How beautiful is Cixi?
Now when we visit the Summer Palace, we can also see an oil painting embedded in the floor-to-ceiling frame of Dehe Garden, which is 234.5 cm high and 144 cm wide. In the painting, Cixi sits on a hardwood chair.
The original of this painting was made by Dutch painter Shihua Huboyu 1905 in China for Cixi, who is 7 1 year old. Cixi is over 70 years old and looks like 40 years old.
If you think that oil painting has artistic elements, then after reading this precious photo of Cixi's later life, I think many people will be impressed by the beauty that Cixi, who is over 70 years old, has shown to the world.
The editor has read a lot of historical materials for this purpose. This article will show you the true face of the legendary Empress Dowager Cixi.
Although Cixi didn't save the land of Qing Dynasty, she defended herself very well. Her daily hygiene habits are recorded in ancient books of Qing Dynasty and kept in archives. There are many folk legends about her, but few people have really witnessed her true face, and even fewer people know the secret of her court health.
In her own triumphant description, it is "imperial secretary regards me as beautiful", and her appearance is enviable. We can now see some portraits of Cixi in her later years. Even from today's aesthetic point of view, Cixi can still be called dignified.
Two women had close contact with Cixi in her later years.
One is Princess De Ling, a female official of the Qing Dynasty. Because she knows foreign languages, she became the first waitress of the Queen Mother. She commented on Cixi's appearance like this: "When Empress Dowager Cixi was young, she was indeed a charming and bright girl, and was often praised by people in the palace; Even Iraq is gradually being squeezed out by the years, and after entering the old world, it still retains a somewhat touching look! "
In her book "Yu Xiang Lu", it is recorded that Cixi is 60 years old: "The skin is like a girl's skin, delicate and smooth, smiling like a flower, and her figure is full of joy."
The other is American female painter Celine Carr. 1In August, 904, she came to the Qing Palace to paint the Empress Dowager Cixi. The first time she met the 69-year-old Empress Dowager Cixi, she was immediately shocked by the beauty of Empress Dowager Cixi. She lived with Empress Dowager Cixi for nine months and recorded her personal experience in The Portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi.
In the book, she wrote: "I think the queen mother in front of me is a very beautiful and kind woman." I guess she is no more than forty years old (in fact, Cixi is almost seventy), and her temperament is beautiful, which makes people feel happy at first sight. " "The various parts of Empress Dowager Cixi's body are extremely commensurate. Her beautiful face is harmoniously combined with her soft hands, slim figure and shiny black hair, which complement each other ... She smiled and her posture was full of joy.
The various parts of Empress Dowager Cixi's body are extremely commensurate, and her beautiful face is harmoniously combined with her tender and beautiful hands, slim figure and shiny black hair. The contrast between age and face is so great that even Liu Xiaoqing, the elder sister of the times, can't compare with her. Yoko Tanaka, a Japanese, is called "the most like Cixi in history".
So, what beauty tricks does Cixi have to make her skin girlish forever? What is the secret? Seventy years old is still very attractive. With the in-depth understanding of the archives of Qing history, the true face of Empress Dowager Cixi and the secret of health preservation are gradually known to the world.
Looking through the precious documents preserved in the history museum, I finally know that Empress Dowager Cixi just turned 40 in the early years of Guangxu. In order to achieve the purpose of hearing politics for the second time, she used various means, but when North Korea was photographed, some people objected, and she was unhappy all day.
Because the spleen and stomach are not healthy, accompanied by cough, facial spasm, and poor mood. Li, a big eunuch, dare not show it in his eyes. The doctor diagnosed that the deficiency of the five internal organs of the Empress Dowager was caused by the long-term accumulation of depression, so she secretly asked Li Dechang, a doctor too much, to prescribe a nursing prescription.
Dr. Li dare not use medicinal herbs for tonic, so as not to cause dryness and heat. After careful consideration, he decided to adopt a step-by-step dietotherapy method, and then offered one side, steaming the top-grade donkey-hide gelatin, red dates, walnuts, black sesame seeds, crystal sugar and yellow wine together, nourishing blood with donkey-hide gelatin, red dates, walnuts and black sesame seeds, which can increase sebum secretion, improve skin elasticity, keep skin delicate, delay aging and quickly replenish physical strength. Rock sugar is sweet and flat, and enters the lungs and spleen; Has the effects of invigorating middle warmer, benefiting qi, regulating stomach and moistening lung. The yellow wine in Guyuan paste will make the above ingredients more effective, the nutrition easier to digest and absorb, and the paste easier to preserve. Every morning, Li serves Empress Dowager Cixi on an empty stomach.
After taking it for a period of time, the queen mother's face gradually improved and she was overjoyed to say "another beauty prescription". When asked about the name of this recipe, Li only remembered that there were two ingredients, donkey-hide gelatin and jujube, and could not tell the original intention of making this recipe. He used his quick wits: "This is Guyuan ointment!"
Cixi said that she was absolutely delighted and took this prescription all the year round. An old lady after seventy, she is still young, full of spirit and full of vitality, a healthy woman.
This cream is soft, smooth, sweet and delicious. Yinmei can clear away heat and nourish the heart, replenish qi and blood, and stop bleeding. It is suitable for spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, anemia and hematochezia, dysmenorrhea due to kidney deficiency, asthenia, dull complexion, low fever and night sweats, palpitation and insomnia, yin deficiency and blood heat. It can not only tonify the kidney, but also strengthen the body, and is suitable for men, women and children.
Li Dechang, a doctor too much, went to Henan anonymously to continue practicing medicine after the demise of the Qing Dynasty, which was passed down from generation to generation. Now it's the fourth generation. His great-grandson has been practicing medicine and doing good deeds according to his ancestors' instructions. Under the influence of family environment, he has memorized Medicinal Fu and Tang Touge Ji since childhood, and he also has a strong interest in Chinese medicine. Later, he followed his father to see what he could feel, what medicine to prescribe to patients, and learned to know. He taught himself medical knowledge such as TCM theory and TCM diagnostics, and listened to his father's clinical experience in explaining difficult cases. He saw that the pace of life is too fast now, people's lives are in a busy state, and they are all in a sub-health state. He remembered the absolutely safe and healthy formula developed by his grandfather for Empress Dowager Cixi, which was carefully selected and steamed according to the ancient formula. After eating for three months, the effect is very obvious. They are full of praise. When talking about the family history of hundreds of years and the efficacy of Guyuan ointment, Dr. Li's tone was full of pride. In order to benefit more people, he abandoned the idea of keeping the traditional secret recipe secret and joined several pharmacies to process and sell it in strict accordance with the ancestral secret recipe. I believe that if people eat it often, they can live a long and healthy life. Even Xiao Kai, the teacher of Pretty Woman, strongly recommended Ejiao Guyuan Ointment for beauty and health.