But her coffin was buried one year after she died. Moreover, on the day of Cixi's funeral, her coffin smelled foul, and some people even saw her coffin dripping blood. What was going on?

1908, on November 15, 1908, the day after the death of Emperor Guangxu, the noble Empress Dowager Cixi of the Qing Dynasty died of illness in Zhongnanhai.

But her coffin was buried one year after she died. And on the day of the funeral of , Cixi's , her coffin emitted a foul smell. Some people even saw her coffin dripping blood. What was going on?

Why did Cixi's funeral delay for a year

In just two days, Qing , one after another, lost two extremely noble people. After hearing about Emperor Guangxu's death, Cixi, who had been raising her old age in Zhongnanhai, slowly let go of the heart hanging in her heart and arranged her affairs after her. , 3 years old, Puyi , came to inherit the throne.

After Cixi arranged everything she paid attention to, she looked at the child Puyi in her arms, so she took her last breath and handed over the Qing Dynasty to a young Puyi.

According to the etiquette system at that time, although Cixi was the empress dowager, Emperor Guangxu was the emperor of the Qing Dynasty after all, so the ministers decided to organize Emperor Guangxu's funeral first.

The funeral of the king of a country is very solemn and solemn. The whole country mourned him. The funeral ceremony held was also quite complicated. Moreover, after the funeral of Emperor Guangxu, the following was the Emperor Xuantong Puyi's throne ceremony.

In this way, Cixi's funeral has been delayed , and Cixi's body was placed in the coffin. In order to keep the corpse from rotting quickly, the officials responsible for guarding Cixi's body used a large amount of ice cubes of around Cixi's coffin to keep the temperature of the coffin at a suitable low temperature.

The weather is hot and the body of Cixi begins to rot

Around Cixi's body, although many ice cubes were placed to maintain the temperature, the funeral of Emperor Guangxu and the funeral of Emperor Xuantong Puyi's ascension ceremony took too long , causing Cixi's body at this time to rot , and emitted bursts of foul smell of that were unpleasant.

In order to cover up the stench caused by corruption, officials sprinkled spices on Cixi's body . The spices are all good spices worth a thousand gold purchased by the palace.

But Cixi has passed away, and there are inevitably people who cheat and cheat, who have changed their spices and replaced them with ordinary inferior spices.

As the weather became hotter, Cixi's body became more and more serious. The stench made it difficult for the spice to cover up the stench emitted by the body.

and even when Cixi was in the funeral, those who were watching could smell the corrupt smell of the corpse through the layers of coffins .

It is said that Cixi's coffin was carried all the way, and there were bloodstains wherever passed along the way.

After reaching the Dongling, officials buried Cixi in the underground palace. Cixi's favorite eunuch Li Lianying was very curious about why Cixi's coffin had bleeding.

After all, more than a year after death, the blood in the body had long been solidified, so Li Lianying boldly opened Cixi's coffin. After uncovering the lid of Cixi's heavy coffin, everyone found dozens of dead rats on Cixi's body, and the dark red blood was seeping at this time.

The mouse should have smelled the corruption of Cixi's corpse, and then nipped into Cixi's coffin and ate the rotten corpse of Cixi.

However, Cixi's body was sprinkled with spices many times, and the spices contained some poisonous substances, so they poisoned the rats that were eating carrion in the coffin.

The rats were poisoned to death, so blood oozed out of their mouths. Because of the large number of mice, their blood flowed out through the coffin, and blood leaked out of Cixi's coffin, which was a horrifying event.

After Li Lianying cleaned all the mice, she resealed the coffin of Cixi. At this point, Cixi's funeral ended.

The coffin of Cixi has countless treasures

Cixi was very particular about her food, clothing, housing and transportation, and she was luxurious and luxurious.Therefore, she had already prepared to use top-quality golden nanmu and as her coffin wood. At the beginning, just transporting the wood, it took a lot of manpower and material resources.

In addition, many rare treasures that she loved were placed in Cixi's coffin, which consumed a lot of money and collected several pearls covered the entire coffin. It is said that when Cixi died, she was stuffed with a large night pearl .

But what is unexpected is that just a few years after the death of Cixi, the Qing Dynasty was overthrown by Revolution and the last feudal dynasty in China was destroyed.

20 years after the death of Cixi, the appearance of a person broke the long-lasting tranquility of the Longling Underground Palace. The famous thief warlord Sun Dianying , came to the Dongling Underground Palace to rob the tomb.

It is said that Sun Dianying looked through all the coffins in the underground palace, which were less luxurious than Cixi's coffins.

In addition to the several pearls covered with Cixi's coffin, Sun Dianying took away all of them, and his soldiers also took away many treasures.

and Cixi's favorite pair of " Jade Watermelon " . Sun Dianying was stunned when she saw such a rare jade watermelon.

These treasures were all the people's ointments that Cixi ordered the Qing government to exploit the people to satisfy her extravagant enjoyment, and she was plundered to nothing after her death.

In order to take away all the treasures in Cixi's coffin, Sun Dianying asked someone to carry Cixi's body out of the coffin. After Sun Dianying's troops snatched the treasures, Cixi's body was still discarded outside.

Cixi's wishful thinking during her lifetime was completely broken after her death. Under her incompetent power, she brought the Qing Dynasty into abyss step by step. The people of the Qing Dynasty suffered the most.