The first one: Emperor Guangxu's only surviving **, a rare **work You may have seen the Empress Dowager Cixi's **, but Emperor Guangxu has become an exception.
At present, the face of Emperor Guangxu circulating on the Internet is all fake. This is because he was in a difficult situation at that time, and he did not even leave a positive photo. This photo** was taken on January 8, 1902, and the "Two Palaces" returned to Beijing from Xi'an.
On the same day, the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor took the train to Majiapu Station outside the Yongding Gate in Beijing, and then went to the Guandi Temple and the Bodhisattva Temple to make incense. An American couple doing business in China described the royal pomp as follows: "The station was full of bright yellow satin curtains, with the exception of **, interlaced with yellow, red, and black curtains.
The platform is covered with red cloth and has some very cleverly designed sloping platforms with railings, apparently to facilitate disembarkation ......As soon as the royal train arrived, the platform was immediately overcrowded, as if countless attendants were pouring out of the carriage.
The VIP car just stopped right in front of us. The person who came out of it was Her Majesty the Empress Dowager Cixi, she was dressed in a bright embroidered robe, and a eunuch on each side supported her arm, although she looked calm, but there was no trace of a smile.
It is said that when she laughed, the coldness made foreign ministers shiver. Her attendant seemed to want her to get her off the platform. Cixi was reluctant and did not move. In this way, she stood motionless on the platform until a railway ** caught up with her out of breath from somewhere, did not wear her hat, and bowed deeply to her, and Cixi was not satisfied.
She immediately sat in a palanquin, which was only slightly smaller than the emperor's one, and quickly carried her away. However, Emperor Guangxu did not receive the same treatment. He was left on the platform and did not sit in a sedan chair.
This ** is the only face photo, and it is also the only ** work.
Gengzi Xijia Cong Tan once recorded in detail the spectacular scene when the Empress Dowager Cixi and the Guangxu Emperor fled. At that time, Wu Yong was appointed by the Empress Dowager Cixi as the head of the Qianlu Grain Station Association because of his meritorious service.
Gengzi West Hunting Cong Talk" describes in detail that after the train arrived at Majiabao, the soldiers played music with guns, and the two palaces got off one after another, the emperor's eight yellow satin sedan chairs were particularly eye-catching, and the husbands were all wearing purple satin embroidered clothes, and the guards and internal supervisors supported them on all sides, and the soldiers, musicians, and banners were arranged in front of the sedan chair ......The queen mother's yellow sedan chair honor guard is the same as that of the emperor.
The second is the princes, the palace concubines, supported by Ma Junmen Yukun, the palace to the queen, with the royal yellow satin sedan chair, the guard of honor, depending on the two palaces slightly reduced. The palace concubines used a green sedan chair and six carriages ......At about 50 o'clock, he arrived at Zhengyang Gate.
There are still foreign soldiers in Beijing, who are in the same city, and there are those who take off their hats and wave them to show their salutes. The Queen Mother looked up in the public opinion and seemed to answer with a smile. Almost as soon as the Empress Dowager Cixi was pouring incense, foreign reporters standing on the city wall and watching took pictures of Emperor Guangxu at the moment when he got off the sedan chair.
It can be seen from ** that when Emperor Guangxu got off the sedan chair, there were ministers standing around to greet him. The American writer Mrs. Edter also gave a detailed description in the book "My Peking Garden": "The emperor's actions were still lightning fast, and almost no one could see them.
He stepped out of the sedan chair and sacrificed to the martial temple dedicated to Guan Yu, the emperor of the country, and was immediately carried away again, so that no one could believe that he had ever gotten off the sedan chair. On the other hand, the Empress Dowager Cixi stayed for a long time, waving first to the various foreign spectators on the city wall, then waving her handkerchief, and then asking for a pair of glasses for watching the theater, so that she could look at them more closely. ”
He once sat on the throne at the age of 4, but died at the age of 38. Emperor Guangxu was the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and his fate seemed destined for tragedy.
He was not born to the Empress Dowager Cixi, and his relationship with her was the same"Mother and son", in fact, hypocrisy. He grew up in solitude, in addition to cumbersome etiquette, there was also the reprimand of the Empress Dowager Cixi.
His life was full of depression, and the lack of maternal love and childhood happiness led to his poor physical condition. 34 years as a puppet emperor made him live in fear all day long.
But his existence is an important figure in modern Chinese history.
Princess Deling once served as the "imperial female official" of the Empress Dowager Cixi and witnessed the life of Emperor Guangxu in the palace. She found that palace life seemed to be high-minded, but in fact it was full of closed-mindedness, conservatism, and dead silence, and this environment made the Guangxu Emperor gradually lose his normal judgment ability.
However, under the Empress Dowager Cixi's "curtain and listening to the government", Emperor Guangxu's character also has a side that is difficult for outsiders to understand, he is irritable, paranoid, and especially loves to lose his temper.
Weng Tongyi was the teacher of the Guangxu Emperor, and he recorded many unbelievable stories in his diary. For example, in the five months from February to June of the ninth year of Guangxu (1883), Emperor Guangxu lost his temper six times.
Sometimes he inexplicably slaps the glass on the window, causing the palm of the hand to be punctured; Sometimes he suddenly beats and scolds eunuchs, palace maids, etc. He Rong'er, a palace maid who served the Empress Dowager Cixi for eight years, said in her later years: "He (referring to the Guangxu Emperor) was impatient and moody, and his eunuchs did not dare to get close to him.
He often doesn't sleep at night, gets up in the middle of the night to review the recitals, and when something doesn't go well, he slaps the table and scolds the bastards. These all show the isolation and helplessness of Emperor Guangxu in court life.
Li Hongzhang's wealth rivals that of the country, and his life is full of wealth. He had four wives and concubines, of which Dongmei was the lowest-ranking concubine, but she was deeply favored by him. It is said that when he was an official in Beijing, he was not in good health, so Dongmei came to take care of him, and the two became acquainted.
However, Dongmei died at a young age, which made Li Hongzhang very sad. In order to commemorate her, he wrote a poem called "Eight Songs of Mourning Ji Dongmei (Fourth)": The lotus room falls into the dream of Jinghua, and the horse drifts away from home.
There is no paper in the river city, and the plum blossoms are sung the next year. ”
On November 7, 1901, Li Hongzhang died of illness at Xianliang Temple in Beijing at the age of 78.