After analyzing the historical data, some people think that Cixi has her own skills of governing the country, carried out some reforms and expanded the territory of the Qing Dynasty.
In this essay, let's put aside the right and wrong of governing the country for the time being and see what kind of person Cixi is in her family life.
Ye Hena Lagan, a descendant of Cixi, told a little story I knew about Cixi in those days, which quite reflected the soft side of this political strongman. In the second year of Guangxu, Cixi's mother celebrated her seventieth birthday. According to common sense, Cixi should be there.
However, when foreign envoys were needed to visit the palace that day, Cixi prepared some birthday gifts, wrote a calligraphy by herself, framed it and sent it over. This calligraphy has been preserved for several generations, and finally it was destroyed in the Cultural Revolution.
Cixi wrote a big word "longevity", which is still below, and wrote four poems in Manchu and Chinese. The content of the poem is: the love of parents is the truest in the world, tears and blood melt into the child's body, and after exhausting their efforts, they become children. The poor inherited the wind.
This poem was written down, but the last sentence became a classic! Now we use it frequently every day, but few people know that it was written by Cixi.
The phrase "if you are poor, change it" has touched the deep feelings of countless people, so after more than one hundred years, we still feel that its meaning is appropriate and acceptable.
Brother Bing believes that these seven words are not from Cixi's poetic talent, but from her heartfelt words. With this contribution, Cixi's status as a mother instrument in the world will be fulfilled.
Cixi is forty-one years old and has raised a child by herself. She should feel the hardship of being a parent. While paying tribute to her old mother with poetry, she may also convey her sadness as a mother who lost her son.