Empress Dowager Xu Xi kept sucking on 1 fruit every time she put on makeup, knowing the purpose behind everyone was surprised

Empress Dowager Cixi was one of the powerful representatives of the Qing Dynasty. She always had a different lifestyle and set very high standards with them. However, it is undeniable that she has an extremely extensive amount of knowledge when setting those requirements.

Empress Dowager Cixi always spends time taking care of her skin, applying makeup and spraying Western perfumes. This is not difficult to understand because she is a very famous miss from ancient times, Empress Dowager Cixi's skin is always smooth.

However, time caused her skin to appear aging, which bothered the Empress Dowager very much. As you get older, the skin will no longer have elasticity and wrinkles appear, the cheek area will be pinched, so it is difficult to apply makeup.

Empress Dowager Cixi was a strict person with beauty, so she would definitely not accept this. Many of the palace servants were angered by her while taking care of her skin and applying makeup.

Later, someone advised Empress Dowager Xu to suck on two walnuts when applying makeup, one walnut on each cheek so that the cheeks were round and full. This method makes her makeup also more smooth and delicate.

It is known that this is not a walnut that people often eat, but Van Ngoan walnut, its surface is very smooth and shiny.

After Xu Xi the Empress Dowager put it in her mouth to try to apply makeup, it really brought a very noticeable effect, the powder was smooth and did not accumulate powder like when the cheeks were squeezed. Since then, every time she applied makeup, she never lacked these 2 walnuts.

Later, when the allied rebels of the eight countries made a counterattack and attacked the Forbidden City, Empress Dowager Cixi had to pack up her bags and flee, 2 walnuts were also carefully packed and carried. However, when they fled across a small bridge, the bridge suddenly collapsed, and many people and luggage fell into the water.

Fortunately, Empress Dowager Cixi escaped but the 2 walnuts she loved were washed away by the current.

After hearing that 2 walnuts could not be found, she flew into a rage and ordered the searcher to return immediately. Moreover, Xu Xi also announced that if anyone found those 2 walnuts, he would be rewarded with a lot of money.

This shows the importance of walnuts to her. During the search, in order to be sure of finding 2 walnuts, they even built a temporary dam on the shore, finally after many efforts, they found the pair of walnuts, brought them back to Empress Dowager Cixi and received countless gold and silver treasures.

Empress Dowager Cixi was born in 1835 and entered the palace as a concubine for King Ham Feng at the age of 17. She was enthroned as a concubine by giving birth to Emperor Ham Feng's only son, Emperor Xuan, later Emperor Tongji.

Empress Dowager Cixi was the de facto ruler of the Qing court for more than 40 years. Ascending the throne as empress dowager, she seized power, committing many crimes.

She is also known for leading an extremely luxurious lifestyle. The historical documents documenting her life are amazed by the next generation. Xu Xi not only has countless splendid gold and silver jewelry, wearing lavish silk velvet outfits, but also requires a very high quality of life. She used huge sums of money to organize parties at a time when the imperial treasury was depleted.

She used more than 400 taels of gold to entertain delegations from the West. The menu that day consisted of 140 dishes with 1750 waiters, chefs selected throughout the country and lasted for 1 week.

Empress Dowager Cixi was known for her love of dressing up and taking photos. The Palace Museum in Beijing still holds more than 100 photographs of her dressed in more than 30 gorgeous dresses of silk studded with high-end pearls. On her body she wore jewelry, jade. Her hair tools come in 25 items, used for curling and combing a variety of styles. Her hair was often laced with flowers and gold brooches.

Empress Dowager Cixi built her own kitchen in the Forbidden City, called the West Kitchen. According to the book Cixi Empress Dowager by Xu Zhao, a scholar and expert in Qing dynasty studies, each meal of Empress Dowager Cixi was served 120 different dishes. However, she only ate a few dishes, one to two pieces each, for fear of being poisoned. It is recorded that she smelled 400 apples a day rather than eating them. When the fruit lost its smell, she would remove it and the new fruit would be offered.

Another special eating habit of Empress Dowager Cixi is that she only drinks pure spring water because it has many minerals. However, the spring water offered to the empress dowager had to be boiled with rose-scented tea. She requested that fresh flowers be picked and mixed with dried tea to ensure that the tea had the floral aroma when brewed.

In addition, every morning she woke up, Empress Dowager Xu Xi would have to use morning dew to rinse her mouth. Therefore, palace ladies often have to get up in the middle of the night to be able to collect the purest dew drops for the empress dowager to gargle, if they do not want to be punished.

Even after her death, Empress Dowager Cixi was buried with jewelry and luxuries worth 1.2 million ounces of silver. In 1928, her grave was looted by warlord Sun Dien Anh and the military. The queen dowager's coffin was destroyed, causing all her wealth, gold and silver to be taken away. Sun Yanying even relied on Empress Dowager Cixi's mouth to take away the Mingzhou Stone worth trillions.

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