30 November 2009

Beijing 7 - Summer Palace

Bijing
頤和園 Summer Palace

慈禧太后画像 Portrait of Empress Dowanger Cixi

The imperial concubine of Qing Emperor Xianfeng, was born
as one of the Manchu clan of Yehenala. In 1852, the second year
of Emperor Xianfeng's reign, she was selected as a Beauty of the
Yehenala clan, and then was appointed as the Honorable Lady Lan.

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