It is generally believed that Cixi is a blue flag bearer, and the jade book clearly records that she is "the daughter of Zheng Hui of Ye Henala". According to Ye Hena Lagen Zheng's oral records, Cixi was born in Beijing Xicipai Hutong, which is now Bicai Hutong.

However, some scholars have put forward different views that Empress Dowager Cixi is probably a Han nationality.

1June, 989, Zhao, a 77-year-old villager from the suburban village of Changzhi City (formerly Changzhi County), found the Changzhi Local Records Office with his joint letter with Song, Song, Song and Song of Shangqin Village. Zhao said that Cixi was from Shangqin Village. He is the fifth generation nephew of Empress Dowager Cixi, and Song, Song and others are the fifth generation nephews of Empress Dowager Cixi. They asked the government to help clarify their feelings. Since then, Liu Qi has embarked on the research road of Cixi's childhood. With the continuous enrichment of supporting materials, Liu Qi's confidence has been continuously enhanced, and related writings have also appeared in newspapers. On April 20 12, Liu Qi's "Uncovering the Mystery of Cixi's Childhood" won the first prize at the "Symposium on Socialist Literature and Art in the Republic of China" sponsored by the Chinese Academy of Art of the Ministry of Culture. This 7000-word paper focuses on the life experience of Cixi.

According to Liu Qi's research, Cixi was born in 1835 in a poor Han peasant family in Xipo Village, Changzhi County, Shanxi Province, and was named "Wang Xiaoxiao". At the age of 4, she was sold to Song Siyuan, a woman in Shangqin Village of this county, and was renamed "Song". /kloc-when he was 0/2 years old, he was sold to the magistrate of Liu 'an House in Zheng Hui, renamed as "Yulan" (Laner) and carefully cultivated in the special study room of Yaxi Garden. In the second year of Xianfeng (1852), as the daughter of Yehnara Zheng Hui, she should be elected to the palace and rise to the highest position until the Empress Dowager.