In China's ancient history, the Qing Dynasty is the closest dynasty to us, the Qing Dynasty ruled for a total of 268 years, during which two crucial women appeared before and after the Qing Dynasty, but these two women contributed very differently to the Qing Dynasty, one was Empress Xiaozhuang, who led the Qing Dynasty to prosperity, and the other was Empress Dowager Cixi, who brought the Qing Dynasty to decline.
When it comes to Empress Dowager Cixi, she basically has no good evaluation, in the 47 years that Cixi controlled the Qing Dynasty, not only did the people of the world live a hard life, as soon as they encountered the invasion of foreign enemies, Cixi cut the land to compensate, and even when the Eight-Nation Alliance attacked Beijing, Cixi was frightened to escape from the Forbidden City and go all the way to the west, not to mention how embarrassed. Even the two emperors, Tongzhi and Guangxu, were very resentful and could only obey Cixi.
As we all know, the Forbidden City is now the Forbidden City in Beijing, and there is a well in the Forbidden City, called "Zhenfei Well", and the origin of the name of this well must have been heard by everyone. At that time, Cixi ordered the eunuch Li Lianying to push Zhenfei into the well, and this well was obtained from this. Why did Cixi have to dispose of Concubine Zhen? In fact, the main reason is that Princess Zhenfei is too disobedient.
Among the concubines in the palace of the past, Zhenfei's appearance was not amazing, and it was very ordinary, but the Guangxu Emperor just liked Zhenfei. At first, Princess Zhen entered the palace with her sister Concubine Jin, but Princess Jin's personality was calm and indisputable, just the opposite of her sister Princess Zhen's liveliness and cleverness, so Princess Jin did not get the appreciation of emperor Guangxu, but princess Zhen became the beloved of emperor Guangxu.
The Guangxu Emperor favored Zhenfei, and at first Cixi did not interfere, but after that, Zhenfei gained more favor from the emperor and did things more and more recklessly under Cixi's control. It is said that Zhenfei often introduced some reformers to Guangxu, thus touching Cixi's sensitive areas, and also making Guangxu not listen to Cixi's words, so Cixi became more and more disgusted with this Zhenfei.
You must know that anyone in the palace who dares to oppose Cixi will have a bad result, for the Guangxu Emperor, Cixi cannot move clearly, but for a concubine, Cixi can certainly discipline clearly. In order to punish this precious concubine, Cixi found an excuse to take advantage of the opportunity to imprison the precious concubine, not only could not see the emperor, but also could not move around at will.
Watching his beloved suffer, Guangxu was powerless, and could only be anxious in his heart, unable to compete with Cixi. Cixi's heart was very small, and it was still too light to just imprison Zhenfei, but the blatant disposal of Zhenfei was a loss of royal dignity, so Cixi came up with a way, that is, to stimulate Zhenfei spiritually.
As soon as Cixi arrived at the "special" day, she would send eunuchs to do one thing, that is, to scold Zhenfei, and Zhenfei could only listen, and her face could not show displeasure, and then she had to give thanks to the empress dowager.
This "special" day is the time of various festivals, others are happily living the festival, and Zhenfei can only listen to the punishment of the empress, and is seriously hit mentally.
Later, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China and invaded the city of Beijing, and before Cixi fled the Forbidden City with the Guangxu Emperor, the eunuch was ordered to push Zhenfei into the well, and eventually Zhenfei drowned. Looking back on Zhenfei's life, the result is very heart-wrenching.