This year is a special situation, I believe that many friends have actively or passively given up the habit of returning to their mother's home in the second year of junior high school. If you think of the women in the harem of the Qing Dynasty, they can't go out of the palace almost all their lives, and they don't have the custom of returning to their mother's house at all, everyone's mentality will probably be much better. Even Cixi, who is invincible in all directions, has only returned to her mother's house once in the second year of the first year.
Cixi was able to enjoy this opportunity, which was very special. She was selected as a showgirl in the first year of Xianfeng, entered the palace the following year, and was not particularly favored at first, but her luck was too good. Xianfeng's heirs were thin, and there was only one precious son, which was born to Cixi in the sixth year of Xianfeng. Although no one knew at that time that this was the only seedling of the Xianfeng Emperor, or even the last child born in the imperial palace, at least the credit for Cixi's birth of the emperor's eldest son was a foregone conclusion. Therefore, Xianfeng made Cixi, who was still a Lan gui, a concubine, and allowed her to return home to the province on the second day of the first lunar month of the following year.
There have always been many rumors about Cixi's lineage, and some people even said that she was a Han woman who was sold into the Qi family before entering the palace. In fact, in the canonical history, Cixi's origin is not complicated, she is the daughter of Huizheng of the Yehenara clan, which is recorded in the Qing Palace. Moreover, she was born in Beijing's West Fourth Arch Building Split Chai Hutong, which is now Peicai Hutong.
Although it has been spring, Beijing at this time is still wrapped in silver. As a concubine, Cixi sat in a palanquin and followed the established route to her mother's house. Even if it was freezing cold outside, the north wind was howling, and even heavy snow was falling, the men, women and children in the family, whether elders or juniors, knelt at the door to greet her.
This is the majesty of the royal family, although the woman who came out of the palace, although she was very young, she was only 22 years old at the time, but the eldest relatives, even the parents, had to bow down. Because Cixi was already the emperor's woman, this trip was to represent the royal family, and the courtesy of the monarch was far greater than the gift of the elder and the younger.
Moreover, all the people of the Yehenara family did not feel any wrong or dissatisfied. On the contrary, one by one, they were elated and rejoiced. Because they knew that although Cixi was not an empress, being able to give birth to a prince was enough to become the family's dependence. But they didn't know that after Cixi's trip, she was immediately given the title of a noble concubine, and even later held power for nearly fifty years.
Cixi certainly did not think of this at that time, and like an ordinary woman, she returned to her mother's house with excitement and warmly greeted her relatives at home. However, when she took her seat, she was surrounded like stars and moons, and was invited to the main seat. Subsequently, the family members once again knelt down and prayed in the order of the elder and the young, and sat down one by one.
As far as Cixi was concerned, she naturally did not want to waste precious time in such a lengthy form. But she could only be patient, waiting for everyone's salute, and then greeting her family. Because Cixi was just an ordinary concubine at that time, the content of the conversation between them was not recorded. But imagine that at that time, there would be no big deal. Cixi was nothing more than introducing the situation in the palace, greeting the well-being of her parents, inquiring about the latest situation of her brothers and sisters, and instructing her children and nephews to study.
The strong family affection spread out in the laughter and laughter, so that people forgot the time. It wasn't until the palace eunuch next to her reminded cixi that she realized that the time of separation was coming. She gave the gifts she had chosen before leaving the palace to her family, although they were not necessarily very valuable, but they were all royal things, worthy of the Yehenara family's bragging for a lifetime.
At this point, you can only say goodbye. Cixi was also in love, taking the original palanquin and returning the same way. Her provincial relatives did not even eat a meal at home, and came and went in a hurry. The women in the palace are so pitiful, Cixi can get such a special honor, or have children and meritorious deeds, most of the concubines, a lifetime of old death in the palace, also do not have this opportunity.
Maybe even Cixi didn't think that this was the only time she returned to her mother's house during her long life in the Forbidden City. Although she was later mighty and powerful, for various reasons, she was not able to enter the door of her mother's house again, which was not far away.