Night Pearl, weighing 422 yuan and 70 cents, is worth1282,000 yuan".
According to the author's textual research, Nanhai Yinzi does exist. He also wrote 1920' s history of appeasing the country and 1926' s history of appeasing the country's pain. The historical records of the Night Pearl recorded in the tomb robbery case and thereafter are basically consistent with the folklore, but Sun Dianying's description of the Night Pearl can be divided into two parts, which is unscientific without corresponding evidence.
In addition, in 19 14, British journalists in China, Prander and Bai Kehao, reported that after Cixi's death, her mouth was "open but not closed", which can be regarded as circumstantial evidence that Cixi and the Night Pearl were buried together.
1988 The co-production film The Last Emperor directed by Italian director bertolucci and1April 2005 CCTV's international national treasure archives column Qing Ding Dong Mausoleum both tell the story of Empress Dowager Cixi with a big pearl in her mouth when she died.
After the death of Empress Dowager Cixi, there was a luminous pearl in her mouth.