The whereabouts of the Cixi Night Pearl have been ascertained and is now in the hands of the tycoon
As we all know, in the late Qing Dynasty, the country has lagged very behind, due to the Qing Dynasty's policy of closing the country, and the surrounding countries at that time, the gap gradually widened, and it became a poor and weak country far behind the surrounding countries, which was caused by the corruption and incompetence of the Qing Dynasty.
And the Qing ** is so corrupt and incompetent, the Empress Dowager Cixi, as the real person in power, can hardly escape responsibility. The Empress Dowager Cixi pursued a luxurious life all her life, regardless of the life and death of the people, only for her own enjoyment, and even during her escape, she was still greedy for pleasure.
Her decades of rule have brought decades of suffering to the people, directly led to the regression of the Chinese nation, and can be called a model of disaster for the country and the people.
During her lifetime, the Empress Dowager Cixi was greedy and wasted state property to buy countless treasures for herself. Among them, the most precious is a priceless night pearl in her mouth, which is rumored to have been a tribute to the head of the Nanyang Fanbang during the Qianlong period.
Before her death, the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered her personal eunuch Li Lianying to put the Night Pearl into her mouth, hoping to keep the body from decaying for thousands of years. The market value of the Night Pearl is at least 800 million, but after Cixi's death, this Night Pearl was buried in the imperial tomb with her, and it was not until Cixi's tomb was stolen that this Night Pearl reappeared.
Although the Empress Dowager Cixi was extravagant during her lifetime, her contribution to the country was minimal, and instead reduced our country to a semi-colony, and she needed to pay huge amounts of compensation to Western countries.
It wasn't until the death of the Empress Dowager Cixi that she realized her incompetence and mistakes.
During her reign, in order to satisfy her personal desires, Cixi occupied all the wealth of the country, but did not use this wealth for the construction of the country, especially for national defense.
Her neglect led to the inability of the state to put up effective resistance when foreign enemies invaded, and in the end it was only to compensate with the looted wealth at the expense of the interests of the people and the dignity of the country.
Originally, the purpose of looting the people's wealth was to strengthen the national defense force, but Cixi used it to build lavish palaces and mausoleums, which led to a great loss of morale among the front-line troops, and finally suffered a crushing defeat in the First Sino-Japanese War, with huge losses.
What's even more infuriating is that after her death, Cixi still used all this wealth for burial, so that the funds that should have been used for national construction disappeared forever into the ground.
Cixi's mausoleum is said to contain countless gold, silver and jewelry, which are of great value, which has aroused covetousness from all sides. Among them, the warlord Sun Dianying is even more determined to obtain the property in Cixi's mausoleum.
However, this kind of greed and destruction of history and people's property is not only not conducive to the development of the country, but will also deepen the people's hatred of history and their worries about the future.
The Cixi Mausoleum was stolen, the country was in turmoil, and it was not until the end of the Northern Expedition that nominal unification was achieved under the rule of Beiyang**. In 1928, in order to raise funds for the suppression of bandits, Sun Dianying decided to steal Cixi's mausoleum.
On the pretext of the exercise, he surrounded the Qing Dongling Tomb and led the men to loot Cixi's funeral goods, so that the treasures were lost.
These warlords robbed the tombs in a very different way from the gold-touching captains, who did not know how to score gold and rudely stuffed gold, silver and jewelry into sacks. When encountering precious calligraphy and paintings, precious cultural relics and other works of art, they only know jewelry**, and rashly throw away these cultural relics and artworks, resulting in the destruction of many precious calligraphy and paintings.
When the treasure was almost robbed, Sun Dianying came to Cixi's coffin, pried open her mouth, and took out the priceless pearl of the night. The Night Pearl shone brightly in the darkness, making Sun Dianying, who had never seen such a treasure, stunned.
It is said that this pearl of the night can keep the corpse from decay for thousands of years, however, when Sun Dianying and others opened Cixi's coffin, they found that Cixi's appearance was still in the same state as when she was first buried, this is because the coffin is extremely well sealed, and the mausoleum is deep underground, so the body is well preserved and there is no decay.
Sun Dianying was overjoyed, took the Night Pearl into his pocket, and then commanded the soldiers to remove all the gold and silver treasures. Due to the wanton destruction of the mausoleum by the warlords, after they left, the place had become a mess.
In addition, Sun Dianying stole the treasures on Cixi's body, dragged Cixi out of the coffin directly, and exposed it to the air for a long time, Cixi's body was already rotting.
Later, Sun Dianying sent people to collect Cixi's body, but when they arrived at the scene, they only found a pile of white bones.
In the second still, after the Night Pearl was stolen, it changed hands several times, and finally fell into the hands of Sun Dianying and others. Obviously, they stole the treasures in Cixi's tomb not to fill military expenses, but to use them as an excuse to cover up**.
The warlords gave some of their jewellery to executives to avoid punishment and others to sell it, resulting in the scattering of our precious cultural relics overseas. Sun Dianying couldn't put it down with the Night Pearl at home, but it didn't take long for the news of this treasure to spread.
Due to the popularity of the Night Pearl and its status as a funeral object in Cixi's mouth, Sun Dianying was worried that things would make a big deal and understood that this treasure brought him trouble, not benefit.
Therefore, he decided to borrow flowers to offer the Buddha and dedicated the night pearl to Song Meiling.
Chiang Kai-shek's wife, Song Meiling, became famous because of a rare night pearl presented by Sun Dianying. This night pearl not only won praise in front of Song Meiling, but also made Chiang Kai-shek look at it with admiration, which was a real double harvest.
When she saw this night pearl for the first time, Song Meiling was shocked by the light it emitted, unlike other treasures, the light emitted by this night pearl and its unique shape are rare in the world.
She held this night pearl in her hand and played with it, and the more she looked at it, the more beautiful she felt, like Song Meiling, who had won the treasure, and did not embarrass Sun Dianying. Fortunately, Sun Dianying sent it in time, because at that time, the matter of Sun Dianying and others robbing the tomb had already spread, and the national ** and the Qing Dynasty elders were ready to ask Sun Dianying for an explanation.
If it weren't for the timely delivery of this night pearl, Sun Dianying might not have escaped death. Although Song Meiling likes this night pearl very much, because it is an item that Cixi held in her mouth after her death, Song Meiling made it into an ornament on her shoes, and every time she participated in an important occasion, she would wear these shoes to show her unique charm.
This shoe was the focus of Song Meiling's attendance on various occasions because it was inlaid with a dazzling night pearl on its upper. Many people were attracted by the glow of the night pearl, including the famous American oil tycoon John Rockefeller.
He heard that this night pearl was a funeral object of the Empress Dowager Cixi and was a unique treasure, so he decided to buy it. In order to maintain good relations with the United States, Soong Meiling finally decided to sell the Night Pearl to Rockefeller.
Rockefeller provided a large amount of military supplies and funds for this. The Night Pearl was brought to the United States and became a private collection of the Rockefeller family. However, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China's leading goalkeeper Night Pearl was regarded as an important object of recovery and successfully brought it back to China.
This story teaches us that a precious object should not only be valuable, but also meaningful because it represents the history and culture of a country.
Although John Rockefeller's family rejected our request, saying that they had paid a great price to get this night pearl in the first place, they bought it from Soong Meiling.
However, as a country of etiquette, Japan respects the wishes of others and does not force it. Although China's *** door is still trying to recover this treasure that originally belonged to China, we are willing to buy it from the John Rockefeller family at the market price.
However, they again rejected our request and said that this pearl of the night is priceless and will not be sold no matter how much money is given. Although China recovered a large number of cultural relics and treasures after the founding of New China, this night pearl is different from those treasures that were forcibly plundered, it was purchased legally, and we will not forcibly ask for it unless the owner wants it.
Time flies, and many precious cultural relics in the history of our country have been destroyed and lost because they have not received sufficient attention and protection, which is really regrettable and regrettable.
Nowadays, China is making progress and developing, and its international status is also improving day by day. We believe that in the near future, we will recover more treasures from overseas, including this pearl of the night.
Sooner or later, this pearl of the night will return to the motherland and the land of Chinese civilization. References:[1]Wang Chunyun. Scientific Research on the Night Pearl in the Mouth of the Empress Dowager Cixi: Material, Naming and ** (English)[J].Jewelry Science & Technology,2004(05):3-10[2] Weekly. Revealing the funeral mausoleum of the Empress Dowager Cixi[J].Decision & Information,2006(12):60-62[3].What gifts did the Manchu ministers give to the Empress Dowager Cixi in the New YearOriental Collection, 2010(Z1): 137[4] Duan Yang. How many precious pearls does the Empress Dowager Cixi occupy[J].Wenshi Chunqiu,2008(12):8-13