Empress Dowager Cixi, who is keen on jewelry, is a genuine jade lover. A foreigner once gave her a big diamond. She took a leisurely glance, waved and said, "Go away.
Cixi thinks jade is a kind of gem with beauty effect, so she has a special liking for jade. Because of this, some ministers of North Korea catered to this kind of love of Cixi, offering high-grade jadeite to please the powerful queen mother.
Empress Dowager Cixi is very fond of jadeite, so she has a large collection of jadeite. The value of jadeite collected by Empress Dowager Cixi has increased hundreds of times in modern times, so people say that Empress Dowager Cixi is a discerning jewelry collector.