It is true that food has an extremely powerful appeal to people around the world, it is as borderless as art, and when it comes to food, it is definitely the most delicious Chinese in the world. In China, there are eight kinds of large cuisines, and there are some local dishes, often a kind of ingredient, Chinese can invent a variety of methods, take chicken as an example, China has a large plate of chicken yellow stewed chicken roast chicken called flower chicken mouth chicken and other practices.
At the same time, Chinese is also good at food supplements, and Chinese medicine pays special attention to a sentence, that is, medicine is not as good as food supplements, and Li Shizhen's "Compendium of Materia Medica" also mentions similar views, and also records a variety of food supplement methods and places where various ingredients are nourished in the book. I have to say that food supplements are indeed very effective, and many people have alleviated or even cured their own diseases through food supplements, and the same is true for Empress Dowager Cixi.
As the mother of a country and the de facto ruler of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi ate, drank and had fun every day, especially eating. Empress Dowager Cixi was very particular about eating, and each time she ate, hundreds of people tossed back and forth, and there were nearly a hundred kinds of dishes on the table, and there were special eunuchs to try it before eating to ensure that there was no poison inside. These nearly a hundred kinds of dishes, Empress Dowager Cixi is not an elephant, naturally it is impossible to eat them all, so each time it is a dish to eat two bites, and when you meet a dish that you really like to eat, you will eat two more bites.
But even if you eat two bites of a dish, nearly a hundred kinds of dishes add up to a lot, sometimes the dishes are still a little cold, after all, it takes a certain amount of time from the first dish to the end. Eating so much and so miscellaneous, this led to Empress Dowager Cixi's stomach has not been very good in her middle and late years, but she suffered from the fact that medicine was not developed, so there has been no cure, and she often has a seizure of illness, if you catch up with the physiological period, it is really torturing the dead.
So in order to solve the stomach disease, Empress Dowager Cixi can be described as painstaking, but has not been effective, at this time there is a cook who has a plan, saying that there is a folk remedy in their hometown, that is, often drinking sheep soup can treat stomach diseases. This is really not nonsense, there is a certain scientific basis, Chinese medicine believes that mutton has the effect of nourishing the stomach and strengthening the spleen and stomach, and the soup cooked out of it is extremely good for the stomach, especially in the autumn and winter, which can play a more effective role in nourishing the stomach and intestines.
After Empress Dowager Cixi drank the cook's soup, she felt very warm in her stomach and sweated a little, and the whole person was very comfortable. Coupled with the fact that the soup was indeed delicious, Empress Dowager Cixi decided to let this cook often make sheep soup in the future. In this way, the cook was done for decades, and under his hard work, although Empress Dowager Cixi's stomach did not dare to say that it was completely healed, it was much better than before. As the saying goes, people can't obey the old, and so does this cook, he grows old in the palace day by day, and finally feels that he has half a foot in the coffin, so he wants to go home to retire and enjoy a period of heavenly happiness. So the cook went to see Empress Dowager Cixi and expressed his desire to return home.
The cook has made sheep soup for Cixi for so many years, that is, there is no merit and hard work, so Cixi gladly allowed it, and chatted with the cook for a while, during which he asked about the raw materials of the sheep soup, the cook did not think too much, and told Cixi that it was made with sheep water and some mutton. As soon as these words came out, Cixi was furious, feeling that her noble body could not eat such a lowly food as sheep sewage, which was an insult to her, so in a fit of anger, Cixi put the cook to death.
Poor cook, who worked hard for decades, finally died on the day she left her post, from which we can see how vicious Cixi really is, and the cook who has carefully cared for her for many years says that killing is really a snake and scorpion heart. It is worth mentioning that the death of the cook also taught us a truth of life, that is, when facing the leader, sometimes you can tell the truth, but sometimes lying is not necessarily a good thing.