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.

Cixi drinks human milk.

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. According to the regulations of the Qing dynasty, 40 wet nurses should be selected in the palace every season, which is called "sitting on the milk mouth"; Choose 80 wet nurses in the palace and call them "acupoints" as backup. When the "sitting nipple" fails to provide human milk in an accident, it will be supplemented by the "finger nipple".

Empress Dowager Cixi is also very strict with wet nurses. The wet nurse is a young woman who has just given birth to her third child for about 3 months. They are in good health, their age is controlled between 15-20 years old, and their children are still alive. Replace a batch of new people every season to ensure the quality of milk source. Moreover, young women must look good, and Cixi thinks that ugly women's milk will also make them ugly. In order to ensure sufficient milk, the nurse's diet was specially designed by court nutritionists and doctors, involving chicken, duck and fish, but with less salt and soy sauce.

When Empress Dowager Cixi sucks human milk, the nurse has to wash herself three days in advance. On the day of sucking milk, she will put on a special red coat, show her nipples, and kneel in front of Cixi's bed for Cixi to suck.

Empress Dowager Cixi not only eats human milk, but also takes pearl powder to keep her skin smooth and youthful.