At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court of the Qing Dynasty could no longer afford to spend military expenses, let alone the army guarding the imperial tomb. At that time, the imperial tomb was only guarded by the tomb keepers. After Empress Dowager Cixi's death, she brought more than half of the remaining silver two in the Treasury of the Qing Dynasty into the imperial tomb. As the saying goes, if you are not afraid of thieves, you are afraid of thieves. In 1928, the warlord Sun Dianying ransacked the Qing Dongling and Qing Xiling tombs in the name of suppressing bandits, and countless treasures flowed into the hands of bandits. Among them, the imperial tombs of Cixi and Qianlong were the most tragic.
At that time, Sun Dianying blew up Cixi's mausoleum, split Cixi's coffin, and after looting the funeral goods, the bandits at that time found the night pearl in Cixi's mouth, but at that time, because the body's mouth was tightly closed, it was impossible to take out the night pearl, and the bandit soldiers at that time used a knife to cut open Cixi's face and only then took out the night pearl.
The night pearl in Cixi's mouth, according to Sun Dianying's words, is: when separated is two pieces, together is a round ball, separated transparent without light, when closed will emit a green cold light, within a hundred steps at night can illuminate the hair, this treasure can make the body not bad, when Cixi's coffin was split, seeing Cixi's body is like sleeping, only to see the wind before it slowly turns black.
Sun Dianying not only ransacked the mausoleum of Cixi, but also the tomb of the Qianlong Emperor, the Treasury of the most prosperous era of the Qianlong Dynasty was sufficient, and the treasures were innumerable, of which the Nine Dragon Sword was the most famous, the Nine Dragon Sword was five feet long, the sword handle was long, and the 9 dragons were carved on it, symbolizing the nine-nine-to-one, and the sword sheath was made of shark skin and inlaid with full of gems.
After the theft of the Tanglin Tomb, people from all walks of life demanded that Sun Dianying be brought to justice, and Sun Dianying used the stolen cultural relics to get rid of the magnates and gave the night pearl to Song Meiling, who made the night pearl into a shoe ornament, but in the end he did not know where to go. The largest two of Qianlong's chaozhu were given to Dai Kasa, and the Nine Dragon Sword was given to Dai Kasa and asked him to hand it over to Chiang Kai-shek, but in the end, this sword was buried with Dai Kasa in the sea of fire. Only iron pieces were burned.