The crows of the Forbidden City had surprised Cixi
In the Forbidden City, you can often see a large group of crows, and even when the boss of the big Internet celebrity Lei Jun came to the scene to speak, he was also interrupted by the crows several times, which shows the grandeur of its prestige.
But the crows of the Forbidden City... Surprise attack on Cixi? This is a strange thing, please ask, how can the crow face the old lady, how to surprise the law?
So what else can be done? Air raids, of course.
It seems understandable to say this, for us ordinary people, birds and finches such as crows often bombard everyone's heads with bird droppings or something, is it true that Empress Dowager Cixi has also suffered such a senseless disaster?
Where is it so easy? Cixi was extremely obedient all her life, and there were many people who wanted to assassinate her, none of them really succeeded in attacking, no one could do it, and if the crow wanted to "drop the bomb", he had to ask the guards about the bows and arrows and shotguns in their hands.
Daqing is based on riding and shooting, if you let the crow do whatever you want on the head of the empress, won't people underestimate this housekeeping skill?
So strictly guarded, not to mention the crows, that is, Wu Yewei of beijing television station, may not be able to take advantage of the old demon woman.
The attack of the crows on Cixi in the Forbidden City was not a weapon such as bird droppings, although it was extremely insulting, but it was really not very lethal. The crow that surprised Cixi carried out this task with firearms!
What's going on? Could it be that Sun Wen's revolutionary party had a whim and bribed the crows of the Forbidden City to assassinate Empress Xi?
This is a random association, the intelligence of birds is limited, to let the crow have the idea of anti-Qing restoration or democratic republic, although Mr. Sun Wen is a medical student, probably does not have the ability to do this kind of surgery.
Well, this kind of work that requires high intelligence, how can you find a bird? Should look for us, good villains are mammals...
Besides, most of the firearms used by the Qing Dynasty were among the guns that raised guns to split mountain cannons, and the crows could not play with them.
However, the story of the crow attacking Cixi with firearms is not folklore, but comes from the writings of a female official around Cixi.
Deling's Two Years in the Forbidden City by The Princess Der Ling details the events.
De Ling, whose real name is Yu Deling, was born in 1886 as the daughter of the late Qing dynasty diplomat Yu Geng, who lived with her father in Japan and France for six years as a teenager, and was proficient in Chinese. In 1903, when she was 17 years old, she returned to Beijing with her father, and because she was familiar with foreign languages and Western etiquette, she was recruited into the palace by Cixi along with her sister Yu Rongling, and became one of the eight female officials of the Forbidden City (some people in the palace recalled that she had been named Heshuo Gege by Cixi, that is, the lord of the county, but there was no historical confirmation), and then left the palace on the grounds that her father was seriously ill and married to white, the US vice consul in Shanghai.
It is worth mentioning that Deling has patriotic ideas and has followed Mr. Soong Ching Ling to hold anti-Japanese activities such as "Night to Defend China" and support the "Alliance for Defending China". She died in a car accident in Berkeley, California, in 1944 at the age of 58.
"At the request and urging of relatives and friends", Deling wrote down in English what she had seen and heard during her two years of life in the court, which was published in Chinese and English versions for the "Second Year of the Qing Palace". Since then, Deling has continuously published "Memoirs of the Political Situation at the End of the Qing Dynasty", "Records of the Orchids of the Imperial Garden", as well as documentary literary works such as "Yingtai Weeping Blood Record" and "Records of the Imperial Fragrance", etc., and is regarded as a female writer with considerable achievements in that period. Her reminiscential works on the inside story of the Qing Palace have a certain degree of reference value because of their personal experience and specific identity.
According to her account, the crow attack on the empress dowager occurred one day while Cixi was resting in the palace.
The Chuxiu Palace, where Cixi lived, was one of the Six Palaces of the West, and was opened by the empress dowager and the front Yongshou Palace, becoming a large courtyard of the first class in the Forbidden City, which was also in line with her identity.
Perhaps because of too much mental scheming, Cixi has always slept badly, so once she falls asleep, no one dares to harass. Today in front of the Summer Palace Magnolia Hall there is a very high sea pole, is for the use of hanging lights at night, once the red light is hung, it means that the empress dowager is sleeping, the eunuch palace women must keep quiet, otherwise... Cutting off your head is light!
On this day, Cixi had just fallen asleep, and suddenly there was a thunderclap in the air, smoke billowing and a burst of fire with the sound of ping-pong ping-pong and ping-pong going straight into the courtyard, and the empress dowager was horrified, presumably thinking that the foreigners had come in again.
In the confusion, some people noticed that the source of the "thunderbolt fire" was a half-dead crow (presumably frightened), with a string of firecrackers tied to its tail and ping-pong!
The two emperors of the late Qing Dynasty, Tongzhi and Guangxu, had no heirs, and there was no child mischief in the Forbidden City. It was eventually discovered that this was a boring act by an old eunuch.
There are many crows and many magpies in the Forbidden City, and the status is very high. It is said that in the eyes of the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, these two kinds of sacred birds once contributed to maintaining their luck and belonged to the category of sacred birds.
In front of the Kunning Palace (the palace of Puyi's big wedding), there is a strange stone foundation, as if the flagpole is not a flagpole, and many people do not know the mystery behind it.
In fact, this is the old trace of the "Sauron pole" in the palace.
Every year during the Spring and Autumn Festival in the palace, there is a shaman's sacred pole with a tin bucket on top of the pole. During the sacrifice, the pigs are chopped into water and mixed with crushed rice, and placed in a tin bucket on the Sauron pole for the birds to peck.
It can be seen that in the palace, the birds are regarded as auspicious and protected. And the crows are very clever, and gradually find that no one is looking for their trouble, it is inevitable that the anti-guest is the mainstay, and it is common to chase after the palace people and take advantage of them.
The old eunuch who had run into trouble did not know whether he had eaten the crow's loss and tried to take revenge, or whether it was pure psychological emptiness, on this day he caught a big crow, and although he did not dare to kill it, he decided to tease this guy. The old eunuch hung a firecracker on the crow's tail, lit the fuse, and released it.
What is surprising is that the medicine may be a little damp, the burning is not fast, the crow did not take off to be "shot", but flew to the distance at a very fast speed, out of the control of the old eunuch, and finally flew to the Chuxiu Palace in the case of continuous explosions in the air!
What are firecrackers for? Tubal Road put it in a gasoline barrel, which can be disguised as a machine gun, such a big crow with a firecracker to raid Chuxiu Palace...
This is simply a divine fire flying crow!
The Divine Fire Flying Crow belongs to the Firearms of the Ming Dynasty, and its appearance is recorded in the history books as a crow, which is woven with fine bamboo or reeds, filled with gunpowder inside, and two primitive rockets are installed on each side of the crow's body, and the bottom of the medicine cylinder is connected to the gunpowder medicine line inside the crow's body. During combat, the thrust of the rocket can shoot the crow to a hundred feet away, and the gunpowder inside the crow is ignited and exploded at the same time when the crow lands, which is quite powerful.
Ming Dynasty?? Is this eunuch going to engage in anti-Qing restoration?
After investigating, Cixi, who woke up, found that things were not so complicated, and the old eunuch was just bored too much. The empress dowager ordered fifty plates to be beaten to set an example. As for whether the crow involved in the surprise attack was dead or alive, no one paid attention.
Many of Deling's works have exaggerated and imaginative elements, and this "crow raid on Cixi" may not be reliable, but the details of Cixi's handling of eunuchs are in line with the psychology of the parties concerned - she did not kill the ring this time, and beat fifty, which is considered to be a blessing.
Even if you are Cixi, you are also very bored in the palace, there is such an interesting thing, it can be said to relieve your worries, and for the old eunuch who broke into trouble, The Western Empress dowager is estimated to be cruel.
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