As soon as Sun Dien Anh flipped the pearl blanket, the group of grave robbers scattered when they saw Empress Dowager Cixi “resurrected”.
In 1928, a group of grave robbers led by Sun Dien Anh entered Thanh Dong Lang, Tuan Hoa, Hebei province, 125km east of Beijing to plunder the treasures in the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi. Knowing this is Tu Hi’s grave, the band of bandits believed that they would collect many treasures, but the unexpected happened when they pulled the lid of the coffin, causing them to fly away.
Tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi.
That year, the east door of her tomb was sealed with solid granite, the engineer team of Sun Dien Dien could not break it, so the lord was angry, sent his soldiers to use dynamite to destroy the tomb. . In front of the mausoleum is a coffin made of extremely expensive virgin wood, in addition to gilded paint and decorated with many delicate jewels.
Coffin of Empress Dowager Cixi.
The group of grave robbers daringly opened the coffin lid, all were stunned, and their souls flew away when Empress Dowager Cixi was still lying on a golden silk brocade mattress inlaid with thousands of black pearls.
Sun Dien Anh and his accomplices plundered all the precious stones placed around Tu Hi’s body, including: Buddha statue made of gold jade, coral, precious stones, rubies and emeralds, the Empress Dowager’s hat was attached with a pearl. The size of an egg is worth an estimated 10 million taels of silver.
In Cixi’s mouth holds a pearl, it is said that it can glow in the night from beyond 100 steps; on his neck he wears 3 chains, of which 2 are made of pearls and 1 are made of pink gems; dressed in vestments woven of golden silk; hand holding a jade lotus branch.
In addition, next to the body, there are also burial items such as gold and jade Buddha statues; items of coral, precious stones of all kinds. It is said that after removing the burial items, seeing that the coffin still had a gap, the burial officials added 4 boxes of pearls and 2,200 pieces of red, blue, and green stones. This “filling in the blank” treasure alone is worth 2.23 million taels of white silver.
At this time, Ton Dien Anh noticed the jade cushion covering the body of the famous empress dowager, the blanket was meticulously made by craftsmen when embroidered with 25,000 words about the Da La Ni sutra with golden threads. with 820 pearls. The group of tomb robbers took all the pearls and left the blanket that covered the body of Empress Dowager Cixi in a corner of the tomb.
This precious blanket was accidentally forgotten by grave robbers while plundering wealth in the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi.
When removing the blanket, Sun Dien Anh did not know that his actions had caused the old Buddha to “return from the dead”.
The climax was that the Queen Mother’s eyes suddenly opened about, causing Ton Dien Anh and the soldiers to panic, they fled for their lives because of extreme fear.
Sun Dien Anh regained his composure, he used the queen’s mouth to take away the nightingale pearl, which was worth a citadel, then stuffed the black donkey’s hooves into the mouth of Empress Dowager Cixi so that she could no longer move and then ordered the soldiers to continue. looting of wealth.
The scary thing is, as soon as the night pearl was taken out of the queen’s mouth, the intact grandmother suddenly dropped her eye sockets, her cheeks rose up, her red scalp suddenly turned white and then purple. and finally black. In just a few strings, the old Buddha had shriveled up and changed color.
Later, the reason why Empress Dowager Cixi came back to life was explained that, before she died, the eunuchs used medicinal herbs to cover her body to embalm the body with the coffin closed, so it was isolated from the air. helping her to remain in the same state as if she were just sleeping.
Moreover, when Ton Dien Anh opened the coffin lid, the air flooded in, causing the whole body to be diapered in just a few tens of seconds . About her eyelids opening is a natural response when the muscles suddenly contract in response to oxygen.
However, there are too many mysteries surrounding the story of Empress Dowager Cixi!