She was a mysterious woman by Kangxi's side, bathing only once a year, so why should she drink dirty water?
Many people are interested in history, want to understand what legendary stories have happened in our Five Thousand Years of China, although we can't go back to see it with our own eyes, but now the society is so developed, there are many TV series and books, there are things we want to know, speaking of the "Kangxi Dynasty" TV series, I believe everyone has seen it, there is a very mysterious character, very important to the Kangxi Emperor, Kangxi has great respect for her all her life, her name is Su Ma Lagu, She is a simple little palace girl, but her life is very legendary, and she has lived an incomparable glory.
Su Ma Lagu can be regarded as the highest status of a maid in our Chinese history, whether it is in the current TV series, or in books and novels, she appears no less than those concubines and nobles, Su Ma Lagu's original name is Su Mo'er, her life has a close relationship with the royal family of the Qing Dynasty, as a small palace girl, how did she do it? Although she did not have any royal blood and was not a member of the royal family, after her death, she was buried as a concubine, she entered the palace as a maid from an early age, served four emperors in her life, knew the Mongolian language, and even the founding crown of the Qing Dynasty was designed by her own hands.
Su Mo'er is a skillful woman, no matter in which aspect, can make a good achievement, is also this reason, Xiaozhuang attaches great importance to her, in many things, will ask Su Mo'er's opinion, for a maid, this is an incomparably great honor, and because she was born in the prairie, riding and archery are very good, when traveling, Su Mo'er also acted as a guard of Xiaozhuang, always accompanying. In the public, they are the master-servant relationship, but in fact, they have already regarded each other as sisters, although she was born poor, she was sold to the Central Plains as a maid in her teens, but fortunately, she was clever, and met the good master of Xiaozhuang, so she had a very high status, and was even respected by the people in the palace as "Gege".
When Kangxi was a child, there were many enlightenment teachers around him, Su Mo'er was also one of them, because Su Mo'er was very good at literature, the Good Hand of the Kangxi Emperor was taught by Su Mo'er himself, Su Mo'er taught the Kangxi Emperor a lot of knowledge and experience, when the Kangxi Emperor privately called her "Eun Niang", Kangxi's sons called Su Mo'er "grandmother", even if the status is very high, but Su Mo'er is still very respectful, never because of the high status across the boundary, has always called herself a lowly slave. Hearing her story, everyone must have thought that she had enjoyed a lot of glory and wealth in her life, after all, she had a firm foothold in the palace, but she had an unknown quirk, that is, she only took a bath once a year, and after washing, she had to drink the bath water.
Many people can't accept this habit of Su Mo'er, in fact, because she was born in the Mongolian nomadic people, very water-scarce places, from childhood the habit is not to bathe often, only once in the New Year, so why drink the bath water after bathing? It is also because of her family reasons, in the Mongolian plateau, water is very scarce, because the resources are very few, so it is extremely precious, can only be used to drink, and the act of bathing and washing clothes is considered to be an act of disrespecting the "water god".
Even when Su Mo'er arrived at the palace, she always kept the habit of her hometown and drank the water after bathing, so that she would not feel guilty and would not think that she had wasted water. It is said that the ancient Mongols only used water three times in their lives, the first time was when they had just come to this world, the second time was when they held a life event, and the third time was to go into the earth.