Do you know how luxurious the life of Empress Dowager Cixi was in history? Let's talk together.
Empress Dowager Cixi, as we all know, people are talking about her high-profile life. So, how extravagant is Empress Dowager Cixi? Her luxury cannot even be expressed in words. It can only be said that her luxury is beyond our understanding of the word luxury and beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Cixi was an important political figure and actual ruler in the late Qing Dynasty, which was simply outrageous. Cixi was elected to the palace on her own. How luxurious is the life of Empress Dowager Cixi? For Empress Dowager Cixi, this life is really too valuable. When she was in her twenties, Empress Dowager Cixi had become the supreme ruler of the Qing Dynasty, when most women were still spinning and weaving at home, and did everything her husband Nuo Nuo told her. Although she lost her husband, Empress Dowager Cixi was obviously worse than any man. First, she pulled her ally Prince Gong? Then launch a coup, and all eight ministers headed by Gu Ming will be beheaded.
Cixi is very particular about eating. Now people generally don't understand that Cixi has to serve full 100 dishes every time she eats. Seeing this scene, it is estimated that modern people will think, how do you pick vegetables? You don't have to worry about that. Empress Dowager Cixi naturally has a way to eat one and change another. Every day, the emperor's meals are 22kg of pork, 5kg of soup, 2kg of pork 1 kg, 2 sheep, 5 chickens, 3 ducks, 0/9kg of Chinese cabbage, spinach, coriander, leek/kloc-0, 60 radishes, 0/kg of melon/kloc-0, 6kg of kohlrabi, sweet potato and 6kg of onion. However, Cixi far exceeded the standard of the emperor. Cixi requires that each meal must have 100 bowls of different dishes, and the chefs are carefully selected from all over the country, including major cuisines in the country.
These clothes of hers are very precious. One of her simple shawls is decorated with about 3500 pearls. It can be said that Cixi likes pearls very much. Not only shawls but also shoes should be decorated with pearls. Socks made of satin will have seams. If the socks are not sewn well, they roll into a gold skirt and put on boots. Open the enamel melon-shaped rouge box, pat the powder, put on the jade hairpin with double dragons, and bring the jasper morning beads every day. Finally, there is a golden eagle with an ancient money pattern. Empress Dowager Cixi spends countless silver coins on clothes every year. It is said that Empress Dowager Cixi can't wear clothes once. Except for the clothes she likes, she either throws them away or gives them to the servants. Empress Dowager Cixi has a room dedicated to jewelry.
Cixi lived a very luxurious life and lost the whole Qing Dynasty. I was extravagant when I was alive, and I won't forget it after I die. I can't wait to bring all the treasures of the Qing Dynasty to my grave. According to eunuch Li, the gold woven treasure cushion on the coffin lid is 7 inches thick, and there are 12604 pearls, 85 rubies, 203 white jade and 2400 pearls on the top of the cushion, weighing 5 points. The crested phoenix worn by Cixi is inlaid with pearls and precious stones, and crowned with a pearl weighing 42 liang and as big as an egg. Cixi's funerary objects are worth about1.200 million silver. After Cixi's death, she was even more extravagant, and the Qing treasury was basically hollowed out. Where is Cixi? Dongling? Build her own mausoleum? Putuo Tower? , it is said that it? Enjoy the lobby? Beams, columns and eaves are actually painted with thousands of taels of gold. Besides, hers? Summer resort? And then what? Waiba Temple? What's more, extravagant consumption is only a gold ornament on the roof of the Eighth Hall, which costs 15200 gold!
Do you understand everything after the above general description?