According to Cixi's above performance, people believe that Cixi poisoned Ci'an, and legend has it that Emperor Xianfeng left Ci'an a secret edict asking her to execute Cixi if necessary, and Ci'an burned the edict under Cixi's coaxing, and destroyed one of her biggest weapons against Cixi, and Cixi poisoned her.

There is still controversy about the specific reasons for the violent death of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, in addition to the theory of poisoning, there are also theories of suicide and natural death. The "suicide" theory comes from "Qing Barnyard Banknotes", which says: "Or say: Xiaoqin empirically proved that he used bribes and betrayed entrustment to interfere in government affairs, and his words were quite radical. Filial piety can't be tolerated, and Yimu Ne can't argue with it. Da Xiang, swallowing a snuff bottle and committing suicide. In the "Grand View of the History of the Qing Dynasty", it is also used "or Cixi ordered the imperial doctor to die with the wrong medicine" to explain that Ci'an used "the wrong medicine to die".

Whether it is the theory of "poisoning" or "suicide" or "death by wrong medicine", there is one thing in common, that is, Cixi killed Ci'an. However, some scholars believe that Ci'an died "natural death", while Xu Che's "The Biography of Cixi" tends to "die of illness". First of all, the author believes that Ci'an is not good at governing the government, for example, when summoning courtiers, what she says does not carry enough weight, and only asks about their physical condition, the distance of their travels, etc., so she will not hinder Cixi's political power at all, and Cixi does not need to kill her.

Xu Che presented two accounts of Ci'an's illness in the Diary of Weng Tonghe as evidence. One is that when Empress Dowager Ci'an was 26 years old, she suffered from a "liver syncope-like" disease for 24 days, even reaching the level of "unable to speak". The other is that on the fourth day of December in the eighth year of Tongzhi (1869 AD), the Empress Dowager Ci'an "suffered an attack of old illness and rebellious for half an hour". "Syncope" is mainly manifested as sudden coma, unconscious, cold limbs, mild fainting for a short time, severe will be unconscious or even death.

But this is just Xu Che's family's words, as for the real reason for the violent death of the Empress Dowager Ci'an, it can only be that the mystery of the Qing Palace has become a topic of conversation after dinner.

Among the many ways to die, there is no doubt that they are related to Cixi.

In the Zhongcui Palace, a faint fragrance emanated from the incense burner. But I didn't expect that just the spices we usually use will bring about a crisis.

Perfume, also known as perfume, is a substance that can be smelled or tasted by the sense of smell, and is a raw material used to prepare flavors. With the exception of a few varieties, most spices cannot be used alone. Flavors are divided into natural flavors and artificial flavors, of which natural flavors include animal-based natural flavors and plant-based natural flavors; Artificial flavours include mono flavours and synthetic flavours.

Spice is a substance that can be smelled or tasted by the sense of smell, and is the raw material for the preparation of flavors. Fragrance is an important part of fine chemicals, which is composed of three parts: natural fragrance, synthetic fragrance and isolated fragrance.

In one of his poems, the ancient Roman poet Statius satirized a funeral for a pet parrot, whose owner had to perform a funeral ceremony resembling the death of his treasure, in which he was reborn in a fire lit with cinnamon.

Arguably, spices like cinnamon play the most important role in this cycle. This is not an exaggeration at all, at least until the spice was consumed. If you look back at how spices and spices are perceived and used, the facts are even more striking.