Cixi was a female ruler, and her life was legendary. Later generations in Cixi's coffin, found a special quilt, covered on her body, written with mysterious scriptures, according to experts, the Qing Dynasty princes and ministers, after death, will use this quilt to cover the coffin, why Cixi and the princes and ministers died, the place where the quilt was covered is different? Why is that? Let me reveal the secrets to you.
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In November 1908, Cixi died in the Yiluan Hall, and according to her will, she buried her bones into the Putuo Yuding Dongling Tomb in Tangshan, where she had planned to sleep for ten thousand years, but perhaps she did not expect that she only lay in a gorgeous coffin, slept peacefully for about 20 years, and was dug out of the ground by a group of warlords, and the grave was dug up to the sky, and the gold and silver treasures of the funeral were even more gone. Who is so bold? He is the famous "cultural relics thief" Sun Dianying.
In the spring of 1928, Sun Dianying came to Jixian County to camp, and Sun Dianying had already extended the rare jewelry of the Qing Dynasty Dongling by three feet, so he resolutely ordered that the Dongling Tomb be excavated at all costs. It was not until July of that year that they finally found the entrance to the mausoleum palace, and after using explosives to explode, the treasure inside was looted by Sun Dianying in a wreck, and Cixi was covered with a quilt, which did not attract Sun Dianying's attention at all, and was casually discarded aside.
In fact, this quilt, but there is a big beginning, its name is called "Dravidian Quilt", the seemingly complex pattern on the quilt, not the pattern, but in Sanskrit, Tibetan writing of the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas Mantra Sutra, the Buddhist family believes that these scriptures are combined together, with indescribable divine power, no matter who, as long as at the end of life, covered with these verses of the quilt, you can get Pudu, go to the Blissful World of the Buddha's house.
During the Qing Dynasty, the Dravidian Sutra was a "treasure" that money could not buy, because these scriptures were powerful and powerful, and the emperor strictly ordered that no one should use the Dravidian sutra without the emperor's permission, otherwise there would be no forgiveness. Such a severe punishment, even if the rich man with great wealth wants to secretly bury The Gadrani, he must weigh the pros and cons and assess the risks, because once the Qing court learns of this crime, being pulled out and whipped is an "appetizer" operation.
After the death of the princes and ministers of the Qing Dynasty, their families will submit an application to the emperor at the first time, hoping to get the "Dravidian Quilt" given by the Emperor, but the Emperor is not any official will give this glory, moreover, even if the Emperor gives the "Imperial Gift", it is just a blank check, in addition to the Prince and Fujin can get the reward of the physical scripture, other officials still have to pay their own pockets to buy, this kind of quilt is quite expensive, but as long as the ministers have conditions at home, they will still make it. After all, this is the last "honor" that a person can get.
It is touching that most people's Dravidian quilts are not covered on the body of the dead, but on the lid of the coffin, in fact, this is also easy to understand, the emperor is very reasonable, it is impossible to approve these folds in time, but the burial of the dead is something that cannot wait, especially in the middle of summer, there was no cooling facility at that time, once the body deteriorated, it was all over. Therefore, at that time, it was generally necessary to carry out the burial first, wait until the holy decree of the holy reward came down, and then put the Dravidian sutra on the lid of the coffin.
Today, the Dravidian sutra is difficult to find, first, because the dynasty has long gone, and the quilt has long faded its aura; second, the Dravidian sutra is buried in the tomb and has lost the protection of the coffin, so it is difficult to preserve it in its entirety. The quilt of Empress Dowager Cixi is very precious and has become the treasure of the museum.
As part of traditional Chinese culture, funeral culture also needs us to understand, although today's society, there are no longer those complex rules and exquisite, but the Concept of "Seeing Death as Life" is also a reverence for life, a responsibility for life and respect for destiny.
Wenlan Hairun Studio Editor-in-Chief Wen Xiucai, this article is written by: Special History Writer: Jin Xiaozhou