The Qing Dynasty was the period of the most declining feudal dynasty, when Cixi controlled the power, and in the face of the powerful foreign Cixi, he made great efforts in his own eating and wearing. When the country was worried about internal and external troubles, she did not find a way to solve them, but celebrated her 66th birthday very solemnly. It is precisely because of her mistake that the country has repeatedly declined, not only that, she also has great luxury in her personal life, such as eating watermelon in the summer, she has to eat 300 watermelons alone, these watermelons are not only ice-cold, and she only eats the sweetest part of the watermelon, which is equivalent to saying that a watermelon is wasted after only one bite.
Although we have also had this idea in real life, that is, only eat the place in the middle of the watermelon, but if you eat like Cixi, you can't think of any other word to describe except waste. Not only eating watermelon, it is said that Cixi likes the aroma of fruit very much, so in her bedroom there are a lot of fruits, these fruits are not used to eat, but just to add a little aroma to the house, when these fruits have no smell, they will all be thrown away.
Cixi is also very picky about eating, each meal must have 120 dishes, which makes the cooks in the imperial dining room very embarrassed, and each dish only eats one bite, and even some dishes are just put up and looked at twice, and have not eaten at all. And in order to meet her desire to eat desserts, she also specially formed a "western dining room", this western dining room can make more than 3,000 kinds of pastries, these pastries can not be placed on the table at all, so only some small eunuchs can hold, want to eat which one.
Cixi implemented a luxurious lifestyle throughout her life, the Eight-Nation Alliance army attacked Beijing, when she fled to Xi'an, she still ate a variety of dishes at every meal, enjoying the taste of the mountains and treasures and seas that came from tribute from all over the world, and she was such a luxurious, realized way of life, who wanted to learn and did not dare to learn.