What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
The Qianlong Emperor liked many women in his generation, many of whom were buried in his mausoleum after death and continued to accompany him.
After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, warlords rose up one after another, and there were wars of all sizes for each other for their own private sectors. Shortly thereafter, a commander of the National Revolutionary Army named Sun Dianying, under the guise of raising military funds, wanted to rob the tomb. The Qing Dongling Tomb was one of the places he had visited, when Sun Dianying walked into the Tanglin Tombs, saw countless rare treasures, and prepared to take these treasures with him.
After the looting was completed, Puyi was very annoyed to learn of this matter, so he sent someone to the mausoleum to check the situation, and found that there was a well-preserved female body dressed in gorgeous royal clothing, which made everyone frightened. There are four other coffins that have been opened next to it, and there are four rounds of white bones lying inside, which is very surprising, why is this body well preserved?
For this female corpse, it was identified as Empress Xiaoyi chun of the Qianlong Emperor, that is, the birth mother of the Jiaqing Emperor. As for why her body has not decayed after more than 100 years, there is no consensus on the reason.
Many people speculate that the body has undergone some kind of special treatment to remain intact for so many years, which is not recognized because people at that time did not have this advanced embalming technology, let alone more than 100 years old.
There is also a theory of poisoning, which is supported by the example of the corpse not decaying more than ten years after napoleon's arsenic poisoning death, but it was later overturned. According to historical records, Empress Xiaoyichun was in a state of grief for many years after losing her daughter, resulting in illness and death, so the theory of poisoning is also unreliable.
So far, there is no convincing explanation for the phenomenon of the well-preserved corpse of the concubine, and there are many unsolved mysteries in history, and this is only one of them.
Concubine Ling was a gentle and elegant woman before she was born, so she was very popular with Qianlong, and after Qianlong's empress was beaten into the cold palace, Concubine Lingfei has been helping Qianlong manage the affairs of the harem, and she has always been very sharp, and the work in the palace is quite in place, and there are a group of filial piety children, and her virtuousness is well known.