光绪三十四年孟冬,紫禁城内接连传出消息:十月二十一日(1908年11月14日),38岁的光绪皇帝驾崩;次日,74岁的慈禧太后薨逝。一个死于前一天傍晚(酉时),另一个死于第二天下午(未时),时间相距不到20个小时,难道是机缘巧合?当时就引起社会上的种种猜测。20世纪80年代,有专家、学者根 Thirty-four years Guangxu Meng Dong, Forbidden City came one after another News: October 21 (November 14, 1908), 38-year-old Emperor Guangxu collapse; the next day, 74-year-old Empress Dowager died. Is it a lucky coincidence that one died in the evening of the previous day (unitary time) and the other died in the afternoon of the second day (not yet in time)? In the 1980s, there were experts and scholars