How do eunuchs and maids in the Forbidden City solve personal hygiene problems?

Although eunuchs and ladies-in-waiting are servants, their servant status is unusual because they serve emperors or concubines.

They are the richest people in the world because they serve unusual owners. Therefore, they should be extra careful in everything they do.

When it comes to how eunuchs and maids solve their own hygiene, there are actually not many mysterious places.

In order not to cause harm or be rejected by their owners, they will definitely wash themselves and dress up well.

Relatively speaking, it is much easier for maids to wash their bodies. They can choose to wash and wipe their bodies. After all, there are no men in the palace except the emperor.

The general wiping is simply to clean yourself.

They also take a bath every three to five days. When taking a bath, they will choose a wooden bucket, just like in TV series, and let themselves soak in it. After washing their bodies, they will wear spices. This will keep you in a faint fragrance.

In summer, because you do manual labor and sweat a lot, you must take a bath often, at least once a day. Anyway, it is convenient to wash in summer, so you can use it directly when you draw water from the well.

As women, they naturally like cleanliness, so it is much easier for them to take care of personal hygiene in that court where there are almost no men.

However, eunuchs are different, because they lack what men should have, which is the last thing they want to expose.

They need special attention and care when cleaning themselves.

They are also more troublesome to clean, because they are castrated, and there will be residues flowing directly to the body when urinating, which will cause the body to smell.

However, they also need to wear spices, and they also have their own place to wash, just like our big bathhouse now. In summer, they bathe directly in cold water, and in winter, they bathe in warm water boiled with charcoal. Only in this way can they keep themselves free from any peculiar smell.

In fact, everything in the palace is regulated by the system, and the management of bathing by eunuchs and maids is no exception. If a maid-in-waiting or eunuch is criticized and told because of personal hygiene problems, he will be ashamed to meet people.

Therefore, ladies-in-waiting and eunuchs in the Forbidden City will have their own sanitary solutions.