What is the value of Empress Dowager Cixi's funerary objects?

Cixi is a famous "luxury" queen mother in history. She loved pearls, agates, precious stones, jade articles, gold and silver vessels and other treasures before her death. After her death, the treasure buried in the coffin was worth as much as 200 million taels of silver. The abandoned quilt in Cixi Mausoleum, decorated with 6,000 pearls, is amazing-she is not an emperor, but she plays with two generations of emperors in her palm; She is just a woman, but let the phoenix fly high above the dragon; Her mausoleum surpassed her husband's and was the most exquisite in the eastern Qing Dynasty. However, what she didn't expect was that it was this exquisiteness that made her grave stolen and her soul restless after her death. She is the famous Empress Dowager Cixi who ruled China for fifty years. Value of funerary objects 1 100 million taels of silver. Cixi is a famous "luxury" Empress Dowager Cixi in history. Before her death, she loved pearls, agates, precious stones, jade articles, gold and silver utensils and other treasures. The value of the treasures buried in the coffin was as high as 120 million silver. Li was the most trusted eunuch of Empress Dowager Cixi, and he was one of the participants when Empress Dowager Cixi buried the treasure in the coffin after her death. Li and his nephew's Notes on Aiyuexuan recorded in detail the types, quantity, location and value of Cixi's funerary objects. In Cixi's coffin, the bottom was covered with a 7-inch-thick gold-woven cushion, which was inlaid with pearls 12604, 85 precious stones and 203 white jade. The brocade mattress is covered with a layer of silk mattress embroidered with lotus flowers, and there are 2400 pearls on the silk mattress. Covered with Cixi is a gold woven Dalagni quilt, which is made of bright yellow satin and twisted gold thread, with 25,000 words of Dalagni scriptures on it. The quilt is decorated with 820 pearls. After the grave robbers took the pearls, they abandoned this priceless quilt in the ground. 1979 discovered it when cleaning the underground palace. The quilt is also covered with 6000 pearls, which is also priceless. When Cixi died, she wore a crested phoenix inlaid with pearls and precious stones. A pearl in the crown weighs four taels and is as big as an egg. At that time, the value of 10 was more than two thousand silver, and the value of rockhopper can be imagined. With a pearl in his mouth, it is said that hair can be seen within 100 step at night; There are three beads hanging around the neck, two are pearls and one is ruby; Wearing a gold silk skirt, embroidered beaded coat, kicking boots, holding Yu Lian. Beside him, there are jade Buddha statues, as well as various gems and corals. It is said that when the treasure was buried, undertaker found a hole in the coffin, so he poured 4 liters of pearls and 2,200 pieces of red, blue and emerald. These "fill-in-the-blank" jewels alone are worth 2.23 million taels of silver. It is said that the most precious funerary object in Cixi's coffin belongs to the Nine Linglong Pagoda carved by white jade, which is said to be a "smoke stream". Legend has it that there are four jadeite watermelons in Cixi's coffin, two with white skin and yellow seeds and two with green skin and white seeds, which are worth 6 million taels of silver. It is reported that the treasures stolen from Cixi Mausoleum were either used for bribery by Sun Dianying and others, or sold, destroyed or even smuggled out of the country, and most of them are still missing. It is said that in order to escape guilt, Sun Dianying once gave Song Meiling the Pearl of the Night, which Cixi called. There is a jade cabbage in the National Palace Museum in Taipei, which is the treasure of its town hall, and it is probably the lost thing of Cixi Mausoleum. But with the passage of time, no one can tell where these stolen treasures went. After many inquiries, it was decided to excavate the tomb of Cixi during the Qianlong period (1928). Sun Dianying, commander of the National Revolutionary Army 12 Army stationed near Dongling, Zunhua, Hebei, took the idea of Dongling and sent his teacher Tan Wenjiang to inquire about the situation. Tan Wenjiang learned through the mouth of a eunuch who had served Cixi that a large number of rare treasures were buried in the tomb of Cixi in Ding Dong Mausoleum, and copied from the eunuch "Notes on Aiyuexuan, Treasure Map of Cixi" and "After Filial Piety Burial, Clothes Delivery Edition, and Clothes Appreciation". After finding out the situation, Tan Wenjiang put forward the suggestion of excavating the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi in Sun Dianying. On July 1928 and 1 day, Sun Dianying ordered Tan Wenjiang to strictly observe all the main roads in Dongling and prevent others from entering. After driving the troops of two brigades into Dongling, he began to explore the entrance to the underground palace, and planned to leave Dongling on the grounds of changing the defense after the robbery, blaming the incident on bandits. After blasting the underground gate, they successfully entered the mausoleum of Cixi. After some twists and turns, the soldiers who robbed the tomb found the entrance to the underground palace of Cixi. Entering the ancient cave gate from under the Ming building, at the end of the corridor is a wall with steel bars cast, and the entrance to the underground palace is under this "King Kong Wall". From July 4th to July 10, guns kept coming from Dongling. The locals thought it was a war and no one dared to go out. But what they didn't expect was that the two mausoleums had been exploded. The soldiers who entered the underground palace of Cixi did not expect that they entered the main tomb very smoothly and saw the coffins and buried treasures effortlessly. The main tomb of Cixi is a stone chamber paved entirely with white marble, with a white marble platform in the middle, that is, the "treasure bed". Above the stone platform, there is a huge coffin, which is Zigong of Empress Dowager Cixi. On the two stone piers on both sides, there are incense treasures and album pages recording Cixi posthumous title. The lid of the coffin was opened, and Empress Dowager Cixi looked lifelike. How did the grave robbers open Cixi's coffin? This used to be a mystery. It was not until many years later that a book called Miscellanies of Shizaitang revealed the memory of a company commander allegedly involved in grave robbery that the mystery was solved. According to the company commander, in order to pry open the inner coffin of Cixi, the radiant gold-painted outer coffin was smashed by bandits' knives and axes. After the robbers removed the cut wood, they found a coffin painted red. Officials worried that the knife and axe would damage the treasure in the coffin, and ordered the bandits to pry it open carefully with a knife. "At that time, the coffin was opened and the glow was full. Every soldier was holding a big flashlight, and the light was taken away, and everyone was frightened. Looking down at the coffin, the Queen Mother was lifelike, with white and hairy fingers ... There was no jewelry in the coffin, the big one was taken away by the officials, and the small one was put in the soldier's pocket. So the commander ordered to take off the dragon robe and find the jewels with him. " Cixi's mausoleum building can be called gold, wood and stone. Cixi's mausoleum is the most exquisite one in the Qing tombs, and it can be called the golden wood and stone. Jin Linglong: According to the Qing History Draft, more than 4,592 Liang Zijin Ye were used in the three halls alone. More than 2,400 golden dragons were painted inside and outside the hall, and 64 pillars were wrapped in semi-stereoscopic bronze gilded dragons. The five bats and thousands of words on the wall are all gold. Although this real glory was looted by grave robbers, today we can still see the luxury remnants and fragments of "the only gold". "Mujue" refers to the fact that the beams and Fang of the three main halls are all made of top-grade wood. This kind of wood with hard wood and fine texture is now on the verge of extinction, and its value can be called "inch wood and inch gold". Cixi's coffin is made of precious golden nanmu. "Stone essence" means that all the stones in Cixi's mausoleum are made of fine white marble, and the stone carving pattern is unique. On the white marble railing of Long 'en Hall, the patterns of "flying in front of the phoenix" and "chasing the dragon" are carved with relief techniques. These 76 pillars are engraved with auspicious peaks. Below the phoenix are two dragons carved inside and outside the pillar, forming a unique shape of "one phoenix presses two dragons", symbolizing the supreme power of Cixi before her death. Phoenix Long Dan stone carving in front of the temple is a treasure in stone carving. After Yuling was robbed, the bones were everywhere, so the queen had no choice but to rebury a coffin. When the Qianlong Imperial Mausoleum was stolen from Cixi Mausoleum, it was also bombed by Han, the battalion commander of Sun Dianying. What the grave robbers didn't expect was that the underground passage during the Qianlong period was full of water. After a long time, the water was four or five feet deep, and the passage was steep and slippery, so the soldiers who rushed into the underground passage were caught off guard. Many people slipped in the stagnant water and died of fright and suffocation. Compared with the tomb of Cixi, which was stolen at the same time, what happened to Qianlong and the Five Empresses in Yuling was even more tragic. After the two tombs were stolen, the person in charge of the aftermath of the Qing Dynasty entered the Yuling underground palace and found the bones scattered all over the place. Except for the body of Emperor Jiaqing's mother, Empress Xiaoyi, who was intact, others could not tell which was the emperor's and which was the empresses', so they had to bury the bones in the coffin. After the bones in the two tombs were collected again, the Yuling Mausoleum and Ding Dong Mausoleum were closed. It was not until the founding of New China that the Qing Dongling Management Office reopened two tombs and cleaned the underground palace. Emperor Qianlong's Yuling is called the underground Buddhist temple. Yuling was built when Emperor Qianlong was alive. Although the funerary objects have been looted by Sun Dianying, the stone carvings in the underground palace are still breathtaking. Yuling is known as "underground Buddhist temple" and "treasure house of stone carving art". On the walls and ceilings of the underground palace, statues of Buddha and scriptures are carved everywhere, like a treasure house of stone carving art. Although the styles and shapes of statues of Buddha are different, they are all lifelike. Above the "Golden Voucher", where the coffins of Gan Long and two Empresses were placed, three Buddha flowers were carved, and the flower hearts were composed of Sanskrit and Buddha statues. There are also many scriptures engraved around the golden coupon, with about 30 thousand words.