Cixi concluded in her later years that the greatest effect of keeping skin young and smooth should be human milk. Cixi has been drinking a big bowl of fresh and delicious human milk every day since she was 26 years old. At that time, there was a etiquette room in the palace, which was responsible for selecting high-quality milk sources for Empress Dowager Cixi, that is, wet nurses.
This etiquette room is equipped with a team of 120 nurses to prepare fresh milk for Empress Dowager Cixi all the year round. There are 40 selected pacifiers, which are kept by special personnel in the palace. The food is the best formula provided by the imperial doctor in the palace, and in order to ensure the quality, these wet nurses can't eat salt and spicy food. The other 80 nurses, also known as point-to-point nurses, were all kept in the palace and had a special diet. When the selected nipple appears unexpected vacancy, fill it immediately.
The choice of wet nurse is usually very strict. According to "Qing History", at that time, for convenience, wet nurses were selected from Shunyi, Miyun and other suburban counties in Beijing. There are three main conditions for being selected: first, you must be dignified and beautiful, and your husband must be alive. Otherwise, it is unlucky for her husband to die, that is, she is politically innocent and can't be a widow or a woman who doesn't keep women's morals.
Second, healthy, age 15, female under 20 years old. The sign of good health is that all the children born are healthy and alive, and there can be no premature death. Third, we must have three children, and the third child is in the third month after birth, so as to ensure the quality of milk. These three conditions are met, and the probability of being selected is not very high, because it is necessary to look beautiful, delicate and plump, so that the milk quality is good. And the nipple should be changed once a quarter to ensure freshness.
Empress Dowager Cixi began to drink human milk at the age of 26. There are at least three wet nurses every day, at most 1 1. This is why Empress Dowager Cixi is still young even after her death. It is said that when Sun Dianying robbed the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi, the coffin was opened. Empress dowager cixi's face is not old, just like a 20-year-old girl, her skin is smooth and not rotten.
I'm sure it's because I've been breastfeeding with her for decades. Even at that time, the imperial doctors in the palace made health-preserving medicinal meals every day, and Empress Dowager Cixi was most satisfied with the effect of drinking human milk.