Compared with the misery of life, what is more tragic may be his inner isolation and loneliness. He lived for 38 years and reigned for 34 years, and he has been king in the world since he can remember. But so what? As the son of heaven, he has been living in the shadow of Cixi and has been persecuted by Cixi for a long time. Not only did he not experience the majesty and power of the monarch, but he also lived a comfortable life for a few days, being controlled, destroyed and tortured. Especially during the long-term confinement, life and death are unpredictable, fate is unpredictable, and inner depression can be imagined. He died childless and, to some extent, without a family. The tragic fate can be said to be beyond people's imagination. Besides, his death was probably poisoning. This is the worst.
Although Emperor Guangxu was miserable, I really thought too much, saying that he was not much better than the cowshed of Beijingers. Anyway, a lean camel is bigger than a horse. Emperor Guangxu's life in Yingtai may not be as good as that of a local official or a friend with tinea, but how can Beijingers compare with him?
Next, I will make a detailed analysis.
1。 I'm separated from my concubines, so it's not appropriate for me to wear a whore when I sacrifice to heaven. Please ask the guard to walk slowly.
Yingtai was originally a good place, but it became the court cell of Emperor Guangxu. )
Yingtai, called in Ming Dynasty? Super Taiwan Province? Renamed Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty? Yingtai? . During the reign of Kangxi, temples and rocks were built and arranged at this time. There is a sentence in Zhu's Teng Xiaoji:? When the bell of Yutang rang, it called into Yingtai? 、? Penglai has just arrived. Is it really in the middle of the water? It will make people imagine the literary courtiers on duty here. Unfortunately, more than 200 years later, it became a palace cell where Emperor Guangxu was imprisoned for about 10 years until the death of Emperor Guangxu.
Emperor Guangxu was imprisoned in Yingtai, surrounded by water and a wooden bridge, isolated from the outside world. He lives in Hanyuan Temple, the so-called Hanyuan Temple? Zero? ; His empresses live in Xiangyi Hall in the south of Hanyuan Temple, separated by two large courtyards. Guangxu could not meet concubines without the order of Empress Dowager Cixi. I feel pity when I think about it. If an emperor wants to make out with his queen, he must report to Cixi. I'm afraid I won't be interested when the report is approved. Therefore, Guangxu has always had spermatorrhea, which is probably related to his abnormal sexual life. Eunuchs in Yingtai are all sent by the Queen Mother, and they are also the eyes and ears of the Queen Mother. Every move should be reported to the queen mother. This kind of life is really a little scary.
Emperor Guangxu was imprisoned in Yingtai, surrounded by water. As soon as the wooden bridge was pulled, it was cut off from the outside world. )
You can't just meet your empresses, so Emperor Guangxu has become a veritable one, right? Are you alone? . ? Are you alone? That's all. The point is this? Are you alone? And lived a miserable life. According to Zhou, who treated Guangxu, the emperor's study was not simple, and the cushions on the chairs were worn out and did not need to be replaced. Compared with the research he saw in Jiangsu, there is a world of difference. Another time, he wanted to go to the Temple of Heaven to worship heaven, and Emperor Guangxu's broken shoes didn't fit, so he left? Sweets? I can't keep up with the guards, so I have to ask the guards to slow down.
Emperor Guangxu lived a lonely and miserable life in Yingtai. With nothing to do, he had to study there, keep a diary, write big characters and take a walk on the shore. The eunuch followed, and no one could talk to him. On holidays, Yingtai is deserted and there is no breath of life at all. Emperor Guangxu began to clean the room himself, holding a bamboo pole in his hand and picking up the cobwebs in the hall. Then he wrote some Spring Festival couplets and led the eunuchs to stick them on the doorframes. Then, just staring at the Spring Festival couplets is not enough. After watching the Spring Festival couplets, I really have nothing to do, just staring at the sunset sky. Firecrackers came from Folk Street, and he listened quietly without saying a word.
2. Beat gongs and drums in Yingtai to vent their inner depression and paint Yuan Shikai as a turtle.
The busy scene of receiving foreign guests like this was rare when Guangxu was in prison. )
After Xi 'an fled, Emperor Guangxu was busy for a few days, burning incense and saluting in various temples, thanking his ancestors for their blessing. Meet with the foreign minister and apologize for the attack on the embassy. But I was busy for a few days, and then I was free. Although I got rid of the fate of being ousted, I still can't get rid of the role of being a puppet.
Every morning, Cixi will send someone to Yingtai to take Emperor Guangxu to the Forbidden City, and ask Guangxu to accompany him to summon the minister and then send him back. When calling, it is a gesture. Cixi symbolically asked him a few words, but he didn't dare to say more and tried to cater to it. Someone said that he? You look haggard. If you have serious worries, you have never seen a moment of happiness or even a strong smile. Be careful what you say and do so as not to be in danger at any time? , or his basic living conditions at that time.
Empress Dowager Cixi is the shadow of Emperor Guangxu's life. )
Accompanied by Empress Dowager Cixi, it was also the highlight of his day. At least he can see so many people, no matter how to say it or not.
Lively. But once you return to Yingtai, you can't spend too much time. What should I do? He went to the Shengping Department, which was in charge of the court performance, and beat the drums in Yingtai to pass the time and vent his depression. According to Ding Ruqin's History of Palace Opera in Qing Dynasty, there is such a statement in the archives of Qing Dynasty. In the future, the emperor will wait for the guy who blows the whistle. Please order it first and then pass it on. ,? Long live the grandfather, then don't talk? . It can be seen how humbled Emperor Guangxu lived.
Cixi doesn't take Emperor Guangxu seriously, so most people don't take him seriously. Cixi likes to go to the theatre. Traditionally, at the beginning of the performance, Guangxu will be put on a costume and walk around like an actor. It is said that this is imitation? Twenty-four filial piety and old age? Playing lottery to entertain relatives? The story, to express the filial piety to the empress dowager cixi. An emperor came to power to do this, no matter what, he couldn't pull his face down. Guangxu didn't want to, and muttered under the stage: What time is this? What play is it? ? The little eunuch on one side shouted:? what did you say ? ? Guangxu quickly explained:? I am talking nonsense. Don't tell anyone! ?
In those years when Yingtai was confined, Emperor Guangxu spent a lot of time and could not die in this high-rise pavilion. )
Even a little eunuch dares to be so cross with him, how depressed Emperor Guangxu should be. It is estimated that Yuan Shikai, who betrayed him in the Reform Movement of 1898, is the reason why he ended up today. It is said that when he is bored, he doodles and draws ghosts or turtles every day, then writes Yuan Shikai's name, sticks it on the wall, pokes it with his finger, and then draws and sticks it. This also shows his hatred for Yuan Shikai.
19 13, that is, in the sixth year of Guangxu, Chen, as a master, invited the old man and Li Xiangyu to visit Yingtai. Did you also see those in Hanyuan Temple? Hanging the yellow curtain four times? Each one is as old as the furnishings in the temple, but? What is the diameter of condensed dust? A school? No one is lonely? A cold scene.
The most tragic situation of Emperor Guangxu in Yingtai was his death.
Emperor Guangxu entered the palace at the age of four and eventually died in the palace. I've been unhappy all my life, and I've died in an unexplained way, which is very sad. )
Compared with the poverty of life and inner depression, the peak of Emperor Guangxu's miserable life in Yingtai should be his death in Yingtai. For hundreds of years, the mainstream opinion in China's historiography circles tends to be that Emperor Guangxu died of murder. It is widely suspected that Cixi and her accomplices were afraid that Emperor Guangxu would seize power after Cixi's death and dig up previous cases, thus killing them.
Emperor Guangxu was not very strong, sick and weak in spleen and stomach since he was a child. As an adult, I have the problem of nocturnal emission, and my condition is getting worse and worse because I can't get good conditioning. I was able to persist when I was young, but later it got worse and worse, and there was a problem of illness into the five internal organs and deficiency of both qi and blood. Finally, there are all kinds of diseases, such as palpitation, insomnia, cough and joint pain. This happens all the time.
(The favorite princess Zhen was forced to death by Cixi, which was also the source of the mental breakdown of Emperor Guangxu. )
According to the records of the Qing Palace, from the early summer of Guangxu's thirty-fourth year (1908), Emperor Guangxu's condition deteriorated rapidly, and the physician and the famous doctors who came from all over the country felt helpless, so they could only perfunctory things without seeking merit. 10 10 On the birthday of Empress Dowager Cixi, Emperor Guangxu's physical function quickly failed and he was terminally ill. Never left his hospital bed again; Since 19, he has been unable to eat and soon fell into a coma. On the evening of 21st, he died in Hanyuan Hall in Yingtai.
The death of Emperor Guangxu was of course related to his mental state. He has been emotionally frustrated and politically frustrated all his life, so his mood has been very low; Especially when Yingtai was in prison, she suffered humiliation and abuse, helplessness, waiting for death and fear. The news of Zhenfei's death was enough to make him collapse and it was difficult to recover.
(Emperor Guangxu went to the funeral and the people bowed down. Whether he was murdered or not has been circulated for hundreds of years with his burial. )
In addition, although he was called the emperor, he did not enjoy good medical conditions. There were many doctors who treated him at that time, but Chinese medicine was different from western medicine. Every doctor has his own treatment plan, and some doctors emphasize this point. Make up? Some emphasize? Vent? Some use cold medicine, some use warm medicine, and the doctor changes it every few days. The treatment is intermittent and unsystematic. In addition, Emperor Guangxu was very vigilant and often did not eat the eunuch's soup, so it was naturally difficult to receive any effect.
At that time, when the medical officer gave Guangxu a prescription, there would be a number of stickers standing by, copying them with yellow paper, and then writing two copies with real letters, putting them in yellow boxes and sending them in for the Empress Dowager and Guangxu to see. Let the queen mother have a look. It's very learned. Will the Queen Mother change the prescription? Can the queen mother be kind? This is often suspected by Guangxu. Once Guangxu was seriously ill, and a doctor opened a prescription meeting? Behind the leg? what's up Legs? Wrote it wrong? Back? In other words, Emperor Guangxu was very surprised and cried: Me? Legs? A little more? Meat? It's all gone. It is no longer a leg. ? After reading the manuscript, do you see anything in it? Meat? Next to it was a mistake in copying the pen and pasting it. Guangxu still had doubts in his heart and put it aside.
This is the Guangxu tomb under construction. Cixi learned that Emperor Guangxu was dying and cried and said: He is not going to prepare for the funeral, he has no land yet! )
When Emperor Guangxu was seriously ill, Cixi also issued a special imperial edict: The emperor was seriously ill and was not allowed to enter privately with pills. If someone enters, there is a change, but the person who takes the medicine asks. ? The so-called here? Private entry? It means that when the medical officer felt the pulse of Emperor Guangxu, he gave him some really effective pills and kept them from Cixi, but what's the beauty? Change? Two words, don't say? Okay？ , don't say? Not good? And say? Change? That is to take medicine privately. Eating to death is a sin, so eat well. Therefore, some people say that the purpose of Cixi's doing this is to let Guangxu take medicine casually and let him die slowly, so she must prescribe a prescription for her to see. After eating the decoction cooked by moth-eaten herbs, she may still find fault, and the medical officer will change again, so Guangxu's illness will naturally not get better.
Find out the truth of Guangxu's death, otherwise future generations will give the best explanation for his years of confinement in Yingtai. )
For a long time, Emperor Guangxu was murdered, which has become the consensus of many historians. Although in the early 1980 s, many scholars thought that Emperor Guangxu was? Natural death? But in recent years? Normal death theory? It has been subverted again, and the theory of homicide has returned. Experts from four units, such as CCTV and the documentary film crew of Qing History, used high-tech technology for several years to examine the bones, hair and burial clothes of Emperor Guangxu, and found that the arsenic content in them was high, which confirmed that Guangxu died of acute poisoning and should be killed by others. The biggest suspect who killed him is undoubtedly Empress Dowager Cixi.
If so, Emperor Guangxu's worst time in Yingtai was the end of his life.