We all know something about Cixi from historical records. She lived a very luxurious life when she controlled the government. Cixi did not drink cold boiled water and only drank tea or human milk with snow mountain spring water, and she had to eat it with every meal. With hundreds of dishes, it is estimated that the emperors in history did not live as luxuriously as she did.

1. Make tea with snow mountain spring water

Everyone who likes tea knows that the best water for making tea is spring water. In fact, judging from Cixi’s status and identity, she used It’s actually okay to make tea with spring water. After all, people hold great power and still have the capital to drink some mountain spring water. But there is another reason why Cixi used mountain spring water to make tea, that is, she did not dare to drink well water. When Cixi was able to take power, she probably encountered gods and killed gods along the way, and there must have been many lives on her hands. To disappear quietly in the harem was to push people into a well.

Cixi should have done a lot of this kind of thing. We are all familiar with Concubine Zhen who was pushed into a well by her. Do you think she still dares to drink this kind of well water? So she ordered her men to fetch fresh mountain spring water for her to drink every day.

2. Drinking human milk to maintain health

During Cixi’s reign, she suffered a serious illness. The imperial doctors were helpless about the disease. At that time, a palace maid gave Cixi a folk remedy. Just let her drink human milk. Cixi felt that as long as she could make herself sick, anything would be fine, so she found a dozen wet nurses among the people to provide her with human milk every day. After persisting for a period of time, Cixi's illness began to improve, and her appearance became younger. Many people, after recovering from illness, Cixi continued to drink human milk in order to maintain her appearance.

In order to make the milk thicker, she asked special people to serve these wet nurses. Unfortunately, these wet nurses were forced to separate their flesh and blood just after giving birth to their children. Cixi was extravagant and extravagant. It is strange that the Qing Dynasty did not perish!