As the saying goes, everyone loves beauty, even the Empress Dowager Lafayette is no exception. The most famous Empress Dowager Cixi is probably Cixi. When Empress Dowager Cixi was in power, western painters painted oil paintings for him. The painter's original painting is now preserved in the Summer Palace, and the portrait of Cixi that we are now widely circulating is the painting he painted in those days.

However, a friend said that the portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi in the Summer Palace is actually fake, while the real portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi is in Harvard University. What happened? Actually, it's very simple. When the painter asked Lafayette Cixi to paint a portrait, he painted it according to the real face of Cixi. At that time, Cixi was already an old lady, and it certainly wouldn't look so good.

Therefore, Cixi constantly asks painters to modify their looks to make them look younger and better, just as we always like whitening and grinding our skin when taking photos with our mobile phones now. It can be seen that even the Empress Dowager Lafayette is a woman, and she is particularly concerned about her appearance. She always wants to look better and be younger.

This is why many people say that the portrait of Cixi in the Summer Palace is fake. In fact, he is not a fake, but a young portrait of Cixi. Later, the painter returned to America and painted another picture. Really, now at Harvard University, the painting of Harvard University accurately restored the face of Empress Dowager Cixi, that is, the old Cixi, and looked smarter.

No matter what era, human beings' pursuit of beauty is endless, especially women. Compared with men, women's requirements for their appearance are undoubtedly more stringent.