Does anyone dare to laugh at Cixi’s joke? What did Cixi say when she saw the electric light for the first time?

The Empress Dowager Cixi saw an electric light for the first time and called it an eggplant. At that time, the officials beside the Empress Dowager Cixi knew that she had called her wrong, but they did not dare to deny it. Even though Li Lianying had a very good relationship with the Empress Dowager Cixi at the time, he still did not choose to laugh at the Empress Dowager Cixi. Because electric lights were very rare at that time, it was not surprising that the Empress Dowager Cixi called her the wrong one. In fact, electric lights had already appeared during the Qing Dynasty, but most people in the Qing Dynasty did not have the opportunity to see electric lights at that time. So far, electric lights have become an indispensable thing in people's daily lives and have brought many benefits to people. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, trains entered China for the first time, but the Qing Dynasty people were not able to recognize this technology at that time. At that time, the world was undergoing the second industrial revolution. Electric lights had already appeared in China in 1908, which was also the result of the second industrial revolution. You know, the Empress Dowager Cixi made a lot of jokes when she saw the electric light for the first time. After all, the Empress Dowager Cixi was deeply influenced by traditional feudal ideas at that time, so she could not accept most of these Western-invented items. When she saw the electric light, she blurted out the word "eggplant", which is very funny to modern people. As the ruler of the entire Qing government, Empress Dowager Cixi was also the first to see electric lights. At that time, no one could tell the Empress Dowager Cixi what this thing was, so the Empress Dowager Cixi called it wrong. When the fruits of the Western Industrial Revolution flowed into China, they must first be used by the royal family. Although the Empress Dowager Cixi made a joke, the ministers around her and Li Lianying did not laugh at her. After all, Empress Dowager Cixi was the person in power of the entire Qing Dynasty at that time, and she was very majestic throughout the process. Empress Dowager Cixi could only see electric lights in her later years. Since her level of knowledge was not as advanced as in Western countries, she naturally could not recognize this kind of thing.