History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
The Guangxu Emperor was the eleventh emperor of the Qing Dynasty, the ninth emperor after the Qing Dynasty entered the Customs, and the only emperor of the Qing Dynasty whose father was not an emperor. Guangxu was the son of Prince Shuo in the late Qing Dynasty, and his mother was Yehenara Wanzhen, the sister of Cixi, and according to this relationship, Cixi was both Guangxu's aunt and his eldest sister (aunt). Guangxu never took the initiative to take a photo in his life, and even his concubine Empress left a lot of photos, what the reason is still unknown. The photo is on January 8, 1902, when the two palaces passed through the Zhengyang Gate, the Guangxu Emperor got off the car and prepared to go to the Guandi Temple to take a secret photo of a foreign reporter.
Guangxu ascended the throne at the age of four, pro-government at the age of 18 (1889), and experienced many major events during his pro-government period. During the Sino-Japanese War, the Guangxu Emperor advocated fighting Japan to the end, but due to corruption at the top and bottom of the imperial court, the Qing Dynasty was defeated. This defeat had a great stimulus to him, and he began to think of other ways to become rich and strong, so there was a later "reform and change", but the change lasted only 103 days, and it ended in the bloody vegetable market of the restoration faction, and the Guangxu Emperor was also imprisoned by Cixi in Yingtai. The photo is the Yingtai where the Guangxu Emperor was imprisoned.
On November 4, 1908, the Guangxu Emperor died, and just two days later, Cixi died. Such a strange thing has caused many speculations, Guangxu was only 38 years old at the time, in his prime, how could he suddenly die? So all kinds of arguments came and went. There is a saying that the Guangxu Emperor once wrote in his diary: I am very ill now, but I think Lafayette will definitely die in front of me, and then I will definitely kill Yuan Shikai and Li Lianying. This passage was seen by Li Lianying and passed into Cixi's ears, so Cixi moved to kill.
According to Yun Yuding, a long-time official who accompanied Emperor Guangxu and a scholar of the Hanlin Academy, 11 days before emperor Guangxu's death, it coincided with Cixi's birthday, and the Guangxu Emperor led hundreds of officials to celebrate his birthday, but Cixi did not meet with Guangxu that day. At that time, Cixi had been diarrhea for many days, probably afraid that Guangxu would know the news that she was seriously ill. Later, some people wanted Cixi to report that Guangxu had heard that Cixi was seriously ill and his face was leaking with joy, so Cixi decided to remove Guangxu before he died, lest he overthrow everything after his death. The photo shows the scene of the Guangxu Emperor's funeral.
Mr. Qi Gong also expressed his views on Guangxu's death before his death, saying that his grandfather Pu Liang, who was then the Rebbe Shangshu, had personally seen a eunuch bring out a bowl from Cixi Palace, and the eunuch said that it was given by Lafayette to Viva Grandpa. Not long after the eunuch was sent, the Guangxu Emperor died, and a day later Cixi died. In 2005, experts tested the Guangxu Emperor's braids and found that the Guangxu Emperor had arsenic on his body, which concluded that the Guangxu Emperor should have died of Cixi poisoning.
The photo shows the Zi Palace of the Guangxu Emperor. At that time, there were hundreds of barmen who raised the Zi Palace for the Guangxu Emperor, which sounded exaggerated, but in fact, there were so many people at that time. Because the emperor's coffin is very large and heavy, it needs many people to carry it at the same time, but it does not need hundreds of people to carry it, the reason why so many people are mainly because it cannot land in the process of carrying the coffin, from Beijing to Hebei Is a long distance, there are hundreds of miles, naturally it takes several groups of people to rotate and carry.
The photo shows the funeral of the Guangxu Emperor, the funeral procession is very large, and the people on the side of the road kneel to send him off. The Guangxu Emperor is buried in Chongling, the last mausoleum in China built to imperial specifications. At that time, the qing dynasty's national strength was weak, the wind and rain were shaky, compared with other imperial tombs, Guangxu's Chongling Tombs appeared to be somewhat shabby, there was no large monument, and there were no stone statues.
In the photo is the send-off procession at the funeral of the Guangxu Emperor, and they are all riding white horses. In fact, the Guangxu Emperor was very sad in his life, not only did he leave no heirs, but he was also depressed. This aspect has a profound background influence of the times, of course, it is also caused by Cixi's strength and Guangxu's own character weakness.
The grand funeral of the Guangxu Emperor. Although the Guangxu Emperor failed to lead China to prosperity and strength, he made a brave attempt to change China, and even when someone proposed that "if the House of Representatives is opened, the people have the right and the king has no power", Guangxu replied: "I want to save the Chinese ear, if I can save the country, then although I have no right, what is the obstacle?" It can be seen that the Guangxu Emperor was still a person with the ambition to save the country, which was much stronger than Cixi, who was well versed in the art of power and only knew how to enjoy.