Emperor Xianfeng only loves three-inch golden lotus, why not seven-inch golden lotus?

According to historical records, Emperor Xianfeng vomited blood and died because of excessive wine and color, but what he didn't expect was that the honorary Qing emperor died at the feet of a beautiful little widow in the ninth five-year plan. According to the records in the Grand View of unofficial history in Qing Dynasty, there was a widow named Cao in Shanxi, who was "beautiful" and had extremely slender feet, "only three inches long", which was really a three-inch golden lotus. Her shoes are "mainly made of vegetable jade and lined with fragrant crumbs", which is even more unique. Emperor Xianfeng was particularly concerned about them.

In fact, at the beginning of his succession, Emperor Xianfeng, like many emperors who had just boarded Dabao, had the political ambition of making great efforts to enrich Qiang Bing, issuing letters, begging for words and punishing perfunctory officials. However, Emperor Xianfeng was neither so heroic as his ancestor Kangxi nor so blessed as Qianlong. Since the day he ascended the throne, he has faced a double crisis of internal and external troubles, and he has not been stable for a day. The domestic uprising represented by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the second Opium War launched by the British and French allied forces, and the increasingly bad official style quickly exhausted the vitality of Emperor Xianfeng to strengthen the Qing Dynasty and turned to extravagance and indulgence. "The woman who drank the wine committed suicide."

Emperor Xianfeng indulged in debauchery, whether it was a virtuous and generous queen, or Yi Guifei who was jealous of her rivalry, and later Cixi, naturally felt uncomfortable. In particular, Yi Guifei, in order to protect the health of the emperor, put national affairs first and repeatedly advised the queen to persuade Emperor Xianfeng. Emperor Xianfeng always respected the queen who was in the middle palace, and initially accepted the queen's "polite advice". Provincial military newspapers and court ministers sent letters to her one after another, and as long as the queen reminded her, she would not hesitate to review it immediately.

But not long after, Emperor Xianfeng relapsed and still went his own way. The reasons are as follows: First, everyone has inertia, and it is more difficult for Emperor Xianfeng to change his lust; Second, the situation at home and abroad and state affairs at home and abroad have not improved. On the contrary, it is getting worse and worse, almost hopeless, and there is really no hope to cure ZTE. In this case, it is more realistic to eat, drink and be merry in time.

Emperor Xianfeng's "good voice and lust, this sudden power of the former dynasty" is accompanied by many beautiful concubines. Only the first queen Thackeray, the later queen Niu Hulu, the first imperial concubine Nara, the princess Litaras, and Wan Wan, Mei, Qi, Ji and Ji can be found in the archives. Emperor Xianfeng probably watched it for a long time and had too much contact, resulting in "visual fatigue" and "aesthetic paralysis". Manchu concubines have made him uninterested, and it is difficult to stimulate his interest in lewdness. It seems normal for the Qing emperor to have great interest in Han women, but his great interest in foot-binding Han women, especially widows, can not be explained by "following the fashion" or "kitsch", and he seems to be in a sexual metamorphosis. In 700 AD, there was a beautiful widow named Cao in Shanxi, who was the favorite woman of Emperor Xianfeng.

When he entered the Central Plains in the early Qing Dynasty, Mang the emperor shunzhi adopted Han women Shi, Chen, Tang and Yang. Her mother, sourdrang dowager, worried that the emperor shunzhi was underage and infatuated with women in her early years, which was bound to hurt her. But more importantly, in order to ensure that the prince and grandson are of pure Manchu descent, she hung an imperial edict at the entrance of Shenwumen in the Qing Palace: "Anyone who enters the palace with a foot-binding woman will be beheaded." In this regard, Wu once wrote a poem in the Qing Dynasty, saying: The Han style is small and melodious, and the dance praises the lotus. Like Hezhu Palace, it was forbidden to prevent micro-duration as early as the year of entering the DPRK. Since it is forbidden in the palace and it is difficult for Han women to get close, let's live in Yuanmingyuan! Anyway, the imperial house in Yuanmingyuan is ancestral. In the book Grand View of unofficial history in Qing Dynasty, Xu Yan revealed the true meaning of Emperor Xianfeng's permanent residence in Yuan Dynasty.

At the beginning of the fifth year of Xianfeng, the Qing government completely suppressed the Northern Expeditionary Army of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. In the spring of the same year, Emperor Xianfeng wanted to go to Yuanmingyuan for recreation, and Fujian Road stabbed Xue Jian to death. Emperor Xianfeng became angry from embarrassment, not only refused to give advice, but also ordered Xue to be resolved by the Ministry of Industry. In particular, he claimed that the Qing emperor worked in Yuanmingyuan, which was an ancestral system. In recent years, because of unfinished military affairs, I have been unlucky in the garden. "My dedication to industry is well known to Chinese and foreign people." In addition, Emperor Xianfeng argued that if you want to be comfortable, you can enjoy yourself even if Yan lives in the palace. Why does the Imperial Garden have the idea of leisure? Whether in the Palace or Yuanmingyuan, it is "the same awe and the same anxiety".

At that time, a traitor minister found that Emperor Xianfeng was so keen on women in China that he did not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy dozens of beautiful women from Jiangsu and Zhejiang for Emperor Xianfeng. One of the ministers said, "Now the world is in chaos, and Yuanmingyuan is in the suburbs. We should strengthen our vigilance and let these women patrol around the emperor's bedroom every three people. " Emperor Xianfeng naturally knew the secret. With this convenient condition, he can call these beautiful women on duty into the temple at any time and invite them to make a fortune at will.

Later, Emperor Xianfeng simply "hid the beauty in the golden palace" and named four particularly beautiful women "Four Springs", namely Peony Spring, Xinghua Spring, Wuling Spring and Haitang Spring. These four spring colors live in the gardens of the Summer Palace, such as Carving the Moon and Opening Clouds, Apricot Blossom Spring Pavilion, Wuling Spring Scene, Qiyintang and so on. Wu's "Four Springs in Yuanmingyuan" has a cloud: the golden lotus buckles the fiber steps, and the four springs bloom. Whoever robbed the harem was bald, and whoever sang Xiangqi's words.

The "four springs" in Yuanmingyuan are all beautiful women with little feet, which shows that Emperor Xianfeng is keen on little feet. During the five to ten years of Xianfeng, Emperor Xianfeng was "full of love". There is a poem in the Qing Dynasty, which describes the dissolute life of Emperor Xianfeng at this time: the sheep and cart want to break the dusk, and they are lazy to take off their new makeup to cover the garden gate. I don't know who accepted the kindness of the wind. But Yi Guifei was jealous of Xianfeng's lust for other women, especially the feet of Yuanmingyuan and Han nationality. However, she was afraid to persuade Emperor Xianfeng directly, so she had to tell the Queen all the time. However, at this time, the queen had lost confidence in the persuasion of Emperor Xianfeng, and only managed to persuade Nora's family to accept this reality.

Faced with so many charming girls, Emperor Xianfeng has a free sex life. He was "weak for a long time", dizzy, faltering and weak, and began to step into the dangerous road of romantic ghosts. Whenever a big sacrifice is held in the Temple of Heaven, Ditan, Temple of Heaven and Ancestral Temple, Emperor Xianfeng often loses his dignity, or falls off the altar, or goes up and down the steps, for fear that his legs and feet are weak. He dare not come in person, so he can only send Prince Gong to do it for him. Later, internal and external troubles together, the worse the body, the more vomiting blood. "Until the Yuyang drum shook the earth and broke the tone of the rainbow skirt." The guns of Britain and France finally awakened a "spring dream" in the gentle village of Emperor Xianfeng. Although it is said that "when a monk strikes the bell for one day", Emperor Xianfeng only has the heart of becoming a monk at this time, and has no intention of striking the bell. When he arrived in Jehol, he was depressed, bored and upset all day, so he wrote a banner of "Qi Le Taoist" and ordered people to hang it in the temple. Perhaps it is a self-mockery of idleness, but it also shows his spiritual decadence. Empress Niu Hu Furnace thinks that this will greatly damage the emperor's virtue. While exhorting him, she personally urged people to take down the banner.

After Emperor Xianfeng led the minister to flee to Jehol, he soon entered the cold winter. Although Su Shun and other generals greeted him with smiles, his mood was as cold as the weather. In March of the eleventh year of Xianfeng, Emperor Xianfeng coughed even worse.