Few and wise, beautiful and matchless.
Speaking of Cixi, each of us is no stranger, but most people's impression of her stays in the history textbooks of junior high school and high school. We know that Cixi in history textbooks, along with Wu Zetian, held a great deal of power and played a large role in the late Qing Dynasty, although most of them were more likely to be negative.
Throughout her life, Cixi liked to be rich and prosperous, and in her later years she was even more profligate, and in some ways, it played an indirect role in accelerating the demise of the Qing government. And for Cixi's appearance, it only stays in the textbook.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="30" > Cixi and the three emperors</h1>
Originally known as Yehenara, he was drafted into the palace at the age of seventeen, and gave birth to the crown prince Zaichun at the age of twenty-one. As the saying goes, the mother is expensive, Zaichun is the only son of the Xianfeng Emperor, Cixi in the following year to promote the title of Concubine Yi, the value, status, all the way up the water. Emperor Xianfeng's health was not very good, coupled with the pressure of major political affairs, internal and external troubles, the invasion of the British and French allies, and the rise of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, which made Emperor Xianfeng feel haggard. In 1861, the Xianfeng Emperor died.
After the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, Crown Prince Zaichun became his successor, the Tongzhi Emperor. With the appointment of the new emperor, Cixi, who was the mother, was also honored as the empress dowager, but Cixi was a very ambitious woman, and through the coup d'état of Xin You, she had the power, obeyed the government, and became the actual ruler, a situation that lasted until the death of Tongzhi.
Tongzhi had no heirs in his lifetime, so Cixi waved a big hand and let his nephew love Xinjue Luo Zai Xiang to succeed Xianfeng Datuo, who is known as the Guangxu Emperor. It should be noted that during the reign of Guangxu, the power of the state was still in the hands of Cixi, and although there were cases of returning to Guangxu during this period, it was soon returned to the hands of Cixi, who was still the de facto ruler.
After the death of the Guangxu Emperor, Cixi once again chose Puyi, who was only 3 years old, as emperor, and on November 15, 1908, Puyi ascended the throne, and Empress Dowager Cixi's life finally came to an end, and she left this life in reluctance.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="29" > Cixi's appearance</h1>
Many people have seen Cixi's appearance from textbooks or on the Internet, including the ugliness of some literary works, so that most of Cixi's expressions in existing photos are ugly. It is also in line with people's stereotypes of her "old demon wife", but that is not Cixi's real appearance, and because of this, not only the academic community, but also ordinary people are curious about her true appearance.
In American museums, people found the answer they wanted—American museums still have a portrait of Cixi. In this portrait, Cixi is a very good-looking person because of proper maintenance, his age is completely invisible from his face, and he looks very temperamental, which is very different from the oppressed and enslaved people at that time.
According to historical records, at that time, Cixi paid special attention to her own appearance, and people at that time would also sneak around and pat horses, and it is said that those who praised Cixi's good looks were all promoted to higher ranks and knights. It is even rumored that when foreign emissaries visited cixi, they saw Cixi and called "little sister", and officers in their 20s fell in love with Cixi at first sight at first sight. Although this sounds exaggerated, it can also reflect Cixi's appearance level from the side.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="28" > the "secret" of Cixi's maintenance</h1>
In fact, we can also understand how she carries out maintenance. As the true holder of state power, Cixi could use all the resources of the Qing Dynasty alone. Cixi's use of eating and drinking is unimaginable to our ordinary people now, in the movie "The Last Emperor", Cixi also drank Wang BaTang before her death, and after her death, she also contained the night pearl in her mouth.
It is said that everyone has a heart for beauty, not to mention Cixi, who is the ruler of a country, at that time, the treasury of the Qing Dynasty had long been in deficit, and there were internal and external troubles, but Cixi was still squandering, her life was extremely luxurious every day, and she still invested heavily in maintenance. We know that the productivity at that time was very low, and there was no technology related to beauty, people at that time were using the ancient method of beauty and beauty, Cixi had issued a decree, so that doctors and doctors from all over the country entered the palace, talking about the method of maintaining the face, the method mentioned she had tried.
Therefore, most of the photos about Cixi's appearance that we can come into contact with now have been scandalized, or have been synthesized by later generations through various techniques, and are not the real cixi faces in history.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="27" > conclusion</h1>
Just imagine, when Cixi was drafted into the palace, her appearance itself would not be bad, and it was not comparable to ordinary people, but in most people's minds, she was just a bad woman who coveted glory and wealth, which plunged the Qing Dynasty into a situation of perdition, so people unconsciously imagined Cixi as a person with an ugly face.