Cixi has an important influence on Chinese history, she was the ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, and we can learn from historical sources that Cixi did all the things in politics. However, cixi's appearance, the historical data is powerless, most of the cixi we see are professionals using computers to compose the picture, not the cixi photos that were preserved in that year.
In 1982, the people of the Palace Museum came to an authentic peasant's home, they did not do anything else, just because they heard that Elder Chen had an old photo of Cixi's life in his hand, and the Palace Museum hoped to communicate with Elder Chen, buy the photos back, and store them in the Palace Museum.
According to him, in 1980 he found the photo in the cabinet of his home, and when he saw that the photo was very old, he asked someone to frame it. Because the old photos were framed, many people were curious, so Elder Chen said something unknown. It turned out that more than a hundred years ago, the ancestors of the Chen family ran a flower shop in Beijing, and one day, a Frenchman went to the store to buy flowers, but he was careless and threw the camera in the flower shop. Later, the ancestor of the Chen family returned the camera to the other party, and gave the photo to the ancestor for convenience.
In the photo, Cixi is about forty years old, which is consistent with the historical background at that time. These experts who arrived at Chen's hometown were eager to identify the photos, and after some comparison, the experts confirmed the authenticity of the photos. Elder Chen brought the tea in front of the experts and asked about the photo, and the people in the Forbidden City affirmed the authenticity of the photo. At the same time, experts also said that they hope that Elder Chen can donate the photo, although he opened his mouth like this, but after all, the photo of Cixi is a copy, for Elder Chen, this is also a family inheritance of the old thing, they ask the old man how much money he wants, because the photo is only one, so they know that the old man wants more money is not excessive, but they are very worried, the old man is willing to give the photo to them?
Knowing that the photo is real, Elder Chen is also very happy, he smiled and said: "No money, free donation." Hearing Elder Chen say this, everyone was overjoyed, and at the same time, they were also touched by Elder Chen's simplicity, and in this way, the only real photo of Cixi was brought back to the collection of the Palace Museum.
Nowadays, this photo is the treasure of the Forbidden City, and a large number of tourists come to the Forbidden City every year to see the photos, but if someone wants to take it, it is absolutely not allowed, because this old color photo can no longer be hurt. Experts worked hard to restore it, the photos were clearer, and we also knew cixi's true appearance.
Elder Chen's simplicity is touching, if today, I am afraid that no one will hand over this photo so easily. Because most people pay attention to the economic value brought by cultural relics, very few people pay attention to the historical value left by cultural relics. It is a part of our China, a torrent in the long river of history, an indispensable section, although we do not have the opportunity to contribute cultural relics like Elder Chen, but what we can do is to recognize the value of cultural relics, not to be blinded by the world, and to look at it with correct values.