In the late Qing Dynasty, after Empress Dowager Cixi overthrew the Xianfeng Emperor's "Eight Ministers", she finally ascended to the throne of power and became the de facto ruler of the late Qing Dynasty. The two emperors who served as puppets under her were very miserable, and the Tongzhi Emperor was still better after all, after all, he was the son of Empress Dowager Cixi, and Cixi would not be embarrassed by him; However, for the Guangxu Emperor, who was later supported, he could be said to have suffered humiliation, not only had to listen to empress dowager Cixi's opinion in everything, but even the title of empress dowager Cixi was "father".
Then everyone may ask, Cixi is obviously a woman, why did the Guangxu Emperor have to call her "pro-father" instead of "pro-mother"? This has to start from China's social status of male superiority and female inferiority since ancient times. In Chinese history, there were very few women who could rule the dynasty, and there was only one strong woman who could become an emperor, Wu Zetian, and although Cixi did not want to bear the name of a thousand years of infamy to become a female emperor, she was not willing to stop here.
Therefore, she successively supported her sons and nephews to become emperors, hoping that they would be puppets so as to cover the yo-yo mouths of the people of the world. The reason why the Guangxu Emperor did not call himself "pro-mother" but "pro-father" was actually just the stubborn idea of "male superiority and female inferiority" in Empress Dowager Cixi's heart, which led to such a ridiculous title as "pro-father".
In addition, having an emperor like Guangxu call himself "Pro-Daddy" is also a kind of admonition of Cixi to the Guangxu Emperor: although Guangxu was nominally the supreme leader of the Great Qing Dynasty, in fact, Empress Dowager Cixi, who was called "Pro-Daddy" by the Emperor, was the actual ruler of the entire empire, and Cixi not only said this, but also did so.
In daily life, the Guangxu Emperor's instructions to Empress Dowager Cixi were always only promises and did not dare to speak, even when the Law of Wushu was changed. Even if the two occasionally disagreed, it was often Empress Dowager Cixi who won the final victory, for example, once, the Guangxu Emperor heard that Britain and Japan had formed an alliance, believing that this would be detrimental to the Qing Dynasty.
When Cixi heard the news, she raised her crutch and tapped Guangxu on the head, saying, "You know anything about diplomacy, it is not good that your words are spread out and affected!" Seeing that Cixi was angry, the Guangxu Emperor quickly fell to his knees in front of Cixi and begged for his life, and finally It was Li Lianying who mediated from it, and the two reconciled.