After the Cixi Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the late period, it was basically under the control of Empress Dowager Cixi, and in the half century of her reign, the Manchu Qing government was defeated again and again, becoming synonymous with decay, and was in the inferior position in all major historical events, losing power and humiliating the country, losing a large amount of territory and sovereignty, and becoming the culprit of the humiliation that the Chinese nation has never had in five thousand years.
So, what is the real photo of the most heinous historical figure, Empress Dowager Cixi? A photograph from the American Museum reveals everything about her, and perhaps that's what she really looks like.
Empress Dowager Cixi, whose real name was Yehenara Xingzhen, was born in Beijing with a blue flag in Manchuria, and received a good Han cultural education since childhood, so she was sent to the imperial palace as a showgirl.
After spending some time in the palace, by a very fortuitous chance, he received the favor and grace of the Xianfeng Emperor, and soon gave birth to a prince.
Cixi, as a Manchu woman, was able to be selected as a showgirl, indicating that she was good enough in her youth, otherwise she would not have been recommended to the palace.
As a concubine in the harem, she could get the favor of the Xianfeng Emperor, at least in terms of appearance, she could still say it, otherwise according to the emperor's vision, she would definitely not have anything to do with a woman with an ordinary appearance.
After all, in the harem of the Xianfeng Emperor, there were too many women, and if it were not for chance, Cixi would most likely spend her life in the cold palace.
However, since the Xianfeng Emperor chose her, she gave birth to a prince in the case of the late Qing Dynasty royal family Ding Wang, and naturally she was able to rely on her son and hold a high position.
Therefore, in the eyes of The Historical Jun, Cixi's appearance in her youth was at least seven points or more, unlike the photos that flowed out of her old age, which looked so old and unsightly.
After the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, the Tongzhi Emperor succeeded to the throne, and soon after, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement was completely strangled, and the Manchu Qing government opened the so-called "Tongzhi Zhongxing", as the most direct ruler at that time, how big cixi's role in the "Tongzhi Zhongxing" was, and the fancy history did not dare to comment on it, but at least it showed that Cixi could recognize the current affairs, no longer blindly reuse the Manchus, and suppress the Hanchen.
At this point, Cixi was still self-aware, and until this time, the Eight Flags disciples had long been terminally ill and had no medicine to save.
However, as she grew older, Cixi became the most depraved member of the Eight Banners, living into the most hated appearance of her own, which is still a bit ironic.
Under Cixi's misdeeds, he wantonly expanded the Yuanmingyuan and built a new Summer Palace, which consumed most of the Manchu Qing's national strength, resulting in it having no power to fight back at all when facing the Anglo-French coalition and the Eight-Nation Alliance.
As the de facto ruler of the late Manchu Qing Dynasty, Cixi did not take the rule of a stable regime, did not regard the strengthening of the entire country as his responsibility, only cared for his own pleasures, and only cared about his own power in his lifetime.
The many shadows of the destruction of each last dynasty can be easily found in the Manchu ruling class and Cixi, which is the most criticized place for Cixi.
As the de facto ruler of a country, Cixi was completely unqualified, although some people compared her with Wu Zetian and Lü Hou, but in the eyes of the Fancy Historian, Cixi was not even qualified to give these two great women shoes.
During the reign of Lü Hou, the Han Dynasty continued to recover from the devastation of war, and did not interrupt the pace of development of the entire country and dynasty because of its own rule.
Wu Zetian was even more powerful, not only was she the only female emperor in Chinese history, but also when she ruled the world, there were great political, economic, military, and cultural aspects, completely continuing the excellent situation since the reign of Zhenguan, forcing the Western Turks to submit to the Central Plains Dynasty, stabilizing the frontier, suppressing the Nobles of Longxi and the Li Tang Imperial Family, and allowing more people born into the commoner class to participate in the politics of the imperial court.
Therefore, Cixi really seemed useless in front of Lü Hou and Wu Zetian.
After entering the 20th century, the camera invented by Westerners was introduced to China, and the younger generation of the Manchu Qing royal family represented by Princess Deling began to accept more advanced material civilization, which also made Cixi feel the joy of modern civilization in her later years, and a large number of photos flowed out of the palace, allowing more and more people to understand the true appearance of the Forbidden City, and even crossed the ocean to the other side of the distant ocean, becoming one of the collections of the American Museum.
Judging from the photos of Cixi treasured by the American Museum, it is really not full of kindness and fraternity like ordinary old ladies in China, and on Cixi's face, we see more ugliness, arrogance and fierceness, which is such an ugly face that pushes the Chinese nation into a deeper abyss, and hundreds of millions of ordinary Chinese have to endure this torture and pain from the times.