We all know that there were a total of twelve emperors in the history of the Qing Dynasty, but since the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, the real ruler of the Qing Dynasty was a woman with a foreign surname, she was Cixi, Cixi's original surname was Yehenara, about her real name before entering the palace, there is no record in history, but from the perspective of her initial title in the palace, it should be related to "Lan".
In 1961, the Xianfeng Emperor died in Rehe, the five-year-old Tongzhi Emperor took the throne, because the emperor was too young, so the two empresses fell to the government, but in fact, the dominance fell on Cixi's body, because although Empress Dowager Ci'an was the empress of the Xianfeng Emperor's palace, she did not give birth to an heir, and Cixi was a mother with her son, sitting on an equal footing with her everywhere, in 1875, the Tongzhi Emperor suddenly died of illness, and the historical record is that it was a problem that fell from her infancy, and the folk record is that she died of smallpox infection.
Subsequently, she had her nephew Zai Xiang as the new emperor, in 1881, Empress Dowager Ci'an also died suddenly, since then, the Qing Dynasty was completely controlled by Empress Dowager Cixi, as the highest ruler of the Qing Dynasty, All the things cixi used were the best, especially in terms of eating and wearing, in many records, we can use extravagance and waste to describe, so the historical Cixi did not leave any good impression on posterity, but left criticism.
In 1912, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, most of the royal family changed their names and surnames, and lived in a low-key manner, so that for a long time, people forgot about these imperial relatives and nobles, including such a person, who was very similar to Cixi in appearance and temperament, and she also claimed to be a descendant of Cixi, whose original surname was Yehenara, now called Chen Lihua.
In 1941, Chen Lihua was born in the Summer Palace in Beijing, she belonged to the Manchurian Yellow Banner, this Cixi is very similar, according to the records, Cixi belongs to the Yellow Flag, but at this time the Qing Dynasty has long been destroyed for decades, Chen Lihua's family has also fallen in the middle of the family, so despite being an imperial prince and nobleman, Chen Lihua grew up with a hard life, and was forced to drop out of school after reading until high school.
Later she started her own furniture business, after painstaking research and accumulation of contacts, in her twenties she owned her own furniture factory, which was not an easy task in that era, in 1982, she also obtained a lot of income by acquiring cultural relics and buying and selling houses, and then she was involved in the real estate industry with extraordinary business acumen, and now the shop facades in the prime area of Chang'an Avenue in Beijing are assets under her name, according to statistics, her total assets reached 52.5 billion, and she could receive a lot of rent every year.
In addition, Chen Lihua also has a hobby is antiques, in 1999, she spent 200 million yuan to build China's first "private museum", here, the collection of more than 300 pieces of furniture cultural relics from the Ming and Qing dynasties, in addition to more than 2,000 pieces of rosewood treasures created by her own furniture factory, in September, the rosewood museum was officially opened to the public after completion, attracting a large number of ancient cultural relics enthusiasts at home and abroad, but also admired her collection.
It is worth mentioning that Chen Lihua's husband is a famous movie star, he is the 86 version of the classic mythological drama, "Journey to the West" in the Role of Tang Monk Chi Chongrui, in 1990, 49-year-old Chen Lihua and 38-year-old him married, the relationship between the two after marriage is very good, every morning at seven o'clock, Chi Chongrui will accompany his wife to eat breakfast, and then in the afternoon the two will swim and sweat steam, according to their own disclosure, for many years, the family has always had a habit, that is, the whole family to eat dinner together, and as Chen Lihua as the focus of the family, The children and husbands will wait for her to be served every time before moving the chopsticks, which has formed a tacit understanding.