Everyone has a love for beauty, and people always prefer more or less beautiful things, whether it is a beautiful scenery or a beautiful woman, it will always attract widespread attention. Not only the current people, but even the ancients will pay special attention to the traces of beautiful women, and even the history books that cherish words like gold will specially record their lives.
The story of Zhaojun's exit from the fortress is still circulating among us today, the legend of Yang Yuhuan's disaster to the country and the people is still of interest to many people today, and the legend of Xi Shi seducing King Wu is still admirable today. There is a high interest in women who are good-looking and have special encounters.
Today we are going to meet a woman in the late Qing Dynasty, who was known as the "first beauty" at that time. Although only black and white photos of her have survived to this day, we can still see her stunning face from these old photos. It stands to reason that such a beautiful person should be happy and have a happy life. But her life has been turned upside down because of Cixi's thoughts. What's going on?
The rise of the family
Sigege was originally just the daughter of a side branch of the Aixinjue Luo clan, although she was born in the emperor's family, she couldn't fight with the imperial power. According to the normal development, when Sigege reaches the age of Jilu, he will marry a family with the right family and live a life of husband and children.
But the accident always came suddenly, with the crumbling rule of the Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi's desire to dominate the court increased, and Sigege's father relied on excellent luck to get Cixi's reuse and reward. Let's take a closer look at the situation at that time, although Cixi successfully staged a coup d'état and obtained absolute rule of the Qing Dynasty, there were very few people she could trust in the huge court. As the empress dowager, it is not justifiable to be in power, and Prince Gong is watching from the sidelines, in case Prince Gong wants to unite with the ministers of the court to overthrow him, then Cixi's position is precarious.
As soon as she thought of this, Cixi had an idea. Since their relatives can't be counted on, and the ministers of the DPRK and China also have their own ghosts, it is better to personally appoint a few people and let them become their own henchmen and do things for themselves.
Soon Cixi set her sights on the side branch of Aixinjue Luo, and after some consideration, Cixi chose Sigege's father, who was later Prince Qing - Yixuan. was promoted by the Empress Dowager Cixi, and Yixuan's status also rose rapidly, all the way up. Soon, he changed from a little prince who was unpopular in a place to an important figure in power.
's father has been reused by the current queen mother, and Sigege has naturally become the object of everyone's stammering, after all, who asked her to have such a lucky father?
entered the palace to accompany Cixi and was favored countless times
For Sigege, the rise of her father's status has indeed brought a lot of changes to the whole family, but she is not a man, she can rely on her father's relationship to be an official in the court, and she can be a marquis and worship the prime minister. At most, it's just to make my future husband's family a little better. But what Sigege didn't expect was that her father sent her to the palace in order to please Cixi, and let her serve Cixi closely.
For the four-grid Yixuan, there is nothing more important than pleasing Cixi at the moment, although he has been reused by Cixi, but he may not be left out one day, it is better to send his daughter to Cixi to serve now, first, to understand Cixi's thoughts for the first time, and secondly, to give himself multiple guarantees.
In this way, Sigege was sent to the palace by her father, and she couldn't help but complain. At that time, Sigege was still ignorant, and she didn't know what she was facing, she just thought that her father asked her to accompany the Empress Dowager Cixi, but she didn't know the intention behind her father's Yixuan.
Cixi couldn't help but be a little surprised to see that in order to please herself, she was willing to send her pampered daughter to serve her. However, surprise is surprise, Cixi is still very useful. In a high position, she can get anything she wants, but there is a lack of someone around her who can speak considerately, and the appearance of Sigege is undoubtedly the best candidate.
Sigege was born with a beautiful appearance, and she had a delicate heart, and soon coaxed Cixi couldn't close her mouth, and she smiled happily every day. For a long time, Si Gege has become Cixi's favorite person, and no matter what Cixi wants to do, she has to let Si Gege accompany her.
This can be seen from many old photos of the Qing Dynasty that have been handed down to this day, and in the photos of many occasions, the figure of the four-grid has appeared. When we take a closer look, we will find that although it is a black and white photo, the beautiful face of the four grids is still dazzling and cannot be ignored.
一己自己欲毁终生
Having been by Cixi's side all these years, although Sigege was favored and respected in the palace, only she knew how difficult her every step was. Every day, she had to hang her heart and try her best to please Cixi, for fear that because of her own reasons, the whole family would be implicated for no reason.
Soon Sigege reached the age of marriage, as a young girl, she was still full of expectations for her marriage, she thought that she had been with Cixi for so long, and there was no merit and hard work. Cixi should give herself a good home and point out a good marriage for herself.
But Cixi didn't move for a long time, as if she had forgotten that Sigege still had to get married. Later, Prince Qing, the father of Sigege, couldn't stand it, so he arranged a marriage for his daughter and asked her to marry the ninth son of Yulu, the minister of military aircraft. For Si Gege, she has indeed reached the age where she should have something to rely on, she can't serve Cixi all her life, right? But for Cixi, Sigege's service and companionship over the years have long made her develop a habit, and she is somewhat reluctant to let her go at this time.
But Sigege is not an ordinary palace maid after all, and it is really unreasonable for Cixi to keep her. In this way, in the year of Sigege and Lu, she finally left the Forbidden City, which had many rules, and had a home of her own, and she no longer had to live in fear.
Although Sigege and her husband are the matchmakers of their parents, the husband and wife have similar interests and similar personalities, and they live happily and comfortably. Her husband dotes on her, her in-laws dote on her, Sigege's life in her in-laws' house is smooth and smooth, without any worries, the only thing that is in a hurry is to have a child and continue the incense.
But Sigege's good days didn't last long. Less than three or four months after the marriage, Cixi summoned her to the palace with a decree. Sigege thought that Cixi missed her, so he summoned her to the palace to accompany her, but what she didn't expect was that she never came back.
It turned out that after Cixi left Sigege, she felt more and more lonely and lonely, and she felt uncomfortable and uncomfortable with others serving. After thinking about it, he decided to call Sigege back and continue to accompany him, completely ignoring that she was married and had her own family.
Although Sigege was reluctant, even the emperor could not disobey Cixi's will, let alone his own female generation? From then on, Sigege stayed in the palace again, accompanying Cixi every day, and could not see her husband. At this time, Si Gege also thought that after Cixi died, he could go back to reunite with her husband and continue to live a small life for the two. But accidents always come unexpectedly, and within a few years, her husband fell ill and died, and even during the mourning period, Cixi only let her see her husband once.
As soon as her husband died, Si Gege no longer had any hope of life, as if she was like a walking corpse, in the palace, Cixi said whatever she did, she did whatever she wanted, and she was completely unvibrant and agile as before. After the death of the Empress Dowager Cixi, she did not leave the palace, and voluntarily stayed in this cannibalistic palace until she finally died quietly.
epilogue
Originally, Sigege could also have a happy family like an ordinary woman, love her husband, and be smart and well-behaved, and then spend her life happily and peacefully. But all of this is thought that Cixi's selfish desires were ruined, which makes us have to sigh the mercy of Sigege's fate and the ruthlessness of Cixi's work.