Empress Dowager Cixi (1835-1908), of the Yehenara clan, was a native of the Yellow Banner of Manchuria and the daughter of Huizheng of Guangtai Dao, Ningchi, Anhui. She held the late Qing dynasty for fifty years, during which many major events can be said to be well known, and Cixi is nothing more than a traitor and conspirator in our impression, vicious and cold. But as a mortal, Cixi also has another side that she does not know, there are the same joys and sorrows, seven emotions and six desires as ordinary people, what is the difference between Empress Dowager Cixi's life and ordinary people, especially as Lafayette who holds state power, what is the secret of her private life?
Loving beauty is the nature of women, Empress Dowager Cixi is well versed in this way, when she relied on her beauty to win the favor of the Xianfeng Emperor, thus embarking on the peak road of life, so when she was in power, she paid more attention to maintenance, collected various methods to make her face immortal, and her youth was eternal. One of Cixi's hobbies is eating flowers and bathing flowers. Cixi's nickname is Lan'er, so she is particularly fond of orchids. Orchids were planted in the palace garden. When she was a concubine, her clothes were embroidered with orchid motifs. Not only that, Cixi also loves chrysanthemums. She was favored as a teenager, climbed to the throne of the empress, and worked hard, so that after middle age, she gradually felt energyless, often dizzy, dry eyes, and dizzy vision. Knowing the medicinal properties of Cixi, she chose the highest grade hangzhou chrysanthemum flower instead of tea to relieve the symptoms. After tasting the sweetness, she also gave chrysanthemums as gifts to the wives of envoys from various countries in Beijing.
Empress Dowager Cixi not only likes to enjoy the flowers, smell the flowers, but also likes to eat flowers with great interest, her favorite thing to eat is the white chrysanthemum and lotus, she ordered people to pick those flowers that are in full bloom, rinse in warm water, put them in a bamboo basket to drain, and then brought a small silver pot from the imperial dining room, which contains stewed chicken soup, plus some sashimi and soy sauce and other spices, Empress Dowager Cixi took the petals dipped in the soup to eat, she could eat a lot at a time, she also liked to add lotus petals and magnolia flowers to the spices to make snacks, reserved for leisure. In addition, when the Empress Xi is in beauty and bathing, she also likes to use flowers as material, she often uses flower lotion made of honeysuckle when beauty and skin, apply it to the body and gently dry it, and when bathing, she uses a large number of roses or jasmine flowers as spices, sprinkles into the water, soaks in the flowers, and enjoys the beauty and nourishment brought by the flowers.
Many people think that high heels are the product of modern civilization, in fact, there were high heels as early as ancient China. For example, Manchu women wear a kind of high-soled flat shoes, high-soled shoes are the most ethnic shoes of Manchu women, and the center of the foot in the middle of the sole is cushioned with a high sole of about ten centimeters, and several layers of white cloth are sewn on the outside. This kind of heel is divided into three kinds of horseshoe shape, flower pot shape and yuanbao shape, with a mouth trim, upper embroidery, and various patterns of embroidery. Cixi was petite and loved these high-soled shoes, especially the flower pot bottom and horseshoe-shaped women's shoes. Pink pot bottom shoes and lake color horseshoe shoes, chic shape, pure color, is her favorite. After wearing this kind of high-soled shoes, walking gracefully and gracefully, we see today in the photos and portraits of Cixi at that time, she wore the most such high heels, which shows the degree of her obsession with this kind of shoes.
Regarding empress dowager Cixi's harem sex life, there are various theories circulating in the barnyard official ye history. One theory is that Empress Dowager Cixi had long been on good terms with Prince Gong Yi, and when she first entered the palace as a showgirl, she had an affair with Yi, often taking advantage of the fact that others were not paying attention, and some people even suspected that the Tongzhi Emperor was not Xianfeng's biological son, but the illegitimate son of Cixi and Yi. It is also believed that Cixi's lover was the chancellor Rong Lu, and legend has it that Rong Lu was Cixi's first love, who saved cixi from being raped by evil young people, and has maintained an ambiguous relationship ever since, often having adultery, and Rong Lu has also been used by Cixi, who once participated in determining the succession of Zai Xiang (that is, the Guangxu Emperor) to the throne, assisted in the abolition of Cixi's Pengshu change in the Coup d'état, and fled with Empress Dowager Cixi to Xi'an during the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, becoming a courtier inseparable from Empress Dowager Cixi. In folklore, Empress Dowager Cixi also had a private affair with the grand eunuchs An Dehai and Li Lianying, because the eunuchs had no physical ability, so Cixi befriended them more of a psychological comfort, Li Lianying was very good at pandering to Empress Dowager Cixi in this regard, so she got her thousands of favors, although this pampering had a psychopathic tendency.
The vast majority of these rumors are not recorded in the history, so the authenticity cannot be verified. In fact, even the main history will not be recorded, but the so-called no wind and no waves, folk oral tradition often has a realistic shadow. Empress Dowager Cixi began to be widowed at the age of 26, and her situation was miserable, and she was bound to be young and beautiful, and she must not be able to bear loneliness, and went to seek opportunities for venting and satisfaction. When she listens to the government and holds the power of the country, she can do whatever she wants, so it is not surprising that these things really happen.