Cixi was the concubine of the Xianfeng Emperor, the biological mother of the Tongzhi Emperor, an important political figure in the late Qing Dynasty, the de facto ruler of the late Qing Dynasty, and the demon girl of the evil country. In the late Qing Dynasty, because Cixi controlled the government for a long time, it caused dissatisfaction among the imperial court ministers, and the people complained bitterly, and even after his death, it was a stink for thousands of years, and the people scolded him continuously.
Cixi died on November 15, 1908. On that day, Cixi was still arranging his affairs for the Guangxu Emperor in the morning, and at about two o'clock in the afternoon, the news of the empress's long death came from the Yiluan Hall of the Qingxi Garden. As the most honorable woman in the late Qing Dynasty, how did Cixi spend her day?
First of all, the sleep time of the elderly is very short, and Cixi gets up at three o'clock every day on time by the next person. Get up and do a facial first. Brush your teeth and wash your face with human milk, let people take the jade to do a comprehensive massage of the skin, take an egg white to cover the face, and then use a hot towel to maintain the skin.
After the end of the facial care, it is time to choose clothes and accessories, this set of processes will take more than four hours, after which they will go to the place where the emperor went to the court to listen to the government, help the emperor approve the recital, and interview with the important ministers of the DPRK, verbally speaking: assist the emperor in handling the government. In fact, all the folds would be sent to Cixi by the people below, and the emperor was just a puppet to consolidate her power.
After the morning's mental work, it was lunchtime, and the manchus were all on the table, and the exquisite and delicious dishes were dazzling, and some of them would be withdrawn before they even entered Cixi's mouth. After lunch, Cixi also ate a few plates of after-dinner snacks and vegetables and fruits, and after eating, she slowly walked surrounded by guards and maids.
The palanquin would follow behind, and when Cixi was tired, she would carry her back to the residence, and after the walk, it was time to take a nap. In the afternoon, Cixi switches to leisure mode, and Cixi is the most relaxed at this time. Tease the birds, sneak around and chat with the nobles of the palace, or find an imperial doctor to do a physical examination.
Every time the imperial doctor examined Empress Dowager Cixi's pulse, she found that her physical age was seriously inconsistent with her actual age, perhaps because of long-term maintenance and frequent consumption of precious supplements. However, it is well known that "it is a three-point poison of medicine". Relying on drugs for a long time to nourish the body, like a delicate vase, although it looks beautiful on the surface, it is a fragile product.
Cixi's body is like the flowers of the greenhouse is well maintained, it is the long-term excessive health care that causes Cixi to take too many supplements, the resistance is too poor, it is easy to get sick, and the disease is not easy to heal, which has a great relationship with Cixi's death due to illness in her later years. The imperial doctor did not dare to say, but would only flatter in front of Cixi and say, "The phoenix body is healthy."
After dinner, Cixi had to do a full body treatment, and the materials for washing her feet and soaking in the bath were also very precious. It was under such meticulous maintenance that even though Cixi was nearly a hundred years old, her skin was delicate like a girl's, her body was very strong, and she lived longer than the emperor. However, when Cixi was 73 years old, she suddenly suffered from dysentery and vomited and diarrhea.
Before she walked like a fly, she now walked trembling, Cixi seems to be able to feel that she is about to reach the end of her life, just the day before Cixi's death, the Guangxu Emperor died on the spot due to arsenic poisoning, this matter is obviously not simple, but no one has carefully investigated, it is still a mystery, many people speculate that it is Cixi's hands and feet.
Because Cixi had no sorrow after hearing of the death of the Guangxu Emperor, she calmly arranged the funeral ceremony of the Guangxu Emperor, and even began to look for a new candidate for the puppet emperor, she fell in love with the emperor Puyi, and Puyi's father, the regent Zaifeng, served as the state supervisor.
The grievances between the Guangxu Emperor and Cixi are well known, the Guangxu Emperor is ideologically advanced, advocating Western liberal democracy, and during his reign, he was eager to change the thinking of the Chinese people through reform and reform, so as to promote social progress. However, Cixi was a representative of feudal conservatism, fearing that the Guangxu Emperor was too powerful and threatening his position in the court, and the people had already spread rumors.
In the palace, Cixi always picked the problems of the Guangxu Emperor and constantly weakened his rights, and the Guangxu Emperor inevitably held a grudge in his heart, and he had already looked at Cixi with a tiger's eye, waiting for the day when she died, under such circumstances, people had to suspect that the death of the Guangxu Emperor was caused by Cixi. She covers the sky with her hands, does nothing evil, and there is nothing that cannot be sacrificed for her rights.
On the morning of Cixi's death, she freshened up and dressed as usual, maintained her body, put on the most luxurious and solemn imperial clothes to receive the officials of the DPRK, and also instructed them to carefully handle the aftermath of the Guangxu Emperor, and specially explained some details.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Cixi left the world as soon as her eyes were closed, and the eunuchs immediately put on birthday clothes for Cixi and cried bitterly. Regarding the death of the Guangxu Emperor, it was suspected that Empress Dowager Cixi was afraid that Guangxu would retaliate against her after her death, so she poisoned Cixi the day before her death, just to prevent resentment after her death.
As a result, as Cixi wished, Emperor Puyi held Cixi's funeral with dignity, but unfortunately, the people's anger was difficult to calm down, and Cixi finally ended up with a stinky end.