Overview
Empress Dowager Cixi was a Qing empress dowager.
IdentityHistorical · Female
Life and dates
Death
Attested activity
AD 1908 兩宮升遐
AD 1902 兩宮回鑾
AD 1900 兩宮西巡、兩宮西狩、兩宮西幸
AD 1888 孝欽震怒
AD 1908 德宗暨慈禧皇太后相繼崩
AD 1875 慈禧皇太后
Key source chapters
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 437
Volume 437 Biographies 224: Rong Lu, Wang Wenshao, Zhang Zhidong, Qu Hongji
10 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472
Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi
5 passages
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 450
Volume 450 Biographies 237: Li Henian, Wen Bin, Ren Daorong, Xu Zhenyi, Wu Dacheng
1 passage
Places and affiliations
- Polity Qing 清 · Relation Served
References in the histories
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Draft History of Qing, Chapter 437Volume 437 Biographies 224: Rong Lu, Wang Wenshao, Zhang Zhidong, Qu Hongji · 10 passages
慈禧皇太后嘗欲自選宮監，榮祿奏非祖制，忤旨。
Empress Dowager Cixi once wanted to select palace eunuchs herself; Rong Lu submitted that this violated ancestral practice and thereby drew her displeasure.
榮祿不自安，御史楊崇伊奏請太后再垂簾，於是太后复臨朝訓政，召榮祿為軍機大臣，以世凱代之，命查拿康有為，斬譚嗣同等六人於市，以上有疾，詔徵醫；
Uneasy at these developments, Rong Lu watched as Censor Yang Chongyi asked the empress dowager to resume regency behind the curtain; the empress dowager then took up government again, recalled Rong Lu as a Grand Councilor, put Yuan Shikai in his former post, ordered Kang Youwei arrested, and had Tan Sitong and five others executed in public; because the emperor was said to be ill, physicians were summoned by edict;
時太后議廢帝，立端王載漪子溥俊為穆宗嗣，患外人為梗，用榮祿言，改稱「大阿哥」。
The empress dowager then considered deposing the emperor and naming Prince Duan's son Pujun as heir to Muzong's line; fearing foreign interference, she followed Rong Lu's counsel and styled the boy "Great Elder Brother" instead.
二十六年，拳匪亂作，載漪等稱其術，太后信之，欲倚以排外人。
In the twenty-sixth year the Boxer uprising broke out; Prince Duan and others extolled their magic, the empress dowager trusted them, and hoped to use them to expel foreigners.
榮祿踉蹌入言，太后厲色斥之。
Rong Lu stumbled in to remonstrate, but the empress dowager sharply rebuked him.
榮祿久直內廷，得太后信仗。
Rong Lu had long served at the inner court and enjoyed the empress dowager's full trust.
德宗暨慈禧皇太后相繼崩，醇親王載灃監國攝政。
Emperor Guangxu and Empress Dowager Cixi died in succession, and Prince Chun Zai Feng became regent.
會鴻禨因直言忤太后旨，侍講學士惲毓鼎劾以攬權恣縱，遂罷斥歸里。
When Hongji's blunt remonstrance offended the empress dowager, Attendant Academician Yun Yuding impeached him for arrogating power, and he was dismissed and sent home.
太后再出垂簾，初堅復舊，繼勉圖新。
When the empress dowager resumed regency, she first insisted on restoring the old order, then pressed on toward reform.
鴻禨後起，參議立憲，終以失寵太后，不免放斥。
Hongji rose later and helped debate constitutional government, but ultimately lost the empress dowager's favor and was cast out.
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 450Volume 450 Biographies 237: Li Henian, Wen Bin, Ren Daorong, Xu Zhenyi, Wu Dacheng · 1 passage
Draft History of Qing, Chapter 472Volume 472 Biographies 259: Lu Runxiang, Shi Xu, Yi Ketan, Liang Dingfen, Xu Fang, Lao Naixuan, Shen Cengzhi · 5 passages
兩宮西巡，奔赴行在，授禮部侍郎，充經筵講官。
When the Empress Dowager and the Emperor fled west, he hurried to join the court in exile, was named Vice Minister of Rites, and became a lecturer at the imperial classics lecture.
二十六年，各國聯軍入京，兩宮西狩，適遭父喪，命留京辦事。
In the twenty-sixth year, when the allied powers entered Beijing and the Empress Dowager and the Emperor fled west, he was mourning his father and was ordered to stay in the capital to manage affairs.
兩宮回鑾，賞黃馬褂，轉吏部，兼都統。
When the Empress Dowager and the Emperor returned, he was given the yellow riding jacket, moved to the Ministry of Personnel, and also served as banner general.
拳禍起，兩宮西幸，鼎芬首倡呈進方物之議。
When the Boxer calamity broke out and the Empress Dowager and the Emperor fled west, Dingfen was first to propose presenting local tribute products.
兩宮升遐，奔赴哭臨，越日即行，時之洞在樞垣，不一往謁也。
When the Empress Dowager and the Emperor passed away, he rushed to attend the mourning rites and left the next day; Zhidong was then in the Grand Council, yet Dingfen did not once go to pay his respects.