It's the poor who don't have trouble sleeping, but the rich and powerful who have trouble sleeping.

For example, Lord Yan of Yan Song, the cabinet official in the Ming Dynasty, had trouble sleeping.

Before going to bed, there is a lot of preparation work. First, let the handmaids warm their beds with quilts, and then he will go in after warming the beds.

On the way to sleep, if the weather is very cold, there are attendants who hold out their chests to make hand warmers and foot warmers.

getting up is not as convenient as getting out of bed, but also provides special services.

(Yan Song is even more inhuman)

After this one-stop train, Lord Yan sleeps, which can't be described as trouble. What word should I use? I'm a little poor!

However, compared with Lord Yan of Yan Song, Empress Dowager Cixi is actually frugal.

As everyone knows, Empress Dowager Cixi's greatest famous saying is "Use Chinese material resources to win the favor of the country."

You are so generous to foreigners, and you are certainly not stingy to yourself.

What's the use of naval military funds to build the Summer Palace? What's the matter? We had a meal and had a banquet. When we went out, we were crowding around. Even after our death, Jinshan Yinshan entered the tomb. At last, Sun Dianying, who had a pink eye attack, kicked the tomb of Empress Dowager Cixi, and left her naked and almost insulted. Is this karma?

These are all big aspects. In fact, as far as small aspects are concerned, the details of Empress Dowager Cixi's life are impersonal.

When having a meal, most of the more than 1 dishes are seen, and the chopsticks don't move, but this ostentation and extravagance is necessary. In the end, the food is estimated to be cheaper for eunuchs and ladies-in-waiting, but they just don't know whether they will eat it by themselves, pour it out or take it out of the palace to sell it.

When traveling, thousands of people followed in several escapes, crowding around. I didn't know it was a cruise, but I thought it was an escape. Even by train, I took thousands of clothes. Others were cloakrooms. She was a cloakroom, and it was even more outrageous to take a car. Let the driver kneel down and drive, but even kill the driver. What do you think?

The four major things in life are nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation. Clothes are used as cloakroom in the trunk, and hundreds of dishes are eaten, and people are crowding around. Of course, living here is also very particular, and sleeping is also very particular.

(Empress Dowager Cixi)

Empress Dowager Cixi mainly lives in Palace of Gathered Elegance!

She has lived in Palace of Gathered Elegance for most of her life, which also has historical reasons.

This Palace of Gathered Elegance was originally named Shou Chang Palace. Empress Dowager Cixi was just 17 when she entered the palace, and she was arranged to live here. It was here that she gave birth to the Tongzhi emperor, and her mother became an imperial concubine from her son to her son, and later became an imperial concubine.

It can be said that her prosperity and love are all in Palace of Gathered Elegance, from her youth of 17 to her love with Emperor Xianfeng, all of which are related to Palace of Gathered Elegance.

Therefore, her love for Palace of Gathered Elegance can be regarded as nostalgia for the past.

The Empress Dowager likes Palace of Gathered Elegance and lives here. As the helm of the empire, Palace of Gathered Elegance is bound to become the most awesome place in the Forbidden City.

Not only is the security excellent, but there are also many guards and maids-in-waiting eunuchs. A team of ten people is dedicated to serving.

cixi's sleeping time is relatively fixed. She always goes to bed at 9: p.m. and gets up at 5: a.m. Today, the world is nine to five, which is the other way around, five to nine!

When he goes to bed, the eunuchs in Palace of Gathered Elegance will work overtime first, and then close the palace door to avoid being disturbed for no reason. Then there are eunuchs and ladies-in-waiting.

It's not easy either. Everyone has a fixed post, and he/she is not allowed to leave his/her post without leave. Even he/she has to go to the toilet at the right time.

according to the memoirs of ladies-in-waiting, the sleeping process of Empress Dowager Cixi is as follows.

After dealing with state affairs, going to Palace of Gathered Elegance is, of course, a bath.

But Empress Dowager Cixi takes a bath differently from ordinary people, who usually take a towel. Empress Dowager Cixi asked for dozens of them for a simple reason: one for washing hands, one for washing feet, one for her body, one for her buttocks, and one for her back. In short, one for each part, each one should be changed once and never reused.

In today's world, local tyrants use disposable underwear every day, while Empress Dowager Cixi wears a white scarf every day, which is inhuman!

After taking a shower, I go to bed. Sleeping is also attended by people inside and outside. Outside the door are seven personal eunuchs, who have to be security guards and slaves, and have to be handed over.

Inside the door, it is the maid-in-waiting's world. There are mainly three people who serve. One is the maid-in-waiting who is on duty in the bedroom every day, and the other two are maids outside the bedroom door.

The core team of these three people has a clear division of labor!

The two outside the bedroom are mainly responsible for personal duty. The Empress Dowager Cixi can convey anything she needs through this personal maid, and the personal maid will also inform her of anything special outside.

In addition to these basic issues, these ladies-in-waiting have to arrange clothes for the Empress Dowager Cixi in the cloakroom every day, prepare clothes and check whether there are any problems with them. I also want to help Empress Dowager Cixi recite Buddhist scriptures so that the Empress Dowager who believes in Buddhism can have a good sleep.

The other maid-in-waiting is a lot sadder. His work place is in the bedroom, and he has to wait on Empress Dowager Cixi at any time. She is standing beside the Empress Dowager when she sleeps, but she can't make a sound.

We should record Cixi's sleep at any time every day, whether she snores or dreams, and report it after dawn. As for any special matters, the historical materials are unknown.

From the above, we can know that it takes ten people to serve Cixi without sleep, including seven eunuchs and three maids.

It's really troublesome. If he is a man, it's probably more troublesome. Fortunately, she is a woman. But to be honest, compared with Yan Ge, he is actually not so inhuman, but in terms of historical position, she is more harmful.