This evening my wife and I had the chance to watch a musical at Esplanade. It is a restaging of a musical produced in Singapore more than 10 years ago.
I am not an art person but it is good to watch an art performance together with music that sounds to be beautiful although I cannot fully appreciate it.
The story itself is inspired by historical events and I learnt a lot. It made me reading the wikipedia of the second last, third last, and fourth last Emperor of China. I also learn what it means with Dowager.
There are somehow many things in this world that I am not interested in. That is normal. At the same time, it is interesting to see how watching a play can arouse the desire to know more about what happened in the past, something that I previously did not bother about.
Once I started something, it is hard to stop. So I decided to write this post instead of keep dwelling on the wikipedia.
To summarize, Xianfeng Emperor, the fourth last Emperor had the only son from Empress Dowager Cixi. He is Tongzhi Emperor, the third last emperor. As Tongzhi does not have child, his cousin whose father is Tongzhi's father's brother and whose mother is Tongzhi's mother's sister becomes the second last Emperor, Guang Xu emperor. Then the last emperor is Puyi, the nephew of Guang Xu (his half brother's son) or called as Xuantong Emperor.
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