Now when people mention Empress Dowager Cixi, what comes to mind is a vicious old woman who "listens to politics behind the curtain", and then look at the photos of Empress Dowager Cixi found later, which further confirms that Empress Dowager Cixi was born as a human being and has a vicious heart, so she looks miserable.

Actually, that's your subjective idea You have set up the image of her evil woman in your mind. You must think she is ugly.

In fact, the life of Empress Dowager Cixi is not as smooth as you think.

She comes from Changzhi, Shanxi. When she was a child, she was called a watery girl. Because the family was too poor and her father didn't have a decent job, he sold her to the Song family. I have to say that the Song family bought her because Empress Dowager Cixi was beautiful.

After the Song family crisis, Cixi was resold to Lu 'an, which ushered in a great turning point in her life. Looking for lies, looking for guilt, looking for obedience? As a daughter.

After studying piano, chess and calligraphy, she was elected to the palace.

After entering the palace, he won the favor of the emperor.

Empress Dowager Cixi likes to play politics and blend in with officialdom. At the age of 25, she was able to launch a A Xin tryst with Prince Gong and get rid of the eight most powerful ministers in the imperial court. It can be seen that Cixi is a real politician.

She ruled the Qing Dynasty for 48 years, and the treaty that she signed with the invaders in the late Qing Dynasty was the most memorable. In fact, during her reign, she also made achievements. She rectified the official management and carried out the reform of "Tongzhi Zhongxing". At that time, the central government was politically stable, and the domestic social development, production and living standards had a certain development, but it was immediately returned to its original shape by the Westernization Movement.

Although there were domestic troubles and foreign invasion, it rectified Prince Gong who wanted to rebel, broke the 200-year-old rules of the Qing Dynasty, promoted useful talents of China officials such as Zuo and Zeng Guofan, and eliminated the rebellion of the Boxer Rebellion and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

At that time, westerners praised Empress Dowager Cixi as beautiful as a fairy. They said that Empress Dowager Cixi had angular face, well-proportioned figure and high cheekbones, which really met the aesthetic standards of westerners at that time.

Empress Dowager Cixi is good at calligraphy and painting, and she doesn't spend much money. After her death, she took a lot of gold, silver and jewels with her.

People often say that she wants to build the Summer Palace. In fact, the Summer Palace was built by Emperor Guangxu. In order to let Cixi spend her old age safely, she was good at leading the government, but failed.

Someone once said that her luxury was at the expense of the Qing Dynasty.

After seeing the life of Empress Dowager Cixi, look at her real photos. Do you think she looks good?