Empress Xi is a woman with a strong desire for power and a great ability to manipulate power. The desire for power, the art of power, and the woman, these three together determined Cixi's behavior for most of her life. Indispensable. Unfortunately, because Cixi had long been the supreme ruler of Manchu China, these three naturally determined the direction of the political situation in the late Qing Dynasty, and her full name was "Xiaoqin Cixi Duanyou Kangyi Zhaoyu Zhuang Chengshou Gongqin Present Chongxi with Tianxing Shengxian Empress", and every time the eunuch recited the Yi Will, she had to read it for a long time.
The height of Empress Dowager Cixi is also very controversial, some say that she is from the northeast, tall and tall, more than one meter and seven meters. Others say she's short and fat. Judging from the photos handed down from the Qing Dynasty, Cixi's shoes are about five inches high. That's twenty-five centimeters. The reason for the shoes is because her photos are full of such tall shoes. And even if he added these twenty centimeters, he and the great eunuch stood together only a little taller or taller. (Eunuchs in general still bow their heads.)
At that time, the height of the eunuchs was mostly about one meter and seven meters (the eunuchs who could serve them were relatively tall eunuchs, and the thin and small people were all handy servants). Therefore, Cixi's height will not be very high. Roughly around 155 cm to 160 cm. Older people may hunchback and be shorter.
In 1979, experts began to clean up the Qing Tombs, and it was not until 1983 that experts opened the coffin of Cixi, which had been closed for 55 years (in 1928, the Cixi Mausoleum was stolen, and Puyi sent people to clean the underground palace and re-enter the burial), found the remains of Cixi, and experts measured the height of the remains of Empress Dowager Cixi to 153 centimeters. Of course, she should be taller before she dies, not less than 160 centimeters.