If it is the largest museum in China, it is estimated that many people will think of the Palace Museum. The Palace Museum is a large-scale comprehensive museum based on the old cultural relics of the Forbidden City and the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Since the establishment of 1925, the Palace Museum has collected cultural relics all over the country. Today, the building area of the Palace Museum has reached 720,000 square meters, and the collection of cultural relics is 6,543,800+8,000, including many cultural relics from various dynasties in history.
Among many collections, one cultural relic is extremely "special". It is a very inconspicuous black bottle, but the black bottle contains some white powder. There is a label on the black bottle with the words "foreign medicine noodles, clear package, 72g" written by the librarian. In addition, there are a bunch of English letters "hydroquinone" on the label. Although many tourists know English, what's in the bottle? Everyone said they were at a loss. But what is certain is that this cultural relic must be a treasure. After all, it is a cultural relic of the Palace Museum.
In this case, it is necessary for us to explore its "true identity" carefully. It took a long time to find the lexical meaning of "hydroquinone" when I opened the English dictionary. It was originally defined as "hydroquinone" in Chinese. Hydroquinone, also known as hydroquinone, is a chemical substance. It is very popular in modern Europe because of its peculiar efficacy and excellent freckle removing effect. At this time, many readers suddenly realized that the bottle was filled with a kind of cosmetics, and it was imported cosmetics. But you know, in the Qing Dynasty, imported cosmetics were not so popular today. An article imported from the west, from Europe to the East, must be very expensive.
Who will use such "high-end cosmetics"? The answer is also obvious. Of course ordinary people can't afford it. It is estimated that only concubines in the inner court of the palace can enjoy such treatment. According to the truth, there are many doctors in the palace. The duty of the physician is not only to cure diseases, but also to be responsible for the health care and medical treatment of the royal family. The concubines in the harem have acne spots, which are all prepared by the doctor himself. In this way, the concubines in the harem don't have to try to "import medicine".
The "hydroquinone" in the Palace Museum directly illustrates one thing, that is, in the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty, the "beauty beauty" prescription prepared by imperial doctors almost didn't work! It is precisely because "foreign monks can recite scriptures" that concubines will find another way to replace the prescriptions prescribed by doctors with "imported medicine". To outsiders, life in the palace is extremely luxurious. In the era of extremely low productivity, people are extremely satisfied if they can have a full meal. The concubines in the palace have been arranged in their bedrooms since they entered the palace. Not only do they not have to do complicated work in the palace, but they also have special people to serve them three meals a day. The concubines are dressed in silks and satins, and their heads are jeweled, showing royal luxury, which I don't know how many folk women envy.
But ordinary people don't know how many painful blood and tears are hidden behind the extravagance of harem concubines. The concubines have to stay in their bedrooms every day, eagerly waiting for the emperor to unveil his signboard. How many days and nights have changed from hope to disappointment, and gradually from cardamom girl to boudoir. With the aggravation of melancholy, various spots have crept onto their handsome faces, and the only thing they can do is to try their best to stay young. The imported "hydroquinone" has become the only beautiful self they can grasp, and it has become a "life-saving straw" to retain youth.
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