How literate was Empress Dowager Cixi? Read this article and you will know

Historical records of Cixi is a great talent. Cixi had a traditional feudal education, "when she was sixteen years old, she had memorized the Five Classics, understood Manchu, and browsed through all the twenty-four histories", and thus was able to approve and read the provinces' sangs beside Emperor Xianfeng. In reality, however, she was not highly literate. Cixi This from the 1865 Cixi dismissed Prince Gong Yi v. Oracle can be seen. Oracle **** 226 words, there are 13 typos. Cixi also know how their own level, so after writing the oracle, handed over to Lingren, Zhou Zupei and other ministers to correct, said: "the edict in the many misspelled words and the rhetoric does not make sense, you and other for the embellishment of the." Cixi stills Comparison of Cixi's handwritten text of different historical periods can be clearly seen, 1900 Cixi's handwritten oracle, 1904 Cixi copied the "Prajna Paramita Heart Sutra", although compared to the 1860s written oracle improved, but there is no obvious change, is still the font structure of stagnant and loose, the strokes of the childish, the strokes of the screen is weak, has not been a little bit of the way of calligraphy, is still at the level of beginners, only slightly more than 40 years ago, the strokes are a little bit more than 40 years ago, but it is still the level of beginners. Only than 40 years ago, the brush has a slight stroke, the text is slightly more upright only. Cixi Why are the paintings and calligraphic works of Cixi handed down to the world at such a high level? In fact, these paintings and calligraphy are suspected of being "knife". Mu Suyao was one of Cixi's ghostwriters for her paintings and calligraphy. Cixi paintings of flowers by mu su medicine first hook powder this, so that according to the description, and sometimes even completely mu su medicine is ordered to write on behalf of the pen. In the need for Cixi personally write, the method of outlining. Generally the master first proposed words and phrases written on paper, and then by the craftsmen according to the strokes with a needle pricked into small holes, sprinkled with white powder, to write the paper on the bottom, white powder down to form the word, Cixi like copying the general according to the word written on the line.