Empress Dowager Tu Xi expelled the servant, kept 1 eunuch when bathing, hiding the secret?

Minh LợiAug 09, 2025 at 17:40

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In Chinese history, Empress Dowager Cixi is famous as a powerful woman of the Qing Dynasty. She came from Ye Hao Na Lap City in the Manchurian Xianghuang Dynasty, formerly Manchurian Xiang Lam Qi, the descendant of the hereditary butler.

She is portrayed as a tyrant who was responsible for the downfall of the Qing dynasty.

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In popular culture in mainland China, Empress Dowager Tu Xi along with Wu Tac Tian in the Tang Dynasty and Queen Lu in the Han Dynasty are considered the 3 most powerful women in China for a long time, considered by the people to be cruel and inhumane to their relatives. tilted the Jiang Son Commune.

Tu Xi had a cunning way of seizing power, not only letting go of the regency many times, but also personally establishing the emperor. Anecdotes about Tu Hi are mentioned a lot in both official history and field history.

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According to Sohu, one of them is that the courtesans accidentally discovered that, one evening, Tu Xi summoned the eunuch Li Lianying to serve her to take a shower.

It is known that Ly Lien Anh was a eunuch in the Qing court in the nineteenth century, a close and confidant of Empress Dowager Tu Xi. He was the Grand Governor or General Eunuch and was a powerful figure who even overwhelmed the king and disturbed the entire Qing Dynasty harem.

Only after the death of Empress Dowager Tu Xi, Li Lianying left the imperial palace to live in hiding and died quietly.

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There are many speculations that Ly Lien Anh is a fake eunuch. Accordingly, this eunuch himself was able to climb to the peak of power thanks to his love affair with Empress Dowager Tu Xi. Is this true?

Although Li Lianying was a eunuch, he did not act like an ordinary eunuch. Many people have passed on the word that, after each bath, Empress Dowager Tu Xi will be alone with Ly Lien Anh. At this time, the eunuch and the courtesan who were serving Empress Dowager Tu Xi would be kicked out. What did the two of them do in the room? No one knows, but thoughts about "going over the limits" are possible.

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Some others speculated that Li Lianying was just helping Empress Dowager Tu Xi get dressed. After all, why did Empress Dowager Tu Xi like Li Lianying so much?

The first is because Li Lianying can comb her beautiful hair, which makes her the most comfortable. Empress Dowager Tu Xi loved her hair very much, the courtiers and eunuchs who had previously combed the hair for Empress Dowager Tu Xi all caused her hair to fall out, break, and suffer a very scary punishment. Therefore, over time, those courtiers and eunuchs did not dare to comb the hair of Empress Dowager Tu Xi. But unexpectedly, Ly Lien Anh dared to face difficulties.

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This made Empress Dowager Tu Xi treat her differently from Ly Lien Anh. Ly Lien Anh has been with Empress Dowager Tu Xi for 35 years in the harem. The relationship between the two is very deep, even if Empress Dowager Xu Xi dies, she will not dare to kill Li Lianying!

Known as one of the few "red people" who are close to Empress Dowager Tu Xi, the relationship between Ly Lien Anh and this Empress Dowager has long become the subject of discussion not only of the encyclopedia at that time but also for future generations.

However, there are other theories that have been put forward. According to the account of a courtesan, she saw Li Lianying pouring a large amount of blood-red liquid into the bathtub. After that, he began to massage the Empress Dowager. As for Empress Dowager Tu Xi, she sometimes smiles at the guests, sometimes she screams majestically.

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It turned out that Empress Dowager Tu Xi often had to sit in one place and rarely moved, so her body had many problems. Therefore, Ly Lien Anh looked for a remedy for her to clear her meridians. This remedy must be boiled water for bathing and then combined with reflexology massage. It was because when massaging, Ly Lien Anh touched the acupuncture points on the Queen Mother's body that she cried like that.

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