The white-haired maid-in-waiting of Cixi once wrote:
"The ladies-in-waiting who yearn for you are all wearing new clothes, shoes and socks. They are relaxed and clean. The eunuch presented the bathtub to the porch of the bedroom bathhouse and left quickly.
The queen mother sat indoors. Ready, the maid-in-waiting knocked on the queen mother to take off her coat.
The Queen Mother put on her gray pajamas, unbuttoned her upper body, sat on a low chair, and waited for Mu Si ladies to scrub her upper body. Four ladies-in-waiting in Mu Si stood beside the Queen Mother, one of whom was given priority to and three of whom were supplemented. Scrubbing requires gentle, comfortable, calm, accurate and agile movements. …"
It can be seen that the emperor was bathed by others.