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Artworks reveal Chinese rulers and Cixi loved role-playing long before modern cosplay

What Emperor Qianlong did with his court painters is the 18th century equivalent of digital photo manipulation and Photoshop

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艺术作品揭示,早在现代角色扮演游戏之前,中国统治者和慈禧太后就喜爱角色扮演。

The Qing dynasty’s Empress Dowager Cixi is renowned as a cosplay enthusiast, leaving behind photographs and paintings of herself embodying the Buddhist Goddess of Mercy, Guanyin. However, she was not the first to engage in such role-playing while on the throne.

Long before Cixi (1835–1908), the Qing dynasty’s emperors Yongzheng (1678–1735) and his son, Qianlong (1711–1799), indulged in role-playing, as evidenced in numerous paintings.

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