Su Ma Lagu was a very special woman in the Qing Dynasty. She and Kangxi are green plum bamboo horses, in terms of identity, she is both a maid and a sister, emotionally, although she and Kangxi are confidants, confidants, but also reject Kangxi's idea of being a concubine. However, her legend is not only her love story with Kangxi, but also a rumor in her. It is said that SuMa Lama only bathes once a year. Many people are curious if she only takes a bath once a year and has a smell on her body. The Emperor would not dislike her.
Why does Su Ma Lama only take a bath once a year?
First, this stems from her origins.
She was born into a poor Mongolian family. For poor families, bathing is not an easy task, so she has developed this habit since she was a child. Although her identity in the palace has become different when she grows up, she is cautious, and her inner inferiority feeling has not been eliminated with the change of identity, and Su Ma Lama has always felt that she cannot bathe as often as the masters, so she still insists on the habit of bathing once a year when she enters the palace for many years.
Second, this stems from her beliefs.
She is of Mongolian origin, who believes in the "Immortal Heaven", believing that the heavens are the most sacred, and water is the most precious divine object given to the Mongols by heaven. Water is scarce and precious on the prairie. For the people of the steppe, saving water is a matter of course. No exception is Suma Lama, who was born into a Mongolian family and has a natural respect for water. It is said that she only bathed once a year when she was Chinese New Year's Eve, and only scrubbed her body with a little water and drank some of the used water.
As a squire by the emperor's side, bathing only once a year, will there be no smell on the body?
In fact, although she only bathed once a year, ancient people would smoke incense. And her identity is special, Su Ma Lama has the grace of "relying on his training and teaching the national book by hand" to Kangxi, so although it is said to be a yakuza, it is much better than that of ordinary yakuza, she uses to smoke clothes, and the incense of the smoked body is naturally of high grade, and of course there will be no peculiar smell on the body.