Why did Cixi's mausoleum not have any grass until now? Generations of people with status will attach great importance to burying their own mausoleums. They all hope that the cemetery can be full of flowers and grass, full of greenery, so that the feng shui is good and they can prosper their children.
As the actual ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, Cixi spent his life in extravagance and lavishness, pursuing enjoyment to the extreme, and even spent more than ten years to spend a lot of manpower and material resources to build his own cemetery. However, on the luxurious mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi, there is not a trace of weeds and plants in sight. Was Cixi retribution for all the bad deeds she did? Or is it all intentional?
It is said that the construction of Cixi's mausoleum began in 1873, and the entire project budget cost 2.27 million taels of silver. Originally, according to the hierarchical concept of Chinese feudalism, the identity of Empress Dowager Cixi was lower than that of Empress Dowager Ci'an of the Zhenggong Palace, but due to the particularity of empress dowager Cixi's status, the designed mausoleums were similar to Ci'an in scale and quality. However, Cixi could not be so easily satisfied, and in addition to having to accept her own mausoleum and submit to Ci'an on the burial position, she also demanded that in the construction and decoration of the mausoleum, it could not be lower than Ci'an.
Because Ci'an died early, he was buried in the Qing Tombs after his death. Cixi visited her mausoleum many times and found many problems in the process.
In 1895, more than 20 years after the construction of cixi's mausoleum, Cixi had specially sent people to the QingDongling Tomb to see how well her underground palace was protected, and the people who went found that her mausoleum had fallen off somewhat, which made Cixi very angry, so she asked the prince's ministers to repair her mausoleum again, and also asked the craftsmen to build her mausoleum without any grass. Why?
Originally, according to the burial scriptures, it is a good thing that grass grows on the cemetery, and the grass on the head of the grave grows luxuriantly, which also indicates that the feng shui of the tomb is better. The graveyard, which has not grown grass for a long time, indicates that it is very unlucky, and it may also cut off children and grandchildren, and another grave site needs to be chosen.
And Empress Dowager Cixi naturally did not understand these things, she somehow suddenly thought of "falling grass for Kou", she thought that she was the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty, how could she fall into the grass after death? Therefore, in order to maintain this supreme dignity after death, Cixi asked that not a single blade of grass should grow on her graveyard.
This also made it very difficult for the master of the construction, because there had never been such a strange practice since ancient times. So after the master went back, he went through countless ancient books and finally found a way to not grow grass on the grave. It is to mix the soil with sulfur lime, stir-fry in an iron pot, mature the soil, and spread it on the grave to solve this problem.
So the craftsmen set up a cauldron in front of the grave and began to stir-fry the grave soil for the Lafayette, but this method did have an effect. To this day, Cixi's grave is still devoid of grass. Although Cixi's bald tomb is very unlucky in feng shui, such a tomb just solves the problem of stagnant water.
Serious examples such as Qianlong's underground palace, that is, as long as it encounters a rainy season, it will accumulate water and leak, although Qianlong sent people to solve it when he was alive, but it did not solve the problem from the root, and even the most serious time will even accumulate water to two meters deep. Cixi's mausoleum did not grow grass for many years, but avoided the destruction of the top floor of the underground palace by the root system of the plant, so that there would be no water leakage.
However, although Cixi's mausoleum can escape the invasion of nature, it cannot escape man-made aggression. Later, when Sun Dianying robbed the tomb, not only were all her rare treasures robbed, but even her body was thrown out of the coffin. The clothes were also taken away, and it was unbearable to see, and I had to sigh that things were man-made.
So how luxurious is Cixi's mausoleum?
Cixi was buried in the Dingdong Tomb of the Qing Dynasty, and its full name was "Bodhisattva Yuding Dongling". On October 18, 1908, the project was finally completed after 13 years of reconstruction (coincidentally Cixi died 4 days later).
Cixi lian in the Tongzhi and Guangxu dynasties, actually controlled the government for 48 years. After her death, she buried almost all the treasures she had stolen from her life in a coffin, worth up to 100 million taels of silver. According to the notes of the eunuch Li Lianying, cixi first laid a bed of jeweled brocade made of gold wire at the bottom of the coffin before the body entered the coffin, which was about 7 inches thick. He wears a gold silk beaded silk embroidered dress, an embroidered beaded coat, nine beads wrapped around his body, and a beaded crown on his head, which has a 4-fold orb as large as a chicken egg, which is estimated to be worth 10 million taels of silver.
In front of her head, feet, and feet, there are more than 200 large and small treasures, in addition to 27 gold, jade, jade, and ruby Buddhas next to her. On the left side of her body was a 3-section jade lotus and on the right side was a red coral tree, which was extremely delicate. After all the precious treasures were placed, in order to fill the gaps in the coffin, 4 liters of pearl gemstones were dumped, and 6,000 2-point pearls were placed when they were filled, as well as various other rare and rare treasures.
After reading this, I have to lament Cixi's extravagance and selfishness. Not only was he extravagant before his death, but he also spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources to satisfy himself when the country was in decline, and he refused to waste a little of the items in his hands after death, and he must use it for himself. For her act of being robbed of the tomb by Sun Dianying after her death, it has to be said that it is retribution.