Influenced by feudal superstitions, ancient China can be described as the prevalence of thick burial. In order to bring the wealth of the living to the world after death to continue to enjoy, many emperors brought many treasures to the tomb to continue to enjoy, but often because of this, they were looted by tomb robbers. Far from it, the tombs of Qianlong and Cixi, who are relatively close to us, are a typical example.
Qianlong must be familiar to everyone, he is the emperor of the Qing Dynasty who has actually held power for the longest time. During his reign, he spared the world's money and grain five times, and three exempted eight provinces from grain. Reducing the burden on the peasants, in the fifth year of Qianlong (1740 AD), the population of China exceeded 100 million for the first time, pushing the prosperity of the Three Dynasties of Kang Yongqian to the peak.
And Cixi can be said to be the only female ruler of the Qing Dynasty, her power is because of the emptying of the Guangxu Emperor, many important deeds in modern history are related to her, such as the Penghu Reform Law, and the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance in 1900, including the succession of the last emperor Puyi.
After the death of Cixi and Qianlong, they were both buried in the Qing Tombs, and a large number of treasures were brought into the Qing Tombs. In the end, all of them were stolen by a person named "Sun Dianying", although Sun Dianying only arrived at such a tomb, but it became the most famous tomb robber in history, which shows the richness of the Qing Dynasty Tombs.
In 1928, Sun Dianying, in the name of exercising near the Qing Dongling Tombs, took away several tomb keepers of the Qing Dongling Tombs, and then began to excavate the Qing Dongling Tombs, they first came to the Qianlong Mausoleum, after the explosion of the underground palace, a variety of treasures appeared in front of the eyes, in addition to gold and silver jewelry, there are many valuable calligraphy and paintings.
Sun Dianying and his men were like bandits, they were only interested in gold and silver jewelry, and other ink treasures and famous paintings were still on the side. Among them, the shroud of Qianlong, which was discarded once, was only a good-looking blanket in their eyes, and it was not valuable compared to gold and silver jewelry. What's more, it is still the things on the dead people, and they cannot be used.
These people really have eyes and no pearls, which is tailor-made by the Tibetan Living Buddha for the Qianlong Emperor, called "Dravidian Sutra", which is woven from precious silk, and the cost of silk at that time was not worse than gold silk, and the Dravidian sutra was also embroidered with scriptures and special patterns.
It can be said that the value of the Dravidian sutra is no longer in the preciousness of materials, but in the textile craftsmanship and artistic characteristics. Extremely archaeologically valuable. It is said that it took three years just to make this quilt, but it was discarded by Sun Dianying and then taken out as an insignificant thing.
Until 2005, at an auction in Beijing, this Dravidian sutra was auctioned as a "yellow satin robe in the late Qing Dynasty" for 90,000 yuan, and then "borrowed" some money to buy it by a gentleman surnamed Qin. Mr. Qin has already discovered the extraordinary features of this "robe". After returning home, I found a piece of exquisite quilt in the sandwich of satin.
It was identified as a buddhist treasure from the mid-Qing Dynasty, and only two remain in the world. Mr. Qin bought 90,000 yuan, no doubt a big bargain, in a 2008 auction, Mr. Qin bought this 90,000 yuan of Dravidian was auctioned off for 130 million yuan, jumping to become a billionaire. Such a big bargain can be described as a thousand-year encounter, and netizens have also sighed: fortunately, Sun Dianying does not know the goods.