It should be from Cixi.

This was written on the occasion of Cixi’s mother’s seventieth birthday. Cixi did not have time to attend her mother’s birthday at that time, so she wrote a piece of calligraphy in her own hand and sent it as a gift.

The truest love between parents in the world,

The tears and blood are integrated into the bodies of their children.

I have worked so hard to become a son,

What a pity for the hearts of parents in the world!

In her life, Cixi experienced the four emperors Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty. However, she acted from the front twice and listened to politics behind the curtain three times. In the game of power, she was comparable to the then Empress Wu Zetian. But such a strong and tough woman also has her own side as a woman, as a child, and as a mother.

According to Cixi's descendant Yehenara Genzheng mentioned in "The Empress Dowager Cixi I Know", in 1876, the second year of Guangxu, the Empress Dowager Cixi's mother celebrated her seventieth birthday. But because there were foreign envoys entering the palace, they could not be present. I wrote a big word "longevity" and sent it to my mother. Under the word "Shou", four lines of poetry were written in both Manchu and Chinese:

The love between parents is the truest in the world. Their tears and blood blend into their children's bodies. They work hard to give birth to a son. How pitiful The hearts of parents in the world.

To be honest, the level of this poem is not high, but it is valuable because Cixi, as a married daughter and a mother who has lost a child, wrote these four sentences from the bottom of her heart.

Everyone who has ever been a parent knows that for the sake of their children, they really "work hard to become a child" and "the tears and blood are integrated into the body of the child." Therefore, the last line of this poem has become a famous line through the ages and has been praised by generations.

Because of these four lines of poetry, people know that behind this iron-blooded strong woman, there are also the blood, tears, joys and sorrows of ordinary people. At the moment when she wrote these lines, she was not some powerful queen mother. , but just a daughter, a mother.