As we all know, after the death of successive emperors, there will be imperial tombs and funerary products, and many emperors must have reached a surprising degree of luxury in their imperial tombs, just like the Qianling Tomb, which is known as the ninth wonder under the heavens, directly without excavation, today we will talk about another equally luxurious imperial tomb, that is, the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi.
Empress Dowager Cixi, as an empress who listened to the government, actually had the same magic as Qianling, that Empress Dowager Cixi and Wu Zetian, the mistress of Qianling, were both powerful people, so it was normal for their imperial tombs to be repaired as never before, and after Guangxu's death, Cixi also went with her, and originally Cixi's imperial tomb was similar to that of Empress Dowager Ci'an.
But after the burial of Ci'an, Cixi bowed to the government, and rebuilt the imperial tomb on the grounds that the Ci'an Imperial Tomb had been lost for a long time, yes, at that time, when the Ci'an and Cixi Imperial Tombs were built, it cost more than 5 million taels of silver, which was already extremely luxurious, and later Cixi rebuilt the imperial tomb The degree of luxury can be imagined, and the Qing Dynasty was rich at that time, and it was very rich. It is recorded that the annual revenue of the Qing Dynasty was 40 million taels of silver, so cixi took 13 years to rebuild his mausoleum, and it is impossible to consider how much money it cost, so we can only speculate from the luxury of the imperial tomb.
Some people say that the luxury of Cixi's imperial tomb is comparable to that of the Forbidden City, the coffin of the Qing Dynasty emperor is called "Zi Palace" and Cixi's "Zi Palace" is several times larger than the coffin of ordinary people, divided into two layers of inner coffin and outer coffin, the light material is made of gold silk nan wood known as the national wood, and the small partners who know about the golden silk nan wood know that this wood grows in the primeval forest of Yunnan, the texture is delicate, the key is to emit a faint fragrance, which can be described as gold in the wood.
It is rumored that the corpse in the golden silk nan wood can be done for a thousand years without decay, then a large coffin of this kind does not say its own value, the freight from Yunnan to the capital alone is 400,000 taels, and Cixi's coffin is extremely exquisite, painted with 49 golden paints, there are also four heavenly kings spells written in Tibetan, the author speculates, this may be Cixi knows that he has done a lot of evil, afraid of his death to force himself to seal himself for use.
So after talking about the coffin, let's talk about the funeral after Cixi's death, cixi's life jacket after death is dotted with all kinds of rare stones, and Cixi's goods are not wearing a layer of clothes, really wrapped themselves into old rice dumplings with clothes, according to records, there are 420 large pearls on a single piece of clothing, 1000 pearls in the middle, 1500 small pearls, Cixi was wearing a phoenix crown a pearl that is said to have the size of an egg, weighing 4 two, everyone may think that pearls are not valuable, the Qing Dynasty did not have a breeding industry, All pearls are natural pearls, and their rarity is estimated to be much more expensive than those of jade, and pearls of this size are also valuable even now.
Hanging on the neck of the beads, the beads are made of rubies, a total of more than eight hundred, but also glowing, colorful, in fact, these are small things, in Cixi's view are embellished, the most powerful is rumored that she has a night pearl in her mouth, this pearl is composed of two beads, separated is two, and then transparent and colorless, combined is a complete one, can emit a ghostly white light, at night can be a hundred steps away to illuminate the appearance of people's facial features, Just this night pearl is estimated to be worth the sum of everything in front of it.
Of course, Cixi still has to grasp something in her hand, needless to say that it is a dongzhu as big as an egg, the shoes on her feet are also dazzling, under Cixi's body is a quilt woven with gold wire, the quilt is dotted with gems and pearls, and I don't know if she will feel panicked when she dies, covered with a bed of Tibetan living Buddha tribute gold quilt, legend can wish the souls of the dead to ascend to bliss early, according to archaeologists, there are more than 23,000 pearls in the coffin, jade jade agate and the like more than 1400 pieces, Other valuable treasures are also countless.
The combined value of so many treasures is estimated to be hundreds of millions of silver, coupled with the construction of the outer imperial tombs, really a Cixi Imperial Mausoleum can be worthy of the wealth of a country, but the opposite happened, these jewels did not bless her early ascension to Bliss, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty was stolen by someone to the tomb, it can be said that the return of the Heavenly Dao Wheel should not be happy.