Take the Qing emperor for example. He got up early every morning. After washing and dressing, the first task is to greet the elders, followed by morning classes and breakfast. In the Qing Dynasty, the emperor attached great importance to culture and education. The morning class of the emperor is called "daily class". Every day, the selected ministers have to teach Confucian classics and "Learning from each other", which is considered to be related to the country's chaos control. After the morning class, the emperor can enjoy the first meal. Unlike the habit of eating three meals a day, the Manchu royal family only eats two meals in the morning and afternoon. The weight of the New Year's Eve dinner is quite amazing: Emperor Qianlong's New Year's Eve dinner has more than 20 dishes and takes a long time. However, the style of the court menu is fixed, and it remains unchanged all year round. The emperor always wants to eat something outside the menu.
When the emperor has finished breakfast, he should start working. The famous way of participating in politics is "early dynasty": eunuchs ring the bell and whip, civil and military officials file in from the waiting court, and the emperor receives the officials in the golden palace and bows down, announcing that "there are books to play early, but no books to leave the court", and then making judgments on the political affairs played by ministers one by one. Another important administrative matter is the approval of the complaint. Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong all personally reviewed the papers and often worked late into the night. Yongzheng is a famous workaholic, reading as many as fifty or sixty memorials every day. Some of his comments on the memorial even went beyond the words of the memorial itself. It's almost evening after work, so I'll go to bed after a snack.
The descendants of the emperor are very important, so every night someone will come to sleep, and the emperor will choose a beautiful concubine to sleep, and the emperor's day will be over.