Empress Dowager Cixi is very fashionable. She will send a photo of the minister when she is happy. What kind of private photo is it?

Cixi showed the ministers photos of her life. She likes taking pictures very much, so she took many photos of her life in different clothes. Many people know the face and daily life of Empress Dowager Cixi because she likes to hang her photos in every corner of the harem, and when she is in a good mood, she will give her photos to meritorious ministers. Because of this, photos of Cixi circulated outside the palace.

Cixi likes western objects very much. She is particularly interested in new things. During the Opium War, cameras were introduced into the Qing Dynasty. Cixi became interested in cameras when she saw the lifelike characters in the photos. Cixi also has an album called "Shengrongzhang", which is collected in the Palace Museum. There are more than 65,438,000 photos of Cixi. The person who photographed himself at that time was Yu Xunling, who had studied in the West.

Cixi is very cautious about taking pictures. She specially set up a gazebo in the Summer Palace with a screen as a foil. There are all kinds of luxuries in the shed as decoration. Cixi likes to play various roles in taking pictures. She also dressed up as "Master Guanyin" and asked her personal eunuch Li to play the protector around the Bodhisattva. Before taking pictures, Cixi will choose a good day. Every time a photo is taken, Yu Xunling will take some photos for Cixi to choose from, and there are also photos.

Yu Xunling took many photos of Cixi, most of which were portraits and life photos of Cixi. The photo plan arranged by Cixi is like a TV series, which is very detailed and comprehensive.