Empress Dowager Cixi entered the palace on 1852. At first, she was just a little aristocrat, but the next year she quickly rose to the position of princess. In the fourth year of entering the palace, Empress Dowager Cixi successfully gave birth to the eldest son of Emperor Xianfeng, later the emperor shunzhi. This shows that Empress Dowager Cixi is still very popular with Emperor Xianfeng in the harem. After the mother gave birth to her son, Empress Dowager Cixi was further promoted to imperial concubine.

But it didn't last long. Emperor Xianfeng died in the ninth year when Empress Dowager Cixi entered the palace, so in the end Empress Dowager Cixi was only the concubine of Emperor Xianfeng. Because the mother was expensive, Empress Dowager Cixi and Cian of Xianfeng Emperor finally became two queens.

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The life of the character

Xianfeng period

On February 11th, the second year of Xianfeng (February 1852, seventeen years old), Ye Henala was recruited into the palace and made a noble.

Xianfeng four years on February 2 (1854, 19 years old), Jinfeng Yi 'an.

In the sixth year of Xianfeng (1856), in March, Zai Chun, the only prince of Xianfeng Emperor, was born and became a imperial concubine.

At the beginning of the first month of the seventh year of Xianfeng (1857, 22 years old), Yi Guifei of Jinfeng.

Emperor Xianfeng is weak and sick. At that time, the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing in the north of Qing Dynasty, and there was the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom anti-Qing peasant movement in the south, which made him exhausted at home and abroad. Yi Guifei is a calligrapher, so Emperor Xianfeng often dictated to him to write and read the memorial, and allowed Yi Guifei to express his opinions, so many ministers were dissatisfied with Ye Lashi.

Tongzhi period

1860, before the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing, Yehnara fled to Jehol with Emperor Xianfeng.

Emperor Xianfeng died in Jehol in August, 186 1. Before his death, Prince Zai Yuan, Zheng Qinwang Duanhua, Jing Shou, Co-organizer, Shangshu Su Shun, Yin Mu, Kuangyuan, Du Han and Jiao Youying were appointed as Zanxiang Government Affairs King Chenta to assist Tongzhi Emperor Zai Chun in handling state affairs. He also gave the queen and the crown prince (presided over by the emperor's biological mother Yi Guifei) two seals representing imperial power, hoping that they would contain each other.

Guangxu years

1June 875, Emperor Tongzhi died of illness. Cixi made Aisin-Gioro Zaitian, her nephew (her husband's nephew) and nephew, 4 years old, emperor, and changed the year number to Guangxu, and Empress Dowager Cixi once again listened to politics.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Cixi