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On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 3:15 PM, toyota_man <save_my...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > > Teman2, > > saya baru searching dan menemukan sebuah artikel tentang teka-teki Selir > Zhen. Dapat di akses di: > > http://people.chinese.cn/en/article/2009-09/27/content_8815.htm > > Tampaknya ini webpage dari Confusian Institute Online (maaf saya copas) > > "The Riddle of Zhenfei (Imperial Concubine Zhen)" > -http://www.chinese.cn 16:01, September 27, 2009 > > Water wells in the Imperial Palace in Beijing mostly have small exquisite > pavilions and are surrounded with white marble balustrades. However, there > is a well with a small mouth and only stone brim on the west corridor of > Jingqige Pavilion and inside Zhenshun Gate. This well is called Zhenfei > Well. > > It is said that Zhenfei was persecuted to death by Empress Dowager Cixi > because Zhenfei supported Emperor Guangxu to conduct The Hundred Days' > Reform. Is this hearsay true or not? > > Zhenfei entered the Palace Museum in 1899 together with her elder > sister-Jinfei. Soon after that, she was granted the title of imperial > concubinewhose position was only second to the Empress. Empress Longyu was > the niece of Cixi, but she did not get along well with Guangxu. Zhenfei was > beautiful and young, lively and active, smart and clever, and was deeply > loved by Guangxu. Zhenfei expected that Guangxu could get rid of the control > of Cixi and took back his due power. She also hated the strict rules in the > Palace. She often walked in the Palace dressed in the clothes of emperor. > She also wore men's clothes in front of Guangxu like a handsome and graceful > young Adonais. Those rebellious behaviors of Zhenfei which were intolerable > to Cixi went against the rules in the Palace. But the excuse for Cixi to > punish Zhenfei was that Zhenfei got involved in selling ranks and titles. > > In Qing Dynasty, empresses and concubines could receive silver (salary) > once a month with the total amount of 1000 Liang of silver for empresses and > 300 Liang of silver for first rank concubines and 200 Liang of silver for > second rank of concubines every year. Zhenfei's grandfather was > Yutai-Governor General of Shaanxi and Gansu, and her father Changxu once > held the position of Minister of Hubu (Ministry of Revenue and Sensus), and > her uncle Changshan had been the commissioner of the Army in Guangzhou for > as long as 12 years. Only 300 Liang of silver a year was not sufficient for > Zhenfei who was brought up in such a rich family of high-level officials. In > addition, she did not know how to save money, and she often bestowed > eunuchs, therefore she failed to make both ends meet. So she had to find > other ways of earning money. Because concubines in Palace were not allowed > to contact with outside world without permission, Zhenfei asked her elder > brother to help her and cooperated with eunuchs to sell ranks and titles. > Outside the Palace, eunuchs were responsible for external contacts, and > inside the Palace, Zhenfei was responsible for dealing with Guangxu. Zhenfei > could get part of the money gained from selling ranks and titles, the > remaining were divided by the other people. > > Before Zhenfei set her foot in selling ranks and titles, the business was > controlled by LI Lianying himself- Cixi's favorite eunuch and Head Eunuch. > LI Lianying Group for selling ranks and titles was definitely not happy with > Zhenfei, and the people in this group all reported against of their > opponent-Zhen Zhu'er (master)-to Cixi. Cixi was angry about that. After > severely scolding Guangxu, Cixi relegated Zhenfei and Jinfei to the position > of Guiren (a lower level of concubine). In addition, Zhenfei was put in > house arrest. After that Zhenfei and Guangxu could not meet each other. In > accordance with the record in "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty: Zhuan of > Concubines": "Zhenfei was disobedient to Cixi for criticizing her > extravagant habit and had many requirements, thus Zhenfei was relegated to > the position of Guiren". It seems that the record in "Draft History of the > Qing Dynasty" referred to this event. More than 60 eunuchs related to this > event were sentenced to death, and Zhenfei's elder brother fled to Shanghai > for shelter. This event happened in 1894, 4 years prior to The Hundred Days' > Reform (1898). > > On July 20th 1900, Eight-nation Alliance was invading Beijing, and Cixi > forced Emperor to flee to Xi'an with her. Before their leave, Cixi ordered > Zhenfei to be taken out of prison secretly and brought in front of her. Cixi > ordered Zhenfei to commit suicide by jumping into a well, her excuse was > that it was inconvenient to take her along with them to Xi'an and she might > cause some problems for her beauty and youth to stay in the Palace. Zhenfei > refused to do so but required to see the emperor, thus Dowager Cixi finally > ordered eunuchs to throw Zhenfei into a well. Since the mouth of the well > was quite small, it took some effort for Cixi's leading eunuch CUI Yugui and > his subordinates to throw Zhenfei into the well. The young life of Zhenfei > who was only 24 years old was ended in this well just like that. > > There might be true love between Guangxu and Zhenfei, and it was reality > that Zhenfei used Guangxu to sell ranks and titles. But from Zhenfei's words > and deeds such as her love from Guangxu left the Empress being ignored, her > discontent with Cixi's involvement in affairs of the state, and her offense > of rules in Palace, we can see that her tragic fate was predetermined at the > moment when she entered the Palace. What had fallen into the well was not > only the body of Zhenfei, but the sadness and helplessness of Guangxu-the > Emperor of the state. That also represented that a dynasty was not far from > falling. "The people of the ancient time had gone, But, until now, the water > of Yishui still remains as cold as ever." Similarly, the people of later > generations still deeply sigh in face of the ripples in that well of ancient > time…… > > >
