As the saying goes: "If you want to be truly rich, you must live in an imperial family." It means that emperors are very rich, and even the burial objects after death are priceless. Therefore, there are many people who attack the emperor's tomb. During the Republic of China, the Dongling treasure theft case occurred that shocked the whole country. The protagonist of the
case is Sun Dianying . He has been a bandit since he was a child. In 1922, at the age of 33, he joined the army. Later, he led his troops to mutiny on the front line and formed a team of his own.
Sun Dianying believes that "whoever has breasts is a mother" and will follow whoever is more powerful. He has served as a subordinate of Feng Yuxiang and Zhang Zongchang. In 1928, Chiang Kai-shek launched the "Second Northern Expedition". He defected to Chiang Kai-shek and served as commander of the 12th Army of the Kuomintang.
However, Sun Dianying's team is a miscellaneous army and is not taken seriously. So he had to find a way to find money on his own. So, he set his sights on the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi in the Eastern Tomb of the Qing Dynasty.
There are countless treasures in Cixi's tomb, worth tens of millions of taels of silver. After Cixi's death, she put her beloved baby Night Pearl into her mouth. It was precisely because of this that the body of the Empress Dowager Cixi did not rot or stink. In Sun Dianying's own words, "It's like sleeping."
Unfortunately, Cixi’s tomb was stolen by the warlord Sun Dianying. Sun Dianying blew up Cixi's mausoleum under the guise of a military exercise. He led his soldiers to turn Cixi's tomb upside down. The treasures in Cixi's tomb were swept away, and even the clothes on her body were not spared. When people found Cixi, she was naked.
After the news that Cixi’s tomb was stolen, the whole country was in an uproar. At that time, he was staying in Tianjin. The abdicated emperor Puyi sent some people to pick up Cixi's body and planned to relocate it. The people who went to collect the bodies were frightened. What happened?
They found that Cixi had many white hairs growing on her body. There was a popular saying at that time that if white hair grows on a corpse, it means it will turn into a zombie. Could it be that Cixi is really going to become a zombie? Is she going to seek revenge on those who insulted her?
People at that time might really believe this, but we all know that those are all superstitious statements. Many people believe that after a person dies, some hair will still grow within a certain period of time. Although they don't know why, many people firmly believe in this view.
In fact, this is not the case. After death, it is not that hair will continue to grow, but as various functions of the human body cease, human cells will die, and the skin will shrink, but the grown hair will not shrink back, but will appear longer against the atrophied skin.
When Cixi was holding the luminous pearl in her mouth, her body was very intact, and there was no sign of shrinking. But after the thieves stole the bead, Cixi's body lost its protection and began to rot. As a result, white hair "grew", which frightened the restrained soldiers.
After hearing this, some people may laugh. Cixi lived a glorious life, but she never expected that she would end up like this. People who don't like Cixi will think that this is retribution for her. She was conservative and stubborn during her lifetime, ceded territory and paid compensation, and only cared about pleasure. In any case, one thing to understand is that it is not zombies seeking revenge, but a natural physiological phenomenon. Sometimes, when people are scared, they will think of some things that are not there and believe in some superstitious things. Science is still the most important.
