In the late Qing Dynasty, the average life expectancy of China people was less than 40 years, but Empress Dowager Cixi lived to 74 years, and her body and spirit were still full of vitality in her later years. Empress Dowager Cixi lived up to her name at that time, which had a lot to do with her pursuit of health care.
Empress Dowager Cixi always pays attention to physical exercise. Her exercise method is to practice Ba Duan Jin after getting up every morning to keep Empress Dowager Cixi alive. In addition, Empress Dowager Cixi also loves calligraphy and is good at many people's calligraphy. At that time, the Summer Palace was full of many calligraphy of Empress Dowager Cixi, which was very strong in brushwork.
Empress Dowager Cixi also dabbled in opera. She not only likes watching Beijing opera, but also likes collecting related classics of traditional Chinese opera. She even specially revised more than 100 Peking Opera songbooks. Empress Dowager Cixi can be said to be proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and can cultivate sentiment. She has been nursed back to health physically and mentally, and her mood is peaceful, so she is more likely to live a long life.
The longevity of Empress Dowager Cixi has a lot to do with eunuchs Li and An Dehai who often accompany her. Li began to practice massage in his early years and studied under a famous teacher. Later, after painstaking research, his massage technique can really achieve the function of relaxing meridians and activating collaterals and prolonging life.
In addition, Empress Dowager Cixi attached great importance to beauty and hair care, and often took medicated diet to recuperate her body. Empress Dowager Cixi, as a veritable power in the late Qing Dynasty, is an important reason why Empress Dowager Cixi can live so long. It is not an exaggeration to say that she is a hundred schools of thought contend.