Take the breakfast on the second day of the first month of the fifty-fourth year of Qianlong as an example: at 3 o'clock in the morning (5-7 o'clock in the morning), "Nourishing Hall enters the breakfast, and there are painted flowers on the table: bird's nest hanging stove, duck hanging stove, game meat pot, bird's nest mushroom pot, roast chicken pot, frozen tofu stewed chicken, shredded pork and steamed duck. Seven tables, fifteen tables, six tables, twelve products, three crystals of Qinghai aquatic animal dishes, ten tables of meat, three tables of mutton, one table of pork and one table of venison. "
The above is breakfast in the first month of the new year. The emperor can't eat it all by himself, and the rest is used to reward empresses and ministers. Empresses and ministers will be proud to receive food awards from these emperors.
So is the queen, only she will lose a little weight.
What's in the palace is even more unclear.