When it comes to costume dramas, there must be Qing Palace dramas, but the Qing Palace dramas in TV dramas are still different from the real history. In the costume drama "Kangxi Dynasty", do you still have an impression of Empress Xiaozhuang's personal maid Su Ma Lagu? She was gentle and virtuous, but she never married, but when she was young, she experienced something that she would never forget for the rest of her life.
Born into an ordinary herdsman's family in Mongolia, SuMa Lagu spoke both Mongolian and Mongolian languages, and was finally favored by the Horqin Belle Province, who let her enter the house as the personal maid of her second daughter, later Empress Xiaozhuangwen. Along the way with Empress Xiaozhuang, they have completely surpassed the friendship between the maid and the rich lady, and the two have become confidants without saying anything.
When the Shunzhi Emperor's concubine Dong Eshi was ill, Dong Efei hoped to have a child of her own, so the Shunzhi Emperor, out of love for Dong Efei, passed on to Concubine Tong, the son of Concubine Tong, to Concubine Dong, the later Kangxi Emperor.
And Empress Xiaozhuang also liked the well-behaved Xuan Ye, so she let her trusted maid Su Ma Lama take care of Xuan Ye, running back and forth between Empress Xiaozhuang and Xuan Ye every day, but Xuan Ye lived in Dong Efei's mansion for a period of time, she had a high fever, and after the diagnosis of the Tai Doctor, it was proved that it was smallpox, at that time, smallpox was an incurable disease, and could only wait for death.
This made Empress Xiaozhuang indignant, so she wanted to teach Concubine Dong a lesson. At that time, the Shunzhi Emperor was already a person who gave up the world for Dong Efei, and he could not accept Xiaozhuang to bully his beloved concubine, so he shifted all the responsibility to Su Ma Lagu, and ordered that he be executed immediately, at that time, the emperor held the power of life and death in the world, and Su Ma Lagu was so innocent that she was to be buried alive.
In the film and television drama, when Su Ma Lagu was buried alive, why did the surrounding eunuchs try to sprinkle a large amount of lime on her? Or is it deliberately meant to cover up something? In fact, in ancient times, although it was not as scientific as it is now, there was also a basis for doing things. In ancient times, it was basically earth burial, and a layer of lime would be laid at the time of the tomb, mainly for disinfection, but also to prevent the odor emitted by the decomposition of the body, which would pollute the air and lead to the spread of the virus after being breathed by posterity.
Although there are no current medical conditions in ancient times, the ancients thought of preventing in advance, pouring lime in advance, and to a certain extent, the bacteria that rotted and bred in the corpse were effectively isolated, and at the last moment, Empress Xiaozhuang arrived in time to save Su Ma Lagu's life, and finally Su Ma Lagu has been following Empress Xiaozhuang, living to an advanced age of more than ninety years old, and dying at home without illness.
This can also be understood on the side, the wisdom of the ancients is infinite, you can find a lot of scientific basis, and now many people are sick and still have to follow the ancestral "soil method", which is also very effective. What do you think about that?