We all know that in traditional Chinese culture, Lao Tzu can't kneel to his son, but there is an exception, that is, if your son is the emperor, then you must kneel. Emperor Guangxu and Prince Yi Xun belonged to this embarrassing situation, so that after Yi Xun died, Cixi wanted to make a fuss about this matter.
According to Cixi's meaning, Yixun's funeral was simple, and the funeral was over according to the prince's ceremony. Because Cixi is selfish in this matter, Yiyun is Guangxu's father, Daoguang's son, and her husband Xianfeng's younger brother, and she is just a foreign surname, and the daughter-in-law of the Aixin Jueluo family is gone. If this raises the level of Yiyun's funeral, then what is he! At the same time, it will also affect the legitimacy of her custody of Guangxu. Therefore, she hurried out of the funeral in line with the principle that more things are better than less, and the matter was over as soon as possible. Unexpectedly, the Ministry of Rites in charge of this matter came up with a head.
This person's name is Wu Dayi, and he told Cixi that Emperor Qianlong had already made a conclusion on this matter, and his son came over to become the emperor. If the father is still there, he should be called the emperor's biological father, and if he dies, he should be called the emperor's own birth, build a temple and worship, and the etiquette specifications are equivalent to the Son of Heaven. Why is Qianlong so determined? Because there was such a thing in the Ming Dynasty, after the death of Zhu Houzhao of Ming Wuzong, there were no brothers and no sons, and Emperor Jiajing succeeded to the throne as a cousin, which was exactly the same as the situation of Guangxu Tongzhi. So the question is, how should Jiajing's father be called?
After Jiajing ascended the throne, in order to stuff his father into the Taimiao, he first sealed his father with the temple number of Ming Ruizong, and then changed Zhu Di's temple name from Ming Taizong to Ming Chengzu, in order to establish the orthodox status of him and his father. After that, he invited the tablet of the big fat man Zhu Gaochi out of the Taimiao and stuffed his father into it. For this matter, Jiajing once killed more than 300 opponents in one go, also known as the Zuo Shunmen Change.
Qianlong learned the lessons of the Ming Dynasty at that time to avoid similar things from happening in the Qing Dynasty, so he set the rules in advance. After Wu Daye's fold came up, he gave Cixi a temperless, and he couldn't refute it, but Cixi's nonsense came as soon as he opened his mouth, and immediately replied to Wu Dayi, saying that when Emperor Guangxu ascended the throne, Yiyun gave me an excerpt, and asked that if someone suggested that he be given a honorific title in the future, he would not approve it, but he didn't want it, but I didn't give it.
But this Wu Dayi's head is real iron, and as soon as he stretched out his hand to Cixi, he brought it to me to see, so that Cixi had no reason to refute it. So, in the end, Cixi had no choice, and issued an edict in the name of Guangxu, respecting Yixun for the emperor's own life test, and burying him with the prince's ceremony, but the sacrificial specifications were at the emperor's level, and Guangxu wore filial piety for one year.
On the day of Yixun's funeral, Emperor Guangxu suddenly decided to go back to Prince Alcohol's Mansion to send his father on his last journey, and Cixi couldn't stop him, so he agreed. Guangxu immediately changed his clothes and came to the palace of Prince Alcohol to worship. According to the record of "Weng Tongxiao's Diary", Guangxu cried as soon as he got off the sedan chair, and Zaifeng led his younger brothers to cry to greet him. The emperor came suddenly, and the specifications of the funeral were too high, it was not at the level of a prince, and even the celebrant didn't know what to do.
The emperor came to mourn, there was no such rule before, it can be said that this is the first time since the Qing Dynasty, and it is also rare in Chinese history.