Cixi, the concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor, the biological mother of the Tongzhi Emperor, the actual ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, the most famous comment of posterity is "say the wildest words, run the fastest road", Cixi in order to continue the Qing Dynasty, do not let the Qing Dynasty break in their hands, can cut the land, can pay compensation, its shame is no less than the shame of the Northern Song Dynasty Jing Kang.
However, after the end of the Qing Dynasty, most of the qing dynasty royal family lived an ordinary and ordinary life, and then started from scratch and became a famous rich man, she is a descendant of Cixi, worth 52.5 billion yuan, married to a "Tang monk" as a wife, and owns a commercial street in Beijing.
She is Chen Lihua, born in 1941 in the Summer Palace in Beijing, in 1990, Chen Lihua married Chi Chongrui, the actor of the Tang monk in the classic TV series "Journey to the West", and in October 2015, Chen Lihua ranked first in the List of Hurun Women with a wealth of 49.5 billion yuan.
In October 2016, Chen Lihua ranked 20th in the Hurun Rich List and the third in the Hurun Real Estate Rich List with a wealth of 50.5 billion yuan, and became the richest woman in China in the Hurun Women's Rich List; in 2019, Chen Lihua ranked in the top 300 of the Forbes Global Billionaires List, ranked 49th in the Hurun Rich List, ranked 5th in the Hurun Women Entrepreneurs List, and ranked 49th in the Forbes China 400 Rich List.
Chen Lihua's achievements are undoubtedly remarkable, many people look at her identity - "descendants of Cixi", think that she must have been dressed in fine clothes from childhood, in fact, Chen Lihua was poor in childhood, and when she went to high school, there was no savings in her family for her to study.
But some people are like this, even if the education is not high, but the business acumen is very flexible, Chen Lihua did not study, started a set of business, and soon set up their own furniture factory, and rely on hard work, accumulated their own connections, in 1981, Chen Lihua aimed at the real estate industry, through social relations, engaged in real estate investment.
Later, Chen Lihua bought 12 villas at Beverly and sold them at a high price, making a lot of money from them, from which it is not difficult to see that Chen Lihua still had the ingredient of daring to gamble during the development period, and the Chang'an Club, located in the prime area of Chang'an Avenue in Beijing and adjacent to the Tiananmen Officialdom, was Chen Lihua's first real estate project from hong Kong SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE REGION to the mainland in the early 1990s, with a total investment of 450 million yuan.
In 1999, Chen Lihua invested in the construction of the China Rosewood Museum, of which more than 300 pieces are her collection of Ming and Qing Dynasty furniture, and more than 2,000 pieces are rare rosewood products produced from her factory, so Chen Lihua also won the title of "King of Chinese Rosewood".
Chen Lihua also attaches great importance to charity, in the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, Chen Lihua donated 2 million yuan and a quilt blanket worth nearly 10 million yuan to the disaster area; in the 2010 Yushu earthquake in Qinghai, Chen Lihua donated 2.5 million yuan and so on.