Cixi is one of the most famous empresses in Chinese history, and it can be said that Cixi's ideas hastened the demise of the entire Qing Dynasty, and the glorious Qing Dynasty was destroyed in her hands. And for her personally, this great shame will always accompany her.
I. What is the wasteful life of Empress Dowager Cixi?
Empress Dowager Cixi was the most extravagant empress dowager in ancient Chinese history, and her daily necessities were the annual expenses of many ordinary people at that time, but she did not think so, and squandered it, which made the people at that time unhappy, and the ministers of culture and military affairs also fell into a period of corruption and bribery, and the entire Qing Dynasty fell into a darkness, like an empty shell, which led to the tragic history of the subsequent invasion of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Alliance.
Speaking of the extravagant and wasteful life of this Empress Dowager Cixi, it can be said that it is a big surprise, her three meals a day must be full of Han, and each dish is only one bite, and the rest is not allowed to be eaten by other small palace eunuchs, only a few little red people around her can taste, three meals a day, which causes great waste.
In terms of washing, she also made a big fuss, every time she took a bath, she had to wash it with milk, and it was covered with flower petals, and the milk that had been bathed in the bath could no longer be drunk, and it could only be poured out, and it was bathed every day every year, which also caused a great sensation at the time, and some people around the country envied and cursed. Empress Dowager Cixi told the world's people in practical actions that they must be extremely anti-reactionary and should not be extravagant and wasteful, and she used herself to make a clear example, and the evil of calamity to the country and the people has been passed down to the present.
Second, Empress Dowager Cixi had to taste a piece of food every day, but why did she put the chef to death after knowing the recipe?
As we all know, Empress Dowager Cixi was extremely extravagant, and The daily living expenses of Empress Dowager Cixi reached more than two hundred taels of silver per day at that time, which was enough to support the family, but Cixi did not think so.
Empress Dowager Cixi was not in good health, so she had to drink some nourishing soup every day to maintain her health, and one day a new chef came, who served the haggis soup he had made to Empress Dowager Cixi, who was in a high position, who had drunk this kind of thing, she felt that it was very delicious, so she praised the new chef, and later continued to reward silver, and drank it for ten years.
One day, Empress Dowager Cixi suddenly wanted to see how such a delicious soup was boiled, so she called the chef to ask one by one, and the cook replied that she was boiled with some haggis, that is, a series of haggis such as sheep lungs, sheep liver, sheep bile, etc.
Originally, Empress Dowager Cixi thought that she was in a high position, that she was a royal person, and that she should not drink such "three indiscriminate" things, and she believed that these were only tasted by ordinary people, and should not be served to her table, and that once she drank them, it would be ten years. Therefore, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered that the cook be executed immediately, leaving no way back.
Iii. What was the reason why Empress Dowager Cixi held the real power of the Qing Dynasty at that time?
At that time, the Qing Dynasty fell into a fiery situation, the people of the country did not have a good life, the civil and military officials had a false name, and did not do things for the people and harmed the people. At this time, the Guangxu Emperor had no real power, he was just an empty shell, a puppet of Empress Dowager Cixi who bowed to the government, and at that time, all the events of all sizes and small were decided by Cixi.
She also has some outstanding advantages, but compared with her shortcomings are not prominent, so Empress Cixi has been left behind for a hundred years, which is not only cixi's personal sorrow, but also the sorrow of the entire Qing Dynasty, without Empress Dowager Cixi bowing to the government, there would be no decline and demise of the Qing Dynasty.
As the last feudal dynasty in China's history, the Qing Dynasty has also been brilliant, but in the end it was annihilated in the river of history, and now when it comes to the Qing Dynasty, many people will scoff at it, thinking that the Qing Dynasty has lost the face of the Chinese nation and signed so many unequal treaties.
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