Although the Empress Dowager Cixi ruled cruelly, she was very filial to her mother. It is said that when Empress Dowager Cixi's mother celebrated her birthday, Empress Dowager Cixi could not be present because of political affairs, so she wrote this birthday speech and carefully prepared a birthday gift for the guards to give to her mother, which shows that Empress Dowager Cixi is very filial. It can be seen from Cixi's birthday speech that Cixi understands her mother and feels her mother's dedication to herself. This is Cixi's gratitude to her mother as a daughter.
Although Empress Dowager Cixi was born in a Manchu bureaucratic family, her childhood was very poor due to the early death of her father Cheng Wai. So Cixi felt the deepest love of Cixi's mother. Because Cixi is the eldest daughter, she became an adult earlier than her brothers and sisters, so she understands her mother's love for herself and her brothers and sisters. Although she is now the queen mother of a country, she can't forget the poverty in her family. Without her mother's hard work, she and her younger brother and sister may not grow up smoothly, so she knows her mother's hard work and pain very well.
Now that Empress Dowager Cixi is expensive, she will naturally give her mother the best. Unfortunately, no matter how powerful she is, she can't change the reality of her mother's aging. Her mother may leave her at any moment. Therefore, Empress Dowager Cixi will feel guilty that she can't attend her mother's birthday party because of political matters. At that time, Empress Dowager Cixi should have a lot of feelings and wrote such a birthday message.