Speaking of Sun Dianying, I believe many people are more familiar with him. He was a notorious grave robber in modern times, when he was a small leader of the army, but he loved to do some things like stealing chickens and dogs. The most shocking thing is that in 1928, he stole Cixi's tomb, looted a large amount of gold and silver treasures in the tomb, and threw Cixi's body in a stinky ditch, and then fled.
The details of his tomb robbery are recorded in detail in the book "Miscellaneous Memories of Shi Zai Tang", saying that after Sun Dianying and his gang entered the underground palace, in order to pry open Cixi's inner coffin, they cut the golden lacquer outer coffin to pieces, and only then did a red lacquer inner coffin appear. After they carefully pried open the inner coffin with a knife, they saw The life-like Empress Dowager Cixi and the countless jewels piled up in the inner coffin. The soldiers went crazy in an instant, and they rushed up, looted the treasures inside the coffin, and pulled the corpse of Empress Dowager Cixi out of the coffin, and the scene was unbearable. This was the theft of the Qing Tombs that shocked all of China at that time.
In fact, Sun Dianying, the great thief of Tanglin, has not been a fuel-saving lamp since he was a child, he has killed a bandit leader with his own strength, and he himself has become the new bandit leader. Later, his band of bandits was incorporated by Chiang Kai-shek and became a formal army. But this did not change Sun Dianying's nature, but it was more conducive to his tomb robbery plan. At that time, his army was stationed near the Qing Tombs, and Sun Dianying had the idea of robbing Cixi's tomb.
Later, in the name of military exercises, Sun Dianying drove away the guards of the Qing Tombs, so he exploded Cixi's tomb with his troops, and then transported all the treasures in the tomb. Not only that, he also led people to steal Qianlong's mausoleum. It is reported that it took several days and nights for the gang to transport all the treasures in the tomb. Among them, the most precious is a pearl of night contained in Cixi's mouth. However, although Sun Dianying lived happily for more than 20 years, he was finally captured by the People's Liberation Army and finally died of illness in a war criminals shelter.
However, among Sun Dianying's sons and daughters, one son is very famous. He was Sun Tianyi, the son of Sun Dianying and his second wife, Liu Qingzhen, who was not clear about his father's tomb robbery, but only learned a little from his mother's mouth. Under the strict teaching of his mother, Sun Tianyi excelled in his studies and was later admitted to Fu Jen University. After graduation, Sun Tianyi first taught in the United States, and then returned to China to serve as the dean of the Xi'an Foreign Chinese College, translating eight works such as "Roosevelt's Biography". Later, Sun Tianyi became the vice chairman of the Shaanxi Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, and in response to the call of the central government to repair the Yellow Emperor's mausoleum, Sun Tianyi served as the vice president of the Shaanxi Provincial Foundation. In the process of repair, Sun Tianyi did not receive a salary, and strictly managed the financial expenditure, if there was a shortage of funds, he took advantage of the opportunity of foreign institutions to invite him to speak to collect donations, never spending the foundation's money.
In 1944, Sun Tianyi concurrently served as the president of the Yellow Emperor Mausoleum Foundation, and in order to make the yellow emperor's mausoleum more spectacular, he went around collecting donations. When someone asked him why he was so desperate, he replied: "Father is a sinner, I want to atone for his sins, protect cultural relics, and have an unshirkable responsibility." "Perhaps it can be said that Sun Dianying has produced such a patriotic son, which can be described as a great fortune in his misfortune."