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| | Empress Dowager Cixi -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19) |
 | | At her entrance in the Forbidden City, she was recorded as "the Lady Yehenara, daughter of Huizheng" (惠征). |
 | | The young Lady Yehenara was registered by her parents with the Imperial Court, as was required for all the Manchu girls of the empire, in order to keep track of potential concubines for the emperor. |
 | | On April 27, 1856, Lady Yehenara, then Concubine of the fourth rank Yi, gave birth to a son, the only son of (Click link for more info and facts about Emperor Xianfeng) Emperor Xianfeng, to be named heir, and later (Click link for more info and facts about Tongzhi Emperor) Tongzhi Emperor. |
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