Cixi, as the most powerful woman in the Qing Dynasty, experienced 3 emperors of the Qing Dynasty in her lifetime. After the untimely death of the Xianfeng Emperor, Cixi ascended to the top of the Qing Dynasty with a strong wrist, blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order his subjects to firmly control the Qing Dynasty in his own hands. It can be said that although Cixi supported the two emperors Guangxu and Tongzhi, the two were useless, and the real person in charge was Cixi.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, under the wave of the Western Industrial Revolution, the science and technology of the great powers continued to develop, and the military weapons moved towards the strong ships and cannons, at this time, Japan also began the Meiji Restoration early, and passed the test of war, with the most powerful navy in Asia. However, after a hundred years of seclusion, the Qing Dynasty also realized that it had carried out the foreign affairs movement, but because the development was too slow, it could not resist the artillery fire of the great powers.
As a result, in the Opium War, the Sino-Japanese War, the Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion of China, and other wars, the Qing Dynasty army ended in defeat and paid a large amount of silver and land. At this time, the Ai XinJue Luo Royal Family was collapsing step by step. As the head of the family, Cixi's body is weakening, and before the illness is about to die, Cixi has more than enough heart and insufficient strength, which can be described as grief for the fate of the Qing Dynasty.
At this time, after 2 years of the Gengzi Rebellion, Cixi finally returned to the Forbidden City after fleeing west. Her body also became very weak because of the chaos. Although the affairs of the government and the opposition are still controlled by her, the control is obviously not as good as in the past. Cixi spends more time on entertainment, perhaps because she clearly perceives that she has little time, so she often takes her favorite grid with her and likes to leave her last photos in various places.
In the garden of the Summer Palace, although it had just snowed heavily at this time and the park was deserted, Cixi still got up early and accompanied by Deling and Rongling (in all the photos of Cixi, the two had a high appearance rate, and in addition, there was another person, who was called the most beautiful grid of the Qing Dynasty), and enjoyed the snow in the park.
It is not difficult to see from the photos that At this time, Cixi not only showed weakness physically, but also her heart was full of uneasiness. For themselves, for the fate of the Qing Dynasty, like this heavy snow, it is about to melt rapidly in the spring sun, or become water vapor, or become a pool of snow water, or be trampled on, or flow into the sea, and all that is left is just a few photos.