Empress Dowager Cixi was a devotee of Buddhism
As well as a worshiper of Manchu’s shamanism
Here’s a story
About gold and the sun
At the end of Yuan Dynasty and early in Ming Dynasty
The Yehe Nara Clan, which established the Yehe Kingdom, clashed with
The Aisin Gioro Clan in a war
In order to make the Yehe Nara Clan give in, the leader of the Aisin Gioro Clan
Pointed at the land and said:
“We are the most sacred gold on this land.”
Aisin Gioro means gold in Manchu language
The leader of the Yehe Nara Clan could only laughed
He pointed at the sun above:
“How can gold be great?
Our name is after it!”
The Yehe Nara Clan was eliminated by the Aisin Gioro
In early days of Qing Dynasty
Before its official establishment as a country
A small clan called Yehe Nara living near the Aisin Gioro
Which then eliminated the small clan
Before the chieftain of the small clan died, he vowed to the heaven
We shall take our vengeance
Even only one of our women lives
Such a story was recorded in the law of the Qing’s royal court
No one from the Yehe Nara shall be allowed to enter the royal court
The regulation was observed for more than two hundred years
See, it’s been through Kangxi, 60 years, Yongzheng, 13 years
And Qialong, 60 years
After Qianlong, there was another 200 years of Jiaqing, Daoguangm, and Xianfeng
Nothing went wrong
They were relaxed
Cixi was from the Yehe Nara
When she entered the court
Emperor Xianfeng knew about her origin
But
He thought that nothing went wrong during these 200 years. It would be okay
He accepted her
And eventually Qing was destroyed in her hands
Their chieftain
Held a resolute heart for revenge
He’d been waiting for over 200 years
Waiting for their fortune depleting
And then he came
To destroy them
Scientific knowledge was a necessity in the royal court
But the system was got rid off by Cixi
After she had the power
She abolished it
No scholars were hired to the court
Not anymore
What did she like?
She preferred Fuji (spirit writing)
Just Fuji
For great matters of the country
She didn’t ask for the scholars or experts
She asked for the spirits
The ghosts and the gods
And then the country was no more
This truth
Was told by Master Zhangjia
For one time, about Fuji
I had a question
And asked him
He then told me of this history
Cixi abolished the academy
And set the altar for Fuji in the court
The altar was the harbinger of the country’s fall
Our ancestor said
The country should listen to the people
If it is to be made a prosperous one
Listen to the civics
The country will fall
If hearing the words from the ghosts and the gods
Their words
Lead to the destruction of the country
So we must understand the truth
A truth that was proved by a maiden at the end of a dynasty
At the year of Boxer Rebellion
The maidens and the empress participated in a public ritual celebration in the Palace of Earthly Tranquility
After the period of Yongzheng
The Palace became a ritual site for the Qing royal family
I’m going to introduce the Pole Ceremony
The pole used here is similar to the telephone pole we now have
The fujins (maidens) accompanying the empress were all listening in owe
They were sitting beneath the main shrine
On the mattresses made of wolf hides
In terms of feng shui, the primary seat was on the west in Manchu custom
Which was different from the Han custom, in which the primary seat was on the east
So they put their ancestral tablets on the center and north-west corner of the main shrine
When the ritual started
There were also drummers
Dancing and circling around the pole
Soon after
There would be some devils in grotesque forms coming out
Crying, jumping, and breathing fire
And then two of the S gods
The devils delightfully followed the S
And then bowed and kneeled before the old empress, wishing her long life for three times
After the ritual, pigs would be slaughtered as the gift in the palace
And everyone would have the pork as a meal
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