Soup insulted Cixi, and the cook was killed. This soup is actually mutton offal soup. The chef is good at cooking, and the mutton offal soup tastes particularly good. This soup is delicious and can regulate the stomach of Cixi.
Cixi was also curious about this soup at first, but the chef kept it a secret. Cixi just thought the soup was delicious, and there was no need to force the cook to tell the secret of the soup.
One day ten years later, Cixi asked the secret of Tang again, this time with a tough attitude. The cook thought it would be too perfunctory, so he confessed the truth, never thinking that this confession would kill her.
It turns out that this soup is made of amniotic fluid, which is also the internal organs of sheep. This kind of thing was dirty and low-end in the eyes of people at that time. Cixi remembered that she had eaten amniotic fluid for so many years. She was very angry and killed the cook.
Analysis of the authenticity of the story This story originated from legends, not official records, and obviously has many flaws.
First, Cixi wants to know about this soup. How can a chef not tell the truth? This is a defect.
Secondly, since Cixi is very interested in this soup, Li's people must know something about it. If they knew that the soup was made from sheep in water, they would stop it.
Thirdly, Cixi herself is a foodie, and her diet experience is too rich. How can she not see that those in the soup are animal offal?
Fourth, some people say that Cixi killed the cook because she was a sheep, and she was taboo to eat mutton. This is incorrect, because according to the records of the palace, Cixi often eats mutton. Cixi, right? Sheep? Taboo, but not taboo to eat mutton, she is just taboo? Mutton? This is called, and? Mutton? Change to? Crouching meat? That's all.
So this story is probably based on Cixi. Sheep? Taboos and fabrications are worth exploring. However, the luxury and cruelty of Cixi is true, which may also be the reason why later generations fabricated such a story.