In fact, although she is a mistress on the surface, she is also a little woman in her bones. She is also lonely, she loves beauty, she is also a foodie, and she also has her troubles. Empress Dowager Cixi has many strange habits and secrets in her life that she doesn't want outsiders to know.
Don't comb your hair out.
Cixi is extremely beautiful, and the secret of keeping beautiful lies in persistent high-end maintenance. She gets up at 5 o'clock every morning, and all kinds of nursing work start in an orderly way.
But individuals have troubles, and even the supreme ruler cannot escape the laws of nature. The extremely beautiful Cixi was troubled by three thousand moss. She began to lose her hair at the age of 40. This hair loss is not slight, so serious that the whole head is going to fall off, and the goddess in others' eyes has become a bald boy.
Baldness has dealt a great blow to Cixi. As a country's respect, she attaches great importance to her appearance and will never allow any mistakes in her appearance.
Therefore, Cixi took great care of her hair. Once the eunuch who combed her hair accidentally combed off a few hairs, and she immediately flew into a rage and beat the eunuch.
Li got up, he can comb more than 2000 novel hairstyles. In order to please Empress Dowager Cixi, Li learned a unique technique of combing his hair: he touched the hair falling from the comb on the Persian cat hair on the cuff and pretended not to drop it.
Every time she combs her hair, she naturally smiles when she sees that there is no hair loss.
But hair loss still exists until the temples and the back of the head are bald, and the doctors tried their best to have no effect. Empress Dowager Cixi, who loves beauty, has no choice but to wear a wig to cover it up.
Seeing the photos of Empress Dowager Cixi in her later years, she was full of black hair. The following group of people commented that Empress Dowager Cixi was really good at maintenance. Actually, they are all wigs. Empress Dowager Cixi must have been the first to "cheat".
Proper diet is undoubtedly.
It is said that women will have an extra stomach when they eat snacks. This can also be seen from Empress Dowager Cixi. Originally, the court dim sum was very rich, but in order to make it exquisite, Cixi had a special taste, and specially set up a pastry bureau in her own small kitchen, that is, a kitchen dedicated to making cakes, except the court pastry room, tea room and dim sum bureau.
She likes to eat fried pancakes, which are similar to our fried pancakes now. She mixed flour with oil, then stuffed it and fried it. The filling of fried cake is white sugar, sesame, hawthorn and a little cream. Cixi likes dairy products very much. She even puts cream in fried cakes.
She likes steamed dumplings stuffed with pork and mushrooms. However, cooking is indeed an art, the same proportion, the same operation, another person to do, the taste may be much worse. It is said that one year Cixi went to Qingling, and after eating steamed dumplings, she felt that the taste was much worse. Upon inquiry, she realized that it was the exclusive chef Shel who couldn't accompany her. When others cooked, Cixi was angry at that time and rewarded the chef with a good meal of "serving without heart".
She also likes to drink human milk. In Cixi's view, drinking a little human milk every day can not only beautify the face, but also preserve health. So Cixi has a group of regular wet nurses.
Cixi also likes to eat ducks and pork. Cixi's menu for each meal is mostly smoked chicken, roast duck, fried pigskin, braised beef and stewed leg of lamb. Even if her teeth are loose in her later years, she likes to eat pork. These high-calorie foods are not the best choice for Cixi, who usually doesn't like sports. But in any case, it is best for her to chew happily, eat healthily and eat happily.
The consequence of willfulness is that Cixi's body often suffers from qi stagnation, food stagnation, diarrhea and other diseases.
Stroke affects the image of old age.
Cixi suffered a stroke at the age of 69, and her mouth and eyes were skewed. After treatment, the mouth and eyes are slightly better, but the facial convulsion has been bad, and many methods have no effect, leaving the root of the disease.
So she is also jealous of others looking at her. Even the eunuch who handed her something to order tobacco leaves dared not look her in the eye. After her illness, she took it out on eunuchs all day. Every day the eunuch approaches her, and she doesn't know when to get hit by the board.
I like painting, but I'm not good at it. I have a professional shooter.
Cixi loves painting and calligraphy in her daily life, and especially loves to give her own "imperial brush" painting and calligraphy to princes and ministers to show her lofty knowledge.
In fact, Empress Dowager Cixi has no artistic talent at all. Although she is interested in writing gifts, her handwriting is not good, her structure is sluggish and loose, and her brushwork is weak, immature and lifeless.
She loves vanity, so she simply stopped writing by herself and found a ghostwriter named Miao.
Miao Suyun was born in a scholarly family in the suburb of Kunming, Yunnan. She has been good at calligraphy and painting since she was a child and is known as an "actress".
After Miao Suyun entered the palace, because she was very familiar with the official world, she won unanimous praise from the empress dowager to the palace supervisor and was honored as a "female painter". Empress Dowager Cixi was also very satisfied, so she stayed with her and wrote it herself.
Cixi was very courteous to Miao, and named her "the female official of the imperial court", giving her 2820 yuan every year, and often giving her many treasures, such as Yuhuan. I often let Miao Suyi wait on me and teach myself to draw at any time.