Third, is human milk really beautiful?
Nowadays, we can see Cixi drinking human milk in daily life in some films of the Qing Palace Opera. It is said that she uses a lot of fresh human milk every day to keep beautiful. This legend has always been quite popular among the people, but is it really possible?
It is said that Cixi drank human milk very early. She/kloc-entered the palace at the age of 0/6. When Xianfeng was ten years old, they fled to Jehol. Later, the heart launched a coup. By the time she comes back, she will be the queen mother. At that time, she was 26. Since then, Cixi began to drink human milk until she died in her 70s, which is recorded in many documents. And at that time, the princes and nobles of the Qing Dynasty also had the habit of keeping wet nurses at home.
This wet nurse is very picky. Generally, young women with beautiful appearance and good health should be chosen. Moreover, a woman who is qualified to be a wet nurse for princes and nobles must be a newly married wife who just got married for the first time and just gave birth to her first child. Once you become a wet nurse, your diet will be very stressful. Don't do manual labor, don't eat indiscriminately, and eat nutritious food. Speaking of it, being a wet nurse is also a good job, but it's a pity that your newborn child can't breastfeed for a day, which was quite cruel at that time.
The habit of drinking human milk entered the court of China very early. During the period of Jin Wudi in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, because it was still in a state of war, it was not completely settled down. At that time, the life of real nobles was richer than that of emperors like Jin Wudi.
There was a minister named Wang Ji at that time. Because their family has been a noble family for generations, they have gathered the most famous chefs, the most famous beauties, the most famous clothes and food in the country.
One day, Emperor Wu of Jin came to see him at his home. As a courtier, he naturally entertained the emperor's old son for dinner. On this day, Emperor Wu of Jin was in a surprisingly good mood. He heard that Wang Ji's food was particularly beautiful and fresh, so he just sat there waiting for something delicious. Halfway through the meal, the host served a dish, which was a very casual cup. Emperor Wu of song took a bite. He was so speechless at that time that he almost didn't swallow his tongue. Finally finished eating, Emperor Wu of Jin told Ji Wang piteously that he had never tasted such a fresh taste in his palace for such a long time. What the hell is this? Ji Wang replied that it was human milk soup. Emperor Wu of song was very surprised. Can human milk be made into food? I didn't expect Ji Wang to say it was simple. Just choose the materials carefully and find a healthy, beautiful woman with a strange smell. She just gave birth to a child, not a second child or a third child, but a newborn child. Then put her extra fresh milk on the pot and steam it slowly, and it will come out as human milk soup. Besides, there is nothing mysterious about this thing. Women can use it to wash their faces and bathe, and the effect is the same as that of pearl powder. Especially smooth, can play a role in lubricating the skin. It can also clean some dirt and dust in the middle of the skin. At the same time, it can lubricate your every texture, so that women can hardly see wrinkles. Since then, among the royal aristocrats, there has been such a beauty secret recipe.
So, does human milk really have these legendary effects? With the development of science today, people have made further research on human milk. Popular science writer Fang believes that breast milk can be said to be the most nutritious food, but it is limited to babies. For example, it has protein, and protein mainly belongs to whey protein, which is easy to digest and good for babies. Because of his poor digestive ability, it is easier to absorb human milk, and this kind of protein is good for his nutritional development. In addition, human milk is high in sugar, and it is also a good energy substance, which is also good for baby's development. Lactase is lacking in adults, so the digestive ability of human milk is poor. Babies contain a lot of lactase, so babies have a strong digestion ability for human milk. If adults drink human milk, it may lead to indigestion. So for adults, drinking milk is better than human milk. Speaking of this, people's curiosity about human milk will not stop there, and the research will continue.
If drinking human milk is only good for health, it may not have a cosmetic effect. So what is the beauty secret of Cixi? About the beauty secret of Cixi, there is also a unique trick with the most folklore-homemade pearl powder.
Cixi herself especially likes pearl powder, and she also makes pearl powder herself. She basically doesn't have to import it from outside, and she doesn't have to make it for her. The method she did was simple. Every year, the governor of the southern coast will choose the best pearls for her and send them to his palace. He will choose pearls that are particularly round and shiny, then steam them with some special spices for two hours and then grind them into powder. Filtered again and again, fused in a special way in the palace, including egg white. After mixing, steam the mixture in a special cage with charcoal on top, charcoal on the bottom and meatball-shaped pearl mixture in the middle. This meatball was steamed for a day and a night, and it was particularly white when it finally came out. White pearls with light sensation are the best pearls. When this meatball is black, it means that the fire is too strong and it is black, blue or yellow. This is not enough heat. So a little pearl powder also needs a lot of pearls. After this pearl mixture was prepared, it was ground, processed three days later, and some honey and rouge were added to form the pearl powder that Cixi especially liked in the palace.
Speaking of this kind of pearl powder, it is quite popular now, and many girls like to use it for beauty. This homemade pearl powder is often used for internal and external use. She especially likes to drink a kind of porridge called pearl porridge. It's cooked with her favorite rice. It's fragrant, and it's also a particularly good rice in Jiangnan. She often drinks porridge in the morning or evening. Cixi will sprinkle some pearl powder into porridge when she drinks it, because pearl powder is very beneficial to human absorption. As for the method of external use, one is to apply pearl cream directly to the face first, and then powder it. Another way is to powder it first, then apply pearl cream and put a little rouge on the outside. There are many ways to use pearl powder in the palace. Some drop two drops under their eyes, like tears, just like crying. Now, some singers, look at her eyes and make them look like tears. In fact, women in the palace have long had such tears, in order to attract the attention of the emperor. The beautiful women in the palace do nothing every day, and every day's energy is spent on how to dress themselves.
Fourth, is Jade Beauty credible?
There is an old saying in China, people raise jade, and jade raises people. As for whether it can play the role of beauty, this is not to be said for the time being, but now some scraping boards made of jade or small hammers for massage on the market are sought after by many people.
In fact, there is a saying in China that a gentleman wears jade, while a villain hides a knife. Jade entered the court of China, with a history of at least 4,000 to 5,000 years from the Shang Dynasty. It was given to the court nobles as a particularly precious thing a long time ago, and like the jade of the Qing Dynasty, it is the best quality Hetian jade shipped from Xinjiang. One function of this jade is to make ornaments and artworks, and another function is to make beauty products. There are many queens in the palace, and many of their cosmetics are made of jade. Cixi also likes jade, such as jade sticks for massage and combs made of jade.
China's tradition has always emphasized the role of jade, but from a scientific point of view, it is just a rock, not a mysterious thing. It is impossible to say that you can feel good after grinding. But will it make any substantial changes to people's health? Make people's wrinkles disappear? It seems impossible. Once a person's wrinkles are formed, no matter how you make them, they are uneven, no matter what you make them with jade or something. From this point of view, it is debatable to take jade as beauty.
5. Is it really what you eat to supplement?
The way we talk about these women's beauty care is actually a comprehensive subject. Why do you say comprehensive? For example, look at the beauty of a woman. First, look at whether her eyes are bright. Second, is her hair shiny? Third, is her skin particularly healthy, elastic and smooth? When you look at these indicators, you can see whether this woman is healthy or sick. Then we talk about a person's beauty, such as looking at a person's skin. In fact, it is mainly explained from the keratin level, indicating that your skin structure must be good.
Cixi has always believed in supplementing what she eats, so she is also very particular about it. What does she particularly like to eat? She likes to eat chicken skin, pig skin, duck's paw, duck's paw skin, especially salted duck's paw skin. It is said that Cixi is very particular about eating this kind of duck's paw skin, and the method is quite cruel. Is to fix the duck, let it stand on the iron plate, and then gradually burn the iron plate red, the duck's paw will become more and more hot and cooked slowly, so that the roasted duck's paw is the most tender, delicious and nutritious. Of course, whether this is the case or not is difficult for us to verify today.
However, the traditional concept of supplementary food is now challenged by science. The ancients didn't know what happened in our stomachs when we ate these things. He thought that when people ate something, it would run to the skin to nourish it, but that was impossible. You eat chicken skin duck skin, its main component is protein, which is collagen. After you eat it in your stomach, it is digested into amino acids, and then it is absorbed by our body to make all kinds of protein that our body needs, including collagen on the skin. Therefore, the collagen on our skin is made by ourselves. For example, after I eat this batch of things, in a healthy system, the human body will create something that the body needs and distribute it evenly to the eyes, hair and internal organs. For example, eating chicken skin may distribute 50% or 30% nutrients to make skin, which may be good for your skin luster and blood circulation. But everything is quantitative. After you eat too much, your cholesterol will be high, leading to cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Sixth, the fourth trick of Cixi's beauty-diet therapy
Although Cixi is a very caring person and has always been in good health, she actually got gonorrhea at the age of 26. Gonorrhea is a disease of excretory system and urinary system. Then how did she get gonorrhea? This is because her husband Xianfeng is a man with many women. Unfortunately, Cixi was infected with this disease by her husband. After 30 years old, she got hemorrhoids again. Generally, few people know that she has hemorrhoids, and women rarely get hemorrhoids. Therefore, every time she is convenient, she is very uncomfortable and often constipated.
These two diseases made Cixi pay more attention to her eating habits. Because if you eat too well, or eat irritating food, it is not good for her illness. For example, spicy food is particularly bad for hemorrhoids. Therefore, especially after Cixi was forty or fifty years old, doctors advised her to eat more coarse grains, and she herself made many attempts in diet. Hot pots such as chrysanthemums were invented by Cixi. Introduce chrysanthemums, roses and osmanthus into your diet, and take them out as soon as you put them in. It tastes very special. Later, chrysanthemum hot pot became a daily diet in the palace and a special food in Beijing. This is a great invention of Cixi.
When it comes to eating coarse grains, we have to start with Cixi's escape from the west. 1900, Cixi was over 60 years old. In a hurry to escape to the west, the next day, this huge team of two or three thousand people, consisting of queens, eunuchs, maids and bodyguards, basically ran out of food. These thousands of people walked all the way from Haidian to the north, and food supply was a big problem. The farther they go, the more problematic their diet becomes. When she was hungry for a few days, suddenly a waiter brought her a steamed bun. Alas, she ate it with tears in her eyes and thought it was particularly delicious. She said: "I have eaten for so many years, and this is the most beautiful." Later, this man was named "Guide" by her. Cixi also thinks Wowotou is the most delicious food in her life.
Cixi returned to Beijing in 1902, and when she was eating delicious food, she suddenly remembered that she had eaten yellow when she fled, with a pointed pagoda above and a round bottom. What is this? So I asked the chef to cook it for her. The chef thinks that if coarse flour is really used to make a nest for Cixi, the cook should not be killed. So, they made corn bread with extremely fine yellow flour, chestnut powder, almonds, roses and honey in the palace, made it into a pagoda shape with a sharp point and a round bottom, and then drilled an eye. Cixi tasted it. "Well, yes, it was the taste of that year." Actually, it wasn't like that at that time. However, this pagoda-shaped Wowotou is quite popular among the people, and it has become a famous snack in Beijing, and it is the favorite food of Lafayette.
Today, we all know that coarse grains are a diet worth promoting. Coarse grains contain high cellulose. Cellulose cannot be absorbed by our bodies. Although we will excrete after eating, we will also take away our bile in the process of excretion. But bile is made from cholesterol in the human body. In this case, we have to mobilize more cholesterol to reproduce bile, which is equivalent to lowering cholesterol in the body. Therefore, eating more cellulose helps to lower cholesterol and is good for health. At the same time, it can also promote defecation, reduce constipation and lower blood sugar.
Although food supplements help to maintain appearance, how can people not get sick when they eat whole grains? So how did Cixi detoxify? What other unique secret recipe does she have?
Seven, the fifth trick of Cixi beauty-detoxification
Cixi is a very beautiful person. At four or five o'clock every morning, she gets up and dresses herself. She lived in Palace of Gathered Elegance between 0/6 and 26 years old. After getting up every morning, there is a stove in the southwest corner. What's this stove for? It was Zhang, her personal eunuch, who stayed up all night for her. Cixi gets up every morning. The first sacrifice is to give tremella to eat, and the second sacrifice is to wipe her skin with hot water. Wipe with hot water, there are many stresses. For example, this pot of hot water needs two maids to serve it every day, and the temperature of the hot water should be suitable for Cixi's body temperature. Next to it is a pile of towels. She wrapped her fingers in a towel and dipped them into the water. When the water cooled down, she quickly changed another pot, then submerged them and went back and forth three times. After the pores of the skin are opened, the third hot compress is started, which is what we call steaming her face with hot air, like a sauna, to keep her all night. In our view today, this is undoubtedly the most primitive SPA pursued by many beautiful women, and it is also the detoxification method of Cixi.
Mask is one of the most commonly used means for many women who love beauty today, but do you know? As early as 100 years ago, Cixi had already made her own mask. So how is this mask made?
Eight, the sixth trick of Cixi beauty-homemade mask
Cixi especially likes roses and rouge. Rouge is a kind of Hu. This flower is very beautiful. Made of rouge will generally condense into lipids and the like, which is particularly good for skin care. Divided into face fat and point fat. A little fat is a mask made of rouge and egg white, which Cixi especially likes. There are roses and rose dew in this mask. The main raw material of this mask is egg white, which is very smooth and can remove dark spots. After Cixi took off the mask, her skin was not only clean, but also particularly lubricated.
Cixi, who combines military and political power, is under considerable pressure every day, and the workload is unimaginable to ordinary people. After a hard day, what can make Cixi feel extremely relaxed?
Nine, the seventh trick of Cixi beauty-washing feet
Speaking of Cixi's foot washing, you will definitely say that there is something special about foot washing. Needless to say, I wash my feet every day and I don't see how to relax. This is where you are wrong. Cixi washes her feet. She has two special silver jars. The surface of the silver basin is covered with silver and platinum, but the inside is actually fragrant wood. These two pots are in exchange for washing her feet. One jar contains medicine, and the other jar contains water. Clear water is usually hot, and liquid medicine is made of a special medicine. Her potion is different all year round. For example, in summer, she mainly used chrysanthemum as medicine, and mixed it with many other drugs with the functions of promoting blood circulation, improving eyesight, ventilation and disinfection to make liquid medicine. Soak with medicine first, and then soak with water. I believe everyone washes their feet every day. Washing feet with hot water is good for human blood circulation. Blood circulation is not only comfortable for feet, but also comfortable for all parts of the body. If the blood vessels are unblocked, the human body will be comfortable. If there is anything uncomfortable, it is that his blood vessels are blocked. This is very similar to pedicure now.
Besides, washing her feet is not enough. One of her favorite things to do after washing her feet every night is to pinch her feet. There are two ladies-in-waiting who specially pinch her feet. One of the maids sat on a small stool, put Cixi's feet on her hands, and then massaged her from big toe to little toe, rubbing every muscle and joint of her. Every time after washing her feet, when the maid-in-waiting massages her feet, she sometimes talks to people and sometimes summons ministers to order work. This is actually the whole process of relaxation. After rubbing her feet, the day's fatigue was over and she began to sleep. Of course, she has to listen to stories before going to bed. She likes to listen to stories about beating and cursing her mother in the street, as well as stories about villagers in the mountains. Then I fell asleep listening and laughing, which was very comfortable.
Speaking of which, you must think that Cixi enjoys life too much. That's right!
Cixi, who is in a patriarchal society, is under pressure that ordinary people can't imagine. So in the face of such great pressure, can simple maintenance really delay the aging of the face? What is the real trick of Cixi's beauty?
Ten, the ultimate secret of Cixi beauty-know how to enjoy life.
There are many topics about women, but as a healthy and eager woman, she was widowed at the age of 26 and her life was not entirely satisfactory. During the day, she was in command and dignified in front of the ministers of the DPRK. At this time, she felt very satisfied and good. There are 600 people waiting for her to eat and dress, which makes her very comfortable. However, whenever she returns to the palace alone, she feels a sense of unprovoked loneliness hanging over her, so Cixi will especially adjust her emotions. Cixi, as a woman, has lived in the palace for 60 years. She is an exquisite woman, a woman with taste in life, a woman with petty bourgeoisie, and a woman with a regular life without any bad hobbies. So these functions are integrated, and she can do a good job in beauty care. For example, she likes reading very much. Like Confucius' The Analects of Confucius, she can recite it backwards, and she speaks it thoroughly. Another is that I especially like the Book of Songs. The elegance of a woman is related to the influence of poetry, and the charm of poetry can make a woman more beautiful. Cixi can recite many details, scenes and names in The Book of Songs. So when it comes to this, you will find that some external methods we just talked about can only be an auxiliary means. What women want is a real and lasting appearance that is neither old nor beautiful, and it should be both internal and external.
Science has proved that if a person has a good attitude, it can indeed delay some aging. When you are always in a state of tension, it will have some effects on your nervous system, immune system and blood circulation system. Biologists did an experiment and divided monkeys into two groups. A group of monkeys live a normal life of release; The other group always tries to scare it, so these monkeys are always in a very nervous state. Later, the brains of these two groups of monkeys were dissected, and it was found that the neurons in the hippocampus and memory management area of monkeys that had been in a state of tension died in large numbers, much more than those of monkeys living normally. Therefore, it is very important to relax your mind properly. Learn to enjoy life, and you can have real youth.