No one could have imagined that, including Sun Dianying himself, would not have imagined that he was so famous in the future generations because he had stolen the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi!
What he couldn't have imagined was that because of a move when he stole Cixi's tomb, he actually attracted speculation from later generations and said everything. What did he do while robbing the tomb?
Sun Dian Yingqi
Many people only know that Sun Dianying is the person who stole Cixi's tomb, but few people know his identity and experience. Sun Dianying, a person from a poor background, but unlike those inspirational figures, he learned all about some three religions and nine streams, cheating, eating, drinking and gambling, and even daring to touch drugs.
Sun Dianying's experience can actually be called a "legend" in another sense.
When he was young, he served as a subordinate of others, as the head of a temple and taoist congregation, and as a bandit. It was not until later that he was absorbed along with his band of bandits, and then switched to the Kuomintang. From then on, all the way up, until the kuomintang and the communist party fought, Sun Dianying was captured, and then died of illness in prison.
Grave robbery
Sun Dianying's tomb robbery is actually a temporary intention, although it is a temporary intention, but originally Sun Dianying was also a chicken and dog thief. At that time, the National Revolutionary Army sent Sun Dianying to suppress bandits, and when passing by the Qing Dongling Tombs, he saw that the main hall of the Qing Dongling Tombs was extremely luxurious, and he immediately had a covetous heart and wanted to use the treasures in the mausoleum as military expenses.
At that time, there was another person who had an idea for this mausoleum, that is, Ma Futian. After Sun Dianying learned of this news, he first took away Ma Futian, and then began to prepare for tomb robbery under the banner of military exercises. There are actually two mausoleums here, the tombs of the Qianlong Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi. And what is even more ridiculous is that the tomb protectors who were originally set up here also changed from tomb protectors to thieves with the decline of the Qing government. Sun Dianying began to act after making all the preparations, he first blew up Empress Dowager Cixi's Dingdong Mausoleum, and plundered countless rare treasures from it.

But people's desires are endless, and Sun Dianying, who ransacked the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi, is still not satisfied, so he started the idea of the Qianlong Emperor's Yuling Tomb. From Yuling, forty or fifty boxes of treasures were pulled out, including various jewels such as pearls, jadeite, and jade, as well as many precious calligraphy and paintings, carvings, and so on.
So how was Sun Dianying's tomb robbery discovered? It turned out that after Sun Dianying robbed the tomb, he contacted people at home and abroad everywhere and wanted to sell these treasures. Otherwise, if these things are left in the hand, it is simply a ticking time bomb.
It was in the process of selling the stolen goods that Sun Dianying was exposed! When it was found out that Sun Dianying had stolen the treasure, this aroused the anger of all the remaining Manchus, including Puyi, who reported Sun Dianying to Chiang Kai-shek. However, first, Sun Dianying paid a lot of bribes to open up various joints; second, due to the turmoil of the times, the case not only failed in the end, but Sun Dianying also added officials to the knighthood, and the position was even higher.
The truth of the rumors
It is rumored that after Sun Dianying blew up the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi, he did not immediately go to search for the treasures in the mausoleum like other people, but was attracted by the beauty of Empress Dowager Cixi, so he ripped off her pants.
This rumor is pure nonsense, and someone like Sun Dianying, let alone whether he will be attracted to beauty or not. Empress Dowager Cixi was already very old when she was buried, and even if she was well maintained, it was impossible to achieve the effect of modern medical beauty. Moreover, a person like Sun Dianying will not lack women around him, and he will not be hungry and thirsty enough to attack a corpse, unless he is a psychopath. So his reason for sneaking up cixi's pants first was simple—for money.
One of the reasons why Cixi was criticized by later generations was that her life was extremely luxurious, so the funerary items in her tomb were innumerable. Even the clothes she wore when she was buried were priceless treasures. According to records, the clothes Cixi wore when she was buried were sewn with special gold thread and decorated with precious stones and thousands of pearls. Even the shoes worn on the feet were made of silver. And Sun Dianying's first time to pick up Cixi's clothes can only prove that he knows Cixi's temperament and knows that with her extravagant style, whether it is the funerary goods in the tomb or the clothes she wears, it must be the best and most expensive!
However, even in modern times, the clothes of the dead are very obscure and disrespectful to the dead, and some people are still more taboo. Therefore, Sun Dianying should also be worried that his men would not touch Cixi's coffin out of obscurity, thus missing this wealth.
But for whatever reason, tomb robbery is extremely immoral. Especially this kind of royal tomb, which retains a large number of precious cultural relics, and the ancient tomb itself has a very high research value, such as their tomb robbers, when robbing the tomb, it will inevitably cause serious damage to the ancient tomb, and also have a very bad impact on the study of cultural relics.