Ancient Chinese feudal society has a strong sense of ceremony, especially in the face of death, there are many exquisite and sayings, they always like to take away their own obsessions and belongings that they cannot take away before they die, and when they die, they must also bury them in the tomb with their own corpses. In today's view, there are inevitably some superstitions and waste of resources, but the ancient people had a limited understanding of civilization and science, and they liked to follow the rules of their ancestors in everything. Especially for the aftermath of the rich family, it is more exquisite, and does not know everything from simplicity, which is simply to talk about extravagance and waste to a certain extreme.
Golden silk nan wood is a very precious kind of wood in the middle, and in the feudal society, there were strict regulations, golden silk nan wood can only be used by royal nobles, ordinary civilians are not allowed to change, one is because the imperial court does not allow it, but because ordinary people's consumption can not afford to buy gold silk nan wood. The royal people not only used gold silk nan wood for construction, but even the coffins had to be exquisitely carved with the best gold silk nan wood.
In her later years, Empress Dowager Cixi was very worried about her future generations, and at that time, the development of the Qing Dynasty gradually declined, the national treasury was in a serious deficit, and she still owed a bunch of debts to the outside world, but Cixi was afraid that after her death, people would simplify the aftermath, so when she was alive, she instructed the eunuchs around her to set up a fine golden silk coffin for herself, and painted gold paint on the bottom, which looked like it was yellow and brilliant, very eye-catching.
Why cixi was buried in the future generations that her life was jealous of the extravagant waste, without the slightest consideration of the people's livelihood and suffering, you can see from her coffin, the country is in a precarious situation, even when fighting a war, even the military funds can not be paid out, Cixi also has to make a big fuss on her own coffin, the gold silk nan wood used in Cixi's coffin was specially transported back from Yunnan, because the distance is very far, the transportation is not very convenient, and it costs 100,000 taels of silver on the transportation. Later, the first-class builders in the capital personally carved the coffin for Cixi, and the lines on it were carved out one by one, which was very precious.
But in the later tomb of Cixi, why was it a red coffin, and where did the golden coffin that Empress Dowager Cixi used with money to build with her heart go? Later, because Cixi put a large number of funerary items in his tomb, which led to the red eyes of the tomb robber gang, he sneaked into Cixi's tomb in the middle of the night, and a lot of property was looted, and even the coffin that spent a lot of money had a lot of scratches. Emperor Puyi was furious when he learned of this, but they did not have enough money to rebuild an identical coffin for Cixi, so they could only take a red paint brush and cover the scratches on it.