The most honorable person in ancient times was the Heavenly Son of the Imperial Palace, who had a special person responsible for his daily food, clothing, shelter and transportation, which can be described as a golden food. There are not many people who serve him every day, and the most important thing around him is the palace maid and the eunuch, so he can have a lot of requirements for the people below, even if it is a small thing, it is worth the special service of the palace eunuch.
In ancient times, emperors had a habit of gargling their mouths every morning and cleaning the dirty things in their mouths. When this practice came to the Qing Dynasty, it was called "washing the dragon ditch". Because ancient times were not very advanced, so they wanted to rinse their mouths, they could only use clean water, with the continuous development of the times, people's living standards rose day by day, some merchants or rich bureaucrats began to gargle with salt water or wine.
Ordinary people rinse their mouths with water, merchants and bureaucrats use salt water, wine, so what did the ancient emperors use? Since he was the Son of Heaven, the things he used were of course the best, and he gargled his mouth with the most exquisite tea leaves. These precious teas are all tributes from various places, are the best, for Tianzi, tea can not only remove the dirty things in the mouth, but also regulate gastrointestinal discomfort, in this way, tea is of course a good thing.
It is such a simple gargling, why do the palace ladies have to rush to serve it? In fact, there are two reasons: you can make money, and you can also take the opportunity to climb up! Every morning, the palace ladies waited for the emperor to wash up, brewed tea and let him rinse his mouth, and the tea leaves after gargling were generally poured or thrown away. But because the palace ladies' lives were very poor, they wrapped up the tea leaves they pretended to throw away, and when they were almost saved, they would send someone out of the palace to sell for money.
Because it is something used by the emperor, many people will buy it, of course, the price will not be very high, so that the life of the palace women will not be too tight. In addition, the palace ladies were very envious of the women who had become emperors, and they lived a fairy-like life every day, so that they also began to look forward to it, so they wanted to have more opportunities to get close to the emperor, and maybe one day they would be regarded by the emperor as concubines.
Therefore, the fact that the emperor had to do every morning became a task that the palace women had to grab, of course, not only to make money, but also to take the opportunity to change their identity. But is it really a sought-after thing to serve the emperor to gargle? In fact, this is not the case, because the emperor is the son of heaven, it is impossible to let some unknown palace women serve, not to mention that it is changed every day, and the emperor's daily life is served by the emperor's most trusted people, such as grand eunuchs, or concubines.
These are all for the safety of the emperor, and secondly, the emperor's supplies are all responsible for special people, especially the things that eat need to be checked layer by layer, not every palace girl can approach, so obviously the palace women are not credible in competing to serve the emperor to gargle, because it is not normal!