The reason why Sun Dianying's name is well-known in China may be because he stole Cixi's tomb and took a large number of funerary items from it.
History records that the Cixi Mausoleum is luxurious in architecture, surpassing the tombs of all the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, especially the jewels buried in the coffins. After sun dianying blew open the tomb, he took out all the funerary national treasures such as jade watermelon, grasshopper cabbage, jade lotus, coral tree, etc., and finally pried open Cixi's teeth and took away the rare night pearl contained in his mouth.
Night Pearl
In Sun Dianying's own words: "She (Cixi) has a night pearl in her mouth, which is divided into two pieces, and when it is closed, it is a round ball, revealing a green cold light, and her hair can be seen within a hundred steps at night." I heard that this treasure can make the corpse unmelted, no wonder that after Cixi's coffin was split, Lafayette was like sleeping, only to see the wind, his face turned black, and his clothes were a little untouchable. I gave the Night Pearl to Lady Jiang (Song Meiling). ”
Song Meiling
What happened after this rare treasure reached Song Meiling's hands? According to relevant records, Song Meiling used the night pearl as a shoe ornament. Song Meiling definitely knew the value of this night pearl, and perhaps she would only do so after she was rich and powerful to a certain extent.
Later, with the end of the Liberation War, the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan, and this night pearl also came to Taiwan with Song Meiling. Song Meiling moved to the United States after she got older, and there was no news of this rare night pearl.