After being shaped by the revolutionary view of history in middle school history textbooks, Empress Dowager Cixi became a vicious, stubborn, humiliating, insidious and manipulative national sinner, and was permanently nailed to the pillar of shame in history.

After analyzing historical data, some people believe that Cixi had her own way of governing the world, carried out some reforms, and expanded the territory of the Qing Dynasty.

In this short article, let us put aside the rights and wrongs of governing the country for the time being and take a look at what kind of person Cixi was in her family life.

Yehenalagan, a descendant of Cixi, told a short story in the year of Cixi’s Empress Dowager that I know, which quite reflects the softer side of this political strongman. In the second year of Guangxu's reign, Cixi's mother celebrated her seventieth birthday. According to common sense, Cixi should be there.

But that day, foreign envoys needed to visit the palace, so Cixi prepared some birthday gifts, wrote a calligraphy by herself, framed it and sent it over. This calligraphy was preserved for several generations and was finally destroyed during the Cultural Revolution.

Cixi wrote a big word "Shou", and underneath it, he wrote four poems in Manchu and Chinese. The content of the poem is: The love of parents is the most real in the world. Tears and blood melt into the child's body, and after exhausting their efforts, they become a child. The poor inherit the wind.

After writing this poem, the last sentence became a classic! Nowadays, we use it frequently in our daily life, but few people know that it was written by Cixi.

The phrase "When you are poor, you want to change" has touched the deep feelings of countless people, so more than a hundred years later, we still think its meaning is appropriate and acceptable.

Brother Bing believes that these seven words are not from Cixi’s poetic talent, but from her heartfelt words. With this contribution, Cixi's role as the mother of the world has been fulfilled.

Cixi is forty-one years old this year. She has also raised children herself, so she should feel the hardship of being a parent. While she used poems to pay tribute to her old mother, she may also have conveyed her sadness as a mother, a mother who lost her son.