What is the life of the Empress Dowager?

What was the vision of Cixi when she was born? What is the real life story of Cixi?

Shun Tian Fu Zhi: In the fifteenth year of Daoguang, before October, crows got together and stayed together for three days.

This day is the day when Empress Dowager Cixi was born. It is said that Empress Dowager Cixi didn't cry for three days. Crowds of crows circled over the capital for three days!

Before the Tang Dynasty, crows were regarded as divine birds, and there was a legend that "crows give good news and Zhou Xing begins". However, after the Tang Dynasty, crows were regarded as ominous things, and there was a saying that crows on the ground were not applauded. Moreover, crows have a keen sense of smell and can quickly detect the smell of carrion, so in ancient witchcraft books, crows, like black cats, are symbols of darkness and death, and crowing is a sign of catastrophe.

The Qing emperor was Manchu. They have regarded crows as divine birds since ancient times, believing that crows have saved their ancestors. Therefore, Emperor Daoguang was very happy to see the strange image of crows not leaving for three days. He thought it was good luck from heaven, so he gave a banquet for three days to celebrate the civil and military officials.

Daoguang didn't know that the arrival of crow was actually a harbinger of Cixi's birth, but it was fierce. He only saw the good side, but ignored the bad side.

According to folklore, a fortune-teller saw this vision and immediately burst into tears, saying that as soon as the girl was born, the Qing Dynasty died. Let's not talk about the accuracy of fortune telling, let's talk about the mystery of Cixi's life. Many people thought that Cixi was Manchu, but many years later, the Han people found the government and said that they were descendants of Cixi.

In fact, the real life experience of Empress Dowager Cixi is probably Han. 1June, 989, a 77-year-old villager named Zhao found the local government office, claiming that he was the fifth-generation nephew of Empress Dowager Cixi, and the Song and Song people he brought with him were the fifth-generation nephews of Empress Dowager Cixi. What the hell is going on here?

Later, it was verified that the real life experience of Empress Dowager Cixi was actually the daughter of a poor Han peasant in Xipo Village, Changzhi County, Shanxi Province. Her earliest name was "Wang Xiaoxiao". When Cixi was four years old, her poor parents sold her to Song Siyuan, the daughter of Shangqin Village in this county. Since then, Cixi has changed its name to "Song Gelin". Later, when Cixi was twelve years old, the Song family was ruined, and she was resold to the magistrate of Lu 'an Prefecture and renamed as "Magnolia", also known as Laner.

1852, Cixi entered the palace as the daughter of Ye Henala and was made a blue aristocrat. In the harem, Cixi is a favored empresses. After she entered the palace, her status continued to rise. First, she was promoted to a concubine. After giving birth to the Tongzhi emperor, she was promoted to a concubine. Later, she was promoted to imperial concubine. She was also allowed by Xianfeng to mark the throne for her.

After the death of Tongzhi, Cixi formally participated in politics as the empress dowager, which sounded the death knell of the Qing Dynasty.

Later, Cixi and Guangxu seized power for half their lives at the age of 74. Before she died, she left her last words: "In the future, women should not know the state affairs in advance!"

After the death of Cixi, people gave her different opinions. Her political skills are very strong, and the Qing Dynasty lived for more than ten years because of her reconciliation. However, her cruel means of seizing power and her weak attitude towards western powers made her sign many unequal treaties that humiliated her power and country, which severely hit China's sovereignty and hindered China's development. All this happened when Cixi was born. The vision of crows gathering together for three days, good or bad, depends on what the world thinks.