"The Romance of the Western Han Dynasty": "Noble like Liancheng and Clan Bi, strange as the Pearl of the Night of the Illuminated Temple". The Night Pearl was originally a stone that could glow at night, and the stone was artificially polished into a circle and turned into a bead. The reason why it can emit light is that it contains rare elements of luminescence, and often emits yellow-green, light blue, orange-red and other colors. Legend has it that during the Shennong period, the Night Pearl existed and was owned by Emperor Yan.
Ancient emperors died, there is a custom of putting jade as funerary products, the ancients believed that jade can block people's caves, so that the vitality does not leak out, the body does not rot. When Qin Shi Huang was buried, several night pearls were placed in the mausoleum "instead of anointing candles". Out of Qin Shi Huang, there was another person who took Ye Mingzhu to be buried together, and this person was Cixi.
During the 48 years that Cixi was in charge of the Qing Dynasty, the Guangxu Emperor hated and feared her, hoping to regain real power as soon as possible. On June 11, 1898, the Guangxu Emperor carried out the "Pengshu Reform Law" in an attempt to cultivate his own leadership team, and used Liang Qichao and other reformists to sweep away Cixi's conservative faction. However, the Wushu reform method was only carried out for 103 days before it was stopped under the forced intervention of Cixi, and the "Six Gentlemen of Wushu" including Tan Sitong were killed. The Guangxu Emperor was also imprisoned by Cixi in Yingtai, Nanhai, and sent Li Lianying and 20 other eunuchs to monitor him day and night.
Guangxu was imprisoned in Yingtai in the South China Sea for a full 10 years, the only entrance and exit Banqiao was removed, no one spoke to him for 10 years, the eunuchs knew that Cixi did not value him, and also followed along with the abuse of Guangxu, when they wanted to send food, when they wanted to send food, let Guangxu hungry, put in the past hundreds of years, which eunuch dared to do this to the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Guangxu Lian was depressed in this painful 10 years, often running around with his head and bare feet, and death became his best destination.
In November 1908, at the age of 38, Guangxu was poisoned by Empress Dowager Cixi and died on November 14 three days after suffering from abdominal pain. In the 20 hours, Cixi actually returned to the west with her. Cixi's living expenses were 40,000 taels of silver a day before her death, and after her death, she could not treat herself badly, bringing countless treasures, including a night pearl worth 10.8 million taels of silver at that time.
On July 4, 1928, Sun Dianying, who lacked funds, paid attention to Cixi's tomb, and after shelling open Cixi's tomb, Sun Dianying found that Cixi had a night pearl in her mouth, and the night pearl shot out green light, which could illuminate the hair of people hundreds of meters away.
Sun Dianying pried open Cixi's mouth with a bayonet to take the pearl of the night, and he and his men ransacked the funeral goods for a week, enough to load 40 large carts. More than 40 days later, Puyi rushed to Cixi's tomb to see the scene, cixi was pulled out of the coffin by Sun Dianying and others, the clothes on his body were gone except for the last bit of cloth, and his mouth was obviously scarred because he was pried by Sun Dianying with a knife.
Puyi was angry at Sun Dianying's approach, did not give Sun Dianying a little color to see, and let their royal faces go where? Puyi painted a painting of Sun Dianying to show that "we must kill this person!" " means. Sun Dianying offended Puyi and confessed, taking the funeral goods to the masters to raise their hands and let him go, of which the night pearl was sent to Song Meiling's hand.
I don't know what Song Meiling meant, she did not hold the precious night pearl in the palm of her hand to take good care of, but as a jewelry on the shoes, once she also wore this pair of shoes with the night pearl to the United States, when attending the dinner, after the banquet lights were turned off, the night pearl illuminated the house, and was praised by everyone.
Later, this pearl of the night was no longer on Song Meiling, because after the collapse, it was sold to the American oil king John Rockefeller. John Rockefeller's family was very poor as a child, his father was a liar, he sold counterfeit drugs to others, he was disloyal to his mother, he committed bigamy, he lied to him when he was fine, and John disliked his father very much. But he lived a completely different life as a child, in 1880, his company refined 95% of the entire United States, he became the first billionaire of the 19th century, and until 2009 he was the first of the 15 richest Americans in Forbes, and it is said that the Night Pearl is hidden in a museum he built himself.