It is said that when Emperor Guangxu began to clear the town, Empress Dowager Cixi became more and more leisure. In order to pass the time, she began to write poetry and ink, and later wrote some words to her favorite ministers. After a long time, she hopes to have a person with the same hobby to accompany her to make suggestions, and if necessary, she can talk about her own experience. Moreover, she also requires that this person must be a woman, similar in age to Empress Dowager Cixi, and it is difficult to find a suitable person. After careful searching by local governors.
It is said that Cixi later attached great importance to this woman and often played with her in the palace. Moreover, the paintings drawn by this woman will be given to ministers after she writes down her name. Some ministers thought it was given by Cixi, so they happily hung these paintings in conspicuous places at home. The relationship between Cixi and this woman is getting closer and closer. At a banquet, Cixi chatted happily with this woman, and later gave her many rare treasures for the harem women to enjoy.
According to folklore, Cixi once discussed with this woman what kind of clothes to wear for major festivals. The woman told Cixi that Han women would wear crested rockhoppers on important festivals to show their respect. Cixi asked her to wear a rockhopper on her birthday, and the woman agreed, so she came to the party dressed very ceremoniously on Cixi's birthday. Cixi was very happy to see this, so she took this woman everywhere to talk with the minister and praised her. After that, the woman was also highly praised by Cixi, which can be described as a favorite.
However, there is no record of this woman in the relevant books, so these materials are also harvested from the people. Whether there is such a story in specific history, we still don't know.