What did Cixi say when the light bulb was first installed in the palace of the Qing Dynasty, which made the foreigners nearby laugh?

I believe everyone is no stranger to Cixi. This woman is a bright spot in the history of China. She was the ruler of the Qing Dynasty and a witness to the decline and collapse of the Qing Dynasty. Cixi's life is legendary and vivid. When it comes to Cixi, the first word that comes to mind is wicked woman. As the actual ruler of the Qing Dynasty, Cixi did many things that we could not imagine.

When the capitalist industrial revolution was in full swing, in the Far East, we were still slaves in the Qing Dynasty, and there was a big gap. Many people think that Cixi occupied a large part of the reason for the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, because she was feudal and conservative, and because she did not go with the flow, the Qing Dynasty was beaten and humiliated 100 years. I don't comment much on Cixi. She is indeed a person who evaluates the two poles, but some behaviors of Cixi are really funny. Let's have a look.

When the light bulbs were first installed in the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty, which is now the Forbidden City, Cixi said that these eggplants would glow, which made people feel ridiculous. This sentence also shows the ignorance of our rulers. During the industrial revolution in Europe and America, China was still standing still. Even the rulers don't understand the general trend, and our people probably don't know anything, only know how to protect their own land. In fact, this is the epitome of China's feudal society. What we see is backwardness. We can't see the progress of civilization and can't keep up with the world trend. So after the Opium War, we became a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society. We have been oppressed by imperialism and humiliated by 100 years.

Historical experience tells us that we will be beaten if we lag behind.