As we all know, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the actual ruler of China was Empress Dowager Cixi. There is a very common phenomenon in history, that is, women are basically very cruel after they come to power, such as Liu Bang's original partner Lü Yan, who not only killed countless loyal ministers who founded the country, but also made Lady Qi a human after Liu Bang's death.
There is also Wu Zetian, although the economy of the Tang Dynasty during her reign has developed and the lives of the people are relatively stable, and she is known as the "Zhenguan Relic", but she reuses cool officials and treats former dynasty widows and officials of this dynasty with extreme fierceness. Therefore, she can also be regarded as a cruel empress.
The same was true of Cixi, who had already killed many loyalists when she ascended to the throne, and after ascending to the throne, she was even more perverted, and the palace maids and eunuchs who served her were slightly dissatisfied with her, and there was a risk of losing her head. And she also relied on this cruelty to make the entire late Qing Dynasty court people panic, palace women and eunuchs, court officials and courtiers were careful every day, for fear of provoking Lafayette.
Why do women become so violent when they come to power? The reason for this is that because of the oppression of women by the feudal etiquette system at that time, women who had been under dogma for a long time were suddenly completely liberated one day, and all the suppressed grievances before she ascended to the throne would be released at the same time. In addition, women are inherently emotional, so many powerful empresses are prone to psychological distortion and tyranny.
Going back to Cixi, her cruelty is evident through such a thing. Cixi's age after taking power is not small, and once a woman is old, she is most afraid of the aging of her own face, although Cixi is the empress dowager, she is still a woman after all.
Because of her own violent temper and the destruction of her appearance by the years, Cixi was very jealous of others saying that she was old. Although no one dared to say this, but hints are not OK, the most terrifying thing is that sometimes the next person may not have that meaning at all, Cixi feels that you are satirizing her old age, then it is over, light distribution to the frontier, heavy to the staff to kill the court.
In addition, in order to fight aging, Cixi will also eat pearl powder and ginseng every day, anyway, what is the beauty of what, what health to eat. However, even if the health measures and beauty methods are done well, Cixi still has a fatal knot. It is that she has seborrheic hair loss, and we often see cixi in old photos with a high hairline, which is the reason.
Treating hair loss is a problem today, let alone in the late Qing Dynasty. Cixi also had no effective way, except for inventing a flag to cover the hairline, that is, washing her hair with Traditional Chinese medicine, but basically just comforting her heart. However, hair loss was a nightmare for those who served her. I believe that readers also understand what it is like for people who are afraid of aging to see their hair fall out, especially for Cixi, who is a female ruler.
Cixi's hair was certainly not taken care of by herself, but was given to a palace maid or a eunuch. However, in the face of Cixi's hair loss, no matter what way you comb her hair, you will definitely comb her hair, and it is okay not to let Cixi see it. If she were to see it, it would be over, and the next person who combed his hair would definitely die. For this reason, Cixi beheaded many palace girls who combed her hair.
However, Li Lianying, Cixi's most favored eunuch at that time, had a way, and he also won the position by virtue of his excellent hair combing skills. So what method did Li Lianying use? Can you comb Cixi's hair without losing a single hair? And Li Lianying also told the eunuch this secret when she was dying.
It turned out that every time Li Lianying brushed Cixi's hair, she would hide a cat skin in her left sleeve. This cat skin is not ordinary, but a cat skin that has been repeatedly rubbed in advance, and it is well known that after the fur is rubbed, it will have static electricity and will have an adsorption effect on the hair. Li Lianying combed Cixi's hair with her right hand, and the hair she had combed out was attached to her left sleeve with cat skin. In this way, every time she combed her hair, not a single hair fell on the ground, so Cixi thought that her hair loss had cured Li Lianying and promoted her to a red person next to her.
I have to say that the companion is like a companion tiger, and the words of the companion female monarch are even more terrifying than the companion lion, and these eunuchs are not originally a kind of flattery, if you want to live long, you still have to rely on great wisdom.