Do you know about one of the most powerful women in Chinese history? Yes, she is not only a powerful woman but she was also
so ruthless and dangerous. So some of people called her the dragon lady in china. She was from china and she controlled china for more than 40 years in the late 1800s. Her name was Cixi.she was so cruel like a dragon. She believed that all of the people must hear and obey only her rules. Cixi was also known as the Empress Dowager in western countries like as Britain and the United States. but she was never really an empress. She was just the mother of the emperor''s only son. When the emperor died, she helped her 6-years old son, who was heir to the throne and rule china. She still had power when her son was old enough to rule by himself. Then he died and the dragon lady Cixi made sure her 4-year old nephew became the new emperor. This was against the law, but she helped him rule too. The Dragon lady lived within the city of Beijing. She lived in a group of palace buildings called the Forbidden City in Beijing. Only the servants lived with Cixi and there too ever saw her. The dragon lady Cixi wore solid gold shields on her very long fingernails to keep them from breaking. She spoke to all her visitors from a hidden behind a silk screen and it was a large red throne shaped like a dragon. Every one of her orders ended with the warning "Hear and Obey". This sentence saw that how cruel she was! In the late 1800s, the Chinese government became very dishonest, because at that time, it was under Cixi, the dragon lady. Many people at that time believed that Cixi had many people murdered. In 1908, when the dragon lady was dying, she had poisoned her own nephew, who was the Emperor. Because she wanted to make sure that he died first and thus would never rule without her. Cixi known as the Empress Dowager in the west and she controlled the political life of China for many decades. The nation was fairly stable under her influence, but the government was dishonest under her rules, and he did not make changes that were needed to benefit the people.