Empress Dowager Cixi is the most extravagant and lustful woman in Chinese history. She emptied the treasury of the Qing Dynasty by herself, and enjoyed all the glory and wealth throughout her life. So what is her life like? Why did the coffin smell so when she was buried ? Is it really that will remain in disrepute forever and ?
Cixi
Eating is particular
Everyone must have liked to go to a series of banquets such as engagement banquets, wedding banquets, full moon banquets, etc. with the elders in the family when they were young. At that time, I felt that a banquet with more than 20 dishes was already a lot.
Coincidentally, Cixi also likes to eat banquets, but don't get me wrong, what she eats is not an ordinary banquet, it is a full banquet of Manchu and Han Dynasties .
Cixi had to eat 08 dishes in just one meal, two meals a day, , and she only had one bite of each dish, and even some dishes would not even move, it was just a table for eating. You can't even see at a glance.
And she didn't even need to stand up to pick up the vegetables. The palace maids eunuchs fed them to her mouth in person. Moreover, Cixi was very particular about eating. Every dish was a delicacy, such as abalone, lobster, bird's nest, shark's fin, and deer antlers. Everything from to bear paw is available.
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Although Cixi ate so many delicious delicacies every day, she always loved two dishes, which could be said to be eaten every time. If she forgot one day, the imperial chefs would be in trouble. One of
is " beggar chicken " . It looks like an ordinary dish, but it was accidentally eaten by Empress Cixi on her way to escape when the world was in turmoil.
On the way to escape, there was a lack of supplies, so Cixi naturally could not eat well. This "Beggar's Chicken" was tender and juicy. Cixi fell in love with this dish as soon as she ate it, so after returning to the palace, she ordered people to make it every day. This "beggars chicken" .
And there is also a dish called "Tiger Dan in Clear Soup" . Among them, "tiger pill" refers to the testicles of the Siberian tiger . Every time it is done, a male Siberian tiger must be killed. Therefore, the price of the Siberian tiger testicles at that time can be said to have risen to a sky-high price. Now you know the Siberian tiger How come it is on the verge of extinction?
Some people even bluntly said that if the Empress Dowager Cixi lived a few more years, the Siberian tigers would most likely become extinct early.
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Imperial dining room
Let’s talk about Cixi’s Imperial dining room. There are more than 1370 people and more than 1100 stoves in the Imperial dining room. The imperial chefs in the Imperial dining room can cook more than 4000 dishes and 400 kinds of snacks. .
In order to satisfy Cixi's mouth, the imperial chefs have to constantly research new dishes every day. If Cixi gets tired of eating, her life may be lost..
Cixi spent so much manpower and material resources just to have a meal, which is not a luxury, so the people have it. Cixi's meal is the common people's three years of food..
Do you think Cixi was so extravagant only in the palace? You couldn't be more wrong.
Cixi's car was also equipped with an imperial dining room when she traveled. There were more than 50 stoves alone. Each stove was equipped with an imperial kitchen , and each imperial kitchen only cooked two dishes . It can be seen from this that Cixi really cannot endure any hardship.
Many people may be asking, Cixi ate so many dishes every day, and only took one bite of each dish, should all the rest be thrown away?
The answer is no. Cixi's leftovers are called "Zheluocai". Every day, people transport these "Zheluocai" out of the palace and sell them to some civilians .
What is surprising is that these leftovers are not only very popular, but many people queue up in long lines to buy them, which is simply ridiculous.
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Likes to eat watermelon and smell the fruit
Cixi is not only particular about eating, she is also particular about eating watermelon, Cixi likes to eat watermelon , but she only eats the flesh of the watermelon, which is the sweetest in the middle. That part of , eating only one tooth of watermelon, can eat more than 200 watermelons in just one day.
And Cixi likes to smell the fruity fragrance of apples, pears and other fruits . In her room, the fragrance of these fruits should always be present.
As we all know, if you want to fill a room with the fragrance of fruits, which cannot be achieved by just relying on one fruit or a plate of fruits, then you need to put a large amount of fruits in the room.
And the fruit itself is very perishable , so it takes two or three days to replace the fruits in the room with fresh ones, sometimes even once a day..
According to statistics, Cixi consumed 158,000 apples, 111,700 autumn pears, 77,000 Tang pears, and 53,000 red pear in one year alone.
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Taking apples as an example, even if a person eats apples for three meals a day, he may be able to eat so many apples in a lifetime, which can be described as extravagant to the extreme.
If you think this is the most extravagant thing about Cixi , then you are totally wrong.
Even the "Palace" is a national treasure
Speaking of "Palace" many people may think that it is the palace where the emperor or concubines live, but this is not the case. In the Qing Dynasty, toilets were collectively referred to as "Palace" ".
Because there are no toilets in the entire palace , people in the palace will use the "palace room". If charcoal ash is sprinkled inside, it will keep the inside clean and there will be no odor .
And Cixi's "Palace" is not just as simple as toilet . This "Palace" can be called a national treasure. The barrel body alone is made of sandalwood . The "Palace" is The overall image is of a big gecko, with two large ruby eyes, toilet paper in its mouth, and a lot of fragrant wood chips in its belly.
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This can ensure that when using the toilet, no peculiar smell will be emitted from the "palace" , and this is something that even modern toilets cannot easily achieve.
However, although this "palace" is luxurious, in Cixi's view it can be reused anyway. You may not know that in Cixi's eyes even socks are disposable items .
Disposable socks
Cixi Just wearing socks for a year costs the annual income of a county. Some people may want to ask, how expensive is a pair of socks? How could you spend so much money?
The socks Cixi wore were not ordinary socks. Not only did she require the socks to be made of pure white soft satin, she also required embroidery on the socks, and she only wore one pair of socks for one day.
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Cixi once said to his maids: You can't be wronged at all about shoes and socks, if they are slightly inappropriate, your whole body will feel uncomfortable.
Therefore, people who are familiar with satin should know that the material does not have any flexibility , and it is not suitable to be large or small.
It takes seven or eight days for each craftsman to make a pair of . There are more than ,000 craftsmen who make socks for Cixi alone. Therefore, just making socks for Cixi can cost one County revenue is not exaggerated at all.
Not only that, Cixi was able to use 00 towels just by taking a bath, and each towel had to be embroidered with dragon patterns embroidered with gold thread, and they were thrown away after use and would never be reused. .
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But Cixi 's extravagance is far more than that. If the above cannot shock you, then what she does next is not just as simple as prodigal , It can be called and .
The act of defeating the country
Cixi In order to have fun, she even misappropriated the military expenditures of the Beiyang Navy to build the Summer Palace . A total of 30 million taels of silver were spent . At that time, the most advanced cruisers were built by the British and German It is .25 million taels of silver , which means that a total of 20 of the most advanced cruisers can be purchased.
So much so that the Beiyang Navy had insufficient military expenditures, ships were in disrepair , and artillery shells were also shoddy , which later directly led to the Beiyang Fleet in " The Sino-Japanese War of 1894 " was completely annihilated , and signed the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" which was humiliating and humiliating the country.
If Cixi had used all the money to develop national strength, then the Qing Dynasty might not have been conquered by the foreign powers, and such a period of shameful history would have been eliminated in Chinese history.
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And now in the Summer Palace, there is also a luxury yacht that symbolizes national humiliation.
This yacht is called "Yonghe" . It is Cixi's royal yacht. is specially used for Cixi to play in the Summer Palace. However, its birth came at a great price.
Ten years after the "Sino-Japanese War of 1894" , Japan and Russia launched a war in the northeastern region of our country in order to compete for the interests of the Liaodong Peninsula and North Korea .
However, Japan and Russia captured Chinese people as coolies. It is unknown how many people died innocently and tragically due to the war, and even hundreds of thousands of people were displaced .
However, the Qing government forgot the shame of the "Sino-Japanese War of 1894" . While announcing its neutrality, it supported 0 million kilograms of salt to Japan.
The yacht named "Yonghe" was specially given to Cixi for her daily travels in order to thank Cixi for her generosity.
Yonghe No.
Since the parts were all produced in Japan and needed to be transported to the Summer Palace for assembly, Japan sent more than 60 craftsmen. In order to entertain these craftsmen, Cixi also spent a huge sum of 5,000 taels of silver.
After the yacht was successfully launched, Cixi personally named it "Yonghe" . It can be seen that Cixi really wanted to reconcile with Japan and was not just talking about it casually.
Funerary objects
Cixi When she was alive She was extravagant and lustful Even after she died, she wished she could take away all the wealth in the world, as if all the wealth in the world belonged to her. Let us take a look at Cixi What are the funerary objects of and ?
The bottom of the coffin is covered with a quilt made of gold wire and precious stones. Because Cixi loved pearls most during her lifetime, the quilt was inlaid with 2604 pearls.
Not only pearls, but also 85 sapphires , two huge emeralds , 203 tourmalines and white jade . And because Cixi liked to eat watermelons most during her lifetime, there was one in the coffin. emerald watermelon .
And this emerald watermelon was worth 5 million taels of silver in the Qing Dynasty at that time. Now it is a priceless treasure . I hope that when Cixi reaches the underworld, she will not lose it after just one bite.
Jade Watermelon
According to statistics, the total value of all the treasures in the entire coffin exceeds 50 million taels of silver . Although it sounds incredible, in 1928, Sun Dianying, commander of the Twelfth Army of the National Revolutionary Army, personally confirmed it Sun Dianying Got this.
Sun Dianying not only stole Cixi's tomb, looted all the gold and silver treasures, but also resold all the funerary objects and bought a lot of arms.
After Sun Dianying looted Cixi's tomb, even stripped Cixi of all her clothes , leaving only a pair of underwear. also threw her body into the wilderness and whipped her body .
Cixi committed many crimes in her life. Not only was she extravagant and lustful, she also imprisoned Emperor Guangxu and monopolized the government herself, making the people miserable.
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She should have vigorously developed her national power to resist foreign enemies, but she allowed the whole world to worship one person, which caused the Qing Dynasty to be riddled with holes and become even weaker. It became a soft persimmon in the hands of other countries, and everyone wanted to pinch it. one time.
During her reign, Cixi not only signed many unequal treaties such as the "Treaty of Xin Chou" and "Treaty of Shimonoseki", which were humiliating and humiliating the country, but also made China a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. The life and death of the people and the life and death of the soldiers were regarded as nothing.
In the "Sino-Japanese War" , there were countless heroic souls like Deng Shichang who gave their lives. However, 0 years later, , Cixi planned to reconcile with Japan, which was waging a war with Russia on our territory, and let those who sacrificed their lives Heroic Soul has become a complete joke.
But after her death, she was still greedy and wanted to take away all the wealth. In the end, she ended up with her coffin destroyed and her body thrown away. This may be the way of heaven and reincarnation.
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was filled with stench after death
On November 14, 1908, Emperor Guangxu passed away, but on the next day, November 15, Cixi also followed Emperor Guangxu to meet his ancestors.
According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty at that time, the emperor could not be buried at the same time as the Queen Mother. This troubled the courtiers, so after discussion, they decided to hold the funeral of Emperor Guangxu first. Although Emperor Guangxu had no real power, he still had it. emperor.
But regarding Emperor Guangxu's funeral , the courtiers were obviously not very concerned about it, and some were even perfunctory. In total, it didn't take long to bury Emperor Guangxu.
Emperor Guangxu
Cixi was different. She had already begun to prepare her own funeral. Not only did she prepare countless precious burial objects, she even had a huge mausoleum.
But because Cixi died so hastily, the mausoleum had not yet been built when she died, so it took a full year after the funeral for her to be buried.
But during the burial, something strange happened. The entire funeral procession emitted bursts of stench, and blood oozed out of the coffin.
At that time, some people said that it was because Empress Dowager Cixi spent her whole life enjoying glory and wealth, making the people of the world miserable. This meant that she had brought disaster to the country and the people and would be infamy for thousands of years. , but this statement was obviously unscientific.
As for the specific reason, it is most likely because , the journey from the palace to the mausoleum is very long , and the coffin used by Cixi was made of the best golden nanmu , weighing several tons, or even It takes one to two hundred strong men to take turns lifting .
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And at that time, there were tens of thousands of people in the funeral procession. The whole journey was 120 kilometers. It took several days to walk alone. Tens of thousands of people were sweating profusely every day, and did not shower for several days. The smell that comes out is terrifying enough just thinking about it.
As for the blood that seeped out of the coffin, it was because Cixi's body had been left for too long, which caused the corpse to smell bad after it rotted. In order to cover up the smell, a lot of spices were placed in it, but These spices attract many rats.
But because these spices are poisonous themselves, and at the time of the funeral, everyone sealed the coffin so that the hungry mice could only eat the spices, so all the mice inside all bled to death . Over time, the blood It seeped out from the cracks in the coffin.
Although Cixi has indeed been notorious for thousands of years, we still need to believe in science , not to listen to biased beliefs, and to answer these anecdotes in a more scientific way.
