"Draft of Qing History": At 16: 00, the Five Classics were sung and the twenty-four histories were all read.
Ye Henara, the great-grandson of Empress Dowager Cixi? Genzheng is outspoken. Apart from her political talents, Cixi also has extraordinary literary and painting talents? . Princess De Ling and many literati at that time were full of praise for Cixi's painting and calligraphy talents. For example, Cixi recorded in Clearing Banknotes. Try to paste poems at work? Also attached are two poems with great artistic conception.
In a word, Cixi shows a talented woman. Judging from her signed or sealed paintings and calligraphy works, although not as good as Li Qingzhao, she is also brilliant. However, a secret document of the Qing Dynasty found in the Forbidden City in Beijing revealed the true face of Cixi, which made scholars subvert the traditional cognition with emotion.
186 1 year, after Xianfeng died, Cixi personally wrote a secret letter, mainly to overthrow Gu Ming's eight ministers, and then jointly launched a coup with Prince Gong Yixin.
Surprisingly, this confidential document found in the Forbidden City in Beijing can be described as unsightly, mainly in three aspects: first, the handwriting is scrawled and crooked, which is completely unlike a work with calligraphy skills; Second, there are too many typos, but the confidential document with only 237 words has 12 typos, and the sentence is not smooth; Third, there is hard evidence left by Cixi in the confidential documents, namely? Ask the seven brothers (referring to Yi Xuan) to rewrite it? Cixi knew that she didn't understand the language and couldn't read, so she hoped others would help her rewrite it.
Excerpt from confidential documents: After entering (the city), I (again) sent a letter to Prince Gong, praising Xiang's official (political) affairs, and asked my brother to discuss it.
There are four typos in just over twenty words, which shows that Cixi, who is at least 186 1, is not a talented woman at all. This secret letter can completely overturn the introduction of Cixi's childhood talents in the Draft of Qing History. It can be seen that although it is difficult to say that the draft of Qing history beautified the Qing Dynasty, it can be seen that it definitely beautified Cixi.
But Princess De Ling's impression of Cixi was in the later period of Cixi. Could it be that Cixi has been studying hard, leaving behind works that make future generations marvel? Scholars have overturned this possibility through the study of Cixi's works.
1865, when Empress Dowager Cixi dismissed Yi Xin (see above), she wrote an imperial edict (see below). Compared with 186 1, there is little progress because the handwriting is still crooked and illegible. After this imperial edict, Cixi deliberately left an ironclad evidence, namely? There are many different words in the imperial edict. You should polish them! ?
1904, how much has Cixi's calligraphy improved after more than 40 years? This year, Cixi copied a copy of Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra (see the next copy), leaving evidence of Cixi's calligraphy. In this regard, some scholars have commented on Cixi's calligraphy? Dull and loose, immature brushwork? .
It can be seen that after more than 40 years, Cixi's calligraphy has made progress, but it is almost the level of beginners. In other words, the true face of Cixi had nothing to do with talented women until her death.
However, there is a paradox here. Cixi has a large number of paintings and calligraphy works, each of which has a high artistic taste.
According to relevant statistics, there are more than 20,000 paintings and calligraphy works handed down by emperors and queens in the Qing Dynasty, of which only the Qianlong emperor accounts for 10,000, which can be called dominating or poisoning the literary world, and Cixi ranks second with more than 500.
From 2002 to 20 1 1 year, many calligraphy and painting exhibitions were held in China, and all the paintings and calligraphy works of Empress Dowager Cixi were exhibited, which was praised by the media. Gorgeous painting style shocked everyone? (such as the picture below).
Why did Empress Dowager Cixi leave so many excellent paintings and calligraphy works? In fact, it is very simple, that is, find someone to catch the knife, just like the former emperor Qianlong.
Miao Jiahui, a talented woman in Qing Dynasty, passed the interview of Cixi and finally stayed with Cixi as 19. She pointed out that Cixi personally selected 18 painters and has been painting for Cixi. The treasure of Empress Dowager Cixi? Seal, and then give it to others, so it seems to be the work of Cixi, and it is said that Cixi is the spokesperson of talented women in painting and calligraphy. As for the big characters written by Cixi (about two meters vertically and one meter horizontally)? Fu? 、? Shou? By analogy, judging from the height of Cixi 160 and the age of more than 60 years old, it is almost certain to find someone to ghostwrite.
Painting is from the heart. If Cixi can really make these beautiful paintings, it is estimated that she will not be a cruel and vicious Cixi, but a tolerant and gentle Cixi. It can be seen that the face of the talented woman Cixi is just a disguise of Cixi, and the actual cultural education is not too high, even lower than we thought.
It is not difficult to speculate that although Empress Dowager Cixi has strong political struggle ability, her knowledge reserve may be extremely limited and it is difficult to cope with the complicated and changeable international situation at that time.
Regrettably, in the turbulent international situation in the late Qing Dynasty, China was such an uneducated helmsman? Rude? How can such a A Qing dynasty not perish, and how can such a China progress?