Empress Dowager Cixi attacked the chef just because of one soup, the cause was oil even though she had been eating it for 10 years?

Empress Dowager Cixi in Chinese history was very famous as a domineering woman with a harsh and rebellious personality. Her way of eating is also something that causes pain. Even for a dish, she even gave her hand to her chef.

Empress Dowager Cixi (November 29, 1835 - November 15, 1908) was the concubine of Emperor Ham Phong, the biological mother of King Tung Tri. She was the woman who held power for 47 years even when emperors Tung Chih and Guangxu were still in power. Empress Dowager Cixi is one of the most criticized women in Chinese history for causing the Qing Dynasty to fall into decline with her extremely thrilling personal stories.

The anecdotes about Empress Dowager Cixi can't be exhausted from year to month. Among them, her culinary needs are one of the fascinating topics that make us discuss and go from one surprise to another.

Empress Dowager Cixi can be said to be extremely luxurious in terms of food, clothing, especially in terms of food and drink. It can be said that she has tasted the mountains and delicacies all over the world, never before. treat yourself poorly. Although commoners at the end of the Qing Dynasty lived in poverty, Empress Dowager Cixi did not care about the lives of her people and still lived a life of luxury.

Each main meal of Cixi must have over a hundred different dishes. In addition, each day there are 2 light meals with at least 20 dishes. Empress Dowager Cixi's dishes are made by 128 of the country's most talented chefs. Each dish has its own flavor, and the cooking ingredients are also premium goods selected from across the country. It can be said that almost every dish, from delicious seafood to unique or strange dishes, there is no dish that Tu Hi has not tried.

Before Cixi's palace, the rule was to eat two meals a day, at 9 a.m. and 1 p.m. A lunch of Empress Dowager Cixi required nearly 100 people, from chefs to eunuchs, palace maids, from tasting poison to serving dishes, there were many processes.

In addition to the two main meals, there are also two side meals, called wine meals. But Cixi doesn't like drinking alcohol. Compared to the taste of alcohol, she likes snacks and candied fruit. However, most of these seafood dishes are not good for your health if you eat too much. Therefore, in the last years of her life, Empress Dowager Cixi often ate a special soup because it was good for the digestive tract.

When she was bored with the dishes made by the palace chefs, Empress Dowager Cixi thought of organizing a cooking competition outside the palace to recruit more people to come into the palace to cook for her.

At the end of the competition, Cixi will also come to the scene to act as a judge and taste each dish. Once, Cixi enjoyed a delicious dish from a chef from Henan. Initially, she only ate one bite of each dish to score points, but this time she almost only ate one of this chef's soups.

This is a special dish created by a chef in the palace to please Empress Dowager Cixi. This was mutton soup. Tu Hi felt that the taste was very delicious, she quickly drank it all with a very satisfied look on her face. Actually, this bowl of lamb soup uses quite normal ingredients, the main ingredient is sheep internal organs, but because it is combined with the right temperature and accompanying spices, the soup has absolutely no bad smell. Cixi had never eaten this dish so she really liked it.

From then on, Cixi drank a bowl of such sheep organ soup every day for ten years. At first, Empress Dowager Cixi did not know the ingredients of the dish, she only knew that this was a very delicious soup. One day, Cixi suddenly remembered that she still didn't know what the ingredients were for her favorite dish every day. Therefore, she asked the royal chef who cooked the soup for her to ask about the recipe. This chef was also very "carefree" about the recipe of his life's dish. The chef honestly answered about the ingredients of the soup loved by Empress Dowager Cixi, which were from sheep's internal organs.

But this chef did not know that the horror of his life was about to happen. When Cixi heard that the soup's ingredients were sheep's internal organs, she was furious and ordered the cook's immediate execution, without anyone revealing that she had drunk soup made from internal organs. sheep for ten years. In Cixi's view, animal organs were things for the poor. Eating this type of food was shameful and humiliating for the queen mother, so she was so angry that she killed the chef. , since then she has not eaten this soup anymore.

This story of Empress Dowager Cixi was recorded in history books, becoming an incident that demonstrated her excessive brutality.

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