This "Collection of Qing Palace Gossips" can be called the "Library of Palace Fighting Scripts" from a hundred years ago. The author Xu Zhiyan is a colleague of Lu Xun. In the early years of the Republic of China, he was known as the "master of anecdotal novels". His pen is full of anecdotes and anecdotes from the ten dynasties of the Qing Dynasty.
There are 43 chapters in the book, ranging from the extravagant secrets of Empress Dowager Cixi, to Li Lianying's greed and cunning, to the details of Prince Qing's selling out his official position, and the content is more "dare to write" than movies and TV dramas. What the official history dare not remember and what the people dare not pass on have become vivid scenes here. The narrative is vivid, and reading it is like listening to an "old Beijinger" who knows the inside story.
If you are curious about what those plots that "TV series dare not film" look like, you might as well open this best-selling book from a century ago and see the real historical corners. It is more exciting than you imagine.
