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The exhibition of concubines in Qing Dynasty, which was exhibited in Yonghe Palace on the East Road of Forbidden City, revealed some secret recipes related to concubines in Imperial Medicine Hall for the first time. The reporter interviewed relevant experts yesterday and solved the mystery about harem concubines for readers. Most of the concubines who have lived in the deep palace for a long time are weak and sick, and they have been interacting with Dan medicine decoction for many years. This exhibition will become a regular exhibition of the Forbidden City, but it is the first time in the history of the Forbidden City that an exhibition with related themes deserves people's attention-some secret recipes related to concubines, as the "imperial pharmacy" in the Qing Dynasty, also appeared in public for the first time.

Concubine health care is a highlight of Yonghe Palace Concubine Exhibition. Because the pursuit of longevity, auspiciousness and auspiciousness is also the beautiful wish of every concubine who lives in the Forbidden Palace. However, due to long-term loneliness in the palace and lack of physical exercise, most of them are weak, and some even get sick for a long time. They have interacted with pills for many years, accompanied by decoction. There are a large number of prescriptions and medicines for concubines in the imperial palace pharmacy in Qing Dynasty, which provides detailed evidence for future generations to understand the treatment and health care of concubines in Qing Dynasty. In addition, there are prescriptions for preventing miscarriage, tonifying kidney, regulating qi, promoting blood circulation and invigorating spleen in the palace prescriptions collected by the Forbidden City, but they have not been made public and have not been rationally developed and utilized. Although pampered, concubines don't have many toys to pass the time. What is the leisure life of the concubines who live in seclusion in the deep palace is also the topic that people are most concerned about. Concubine, once elected to the palace, was loved by thousands of people. Although they enjoy the splendor on the surface, in real life, they are like canaries in cages, and the thick palace walls isolate them from the bustling urban scene outside the Forbidden City.

In fact, in their spare time, concubines can only paste yellow on the mirror, adjust fat and powder, or thread needles, embroider purses, or rub walnuts by hand to calm down, or sit around a table, play cards, or smoke with a pipe bag, or draw things with painters, which is enjoyable. The exhibits on display in the Forbidden City selected some toys for concubines to kill time, and vividly showed their leisure to the audience through these cultural relics. In the "Zhu Cuihua House" exhibition, all kinds of jewels worn by concubines are displayed, which fully embodies the rich and colorful royal style. As a special group accompanying the emperor, concubines lived a parasitic life of arrogance and extravagance. Among all kinds of living expenses, only clothes and jewelry are countless. The clothes of concubines include robes, gowns, skirts, vests, crowns, cymbals, squares and hairpin.

In the back hall of Yonghe Palace, Jin Fei has been living in the back hall of Yonghe Palace since she entered the palace in October of the 14th year of Guangxu (1888). Up to now, the original life of Jin Fei has been preserved here, such as the double happiness bed when Jin Fei entered the palace in Shunzhai West Warm Pavilion, and the stickers and couplets written by Jin Fei in Shunzhai East Warm Pavilion, all of which are displayed to the world. From the empress dowager to the nobles, the daily supply of food, meat and vegetables is different. The exhibition of concubines' life in Qing Dynasty held in Yonghe Palace is divided into several parts, such as beauty selection, conferring system, daily expenses, health care, leisure life, pearls and jade clothes, and the original life of golden concubines. Selecting female tutors is an important feature of the system of empresses and concubines in Qing Dynasty. The selection of women's training in Qing Dynasty was presided over by the Ministry of Housing and held once every three years. In order to maintain the purity of the standard-bearer, only women from Manchu, Mongolian and Han Banners were selected. In order to ensure the emperor's complete possession of "women's training", all unmarried flag-bearers between the ages of 13 and 17 must be selected for reading. The selected person is registered as a female student in the household department, ready to choose a concubine for the emperor or refer to the prince to get married. Only losers can get married. When the emperor reached marriageable age, he rechecked the registered scholars and elected a queen with uncertain wives and concubines.

The concubines system in Qing Dynasty had very strict hierarchical regulations. After the Qing Dynasty, the classification of concubines must be determined by the ceremony of "book" and "seal". The emperor's wedding ceremony was grand and complicated; The ceremony of conferring concubines is relatively simple. "Book" and "seal" are the representatives of concubines' birthright, and their characters are drawn up by the Ministry of Rites and engraved (or gilded) by the Ministry of Industry. The conferring system of the Qing Dynasty stipulated that the imperial concubine and above were conferred with gold books and treasures, the princess was conferred with gold books and gold seals, and only the gold book was not printed for the concubine.

The daily expenses of concubines include dividing the palace and spreading the palace. Tribute refers to the regulations on the variety and quantity of gold and silver, cloth, grain, meat, vegetables and non-staple food. Every year, it is supplied by the Empress Dowager, nobles, distinguished guests and others according to grades, including silks and satins, minks, rice flour, charcoal wax and so on. Paving the palace refers to the regulations on the variety and quantity of different grades of metal utensils, porcelain and lacquerware used by the Empress Dowager, Empress, Concubine and Fujin palaces. In the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty, due to the different names of concubines, the number of daily expenses is also obviously different, decreasing according to grades. Empress Dowager Cixi, as the ruler of the country in the late Qing Dynasty, had supreme power and a prominent position, but domestic affairs still brought her a lot of troubles, but she was good at adjusting herself. Compared with most emperors, her daily life shows the dignity of the king everywhere, but she also has the desire of ordinary women to love beauty. Beauty has become an important part of her life, such as the beauty of her face and the beauty of her clothes. In addition to government affairs, her leisure life is also colorful, such as watching plays, teasing dogs and playing cards. There are more than 200 chefs and eunuchs in Shoushan Hotel to prepare meals for Cixi. The raw materials of Empress Dowager Cixi are mostly fresh vegetables and delicacies. Every meal is a combination of meat and vegetables. In winter, we eat hot food such as mutton and venison, and in summer, we eat wild poria cocos, mountain vegetables and mushrooms. Among the grains, there are glutinous rice, purple rice, coix seed, japonica rice, old rice and millet.

The tableware used by Empress Dowager Cixi is gold, silver, jade and exquisite porcelain dishes and bowls. Use gold and silver warm pots and silver warm pots in winter. Each dish has a silver poison test card, which is about three inches long. If the food is poisonous, the silver medal will change color. The chopsticks she uses are ivory with gold heads. It is reported that Cixi attaches great importance to the beauty of her face and spends a lot of time on it every day. She insisted on washing and applying her face with warm water in the morning and evening, massaging facial acupoints with a massager to promote blood circulation, and protecting her beauty with palace powder made in Yangzhou, rouge made in Suzhou and rose dew made in the palace. Cixi also believes in traditional Chinese medicine beauty, and often asks the court physician to "prepare" prescriptions according to the changes of skin. Her skin remained elastic until her later years. Hair care and combing is also an important part of Cixi's beauty. The imperial doctor specially prepared oral and external hair care Chinese medicines for her research, and the eunuchs and comb utensils for her hair were carefully selected. Cixi's care for teeth is also very scientific. She not only uses Chinese medicine to protect her teeth, but also uses medical tools. In her seventies, she still has plump cheeks and angular mouth, and there are no oral diseases such as tooth loss and missing. Cyperus rotundus 1 kg (fried with rice wine, salt water, toilet and aged vinegar); Angelica 8 Liang; 6 beams; 6 beams; Folium Artemisiae Argyi 3 Liang; Peony bark 3 Liang; Article 3 2; Yuanhu 2 beam; Salvia miltiorrhiza 2 Liang; Bai Wei 2 Liang; Alisma orientalis 2 Liang; Green husk 2 Liang; Amomum villosum 2 Liang; Chuanxiong 4 Liang; * * * is the last water pill.