I think this is the fastest day for me to improve my English. I can't understand a word, but I can still hear it in the end. We came to the mausoleum of Empress Dowager Cixi, called Ding Dong Mausoleum. Cixi is a famous "luxury" queen mother in history. She loved pearls, agates, precious stones, jade articles, gold and silver vessels and other treasures before her death. After her death, the treasure buried in the coffin was worth as much as 200 million taels of silver. Ding Dong Mausoleum was bombed by Sun Dianying, who stole almost all the treasures in it.
Mrs Sullivan became interested in a painting when she visited foreigners. The picture shows Empress Dowager Cixi posing as Guanyin Bodhisattva, which should be regarded as the oldest photo. Mrs Sullivan pointed to Li, the eunuch next to Cixi, and asked, Who is he? I'm a little confused. I can't say the word eunuch! Fortunately, I used my quick wits to introduce her: and the queen's waiter, who is he? A man, but without a beard. This is the queen's waiter, a man without a beard. Mrs Sullivan covered her mouth and smiled. Looks like she got it. Later, I asked the interpreter who accompanied me. The English of eunuch is eunuch.
Li should be the best among eunuchs. He is not beautiful, why can he be loved by Empress Dowager Cixi? First of all, personal talent is outstanding.
Li has a unique skill in combing her hair. All the women in the palace have long hair, which should be coiled up every day. Li learned this skill from a senior eunuch in his early years. In addition, he is smart, quick-witted, and well-versed. He always designs various beautiful hairstyles according to the face of Empress Dowager Cixi. In modern times, Li is definitely a senior hair stylist.
Besides combing her hair, Li has two other unique skills. He has a pair of good hands, thick and soft, very suitable for pushing and rubbing, and is born to be a dry massage material. Every morning, when Cixi was awake, he went into the bedroom, knelt in front of the bed and put his hand deep into the curtain to massage Cixi. Li thinks it's almost time, so he will wake up Cixi and ask Lafayette if the massage is comfortable.
Li is also an "artist" in storytelling performance. He can tell ballads such as Three Kingdoms, Liaozhai, Yongqing Shengping, etc., and he can also add his own characteristics, interspersed with some links that Cixi likes to listen to, and often makes Cixi laugh.
In this way, Li can stand out among thousands of eunuchs, relying on his own real skills.
Many eunuchs were born in poverty and entered the palace in vain since childhood. Li entered the palace at the age of 9 and became a eunuch.
Eunuchs generally have a bad reputation in history, and most of them have become evil slaves of the emperor. But there are a few other eunuchs who can go down in history.
1. Eunuch awarded the title of emperor.
Cao Teng was in the palace since he was a child. Cao Song, Cao Cao's father, was adopted as his son. After Wei Mingdi Cao Rui acceded to the throne, his great-grandfather Cao Teng was honored as the high emperor.
2. The highest-ranking eunuch
Wei Zhongxian, who was originally a scoundrel and gambler, was forced by gambling debts and became a eunuch from his palace. This is really a cruel man! After entering the palace, Wei Zhongxian met Zhu Youxiao's wet nurse Hakka and married them. Later, when Zhu Youxiao became emperor, Wei Zhongxian did everything he could to flatter him. A eunuch named nine years old, you know the emperor's name is long live. In the Ming Dynasty, Wei Zhongxian made a lot of smoke.
3. Eunuch who can make paper
Among China's four great inventions, papermaking ranks among them. The man who improved papermaking was a great eunuch named Cai Lun. At that time, people called this kind of paper "Cai Hou Paper". Cai Lun's invention has made great contributions to human civilization.
4. Become a eunuch of a great navigator
Zheng He, known as the eunuch of the Three Treasures. From 1405 to 1433, Zheng He was ordered to make seven voyages to the Western Ocean. Zheng He has been to more than 30 countries, including Java, Sumatra, Sulu, Pahang, Zhenla, Guri, Siam, Adan, Tian Fang, Zoufal, Hume, Mugu, as far away as the east coast of Africa, the Red Sea, Mecca and even Australia. Sanbao eunuch made outstanding contributions. Having been to so many countries, his foreign language level must be top notch.
The legendary Qiu Chuji was the ancestor of eunuchs. He castrated himself because of his cultivation method. I wonder if he cultivated the legendary sunflower collection. Eunuchs in Ming and Qing dynasties often offered sacrifices to their ancestors.
In addition to the above excellent eunuchs, most eunuchs are smart, and even many eunuchs are knowledgeable.
Legend has it that in the Qing Dynasty, Ji Xiaolan went to the palace to see the emperor. At that time, it was cold winter. Ji Xiaolan looked neither fish nor fowl in cotton-padded clothes but with a fan in his hand. An old eunuch made a couplet to laugh at him:
Xiao Hanlin, wearing winter clothes and holding a summer fan, have you finished reading a book "Spring and Autumn Annals"?
Although this couplet seems simple, it contains the four seasons of "spring, summer, autumn and winter", which is actually very wrong. This eunuch can write couplets of this level, and he has a profound literary foundation. Ji Xiaolan a listen to, the other party is satirizing him, now also no longer polite. He recognized that the eunuch spoke Southern Mandarin, and he was right about such a bottom allied:
Old eunuch, from south to north, is that thing still there?
That thing must be gone, or it will be a crime of deceiving the monarch and will be beheaded. Although the upper and lower couplets are all questions, they are also affirmative answers, which are really interesting.
The old eunuch ate a dumb loss and had to leave angrily. This pair of couplets has been handed down to this day and is a masterpiece of satirizing eunuchs.
In today's society, there is no such magical artificial species as eunuchs. However, there are eunuchs in other parts of the earth, such as Thai shemale. They inject estrogen into their bodies, which makes them look like women, even though they are men.