Every day he has to eat a sumptuous meal, everything has to be tasted once, for his own glory and pleasure unscrupulous means, he is in charge of the imperial power in the court, covering the sky with one hand, the world with one hand, and the prince with the other, the supreme power, representing the rights of women. She is very interested in Western technology and culture, which is why she makes such a big joke.
1. The "biography" of Cixi (i.e., the life of the Empress Dowager Cixi).
Cixi was born in Beijing in 1935 when she was only five years old and named "Xing'er". In this year, the Opium War broke out, and the Qing Dynasty began to enter the twilight.
Cixi's life can be said to be the legend of Cixi! Cixi entered the palace at the age of seventeen and was canonized as Lan Concubine, and later because she had the son of the imperial brother, her mother was also promoted because of the return of her son, and later Princess Xianfeng had a son and a daughter, and was canonized as a side concubine.
However, Emperor Xianfeng was weak and sickly, and the Qing Dynasty faced rebellions from Britain and France, and finally died in the palace in 1861. Emperor Tongzhi succeeded to the throne at the age of five, and Cixi became the Empress Dowager Cixi, which was later known as the Empress Dowager.
Although Cixi is young and incapable of protecting her power, she has a deputy appointed by the first emperor, and although Cixi is the empress dowager, she cannot interfere in court politics, and her goal is not only this position. Cixi and Prince Gong teamed up to rebel and killed Cixi, and the whole court was panicked, and no one dared to resist her anymore.
Cixi abandoned her prejudices against the Han Chinese, activated the Han Chinese, and made many negotiations with Britain and France, which gave the Qing a buffer time.
The Ugly State of the "Eggplant" camera was transported to the palace in 1904, and it was the first time Cixi had seen such a strange thing, and as soon as the camera opened the shutter, a blinding light would flicker, and the shutter would sound.
From the existing historical materials, we can know that Cixi does love to take pictures, but we can find from these ** that Cixi's heart is very complicated, and the Cixi on her portrait is a serious look, with a nervous expression and a stiff posture.
Yu Deling, Cixi's personal guard, wanted Cixi to leave a few smiling photos, and he asked Cixi to take pictures in English, saying that when he did so, he would have a smile on his face, as if the person taking the picture was smiling.
But because the word on ** reads like "eggplant", Cixi called it "eggplant" when she saw something that would shine, and when Cixi saw the light bulb, she thought she was taking pictures, so she called it "eggplant". Everyone present laughed, some sincere, some mocking Cixi.
They ridiculed Cixi for closing off the country, closing the country, and isolating from the world, but this is not the point, the people in the Forbidden City have long been trapped by internal and external affairs, and they can no longer hear such laughter, for this stormy Qing Dynasty, this is a beautiful landscape.
The word "eggplant" has been used to this day, which was brought back by Cixi from abroad, but it is different from the previous "eggplant", at that time everyone was happy and happy.
3. The differences between Chinese science and technology and Chinese science and technology.
Many people think that the closure of the Qing Dynasty cut off China's connection with the outside world, but in fact, China has established a complete set of ideology in its long history and culture, which cannot be changed overnight. Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, there was still a big difference between science and technology between China and the West.
For example, the earliest textiles, when European and American countries experienced an industrial revolution and invented one loom after another, China still stayed on hand-spinning machines. Even in the Qing Dynasty, there were a large number of textile factories in China, but their productivity was not greatly improved, so the introduction of cheap Western textiles to China had a devastating impact on the local textile industry.
During the Qing Dynasty, many outstanding scholars and scholars went to Europe to carry out academic and cultural exchanges, resulting in a large outflow of scientific and technical personnel from China. At the same time, China's talent mobility has accelerated the scientific and cultural distance between China and Europe and the United States.
The conclusion is: Cixi's life has experienced a turnaround, experienced sorrow, enjoyed glory and wealth, and had supreme power, but she also gave up the development of the motherland because of Cixi's greed, in fact, Cixi is only a small example of China's transition from the feudal era to modern science and technology. Cixi's political means and her great contribution to the Qing court cannot be denied, but the resistance she showed in the reform and development cannot be ignored.
The word "eggplant", known as "shame", is not only a confusion about the future of the nation, but also a kind of tension and contradiction after China entered a new era, a feeling of being forced to accept foreign culture, but helpless. Ups and downs on the big ship, cautious, difficult!