Why did Cixi "bleed from the coffin" when she came out of the funeral? Frightening many people, Li Lianying unveiled the mystery before she died
In China's long imperial era, Empress Dowager Cixi, the de facto ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, was one of the few women who had been in power for a long time, and her life was infinitely beautiful. The Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi died a day apart, but Cixi's funeral was extravagant, according to records, Cixi's mausoleum construction project is huge, only the three halls used 4592 gold leaves! The Dan Majesty Stone in the mausoleum is carved by high relief and transparency techniques, the pattern is "the dragon is below, the phoenix is on the top", the 69 white jade plates around the Longen Hall are carved everywhere into "Phoenix Leads the Dragon Chase", and 74 pillar heads break the format of one dragon and one phoenix in history, all of which are "one phoenix pressing two dragons", implying that she has two degrees of hanging curtains.
Cixi's journey from death to funeral took more than a year, and such a long cycle was only due to heavy preparations. According to historical data, the funeral cost a total of 1.2 million taels of silver, the bottom of the coffin was covered with gold silk woven jewelry brocade, seven inches thick, and the bottom was embellished with more than 10,000 large and small pearls, eighty-five red gemstones, more than 200 pieces of white jade, a layer of silk mattress embroidered with lotus flowers, and 2,400 pearls weighing five points on the top... The imperial court mobilized 7,920 people to carry the coffin, just to let Cixi be buried.
There are not only crowds of people on the street, but also countless paper people with realistic workmanship, paper horses and paper cars, which are eerie and terrifying, and look very crazy. The paper man carries a palanquin, the paper man rides a paper horse, the paper man raises a flag, carries weapons, and there is a large paper boat with a Guanyin Bodhisattva in the paper boat. It is said that Cixi borrowed from Prince Yan not to go to the prefectural palace, and the paper boat was for the purpose of ascending the immortals after death. However, this extravagant funeral did not receive the expected effect of the Qing court and Cixi, and on the day of the funeral, Cixi's coffin actually dripped blood, which made the people panic. Why? Everything must start with the grand eunuch Li Lianying.
The day of Cixi's funeral was more than a year after the day of her death, and the corpse that had been parked for a long time had a slight smell of corpses, and in order to preserve Cixi's last honor, Li Lianying chose to cover it with spices from the Wang Ji spice shop used by the imperial court, but the owner of the spice shop did not give enough "benefits", which angered Li Lianying, who was executed on trumped-up charges, so that no professional person made incense for Cixi's coffin, and Li Lianying, who took the initiative, selected several spices with heavy aromas to smoke the coffin. In this way, the smell was covered, and unexpectedly attracted gluttonous rats, dozens of rats sneaked into Cixi's coffin to steal spices, and finally the seven tricks bled to death, and the blood of the rats dripped down the crevices of the coffin, forming a terrible scene seen by the people.