After the Manchu people entered the customs, they were shocked when they came into contact with the luxury of the Central Plains. Before, they ate hair and drank blood and lived by nomadic fishing, which seemed to open another world. Life can be so luxurious. Then why do we have to live as tight as before? There is quite a feeling that I have never seen the light and could have endured the darkness.
Therefore, their extravagant tradition was perfectly inherited by Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty. Cixi will eat more than 100 dishes at a meal, and each dish will be tasted at most, and then all of them will be thrown away. The number of royal chefs has also reached 100, which is exactly twice that of Emperor Guangxu.
On one occasion, Cixi wanted to travel by train and specially brought more than 60 cooks with her. Each chef is responsible for providing a stove and an assistant chef. Galeries Lafayette can eat whatever he wants at any time, and chefs should wait on him at any time. Even if Cixi farts, chefs should consider whether she wants to eat sweet potatoes. Cixi wanted to eat duck on a whim, and those chefs had to cook quickly for two days and three nights to meet Cixi's requirements.
Empress Dowager Cixi was extravagant before her death, but even the next tomb should be built according to the highest specifications of the Manchu Dynasty, which many emperors in the Qing Dynasty did not have. There are countless gold, silver and precious antiques buried with him, and the degree of luxury is not too much compared with the tomb of Qin Shihuang. According to unofficial history's rough estimate, the funerary objects of Cixi are worth hundreds of millions of taels of silver.
It is such a luxurious woman who has a special habit. Just don't drink boiled water or well water. Legend has it that when Zhen Fei committed suicide, she threw herself into the well. Cixi has a shadow, so she doesn't drink well water. Actually, when Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China and fled, Cixi drank a cup of boiled water from Li. This is because she was so thirsty that she would have hallucinations if she didn't drink it, so she drank it.
Cixi pays great attention to health, and she thinks scented tea is the best for her to drink. The aroma is fragrant and the taste is sweet. If the reader thinks that she is casually brewing scented tea with well water, it is wrong. She had to brew it with mountain spring water brought back from Yuquan Mountain that day. What shocked Bian Xiao most was that poverty limited his imagination. Cixi's mouthwash is toilet water collected by maids at dawn.
Before dinner, Cixi drank the white fungus bird's nest porridge of beautiful women. When eating, it is served with milk tea specially used for digestion; Drink soup after meals, not only the soup is different all year round, but also the soup must be boiled with mountain spring water. Afternoon tea is also an indispensable life step for Cixi. She not only wants afternoon tea, but also drinks it exquisitely. The maid-in-waiting was ordered to put fresh fruit around the table to make the fruit smell fragrant.
After a busy day, Cixi is finally ready to sleep. She wants to drink a glass of milk to help her sleep. There is even a legend that Cixi did not know where she heard that breast milk can prolong life, so she drank a lot of human milk in recent years.
Cixi is so extravagant that it is not worthwhile for her to be spurned by future generations from this point alone.