Briefly introduce the life of Empress Dowager Cixi.

Empress Dowager Cixi's life can be divided into four periods, namely Xianfeng period, Tongzhi period, Guangxu period and political exercise period in her later years.

1, Xianfeng period

On February 11th, the second year of Xianfeng (February 1852, seventeen years old), Ye Henala was recruited into the palace and made a noble. Xianfeng four years on February 2 (1854, 19 years old), Jinfeng Yi 'an. In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), in March, Zai Chun, the only prince of Xianfeng Emperor, was born and became a imperial concubine. At the beginning of the first month of the seventh year of Xianfeng (1857, 22 years old), Yi Guifei of Jinfeng.

2. Tongzhi period

1860, before the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing, Yehnara fled to Jehol with Emperor Xianfeng. 186 1 After the death of Emperor Xianfeng, she was honored as Empress Dowager Xiaozhen with the emblem of Cixi, and was called the Queen Mother of Notre Dame; Later, Empress Dowager Ci 'an (filial piety) and Prince Gong Yixin jointly launched a Xin You coup, punished eight ministers and seized power, forming a pattern of "two palaces hanging over the curtain and the prince discussing politics". The Qing government temporarily entered a quiet period, which was called Tongzhi Zhongxing in history. 1873, the queen mother of the two palaces rolled back to the yamen.

3. Guangxu years

1June 875, Emperor Tongzhi died of illness. Cixi made Aisin-Gioro Zaitian, her nephew (her husband's nephew) and nephew, 4 years old, emperor, and changed the year number to Guangxu, and Empress Dowager Cixi once again listened to politics. 1On April 8th, 884, Cixi launched the change of the Yi Shu dynasty in Shen Jia, relieved the whole shift of the military department headed by Prince Gong Yixin, and started the Nishinomiya dictatorship.

4. Political training in recent years.

1898 After the coup, the Boxer Rebellion rose in northern China. Cixi initially suppressed, but the suppression failed repeatedly, and the Boxer Rebellion developed rapidly and entered Beijing. Cixi hoped to suppress the Boxer Rebellion and treat it differently, but the powers demanded that the Qing government completely annihilate the Boxer Rebellion, regardless of the opposition of the Qing government, and insisted on sending troops to Beijing.

Extended data

Cixi three into the coffin:

The first time:

In the thirty-fourth year of Guangxu (1908), Cixi passed away on October 22nd. At 4: 30 that afternoon, the eunuch in charge of Zhang Yisi carried Cixi's body out of Yiyuan Hall in Xiyuan with a yellow auspicious sedan chair. At five o'clock, she was assigned to the palace and put on the bed. At 8: 05 the next morning, under the reverence of Princess Jin, Cixi's body was buried in the coffin. In the year of Xuantongyuan (1909), on the fourth day of October, Cixi's son Gong was buried in the underground palace of Dongling, Putuo Valley.

The second time:

20 years after Cixi's death, that is, from July 4th, 1928 to July 10th 10. Sun Dianying, a warlord, stole the Yuling Mausoleum and Cixi Mausoleum of Emperor Qianlong, destroyed coffins and abandoned bodies, and robbed all the buried treasures. Cixi's body was thrown out of the coffin, the orb in her mouth was taken out, her coat was stripped off, and only a pair of underwear was left under her. After the theft, Puyi sent Zaize and others to Dongling to rebury Cixi's body.

The third time:

1983 in early February, tourism has entered the off-season. The leaders of the Qing Dongling Cultural Relics Preservation Center decided to clean up the inner coffin of Cixi. On February 6, 65438, after the cleaning team opened the coffin lid, they saw a big yellow satin quilt with two clothes on it. Obviously, this is the original state when 1928 buried Zaize and others again, and no one has moved it for 55 years. To be on the safe side, the leader of the storage office decided to cover the coffin first, close the underground palace and report the matter to the superior.

1984 65438+1On October 4th, National Cultural Heritage Administration sent a number of experts to form a team of 10 people with the Cultural Relics Protection Office of Qing Dongling to clean up the inner coffin of Cixi. The cleaning team carried the body out of the coffin with the wishful board under her and put it on the ground of the underground palace. After spraying antiseptic disinfectant in the coffin, Cixi's body was carried into the coffin.

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