Her success lies in winning the highest power that should have been held by men in the world ruled by men, and achieving a career according to her own will. People can't help asking: there were more than a thousand beautiful women who entered the palace at that time. Why can Cixi stand out? She listened to politics three times, ruled the Crown Prince twice, and acted arbitrarily, bearing the pulse of the Qing Dynasty in her palm, which greatly influenced the trend of modern China history. Obviously, to answer this question, we can't avoid Cixi's unique ability and personality charm.
This kind of ability and personality charm is insight into human nature, scheming, personal supremacy and daring, which is exactly the quality that an autocratic emperor should have.
Imagine how she could rule the world as a woman if she didn't have this sense of superiority.
Cixi failed again. Her failure lies in her morbid desire for power. She spent most of her life enjoying the pleasure of chasing power and enjoying the pleasure of getting power. In other words, she will do anything for power!
Cixi lived in the historical era when the industrial revolution in the western world had been completed and the west wind was spreading eastward. This is an unprecedented new era for mankind, and it is also a crucial moment for China, a sleeping lion, to cope with this life-and-death challenge. At that time, the supreme ruler of China, Cixi, should have used her strength to lead the ancient rickety ship, China, through the dangerous beaches and stormy waves and successfully sailed to the other side. Unfortunately, although she is familiar with the imperial art in the field of power, she knows nothing about the world trend. In the face of crisis, China either turned a blind eye, or was slow to respond, or made repeated mistakes in judgment and decision-making. As a result, it slipped into the semi-colonial and semi-feudal abyss. This is really China's tragedy, and it is also her personal tragedy!
As a woman, Cixi is both lucky and unfortunate.
Her luck lies in her position that women of that era could not get. Cixi did not come from a powerful family that lived for generations. She was just the daughter of a middle-level flag officer. If she hadn't accidentally entered the Forbidden City at the age of seventeen, thus setting up a political platform for her to revolve around Gan Kun, how different would her fate be from that of thousands of ordinary girls in Qian Qian, Qian Qian? Cixi, relying on her step-by-step drilling, from noble to concubine, was lucky enough to give birth to the only prince of Xianfeng Emperor, so that "the mother is expensive and the son is expensive" and was promoted to princess and lady until Empress Dowager Cixi, and "listened to politics" for 47 years.
Cixi is very unfortunate. Her misfortune is that as a wife and mother, she lost her husband when she was young and her son when she was middle-aged. Although she has the supreme power, so that countless princes and ministers fall at their feet to worship, but she can not get the love of men and women that an ordinary woman can get, and can not get the happiness that a normal mother and children and grandchildren kneeling beside her have. It is hard for us to imagine how she spent those long days and nights alone in the forbidden palace surrounded by high palace walls.