Rouge Snow: Emperor Guangxu and Concubine Zhen

One day, I saw China Television's nostalgic drama on YouTube, Huang Mei tunes "The Queen Mother and Concubine Zhen".

The role of Empress Dowager Cixi is Hu Jin, and Concubine Zhen is Ying Cailing.

These two names have been seen in the movie version, but I haven't seen their play.

When I watched this play, it was Yang Huaimin who played Guangxu. When I was a child, I watched him play a Gezi play and became his fan.

Yang Huaimin sings the tune of Huangmei also very well, and it took me one afternoon to watch the first and second episodes.

Emperor Tongzhi, the son of Cixi, died young without successor.

Cixi chose his sister's son, the four-year-old Zai Tian, the son of Prince Chun, to succeed him.

Empress Dowager Cixi was justifiably righteous and obeyed the curtain. After the emperor got married, he would return to power.

The poor emperor couldn't even decide his own marriage. When choosing a concubine, he liked the Dexin family sisters.

The Empress Dowager Cixi hummed, so she had to give Ruyi to the Empress Dowager's concubine, later Empress Longyu.

Cixi suggested that the emperor choose his Tara sisters Jin'er and Zhen'er as concubines.

In general, two daughters were elected as concubines at the same time, which is a matter of celebration.

But the Empress Dowager Cixi is difficult and ruthless, whoever makes her unhappy, she will make people unhappy for the rest of her life.

When her daughter-in-law can imagine how painful it is, it is said that when sister Zhenfei said goodbye to her parents before getting on the sedan chair,

The mother slapped both of them and said, "When I didn't give birth to your two daughters."

In the 1980s, Tang Lusun, a well-known food writer, was the grand-nephew of the second concubine Zhen and Jin. When he was seven or eight years old,

It was already the Republic of China, and he went to the palace to pay homage to the Spring Festival to Concubine Jin, and was awarded a first-rank official position.

The secrets that were said must be true.

The concubine Zhen who first entered the palace was under the age of fourteen, and Cixi liked her very much.

She can read and read, and can talk to the queen mother about books and allusions.

The characters are also well written, and he can play chess, which is quite favored by Guangxu.

Empress Longyu is three years older than the emperor, with an ugly appearance and a twisted gender.

Guangxu avoided her and needed to greet the Queen Mother together, and kept a distance, and didn't even bother to talk to her.

Jin Concubine was also neglected by the emperor. Seeing that her younger sister was favored, she felt unbalanced and provoked by others.

Gradually, she was on the same line as the queen, and when her sister suffered, she stood by and watched, also for fear of being angered by the queen mother.

The Empress Dowager returned to Guangxu, but the actual power of the Empress Dowager Cixi was still firmly in her hands.

In the 20th year of Guangxu, Japan took the opportunity to attack on the grounds of civil strife in Korea.

As the 60th birthday of the Empress Dowager Cixi was approaching, she did not want her birthday celebration to be affected by the war, and decided to "reconcile with the Lord".

Guangxu focused on "main war"; he hoped to take the opportunity to establish his monarchy and get rid of his "puppet emperor" status.

Guangxu didn't know the silver taels for the purchase of naval armaments, and he misappropriated the Summer Palace for renovation. The Sino-Japanese War broke out.

The navy, which had high hopes, sailed out of the port and was bombarded by Japan.

The ship sank, the soldiers were almost wiped out, and the main general was also injured.

The Qing Tinghai and Lu armies suffered a fiasco, and countries took the opportunity to threaten and face the trend of dividing up the beans.

Guangxu was unwilling to be ruthless and became the king of the subjugated country, determined to fight hard,

He did not hesitate to "abdicate" to the Empress Dowager Cixi for political autonomy.

There was a reform movement in which "decision of the country is an edict" announcing reforms.

However, the conservative forces led by Cixi fought back and launched a coup.

The short and sad Hundred Days Restoration ended, and Guangxu's ten-year nominal pro-government career ended.

Since then, the emperor has become a prisoner, and the Empress Dowager Cixi has returned to teach politics.

Out of hatred for foreign powers to support Guangxu, they declared war on the whole world, causing the devastating Eight-Power Allied Forces!

Concubine Zhen was Emperor Guangxu's favorite concubine, and she was also a person who supported his restoration with all his heart.

Facing the dictatorial Empress Dowager Cixi and the descendants of the Manchu court official Hua Huan,

She confidently stood on the weaker emperor's side and supported the imperial party's reform concept.

He was also involved in the political tide and became a victim of the Empress Dowager Cixi's killing of chickens and monkeys.

During the Sino-Japanese War, Fang Yin was first reprimanded by the Empress Dowager Cixi, who was stripped of her clothes and staff for the crime of "Qianqiu" and demoted to a nobleman.

Later, the reformists failed to promote the 1980 Reform, and she was also put into the cold palace to be punished.

Before the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded, the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered the eunuch Cui Yugui to throw the concubine Zhen into the well before the Empress Dowager took Guangxu hostage.

The last "Rouge Snow: Emperor Guangxu and Concubine Zhen" of the historical novel writer Park Yue's Qing Gongyan series,

Because it is not far from the Republic of China, there is a wealth of information available. It can be read that Concubine Zhen is not as innocent as in the drama.

She likes novel Western objects, likes to play with the camera to take pictures, wear men's clothes to walk in the palace,

Being arrogant and arrogant, provoking the queen, discussing government affairs with the emperor,

Due to the excessive expenses, he listened to the proposal of the chief eunuch to sell the official vend.

If the person recommended by Concubine Zhen to the emperor is good, that's fine.

But she gave Yuming such an important position as Sichuan Yanfa Road.

Yuming was a carpenter, and could not read five characters. Before taking office, he was found to be illiterate, and he lost his job.

Concubine Zhen was not severely punished by the family law under Guangxu's intercession. Cixi was angry with her and buried the tragedy of falling into a well.

Although the death of Concubine Zhen was a tragedy, she was the eternal love of Guangxu.

"Rouge Snow: Emperor Guangxu and Concubine Zhen" in addition to the love between the emperor and the concubine,

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, a series of internal and external aggression, the struggle for power, the struggle for merit and blame, the random killing of capable ministers, and the ceding of territory to indemnity for defeat,

In the past, things that were not written in textbooks, dramas, and hidden histories, can be read in books.

Rouge Snow: Emperor Guangxu and Concubine Zhen (Qing Palace Yan Series 4)

Author: Park Moon

Publisher: United Literature

Publication date: 2022/01/2 4