The palace ladies of the Qing Dynasty were not allowed to sleep on their backs. What were the strict rules for the palace ladies of the Qing Dynasty?

1. In the Qing Dynasty, palace ladies could not sleep on their backs, because people in the palace believed in ghosts and gods, and felt that each palace had gods to protect the nobles in each palace. If the palace ladies slept on their backs, they would conflict with the gods, so they could only sleep on their sides.

2. The palace maids only eat eight-tenths of their full meals all year round, and do not eat big fish, big meat, or spicy food, for fear that these strange and disgusting smells will offend their masters.

3. There is no freedom of communication. Generally speaking, when a young girl enters the palace and does a boring job, she will be very lonely. It is inevitable that she will have to make some friends, especially eunuchs, so that she can have someone to take care of her. However, the Qing Palace strictly prohibited it. Emperor Kangxi stipulated that if eunuchs and maids made friends, they would be severely punished. Emperor Xianfeng even stipulated that if discovered, they would be beaten and expelled, and their family members would also be sent away.

4. The maids continued to fight. There is no right to commit suicide. The palace rules stipulate that anyone who commits suicide with a knife will be executed; anyone who commits suicide and is rescued will be given Yili as a slave to an armored man; anyone who commits suicide and dies will be thrown into the wilderness, and his relatives will give Yili to soldiers as slaves.