Speaking of the last feudal dynasty in our country, you can think of the Qing Dynasty, and if you want to say that the most famous people in the Qing Dynasty, there is a good chance that they will think of Empress Dowager Cixi. Empress Dowager Cixi, as a woman, in the feudal autocratic society, she can be called one of the few legendary female figures in the history of our country, and after the death of the Xianfeng Emperor, she became the actual ruler of Wanqing and monopolized power.
Empress Dowager Cixi's name is Yehenara, Yehenara is one of the eight surnames of the Manchu Qing, simply put, it is noble, after the age of seventeen, Cixi entered the palace, as a nobleman, and then gradually rose to become a concubine, an empress and then an empress. Cixi was originally everyone's bridesmaids, and later entered the palace, all her life is pampered, since she is pampered, eating and wearing will not be too bad, and Cixi is a famous foodie in history, and she is both exquisite and picky about eating.
It is rumored that Cixi's degree of pickiness about food is even worse than that of the Qianlong Emperor, especially in old age, the power is in hand, the body function declines, and the imperial dining room makes all the world's delicacies to meet Cixi's needs, so the cooking skills of the imperial dining room at that time, the degree of abundance of meals, etc., can be said to have reached the peak.
Cixi's high requirements for diet, as can be seen from the court cuisine of the late Qing Dynasty, there are rumors that Cixi only drank boiled water once in her life, which is shocking. We all know that water is the source of life, seventy percent of the human body is water, do not replenish water, how to live? Cixi doesn't drink boiled water, so what do she usually drink?
In fact, Empress Dowager Cixi drank water, but she did not drink boiled white water, the only time she drank was to leave Beijing in a hurry, too thirsty to drink reluctantly, and what Empress Dowager Cixi drank on weekdays was mineral water. According to the records of the Qing Imperial Dining Room, the water that Empress Dowager Cixi drank was one kind of dew water, one kind of snow water, and the other was the spring water of Yuquan Mountain.
Tea culture in our country has a lot of history, boiling tea is also a kind of tea culture, Ming and Qing dynasties, people like to use dew to boil tea, dew boiled tea taste sweet, but also emit a unique fragrance, Cixi is very fond of this. Snow is condensed from water vapor, when it snows, folk naughty children will also pick up clean snow and stuff it into the mouth, Cixi is more exquisite, take clean white snow, and after melting, filter it, it can be eaten, and sometimes it will be used to make tea.
Yuquan Mountain is located in the western part of the Summer Palace, where the spring water is turquoise and clear, as clear as jade, and there is a hint of sweetness in it, and the spring water of Yuquan Mountain is also famous. After the Qianlong Emperor, the Spring Water of Yuquan Mountain became the royal drinking water, it is said that when the Qianlong Emperor traveled to Jiangnan, he also specially used the jade spring water in the car to facilitate the reference on the road, once called it the world's first spring, until later traveled to Jinan, tasted the Baotu Spring water, and gave this reputation to Baotu Spring.
It can be seen from this that the name of yuquan water is not worthy of the name, and with Cixi's pickiness, it is not unreasonable to choose yuquan water. At that time, one of the wonders of the Forbidden City was that every day when the city gate opened, the royal water delivery truck that sped by was equipped with the jade spring water requested by Cixi, because Cixi asked for fresh spring water, so the spring water was replaced every morning.
In addition to these mineral waters, Cixi also eats a variety of sweet soup drinks on weekdays, the ingredients are all good, fresh fruits in the season, etc., so it seems that in addition to Empress Dowager Cixi, who else can have this treatment? Wrapping up the entire Yuquan Mountain, sending fresh water into the palace every day, eating every day in a different way, it is no wonder that after netizens understand the usual life of Empress Dowager Cixi, they will say that "poverty limits imagination", and it is true that you can do whatever you want if you have money.