mentioned the Empress Dowager Cixi, no one would use any good words to describe her. After all, she has ruled China for so long, and she is still stunned to make China's rule weaker and weaker. Many people may even feel very strange, because the Cixi we can see is not pretty. Logically speaking, she shouldn't have the opportunity to be favored by the emperor, and it is even less likely that she will succeed in controlling the Qing's ruling power in her own hands.
In fact, Cixi not only played around with her emperor husband, but also really controlled the power of the Qing Dynasty in her own hands. As a result, some people couldn't help but want to figure out one thing, that is, how did Cixi when he was young? So, how beautiful was the empress dowager Cixi in history when she was young? Maybe the truth is different from what you think!
1. The Qing Dynasty's concubine selection system.
Before introducing the Qing Dynasty's concubine selection system, let's first introduce the Ming Dynasty's concubine selection system. The system of selecting concubines in the Ming Dynasty is different from the system of selecting concubines in the Qing Dynasty. Its requirements are relatively simple. Basically, the most important thing is the virtue of women. In other words, as long as the woman who participates in the selection of the concubine has good morals, even if she comes from a poor family, she still has a chance to be selected as a concubine.
The requirements of the Qing Dynasty’s concubine selection system were not so simple. It not only attaches importance to the virtues of women who are candidates, but also pays special attention to the birth and appearance of women candidates. And under normal circumstances, women with a taller background can often get a more noble position after being elected; while a woman with a humble background may not be selected, but even if they are elected, they can get a position. The portion will not be too high.
2. Speculation about the appearance of Cixi when he was young.
After understanding the Qing Dynasty's concubine selection system, we can actually use this to guess what Cixi looked like when he was young. After Cixi was elected as the imperial concubine, he was named a nobleman of Lan. Although this position is not particularly high, there are still several other concubines below her position.
It can be seen from this that even if Cixi's background is not particularly noble, it is certainly not very low. In addition, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty used to give names to their concubines according to their characteristics, and the word "lan" often reminds people of the word "Lanzhi Huixin", because it means to describe smart and beautiful. It can be guessed that Cixi should look beautiful when she was young.
But there must be many people who disagree with this statement, and think that just by name alone may not be able to draw such a conclusion. After all, the word "lan" can also be used to describe temperament, so maybe Cixi is called Lan Guiren, just because she has a better temperament, and has nothing to do with her appearance. Of course
, so it makes sense. Even if you take a photo of Cixi, which is relatively rare, to rejuvenate her, the result can only be regarded as a slightly better-looking one, rather than the kind that we think is particularly beautiful. So we can guess that Cixi looked online when she was young, but she was not so outstanding.
3. The process of Cixi climbing to the peak of power.
Since Cixi didn't look good when she was young, how did she climb to the pinnacle of power? In fact, although Cixi is not very good-looking, she has a strong political mind and scheming. It is said that at the beginning, Cixi did not want to see Emperor Xianfeng. Even every time she waited for the other concubine to be unable to attend the bed, she had the opportunity to attend the bed.
In this case, if she didn't have a snack machine, there would be no way to get the favor of Emperor Xianfeng. At that time, Emperor Xianfeng always worried about government affairs. He especially hopes that someone can accompany him to talk about political topics, but other concubines dare not do this, but Cixi dares to do so. So over time, she would naturally be favored by Emperor Xianfeng.
just got the favor of Emperor Xianfeng, which can not satisfy Cixi's desire to climb up. In order to gain a foothold in the harem, she tried every means to give birth to a son for Emperor Xianfeng. When Emperor Xianfeng passed away, his only surviving son at the time became his only heir.
And this son is the Emperor Tongzhi born to Xianfeng and Cixi. When Tongzhi came to the throne, he was still young, so the person who really controlled the power of the court became Cixi. Later, Tongzhi died. Because he had no heirs, Cixi discussed with the courtiers that Guangxu, the son of Prince Jin, should be adopted. After that, Cixi took the power step by step.The empress of the Qing Dynasty.
After understanding the above content, we can actually analyze the beauty of Cixi when she was young from another angle. For example, from the perspective of Emperor Xianfeng, we can clearly see that Cixi in the eyes of Emperor Xianfeng is undoubtedly the most beautiful. Even if she didn't have a peerless appearance, she had a heart to understand him enough to make Emperor Xianfeng forget about it. Therefore, when she was young, Cixi always had a beautiful side. It's just that if you want to see her most beautiful side, it depends on how we look at her. The picture of
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