诡异的历史,总有一些让人哭笑不得的地方。清末曾发生过两则“一语成谶”的奇闻,令人感慨莫名。“要大清灭亡,除非灯头朝下!”慈禧太后是晚清同治、光绪两朝的最高决策者与实际统治者,她以垂帘听政、训政的名义统治中国长达47年。慈禧在中国面临“数千年未有之巨变”的危殆时刻,没能够像俄国的彼得大帝和日本的明治天皇那样审时度势,放眼世界,富国强兵,推动历史向前发展。相反,她将一己的权力看得比国家、民族的利益和未来的发展还重,抱残守缺,故步自封,从而 Strange history, there are always some dumbfounding place. There have been two in the late Qing Dynasty, “a phrase into a 谶,” the anecdote, it makes people feel inexplicable. “To clear the dead, unless the lamp down! ” Empress Dowager Cixi is the highest in the late Qing dynasty, the highest decision-makers and the real ruler of the Guangxu dynasty, her blind curtain listen to politics, rule of government in the name of rule in China for 47 years. Cixi was in a critical juncture when China was facing a “tremendous change that had not taken place for thousands of years.” It failed to assess the situation, look to the world, and make the rich and the nation strong and push history forward as Russia’s Peter the Great and Japanese Emperor Meiji did. On the contrary, she sees her own authority as more important than the interests of the nation and nation and the future development of her country.