State affairs aside, Cixi can be said to be a person who makes all women envious, her life is not luxurious enough to describe, countless beautiful clothes, all kinds of gorgeous jewelry, a large number of servants to serve. According to records, her daily expenditure was thousands of taels of silver, which was a great expense for the Qing Dynasty at that time.
After the establishment of the Guangxu Emperor, the imperial court was already a situation where she was alone, the emperor was like a decoration, and all political affairs needed her consent, and the former dynasty was already hers, let alone the harem. In order to please her, the people under her tried all kinds of methods, knowing that Cixi loved beauty, loved to dress up, especially paid attention to skin maintenance, heard that breast milk can keep her face forever, specially raised a bunch of nursing mothers, to provide her with sufficient fresh milk every day, and these nursing mothers must also eat arranged food to ensure the best results. It is strange to think that an elderly woman, in order to maintain her youth forever, actually went to drink breast milk.
Women love to dress up, mainly on clothing, jewelry, headdress to spend time. After all, Cixi is a woman, or a woman who loves to dress up, three days and two ends to make new clothes, but also from time to time to make new exquisite and luxurious jewelry, headdresses, national inventory silver is little by little, day by day is constantly consumed. In the late Qing Dynasty, the camera invented by foreigners especially entered Cixi's eyes, she fell in love with recording various costumes every day, in order to meet her needs in this regard, it was a large number of clothes and jewelry processing, I heard that Cixi's favorite dress is Guanyin Bodhisattva.
In the late Qing Dynasty, the policy of "closing the country to the door" had put the country in a state of being beaten, and outside was all kinds of compensation for other countries, and inside Cixi was a lot of squandering and wasting money, and the country was already an empty shell, but Cixi was not aware of this problem, did not ask about the affairs behind him, and only enjoyed the present. Before her death, the scale of the funeral had been arranged, from the ceremony to the objects. Of course, the old rules must be in line with her usual extravagant style.
It is said that Cixi's coffin is made of the finest wood, which is filled with all kinds of precious jewels and porcelain, and there is a huge night pearl on the hat worn on the top of the head, so many things, of course, also need a large coffin. The scene of Cixi's funeral was recorded by a foreign reporter, the burial procession is very large, a glance can not see the head, a large number of people under black pressure, the momentum is huge, and the sense of ceremony is full, the person carrying the coffin is covered with a mask on the head, it looks very terrible, like "Yin soldiers borrowing the road", from time to time you can see that someone will replace the person carrying the coffin, probably because it is too big, too heavy reasons.
Later, this reporter also specifically went to learn about the information of the person carrying the coffin, which surprised him, just carrying a coffin, it actually dispatched 7920 people, nearly 7900 people, not to mention other aspects of the people. In his opinion, the Qing Dynasty, which was already on the verge of annihilation, actually spent so many resources for Cixi's funeral, and it was also reasonable for the Qing Dynasty to fall. Although it is impossible to blame a woman for the demise of a country, Cixi's behavior is really too much, although it is a woman, but between the national crisis and personal enjoyment, she resolutely chose the latter, and squandered, so that all the qing dynasty people are very cold, people will also blame part of the responsibility on her, and naturally think that Cixi is the direct factor leading to the subjugation of the country. It is really sad that a huge dynasty has suffered great humiliation, and any small country can invade.