Cixi only went to court at 8 o clock every day, why did she get up at 3 o clock in the morning? What

Cixi only went to court at 8 o'clock every day, why did she get up at 3 o'clock in the morning? What is she doing all this time? In today's society, it is very difficult for office workers who go out early and return late to get up every morning, so in ancient times, people would also be troubled by this problem?

In fact, in ancient times, people were not bothered by this problem, because in ancient times, people would go to bed much earlier at night than now, and they did not have much entertainment at night, and lived a life of sunrise and sunset every day, which is also a state of life that many people yearn for now.

In the eyes of our modern people, in ancient times, the emperor held the greatest power, they should not be subject to any restrictions on sleep, and they could sleep as long as they wanted, of course, this is only a small number of irresponsible emperors, compared to some more dedicated emperors, they will sleep late every night, and they will get up on time every morning to go to the morning court, so the phenomenon of the emperor not going to the early court is actually very rare in history.

First of all, the Queen Mother's preparations for getting up.

Comb your hair with makeup. Cixi's grooming was famous, and it was a very complicated process. The first is the hands, and the most satisfying thing about herself is her hands, so she spends a lot of time soaking her hands and trimming her nails every morning.

Then there is the hair, because Cixi is very taboo to lose hair, so this process pays attention to slow work and meticulous work, to comb well, but also to comb comfortably.

Cixi's makeup is not simply applying rouge and gouache, her cosmetics are unimaginable to ordinary people. The woman's milk, the pigeon's droppings, and the egg whites were all secret recipes of the court. As for jewelry, it was usually packed in various plates by the eunuchs for Cixi to choose, and then the palace ladies were responsible for helping to wear them.

This large set of makeup and dressing up time is generally about two hours.

Eating and smoking. Cixi's dining and picking jewelry was a rule, and the eunuchs would present more than 20 dishes for Cixi to choose from, giving her a buffet feel. Breakfast is usually short, but Cixi also has a big hobby, which is smoking.

According to historical records, smoking was the best way for Cixi to relieve fatigue, so Cixi liked to use it in the morning to relieve sleepiness.

Cixi smoked with four palace maids, one holding a large tobacco pouch, one responsible for lighting the tobacco, and the other two holding two bags of cigarettes waiting on the side. When Cixi was full of food and drink, and her smoking addiction was solved, she began to prepare for the court. For Cixi, the 4-hour or so time to get up and prepare was actually a little hasty.

Because Cixi had to get up to get dressed and eat, and these things would take her hours, she got up at three o'clock in the morning. During this time, she sat and waited for the palace maids and eunuchs to help her dress and comb her hair, and serve her breakfast.

I think she is old and doesn't sleep well, so she should be dressed up and ready to go to court when she gets up.

Cixi was a woman who got up early and went to bed early. So she had to get up at 3 a.m., and that was the time he had to do it. After washing, putting on makeup, eating, and walking. before you can go to the court.

During this time, it is necessary to dress and freshen up, because it was not convenient to boil hot water in the past, so it took a long time. Then it's time to eat, about six or seven o'clock, take a walk around the yo-yo corner, rest and get ready to go to the court.

Dressing up, smoking, drinking milk, having breakfast, the busy time passes. When it comes to Cixi, what comes to our minds is "luxury" in addition to "loser", in short, we think that she spends a lot of money and pays attention to pomp, but this is indeed the case. For example, Cixi goes to court at eight o'clock every day, but she gets up at the same time.

At that time, it was now three to five o'clock, and even if she got up at five o'clock, it would take three hours until eight o'clock. When Cixi began to turn over and was ready to get up, a special palace maid would open the curtain and kneel on the ground and chant "Lucky Lafayette". Then, the palace maids and eunuchs serving outside the door began to act.

First of all, there must be a eunuch to serve the white fungus soup that had been boiled on the small stove last night to Cixi.

Don't underestimate this bowl of white fungus soup, it is not only stewed extremely soft, but also contains a variety of nourishing ingredients, and there are also medicinal materials prescribed by the imperial doctor to nourish Cixi's body. After Cixi slowly drank this bowl of white fungus soup, she was about to start washing her face and hands. Cixi washed her face and hands in the water, adding all kinds of flower petals, and the fragrance of flowers hit people.

After the palace maid finished serving Cixi to wash her face and wash her hands, Cixi had to steam her face again. After steaming your face, you can apply your facial and makeup.

After putting on makeup, it is natural to comb your hair. After dressing up, Cixi still needs to smoke a cigarette and drink a bowl of steaming fresh human milk before she can have breakfast. There are a variety of breakfast dishes, and you will be almost full after tasting them one by one.

After that, Cixi can be served and dressed, inside and outside, not to mention the trouble, everyone has to be careful. After doing these tedious things, Cixi will go to the court.

Washing and dressing, it is a waste of time to put down a set of makeup for Cixi.

During that time, Cixi was grooming and dressing, which wasted a lot of time.

As a woman, of course, she was dressing herself up and enjoying a good breakfast.

Before getting ready to go to court, she had to put on makeup and eat breakfast, which was very time-consuming.

Cixi made the most of the five hours and did what a woman should do. Every morning at three o'clock, the palace maid would enter Cixi's dormitory, pull up the bed curtains, and serve Cixi to get up and change clothes. The first thing Cixi did when she got up washed her face with coarse hot water in advance, and she would also soak a towel and apply it to her face.

Because at that time, people thought that this could alleviate the growth of wrinkles in women, and when Pena Shi Chunzhen didn't have anything to do, Cixi could only make do with a towel, but this improvised was two hours. Everyone has a love for beauty, let alone a woman like Cixi.

First of all, he dressed up and groomed his appearance, as well as washed his face and brushed his teeth, ate breakfast, then changed clothes, brought precious jewelry, and then touched up his makeup, and then went to the court to listen to the government.

During this period, he kept tidying up his things, making himself more dignified and prestigious, and then he kept exercising his facial expressions, eating, and doing some steps to beauty and skin.

She needs to wash her face, put on makeup, comb her hair, eat some vegetables, smoke for a while, and make herself very delicate, so that she can look very good when she goes to court.

Wake up so early, there are too many things to do, washing, makeup, combing hair takes a lot of time, and then smoking a bag of cigarettes to relax, tossing for so long, and having breakfast, this process down, getting up at three o'clock is a little late.

Because she has to wait for a long time after getting up for washing time, makeup time, and meal time.

Although Cixi was the ruler of the Qing Dynasty, he was also a woman who loved beauty, and the first thing she did when she got up was, of course, to dress up, and she did not hesitate to spend a lot of time on this.

As a woman, the Empress Dowager Cixi still has a love for beauty in the end, so dressing up will be very time-consuming, and the Empress Dowager Cixi is also the kind of person who likes to maintain health, and she is very particular about many things.

Everyone has a love for beauty, women have to dress up every morning, makeup will waste a long time, there are other things to do, choose clothes, her palace maid must also be slow and leisurely, it took more than four hours to clean up herself.

Cixi is a person who loves beauty very much, and she has to go through a lot of complicated things from getting up to the court, and going down one procedure after another, four hours is not unusual at all.

As a woman, Cixi needs to spend 4 hours to prepare from getting up to the court, and she must be washing and putting on makeup during this period, after all, a woman who loves beauty is not afraid of trouble.

Cixi spends her time making herself more beautiful, such as applying makeup for up to 2 hours, eating breakfast, drinking a cup of morning tea, washing her face, and so on.

Because of Cixi's love for beauty, she began to toss herself after getting up, such as washing her face for 30 minutes, dressing for 30 minutes, drinking morning tea for 60 minutes, and applying makeup for 120 minutes.

In the Qing Dynasty, there was an early dynasty called "calling Qi'er", which was not an ordinary call to get people up, but a formal and serious early dynasty. Generally, after seven or eight o'clock in the morning, the Qing emperors would get up an hour or two earlier.

However, the Empress Dowager Cixi usually gets up at four or five o'clock in the morning to prepare, does she attach great importance to it? No, the Empress Dowager Cixi spends so much time from getting up to the morning every day because she has "a lot of things"! In particular, the beauty care process of the Empress Dowager Cixi took up most of the time.

After getting up every day, the Empress Dowager Cixi used a hot towel to compress her hands by the palace people, and she needed to change the hot water three or four times, and the hot compress on her hands was softened before it was finished. After processing the hands, start fumigation and wash the face, add fresh milk and flower juice to the warm water, and cover the face with light veil to make the steam circulation fumigation, which is very cumbersome.

The Empress Dowager Cixi attached great importance to her nails, as well as her hair. After dressing up every day, the eunuch will enter the dormitory to comb his hair. As she grows older, her hair tends to turn gray and fall out, but the Empress Dowager Cixi doesn't like it, and if the eunuch doesn't pay attention to combing her hair, she is likely to lose her head.

In addition, it is necessary to apply powder to wipe the face, change clothes and accessories, after some tossing, now modern people can quickly get up in the morning, the Empress Dowager Cixi can spend two hours in the Chuxiu Palace.

After freshening up, there is also a hookah, tea and breakfast. As we all know, the Empress Dowager Cixi was extremely poor and extravagant, and every year she placed a large number of apples and citrus in the palace just to smell the taste, and only ate a little melon pulp in the middle of the watermelon, and the same was true for her breakfast. The dining room of Chuxiu Palace carefully prepares dozens of breakfasts every day**, and almond cream, milk tea, fresh soy milk, white fungus soup, etc. are all must-haves.

In fact, the Empress Dowager Cixi didn't do any special activities when she got up early, but because compared with ordinary emperors, the Empress Dowager Cixi was extremely poor and extravagant to a heinous point, even if she held the real power of the late Qing Dynasty, the Empress Dowager Cixi was a woman after all, and she loved beauty, so she spent much more on maintaining herself than on maintaining the Qing Dynasty.

At that time, the early dynasty was about eight o'clock, Cixi got up at three or four o'clock every day, got up to a group of palace maids and eunuchs to shout "ancestors auspicious", until they got up, after getting up, they began to wash, fold quilts and put on makeup, and relieve boredom when they were bored during makeup, and the palace maids and eunuchs told her about the political affairs of the court, and after putting on makeup, she had to smoke a cigarette, and then drink a cup of milk tea after smoking, and then eat breakfast, breakfast was made of porridge with more than 20 kinds of morning tea, and then smoked a cigarette, after being comfortable, she went to the court.

After Cixi got up, she had to start washing, then put on makeup, smoke, drink tea, and wait for breakfast, her breakfast was very rich, she had to drink dozens of kinds of tea, and then she took a puff of cigarette and changed her clothes.

Cixi got up every day with a lot of rules, first to wash, then to fold the quilt, and then wait for the eunuch to kowtow, help Cixi comb her hair, and help Cixi put on makeup and clothes.

After getting up, there should be a palace maid and eunuch to serve and wash, comb your hair, take care of your hands, eat breakfast, and go for a walk in the garden.

It takes about an hour from combing your hair to styling it and finally putting on your hair and jewelry, followed by touch-ups. After putting on makeup, the Empress Dowager Cixi will smoke to refresh herself, at this time the palace maid will prepare the cigarette pouch and cigarettes for the Empress Dowager Cixi, after smoking, the Empress Dowager Cixi will rinse her mouth and drink some water or other drinks at the same time.

She had to freshen up when she got up, then shower and get dressed, she was very fond of smelly beauty, and it took hours to get dressed.

The Empress Dowager Cixi was ready to get up at three o'clock, and there was a gap of four or five hours between the morning and the court at eight o'clock. This is because there are so many rules in the palace. The Empress Dowager Cixi will definitely have some rules after getting up, such as washing up a lot.

They all get up to dress up and eat breakfast, and Cixi has very high requirements for her appearance and life.

Generally, he is dressing up and having breakfast, and his life is very exquisite, and ordinary people can do it in an hour, but the Empress Dowager Cixi spends four or five hours, and you can see how luxurious his life is from here.