In November 1908, Cixi felt extremely ill, and time was running out, so she ordered Li Lianying to bury her beloved Ye Mingzhu with her after her death. On the 15th of that month, Cixi passed away in the Hall of Yiluan, Li Lianying followed the wishes of Lafayette and put Ye Mingzhu into Cixi's mouth. Many people don't know where this priceless night pearl is now living.
"Dongling Bandit", the notorious warlord blasted the tomb of Cixi in the Dongling Tomb of Qing Dynasty, and the gold and silver jewels were looted, and the night pearl in the mouth of the old Buddha Cixi naturally fell to the sun. The hand of Dianying.
Quoting Sun Dianying’s original words: “She (Cixi) has a night pearl in her mouth, separated into two pieces. When closed, it is a round ball. The separation is transparent and there is no light when closed. There is a green cold light, and the hair can be seen within a hundred steps at night. I heard that this baby can not melt the body. It is no wonder that after Cixi’s coffin was split, Lafayette looked like sleeping, only seeing the wind, his face turned black, and his clothes It’s a little tricky.”
The theft of such a rare pearl caused an uproar at the time. In order to protect himself, Sun Dianying entrusted the army chief Dai Li to give this priceless treasure to Chiang Kai-shek’s wife Song Meiling. Soong Meiling was delighted to be the jewel of the night, and she carried it with her everywhere, even inlaid on her shoes as ornaments.
Soong Meiling lived in the United States as an elderly person, and this night pearl also came to the United States. It was finally purchased by the American oil tycoon Rockefeller family and became the private collection of the American rich and kept it in the Rockefeller family private museum. This historic night pearl has been valued by cultural relics experts at 800 million. It is no wonder that the Rockefeller family has always refused to return the night pearl to our country. It has to be said that the loss of the night pearl of Empress Cixi overseas is undoubtedly a huge loss for my country's cultural relics.
The night pearl in her mouth when the Empress Dowager Cixi was buried is actually inlaid on the phoenix crown of the Empress Dowager Cixi together with the other eight. The whereabouts of the other eight night pearls are also legendary. Have a chat.
It is said that the Empress Dowager Cixi’s phoenix crown is extremely luxurious, surrounded by nine golden phoenixes, and each phoenix holds a priceless night jewel in its mouth. The largest of these is the rare one that we have said before. treasure. The remaining four are inlaid on the phoenix crown and buried along with Cixi in the Eastern Tomb of Qing Dynasty.
A friend wants to ask, where are the other four? According to "Collection of Literary History", in June 1900 AD, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing. Empress Dowager Cixi did not allow the people to fight back against the aggressors, but wanted to calm the people by bribing the powers. She planned to take four Ye Mingzhu from the Phoenix Crown to give to foreigners, begging them to withdraw from Beijing. At that time, the chief eunuch Li Lianying was not by her side, so she sent a court lady surnamed Wang to the Ximen Hotel and handed it over to someone sent by Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang is in charge of negotiating with foreigners to retreat. At that time, the court lady was only 17 years old. Empress Dowager Cixi warned her to be careful all the way, if she loses her mind, she will teach her to fall to the ground. Seeing that Bao Bao became wealthy, the palace lady cleverly got rid of the guards and hid Ye Mingzhu into the folk.
In 1964, in the home of a worker surnamed Wu in Xi'an, the owner was performing sanitation and took apart a pillow that had been discolored for many years for cleaning. He accidentally found four pillows hidden in the middle of the pillow. Longan is a large, shining bead. Experts in cultural relics found that these were the four night pearls on the long-lost Empress Dowager Cixi's phoenix crown.
It turns out that after the liberation, Master Wu has always adopted a helpless grandma Wang, treating her like a mother. When she was dying in 1963, she gave the little pillow, and stopped breathing without explaining the secret. This grandma Wang is the maid of the surname Wang who escaped with the orb. By coincidence, these four precious night pearls reappeared in the sky.
The other four were missing after Sun Dianying exploded the tomb of Cixi. Where it goes is still a mystery.
