Who was the first beautiful imperial concubine killed by * * *?

The Qing emperors and empresses in the Forbidden City began to take the initiative to take photos, which began in 1903 when Empress Dowager Cixi took photos in the Summer Palace. But it was Zhen Fei who first introduced photography to the Qing palace, not Cixi.

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Zhen Fei was elected to the palace at the age of thirteen. She is smart, beautiful, pure-hearted, good at writing and painting, and quite congenial to Guangxu. At that time, photography had been introduced to China for decades, but it was still forbidden in the palace. In the 20th year of Guangxu (1894), Princess Zhen secretly bought a set of photographic equipment from outside the palace. After greeting Empress Dowager Cixi every day, she plunged into her bedroom, Ren Jing Palace, to learn photography techniques.

According to Liu, a maid-in-waiting who married Emperor Guangxu, Zhen Fei not only liked photography, but also took photos of Emperor Guangxu and taught eunuchs to use photo boxes. Zhen Fei wears casual clothes and poses when taking pictures, which is not polite.

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The good times didn't last long. When Cixi heard about it, she ordered someone to beat Princess Zhen with a spatula, and the eunuch sent him to exile the army in Heilongjiang. At that time, Zhen Fei was in the prime of life. She's not afraid of * * *, and she's also pocketing her own money. She was addicted to letting the eunuch named Dai leave the palace and opened a photo studio outside Donghuamen. Soon, this matter could not be concealed, and Jingfen, the empress of Guangxu, told Empress Dowager Cixi. What Zhen Fei did aroused Cixi's resentment against her for many years. Just as she was about to wear a eunuch, there was severe news. Under torture, the eunuch concealed it, but after telling the whole story, he was immediately beaten to death with a disorderly stick. Zhen Fei was also imprisoned.

Because Zhenfei "repeatedly committed crimes" and "violated the ancestral system and violated the Tao", she was ordered by Cixi to be pushed into a well and drowned before Eight-Nation Alliance invaded and the royal family fled in the boxer. The photos of Zhen Fei left in the palace were also destroyed.

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Now there is only one portrait of Princess Zhen in the Forbidden City, but there is no sign of Emperor Guangxu. At present, there are some old photos of Zhen Fei circulating in the society, and their authenticity is still controversial. Nevertheless, as the first person to take photos of the Qing Palace, the persistent and enterprising Princess Zhen will always be remembered in the history books.

Although Cixi brutally strangled the photography activities in the early Qing Dynasty with an iron fist, she suddenly fell in love with photography after entering her later years. In the next few years, she took many photos. After opposing the conservative old lady of * * *, she has a crush on * * * herself. If Zhenfei knows anything from the spring, she will surely cry injustice.