Cixi, one of the three most powerful female figures in Chinese history, held the supreme power of the Qing Dynasty for forty-eight years, and in the nearly half century that she was in power, she was cruel to internal means, not only executing Su Shun and other three auxiliary ministers for no reason, but also ruthless and ruthless toward her son Tongzhi and nephew Guangxu, and exercising high-pressure control; externally, she was weak and incompetent, repeatedly signing unequal treaties that humiliated the country, which eventually triggered the Eight-Power Alliance's war of aggression against China, bringing endless suffering to the ancient Chinese people.
Empress
Her three famous sayings, "If one person makes me unhappy, I make the world unhappy", "Measure the material strength of China, and tie the joy of the country", "Prefer to outsiders, not with domestic slaves" are even more notorious.
Therefore, the image of Cixi as an "old demon woman" in the hearts of the Chinese people was also deeply rooted, and a series of filthy things about Cixi sprung up like mushrooms. For example, Cixi raised male pets - Yang Xiaolou, a martial artist of Peking Opera, and Yao Baosheng, an imperial doctor; Cixi gave birth to an illegitimate son to be raised by his sister; the harem of fornication, and the eunuchs An Dehai, Zhang Landand, and so on.
These things are not recorded in the official history books, but the wild history rumors have noses and eyes, and aside from those versions that are crowded, true and false, we dissect her harem private life without anyone, to see if this outwardly weak and dignified empress dowager is dirty on the inside. Is she really a slut?
The matter of Cixi's raising of male pet Yang Xiaolou is not in line with the facts.
Cixi really likes to listen to Peking opera, but she wants to watch the drama, she can't go to the opera garden, she can only let the opera class enter the palace. Many famous characters, such as Tan Xinpei, Chen Delin, Wang Yaoqing, etc., often entered the palace to perform, and were sometimes called "inner court offerings". If you meet Cixi, you can also give some rewards. Yang Xiaolou is handsome in appearance, has a bright voice, solid foundation skills, and is very young, long and short hits are the crown of the moment, very much loved by Cixi. Yang Xiaolou also really took two "special rewards", but there was a reason: Yang Xiaolou was Tan Xinpei's righteous son, And if Tan received the "special reward", he would give it to Yang Xiaolou to take home, and others did not know the end, mistakenly thinking that he was exceptionally rewarded, and after a long time, he became a rumor. Yang Xiaolou was afraid of harming himself, so he had to become a Taoist priest.
Yang Xiaolou
As for Yao Baosheng, another male favorite mentioned in the Wenting style "The Tale of smelling dust dolls", it is also a false statement.
According to the "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty and The Empress Dowager", in the sixth to eighth years of Guangxu, Cixi was ill, and the emperor ordered the governors of various places to recommend doctors to diagnose and treat the empress. During this period, the imperial doctor Yao Baosheng had more strength, so the so-called rewards were also more. Some imperial doctors spread bad things about him out of jealousy, in fact, Yao Shi was full of guts, and he did not dare to do anything with the Nala clan, not to mention that Cixi was a seriously ill person at that time.
The claim that the Guangxu Emperor was cixi's illegitimate son is even more nonsense.
This matter stems from the ignorance of the people and is not worth refuting. It is not surprising why the Guangxu Emperor directly called Cixi "his father", during the Tongzhi and Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty, Cixi actually occupied the position of Emperor Taishang, and this high position could only be occupied by the emperor's father.
Guangxu
In order to show her legitimacy and honor as Emperor Taishang, Cixi asked Guangxu to call herself "Father Kiss". She herself once said: "The Guangxu Emperor's father was the Prince of Alcohol, and his mother was my sister." My sister's son is the same as my own. When this word spread, it gave rise to the so-called "biological" rumors, and this rumor was the most confusing, and many people believed it to be true.
About the relationship between Cixi and the three eunuchs OfeHai, Li Lianying, and Zhang Land.
This is also out of the history of the nocturnal history, and the relationship between the Nara clan and these three eunuchs is indeed extraordinary. First of all, Andehai, in the "Xin You Coup", passed on secrets for the Nara clan, contacted important people, made great contributions, and thus became her hardcore cronies. Later, he "called himself Chincha and wore a dragon robe" and was ordered to purchase a dragon robe. The ship passed through Hengjia, Shandong, and was captured by Ding Baozhen, the inspector of Shandong, who beheaded him on the grounds that "the ancestral eunuchs were not allowed to leave the capital, and the prisoners were not pardoned when they died.", so they were violently killed for three days in Jinan's Dingzi Street (now Yongchang Street). It is equivalent to dispelling rumors for Empress Dowager Cixi, and it can be seen that the two did not commit adultery.
Cixi and Andehai
Xiao Dezhang and Empress Dowager Cixi could not have had that relationship. Not to mention whether he would be able to hide Li Lianying from doing such a thing, it is impossible to say that only in terms of age, just imagine, how much effort does an old woman of sixty or seventy years old have to spend? Regarding Xiao Dezhang and other powers to get a wife after they were castrated from the palace, this is not a miracle. Eunuchs have been marrying wives since ancient times, which was very fashionable in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it was not uncommon in subsequent dynasties. Legend has it that he and the Nala clan had an adulterous affair with the palace, which is only a legend.
The reason why Cixi has so many scandals may be related to her early widowhood, and the fact that she is the heroine of the dictatorship for decades is easy to remind people of Wu Zetian, who is rich in lascivious names. In addition, she had many grievances in her life, and some of them orchestrated such gossip to damage her reputation, and the street talk was very keen on this kind of rumor that was long and long, and these stories were spread everywhere.