Empress Dowager Cixi usually drinks only three things: scented tea, soup and human milk. How can ordinary water be worthy of the noble Empress Dowager Cixi? Scented tea is something that Cixi must drink every morning, and the production process is also very particular. The ladies in the harem go to the garden to pick the freshest flowers every morning. The fragrance of flowers must be what Cixi likes, and the water for making scented tea must also be the freshest dew on the petals in the morning.

After the collection of raw materials, we have to go through some meticulous and complicated production work, day after day, every day. Before drinking tea, Cixi will smell it carefully to make sure it is her favorite flower fragrance.

Cixi has always had a bad stomach, so she has the habit of drinking soup all the year round. Chefs make all kinds of yangwei decoction for Cixi all the year round. However, Cixi once cruelly killed the cook who cooked mutton soup for her for ten years because she disliked the raw materials of soup, which shows her picky degree of diet.

Besides, Cixi has always been addicted to various beauty beauty methods to stay young. She believes that the gods in the sky will never get old because they have been drinking milk. So she raised a group of women in the harem and produced milk for her alone. These women are not even allowed to give their milk to their children. Once they are found, they will be severely punished. If someone is too old to continue producing milk, Cixi will secretly kill her to prevent her from revealing the secret after going out.

It can be said that Cixi's life is extremely luxurious. Even water can't get into her eyes. She only drinks special drinks. Later, when she left the palace to escape, she was so thirsty that she hardly drank a glass of white water handed by Li. There was such a queen mother in the Qing dynasty, no wonder she died in the end.