Extra: About the appearance of Concubine Yi
This article is not a story, but a small study of the appearance of Concubine Yi. If you don't like it, you can skip it directly, and it will have no impact on future reading.
I didn't plan to talk about this, but I saw that there was a lively discussion on this topic in the book review area, so I couldn't help but say a few words.
The first thing to say is that the reader's feelings are the most important and come first. As a reader, you can decide whether Yi Guifei is good-looking or not according to your own impression or intuition, and you are not obliged to listen to the author's mediocre nagging or accept the author's forced indoctrination.
Under such a premise, let's ask again: What does this woman Yi Guifei look like when she is young?
When he says "Yi Guifei", of course, he refers to Cixi when she was young, in her twenties. I have to say that it's a bit of a thing to talk about a photo of a 60-year-old person...... It's unfair. In photography around 1900, I thought that I could infer the appearance of any old woman when she was young from the photograph and I couldn't help but take it for granted - even today, if you put the photos of those beautiful women from forty years ago in front of you, after they grew old, can you guess that they were also amazing when they were young?
Since ancient times, heroes and beauties have not allowed to see white heads in the world.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that "marry a wife and marry virtue, and take a concubine", and the emperor's family chooses a concubine after selection, which is also affected by this to a certain extent. The queen is a wife, and the concubine is a concubine, so when choosing a concubine, you don't have to look forward and be as grand as the queen. Of course, even if it is a concubine, it cannot be said that virtue is not important, nor can the possibility of a political marriage be completely ruled out.
So, what is the situation of Yi Guifei?
To put it simply, Concubine Yi's father was just a Taoist, and before she entered the palace draft, she was already dead, and her family was very depressed. In such a situation, my sister became Xianfeng's concubine, and my sister became Xianfeng's seventh brother, King Alcohol's Zhengfujin, it can't be said that the emperor's brothers and sisters had their brains pumped, and they married this pair of sisters in order to do good?
Of course not. A more reliable explanation should be the appearance of this pair of sister flowers, even if it is not said that the national color and natural fragrance can at least be counted among the top grades.
Let's take a look at Xianfeng's concubine. In fact, it has been pointed out in the book that it is not good to compare the example of Guangxu, if you think that Guangxu is like this, then the dynasties are like this, then it is inevitable to lose arbitrariness. As for the weishenme, everyone should understand.
Xianfeng's concubines, there are more than 30 people with names and surnames, and there are countless palace maids, among which there are indeed those who are favored as palace maids and promoted to "always be there". Xianfeng is a lustful person, in such a crowd of emperors, Yi Guifei can inherit grace alone for three years, if she is mediocre, or even ugly, it is difficult to be convinced.
If you have to talk about photos, what is closer is the photo of the 50-year-old Cixi, there are pictures and reports. It can be seen from the report that the fifty-year-old Cixi is much plumper and beautiful than the old woman in people's impressions. If you have a good bite of this, you can Baidu it yourself, hehe.
As for the folk legends, there are many beautiful words about the appearance of Yi Guifei. But those are all anecdotes of flowers, and they are very fragrant, and they are not enough to rely on, so I won't talk about them.
In fact, having said so much, what does the twenty-five or sixteen-year-old Yi Guifei look like, you haven't seen it, and I haven't seen it, everyone is just trying to have fun. If you don't feel that you can't substitute when you read a book, then I solemnly recommend the following beauties, all of whom have played Cixi, please choose your own generation.
Liu Xiaoqing, Lv Liping, Qiu Shuzhen, Deng Jie, Gong Li, Mi Xue, Yuan Li, Fang Shu, Xi Meijuan, Pan Hong, Xie Fang, Gai Lili, Cong Shan, Ma Ling, Song Jia, Han Zaifen, Lu Zhong, Ouyang Peishan, Liu Xuehua, Liang Xiaoice.
Brother is considerate enough, right? Take the ticket~
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