The palace maids who served Queen Mother Tu Hy were always afraid of losing their heads because of a series of harsh regulations.
Empress Dowager Tu Hy is considered a powerful empress dowager and has harsh rules for palace maids that make anyone who hears it be surprised. Even Empress Dowager Tu Xi is nicknamed one of the three great women of China with her love experience and anecdotes about her life that always make others “surprise”.
Empress Dowager Xu. (Photo: Internet source).
From her beauty stories, her meals to her bathing stories, people can also write books because there are so many harsh rules. Even in the palace, Empress Dowager Tu Xi also set many very complicated and harsh rules that the servants were required to follow.
Accordingly, the palace maids who served her always lived in a state of anxiety and fear, even daring not to eat or sleep on their backs for fear of falling off their heads. Afraid of committing the taboo of accidentally passing gas, the palace maids next to Empress Dowager Tu Hy only dared to feed a few pieces of rice, or starve to preserve their lives. If anyone violates this taboo, light will lose his job, heavy can lose his head.
Even when they were on night duty, the palace maids only dared to eat a light meal for fear that they would fall asleep easily, if at midnight the Queen Mother had an order but did not hear it, she would lose her head.
Not only eating, but even sleeping, the palace maids must pay attention. Accordingly, Empress Dowager Tu Hy has a regulation that prohibits her subordinates from sleeping on their backs. Specifically, the palace maidens can only lie on their sides, but absolutely not on their backs. If anyone commits a crime, it will be classified as a great and serious crime of disobedience and may be put to death.
However, the above is not the thing that haunts him with the palace ladies when serving her. Accordingly, the thing that scares the palace maids the most is lighting a cigarette to serve Tu Hy. When she wanted to smoke, she would order the palace maids to light a fire, but the way of lighting it scared everyone.
To light the potion, the palace maids will use flint to ignite and guide the fire into a velvet ball. After that, they will burn this ball on paper, then use their hands to hold the cigarette and put it into the pipe, then use their own hands to put out the fire. In fact, there are many ways to put out the fire and it is not necessary to use hands, but to avoid being rude, the palace people had to use their hands to put out the fire .