After the middle period of Guangxu, Cixi suddenly fell in love with calligraphy, learned to draw flowers, and learned to write brush strokes. She often writes words like longevity for good luck, but her handwriting is not very good, so she wants to find a ghostwriter. Therefore, she ordered the provincial governors to look for it. There was an official in Sichuan named Shi Miao, whose husband died when he was an official in Sichuan. Shi Miao paints flowers and birds and plays the piano. His lowercase letters are clear and beautiful.
Sometimes, Miao's pen and ink are sold in the factory, and his paintings and calligraphy are quite charming. The flowers, fan shafts and other things that Cixi later gave to the minister's house naturally came from Miao's handwriting.
A few days before Cixi's 60th birthday, she suddenly asked Miao, "Have you seen the wedding clothes of Manchu women?" But I haven't seen what you Han girls wear when they get married. "Miao said," this is rockhopper and robe. Cixi said, "On the day of the celebration, you should wear a crested phoenix and an imperial robe as my companion."
The next day, Shi Miao bought a corolla and put it on. Cixi couldn't help laughing and said it was like a person in a drama. On Cixi's birthday, all Manchu women entered the palace and laughed their heads off when they saw Shi Miao's clothes. Cixi was very happy that day, but Shi Miao was tied to the corolla and stood on the corolla all day, in great pain. It is estimated that she will never want to wear any unlucky corollas and corollas in her next life.
2. Musician Zhang Chunpu
There is a pianist named Zhang Chunpu in Beijing Liulichang. He thinks people make a living by playing the piano. He is a straightforward and simple person with superb piano skills. He enjoys a high reputation among literati. Cixi wants to learn piano when she has nothing to do. Hearing Zhang Chunpu's reputation, she called him into the palace to play the piano. It is said that the place where he plays the piano is in the west wing of the bedroom. There are seven rooms in the main room. Cixi sat in the westernmost room, near the west wing.
There are seven or eight pianos in the west wing, all of which are golden string jade shafts, which are extremely luxurious. Zhang Chunpu's audition was out of tune, and then she heard Cixi say, "You can take my usual piano and let him play it." The eunuch was ordered to bring it to Zhang Chunpu. Zhang Chunpu lowered his fingers and felt his voice was clear. He praised again and again, "Good piano, good piano."
Zhang Chunpu played a song and had a rest. Suddenly, he saw several people wearing nurses' clothes with a ten-year-old child, and the clothes were gorgeous. When the child saw the piano, he played it with his fingers. Zhang Chunpu stopped and said, "This is Lafayette's. You can't touch it. " The child stared at him, and a woman next to him scolded Zhang Chunpu: "You know who he is. Lafayette does everything according to him. Don't you dare stop him, you don't want a head! " Zhang Chunpu stopped talking.
On this day, after Zhang Chunpu left the palace, Cixi summoned him again. He would rather die than go. Zhang Chunpu is a servant in the factory, because poverty is a servant in the factory, and his piano skills are well-known among officials and ministers. On that day, Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the eunuch to take a message, "You will devote yourself to being an official in the future, and the Office of the Interior will send you. You are not afraid of money. " However, Zhang Chunpu disappeared from the palace after seeing his young son. Asked by his peers, Zhang Chunpu said, "I don't envy such filth and wealth."
When Wang Su heard that Zhang Chunpu was famous, he called him to the mansion to play the piano and gave him thirty taels of gold every month. He is used to coming early and coming back late. Zhang Chunpu feels that he is not free, but there is no good way to get rid of it. One night it rained, and Wang Su said, "Don't go back, just stay here." Zhang Chunpu refused, but Wang Su refused. Zhang Chunpu said, "The boss doesn't know that I live here, and he thinks I'm a prostitute." Wang Su was so angry that he kicked him out and never called him into the house again. Zhang Chunpu happily thinks that he has a plan.
A famous lady once asked Zhang Chunpu to teach piano. Zhang Chunpu came this afternoon, played a song and left. She didn't even get water on her lips. Later, Zhang Chunpu died of ignorance and poverty.
In fact, the late Qing Dynasty accommodated many maverick people. Zhang Chunpu was not killed for disobeying E.