Although the country was worried about internal and external troubles in the late Qing Dynasty, as the supreme ruler, Cixi's life was still extremely luxurious, and she even embezzled the military expenses of the Beiyang Marine Division to celebrate her birthday, resulting in the total annihilation of the Beiyang Marine Division in the Sino-Japanese War, but Cixi was indifferent to this, preferring to pay reparations everywhere to settle the people, although there were many reparations, but she was still dressed in fine clothes and food, but the taxes of the common people were more arduous, and when the people were not happy, Cixi's clothing, food, housing and transportation were still very exquisite.
Cixi eats an average of more than a hundred dishes per meal, but many dishes are even intact, so her wasted food is even enough for ordinary families to eat for a month, and Cixi is more picky in drinking water, we all know that Cixi is a very beauty-loving person, she pays great attention to maintenance in life, she thinks that women are made of water, so she never drinks boiled water, even if she is thirsty, she will not drink ordinary water, in addition to drinking water, the water she uses is also very exquisite.
Although there are many wells in the Forbidden City, but the water in these wells is never used, every day the palace people have to go to Yuquan Mountain to transport fresh spring water for everyone to drink, but Cixi must add one thing to the water that Cixi drinks - rose petals, she will let the palace women pick the most tender rose petals every day, make rose tea for her, Cixi likes roses very much, she thinks that drinking flower tea can maintain eternal youth, so she has to drink a lot of rose tea every day.
In addition, Cixi brushed her teeth and rinsed her mouth absolutely without boiling water, she ordered the palace ladies to go to the royal garden every day when it was not cold to collect flower lotion, and then use these flower dews to brush their teeth and rinse their mouths, and every time they finished eating, they must also use these flower lotions to clean their mouths, so that they could leave a fragrance on their lips and teeth, although the late Qing Dynasty was very decaying, but the life of the upper rulers was very luxurious, they ignored the people of Li, and only wanted to keep their glory and wealth, which was really disgraceful.