According to legend, when the Summer Palace was built, Empress Dowager Cixi often visited the garden and personally determined the names of every door, temple and pavilion. Many of them are special, either from allusions or based on Flo Xi Shou.
On this day, accompanied by the Minister of Landscape Architecture, Cixi went to the northwest corner of the Summer Palace. At this time, it happened that a garden gate here had just been built. She looked at it and asked the minister of landscape construction, "Do you know the name of this door?" The minister of landscape construction thought, is Galeries Lafayette going to give this door a name? He said, "Go back to Lafayette and leave the name of this door for you to give!" "
Who knows that Cixi stared at this and said angrily, "Do you want me to get up by myself at this humble little door?"
Hearing this, Minister Jianyuan knew that he didn't kiss up, and he was too scared to say a word.
"If you tell me, call all these people, everyone has a name. If you play well, I will get a reward. If you can't play well, you will play 30 boards each. " The minister who built the garden hurriedly called together more than twenty people who were working by.
Cixi is in a good mood. She deliberately tried to make fun of these craftsmen. Pointing to a tall man in the crowd, she said, "Why don't you name me first and let me listen?" The man stepped forward and knelt down: "Lafayette is on the ground, and my name is' Long live the door'."
Cixi was very angry: "You slave, don't you have long live the emperor in your heart?" Come on, give me his thirty boards first! "The tall man was beaten thirty times for no reason, and he didn't know what was going on. He didn't know that Cixi never looked down on the emperor, and she hated flatterers.
Cixi glanced at the crowd and pointed to an old man and said, "Why don't you give me a name?" The man trembled at the sight of the heavenly queen lighting a cigarette for herself. He has long heard that Galeries Lafayette is moody, and today is definitely a run. He thought for a moment and said, "I think the name of this door is too thick." When I call this name in the future, I will think of you, Lafayette. "
He tried to kiss up to Cixi in order to escape, but when Cixi heard this, she was furious: "What' Taiqianmen' and' Taiqianmen' flatter me not to look at the place, but also give me 30 big boards!"
Everyone was shocked when they saw it. Even "Long Live the Gate" and "The Gate of Embarrassment" are not enough. I can't remember the name. Cixi was secretly happy to see everyone in a panic. Then he asked a eunuch around him, "These people have little knowledge. In your opinion, what should be the name of this door? "
"I ..." The eunuch was suddenly asked by Cixi, and she panicked. "I, I" for a long time, and I also said a name. When Cixi saw it, she was furious. "You useless thing, thanks to your work in the palace, you can't even name it. Call me! "
Three people were hit by the board in a row, and others thought that today's board was doomed. This empress dowager is too vicious. Isn't it deliberately difficult to name coolies?
Just when everyone was terrified, a young man in his twenties stood out from the crowd and said, "Lafayette is in class. I have been studying for two years and I want to try to give this door a name." When Cixi saw that the speaker was a young man, she wanted to see what name you, a brat, could name!
The young man's name is Zhao Yushui. He is honest and helpful. In order to save the rest of the workers from the pain of flesh and blood, he first thought of a name, hoping to say that Cixi is satisfied and avoid the pain of others.
Cixi glanced at Zhao Yushui and snorted. "Ok, let's talk about it, but if you can't get up well, you'll have to get ninety boards." Hearing this, everyone got the creeps.
Zhao Yushui said unhurriedly: "If I am satisfied with the name Lafayette, I will be filial to Lafayette. If it is not what you want, I will never complain if I kill my slave. "
"Stop talking nonsense, you say, what's your name?" Cixi wanted to see what the young man could do.
"Although this corner gate is remote, it is a dry position according to gossip. The official position represents the sky. Originally, the Jade Emperor had the final say, but he also had to listen to the will of the Queen Mother, who was so kind and virtuous that all the people were happy. In my humble opinion, this gate should be named "Ruyi Gate".
Cixi was very surprised when she heard this, because on the left side of the word "Ru" is a word "female", which symbolizes herself. The word "mouth" on the right means talking, which together means that a woman keeps her word. There is a word "day" hidden in the word "Italy", which symbolizes the word "emperor" of the emperor. On the surface, this name means good luck, but it hides the meaning that Cixi is above herself and monopolizes power, so this name is exactly what Cixi wants.
Cixi looked at the young man carefully. His appearance is not surprising, but he is alert. "Well, the name is good," Ruyimen "is auspicious, just to my liking! Reward one hundred and twenty pieces of silver! " Cixi is full of smiles. As soon as everyone saw the name, a stone fell to the ground.
After the Western Empress Dowager returned to Le Shoutang, she was still pondering the word "Ruyimen", and the more she thought about the name, the better. But she was suspicious and vicious, afraid of exposing her calculations in the future, so she found her confidant boss and asked him to try to kill Zhao Yushui to avoid future troubles.
A few days later, Zhao Yushui died of an "accidental" industrial accident, but his "Ruyimen" has continued to this day.