Why did the royal family and nobles of the late Qing Dynasty collectively dig up ancestral graves?

The Qing Dynasty is the last feudal dynasty in the history of our country, and the most difficult to accept when this era is going to be subverted, I am afraid that it is the royal nobles of the Qing Dynasty, because from then on, their lives will plummet and fall to the bottom. For the Qing Dynasty's aristocratic Aixinjue Luo, national fortune is family fortune.

When the Qing Dynasty was going to fall, as a royal family, their endings were not the same, these originally noble Manchu descendants had collectively dug up ancestral graves, what did they do so? In fact, after the Xinhai Revolution brought down the Qing Dynasty, these originally pampered royal family members were in a difficult situation, their lives became very poor, and they came up with such a way as to dig up the ancestral grave after experiencing the life of poor food and clothing.

One of the most representative is Aixinjue Luo Yansen, he was the last king of the iron hat king Keqin County, in the Qing Dynasty when the usual lavish Yan Sen began to sell his property to make a living, he first sold antiques, but it didn't take long for him to lose all his money. There was really no way to sell the ancestral house, and then he started to pull rickshaws to get by, and was once nicknamed "the king of cars", Pu Yi thought he was embarrassed to do this, so he had to take money to sponsor him.

In addition to Yan Sen, when Zhaoxu was short of money, he also began to pour up the family business left by his ancestors, he sold the two century-old stories in Prince Zheng's tomb and demolished the bricks and tiles that built this tomb to sell, of course, Zhaoxu is not the only one who did this, and there are many declining royal families who have started to dig graves and turn down the business, in order to supplement the family, if their ancestors know that it is their descendants who dig the grave, they don't know how to feel!

In fact, it's not just that the evening scene of these princes is so bleak, but compared to their practice of digging graves to survive, Pu Yi is relatively lucky, but after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Pu Yi also had no way to survive, so he could only return to the Forbidden City to steal cultural relics to barely make a living, so it is not unreasonable to say that the higher you stand, the heavier you fall!

In the late Qing Dynasty, Chinese society was in a difficult situation both internally and externally, not only had to face the invasion of foreign powers to sign diplomatic terms that humiliated the country, but also had to suppress the Taiping Rebellion at home, so the treasury was empty, so the burial goods of the ancestors had to be dug up.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the royal family was already suffering from internal and external troubles. They do not have sufficient capital to resist foreign enemies. They had to dig up the graves of their ancestors and bring out the gold and silver treasures that were inside. Use it as a resource and exchange it for money to resist foreign enemies.

Pu Yi was the last emperor in my living history. When the Qing Dynasty fell, Pu Yi also announced his abdication, but Pu Yi still lived in the Forbidden City when he first began to abdicate, and he still had 4 million silver dollars per month for living expenses, which was enough for the young Pu Yi to continue to live a rich life, so after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, Fu Yi's life was not bad.

But after Pu Yi's abdication, the life of the children of the Eight Banners was not so comfortable。They don't have preferential treatment, and they don't even have the emperor anymore, so their official position naturally doesn't exist, there is no official title, and there is no monthly salary of the imperial court, which makes their economic situation a big problem, fortunately, the land when they were officials is still there, and the monthly rent of agricultural products is enough to meet the daily expenses, but with the fall of the emperor, they are not powerful, so slowly the people refuse to pay rent. This makes the economy of the children of Eight Banners face problems again.

Under such economic circumstances, the children of the Eight Banners were forced to sell their land to the warlords。And the warlords are also happy to accept the land, and it is the most particularly cheap land, after the children of the Eight Banners sold the land, they did not have a little economic income, so they could only gnaw the old book, the children of the Eight Banners are like this, they sell their pawns, sell the palace, the ancestral house, and Prince Rui even stole his ancestral tomb, and was sentenced to seven years in prison after being caught, Prince Qing was too lustful, and he was also infected with opium, so he also lived a life of selling property. His two brothers also lived a life of picking up garbage.

Therefore, after Pu Yi's abdication, the worst thing is not himself. It's the sons and daughters of the powerful.

Some of the four princes are drunk and like to gamble. Lost a house in two days. Later, when all the valuable things in the family were sold, they began to sell the ancestral house, and the ancestral house was sold out, and they began to sell the trees in the ancestral grave; Some princes are lustful, have many wives in the family, smoke opium, and fail in business, so they can only sell their property and pick up garbage to survive.

Prince Zheng Zhaoxu was very depressed at that time, and sold his belongings and house, but the money was still not enough to spend, so he thought about the ancestral tomb, and he sold the trees and bricks near the ancestral tomb.

It's true, Prince Qing Yixuan, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, just started to run a company and open a hotel, and had a good life, but he was too lustful, and his family smoked opium again, because of social turmoil, Zaizhen's business failed, and in the end he still relied on selling his property to make a living, and his two brothers were so depressed that they picked up garbage and relied on relatives to make a living.

It is true, in order to continue to maintain his life, Prince Zheng Zhaoxu at that time did not hesitate to sell Prince Zheng's mansion to the University of China, the house was sold, and the money was spent, at this time Prince Zheng Zhaoxu began to hit the idea of his ancestral tomb, Prince Zheng Zhaoxu first sold the tree on the ancestral tomb, and then in 1927, he sold things like the dragon tablet and bricks and stone pieces on the ancestral tomb to Zhang Xueliang.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the prince lost his imperial favor and fell into despair. They are used to living a luxurious life again, and they have to sell their ancestral homes for money.

It's true. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the children of the aristocracy were used to being pampered, and they had no ability to make a living at all, so they could only rely on the property left by their ancestors, and when the money ran out, they could only sell their houses and land.

It's true. Because the Qing Dynasty was gone at that time. So there was no one to give him money, so he sold his ancestral property.

It's true. Because after losing the Yulu given by the Qing court, Prince Zheng lost his income**, and he was unwilling to support himself, so he started the idea of ancestral property.

Chinese civilization has always paid attention to filial piety, reverence for ancestors, and digging up other people's ancestral graves is a serious insult. After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the princes of the Qing Dynasty began to dig their own ancestral graves, which can be regarded as the only one.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the princes lost their positions of power and money**. And the princes of the late Qing Dynasty were all pampered! Eating, drinking, prostituting and gambling itself costs a lot of money, and as soon as the Qing Dynasty is over, it immediately begins to make ends meet and falls into economic difficulties.

At first, he sold his property, and sold all the valuable things at home, but he was in trouble again. Moreover, more importantly, these people will not be able to let go of their prince's shelf for a while, and they will not be willing to learn the craft, so many Manchu women were forced to live in the Bada Hutong at that time to make money to subsidize their families!

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, bandits broke out in China, which also opened the most rampant era of tomb robbery in China for 5,000 years. Many big warlords, as well as local military and political governors, took the lead in robbing tombs, obtaining money, raising soldiers and marrying concubines. Moreover, in addition to the rampant tomb robbers among the people, the slightly famous cemeteries at that time were all excavated on a large scale, and the imperial tombs of various dynasties were not spared!

Especially in Beijing at that time, there were many places of interest and historic sites, and there were countless ancient tombs and tombs, so in this atmosphere, tomb robbery was prevalent!

And the princes who were in financial difficulties soon thought that their ancestors had been rich for hundreds of years, and all kinds of princes were buried with rich funeral goods! Rather than their own ancestral grave treasures were stolen by tomb thieves, it is better to steal them and sell them for money, therefore, many princes in Beijing City at that time took "spirit" as the reason to openly dig their own ancestral graves, such as the cemetery of the fifth son of Kangxi was dug up by his descendants, and the cemetery of the fourth son of Qianlong was basically dug up, these things are countless.

After the princes dug up the ancestral graves, most of the treasures were sold to foreigners. As a result, a large number of modern cultural relics of the country have been lost overseas, causing irreparable losses!