The pursuit of beauty is eternal, not to mention in the harem, a place where color declines and feelings are loose. The regimen of Empress Dowager Cixi is to eat human milk. In fact, among the nobles in the Qing Dynasty, eating human milk was extremely common, but Cixi was the most famous.

Empress Dowager Cixi entered the palace at the age of 26 and died at the age of 75, which lasted for nearly half a century. She never stopped drinking human milk. One of the seven things that Empress Dowager Cixi must do when she gets up is to drink tea. Cixi usually drinks milk tea mixed with human milk and milk. Empress Dowager Cixi likes human milk so much that the harem has become a common practice.