After the tomb robber Li Jiguang staged a play in the tomb of "people light candles and ghosts blow lights", he pried open the tomb chamber and saw the coffin of Zhenfei. Lifting the shroud that covered Zhenfei's body, he had always been bold, but he was frightened and shivered, and Zhenfei, who had been dead for more than thirty years, had a delicate makeup and did not have any decay.
However, the treasure in the coffin made him evil, and after looting the jewels on Zhenfei's body, Li Jiguang took out the mouth beads that kept her body incorruptible, hid them in an inconspicuous place, and then left in a hurry.
The jewelry that Li Jiguang brought out made his companion ecstatic, completely forgetting about the beads in his mouth. After everyone left, Li Jiguang quietly went down to the tomb again, but he accidentally found a figure.
Only to see the pale-faced Zhenfei slowly sit up from the coffin, the cold eyes stared at Li Jiguang deadly, and the cries in her mouth resounded throughout the tomb over and over again: Return my treasure.
This is a horror film directed by Cai Yuanyuan in 1989 with Zhenfei as the "villain", and "Zhenfei" has become a nightmare for a generation.
Princess Jane stills
In 1889, the 18-year-old Guangxu Emperor reached the age of marriage, and Empress Dowager Cixi, who controlled the power of the imperial court, placed her niece, the 21-year-old Yehenara, in the position of empress, and the two daughters of The Right Attendant of Hubu, Changsu, were also named Concubine Jin and Concubine Zhen at the same time.
Empress Longyu was old and was still the niece of Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Guangxu Emperor always respected her. The 15-year-old Concubine Jin is much more mune than the 13-year-old Zhen Concubine, and the sister who grew up at the Port of Guangzhou, Zhen Concubine is lively and lovely, and she is very advocating advanced cultural ideas. For the Guangxu Emperor, who was eager to work hard, Zhen Concubine was obviously a natural pair with him.
Not only was the Guangxu Emperor who liked Zhen Concubine, but even Empress Dowager Cixi, who had always been critical, praised her. Most of the characters that Cixi often gave to her courtiers were ghostwritten by Zhen Concubine, and even the heir ceremony of Empress Longyu was presided over by Zhen Concubine under the acquiescence of Empress Dowager Cixi.
Cixi pampered Concubine Zhen
In 1894, at the age of 18, Zhen Concubine and her sister were promoted to concubines. The leap from concubine to concubine makes a long-unfavoured woman feel jealous. In order to get revenge on Zhenfei, Empress Longyu found Li Lianying and the eunuchs in Zhenfei's palace, and quietly placed a boot worn by a man in Zhenfei's palace, causing the palace maid next to Zhenfei to be severely beaten.
Empress Longyu's methods against Zhenfei were all small fights, and they did not fight to the death like in the palace fight drama, and Zhenfei was also beaten by a staff under this series of inexplicable attacks.
But she was afraid to eat and not remember to fight, since she was naïve, she has always been self-contained, even if she arrived in the palace, she did not restrain. At that time, Chinese thought was not yet open, especially the bureaucrats of the Qing government, who were very resistant to Western culture, but Zhenfei quietly bought a Western camera and took pictures of everyone, completely disregarding the rules and system in the palace.
Princess Zhen took pictures of the eunuchs
In addition to the Guangxu Emperor and concubines, there were many eunuchs and palace women who entered her camera. What was even more daring was that Zhenfei had secretly taught the eunuchs to use Western cameras, and she herself dressed strangely in front of the eunuchs, causing an uproar in the palace.
In the location of the photo, Zhenfei is also free to do as she pleases, she can play at will in her own Jingren Palace, or she can run to the Yangxin Hall of the Guangxu Emperor's office to shoot around.
What disgusted Empress Dowager Cixi the most was that Even if Zhenfei herself took pictures in the palace, she actually instructed the eunuchs to open a photo studio outside the palace, and in order to curb Zhenfei's senseless behavior, Empress Dowager Cixi publicly reprimanded Zhenfei, closed her photo studio outside, and killed the eunuch who opened the photo studio for her.
Cixi was dissatisfied with Concubine Zhen
However, Zhenfei did not relent, relying on the favor of the Guangxu Emperor, Zhenfei was also extravagant in life. She once made a pearl cheongsam from pearls and jadeite in the guangxu emperor's inventory, and often dragged the guangxu emperor to the royal garden for a walk to show off.
Excessive extravagance will inevitably cause economic tension, as a concubine, Zhenfei's monthly use is only three hundred taels, in addition to tinkering with some Western things, most of Zhenfei's money is used to reward those eunuchs who are patting their asses, so she can use less and less funds to squander, so she began to play the role of pillow wind, encouraging the Guangxu Emperor to give people officials, and those officials who came out of her mouth, without exception, all gave her certain benefits.
"Selling officials and accepting bribes" touched the bottom line of Empress Dowager Cixi, and Cixi, who had a great desire for power, finally decided to impose sanctions on Zhenfei. As Zhenfei's sister, Princess Jin was also implicated, and the two sisters suffered the punishment of "wearing a robe and a staff" in the palace, and were demoted from concubines to nobles.
Princess Zhen misled Guangxu into selling officials and accepting bribes
After being repeatedly suppressed by Empress Dowager Cixi, Princess Zhen's heart was naturally dissatisfied, and the only thing she could rely on was the Guangxu Emperor. Before the failure of the Wushu reform, the Guangxu Emperor still had some power, and Princess Zhen made a tentative attack on Empress Dowager Cixi's concubine Li Hongzhang and others through her enlightenment teacher Wen Tingshi and her cousin Li Shilang Zhirui, but as soon as Wen Tingshi made a move, he was arrested by Li Hongzhang, and although the Guangxu Emperor was dissatisfied, he could not save Both Wen Tingshi and ZhiRui.
After the defeat of the Sino-Japanese War, the Guangxu Emperor, who was the main warrior faction, became increasingly dissatisfied with the actions of Cixi and Li Hongzhang. At the same time, he got closer and closer to Kang Youwei, Liang Qichao and others, and even conspired to carry out the "siege of the garden to kill the queen" in 1898, but Yuan Shikai, as the main executor, embarked on the road of whistle-blowing.
The failure of the Wushu reform method caused the relationship between the Guangxu Emperor and Cixi to break completely, and the Zhenfei who had been following the Guangxu Emperor naturally became the object of Cixi's dissatisfaction, she woven all the changes in the Guangxu Emperor's thinking to the head of the Zhenfei, and after taking the staff again, she beat the Zhenfei into the northern three houses of the Zhong Pu Palace, the northernmost cold palace of the Forbidden City.
The Three Houses in the North of the Forbidden City
The downcast Princess Jane lived in a small room, the door was locked, eating and washing were brought in and out by the next person through a moving window, and no one spoke to her, except for the old eunuch's occasional reprimand.
After two years in the Cold Palace, the 24-year-old Zhenfei caught up with the Eight-Nation Alliance into Beijing, at this time Empress Dowager Cixi had decided to flee west, before leaving, she specially called Zhenfei out of the Beisanshuo, and after some reprimand, she made her point of view bluntly: When foreigners come, Zhenfei cannot be humiliated, nor can she follow her.
However, Princess Zhen, who has always been stubborn, said bluntly: "The empress dowager can avoid it, but the emperor needs to sit in the capital and preside over the overall situation." At this time, the Guangxu Emperor, who had been under house arrest, was like a marionette, and Empress Dowager Cixi would never give him any chance to overturn the dish, and she was greatly angered to hear Zhenfei's words.
But Princess Zhen was still crying out for herself: "I will not die for my sins, and the emperor did not let me die." ”
Although Princess Zhen still fantasized at the last moment that the Guangxu Emperor would uphold justice for her, Empress Dowager Cixi, who was already extremely disgusted with her, impatiently asked people to throw her into the well inside the Zhenshun Gate.
Princess Well
In 1901, Cixi, who had gone out to take refuge, finally returned to Beijing, and she also thought of the Zhenfei who she threw into the well, at this time the Zhenfei who was salvaged was already puffy and completely unrecognizable, in order to appease the Guangxu Emperor, Cixi specially buried Zhenfei and posthumously named her "Zhenguifei".
However, the Guangxu Emperor did not come, and he was completely desperate for Cixi.