On the seventh day of September in the forty-fourth year of Kangxi, my aunt Ma Su died at the age of 90. Kangxi held a grand funeral for her, buried her in the southeast new city outside the Feng Shui wall of the Qing Dongling, and buried her in the coffin with Empress Xiaozhuangwen, according to the funeral ceremony of her aunt. The specifications of the mausoleum are built according to the level of concubines.
As the highest and most distinguished maid in the history of China, Su Mo is legendary. She is a Mongolian and her family is very poor. Her parents live by grazing. As a poor woman, she was later called the most important woman around Emperor Kangxi, and was closely related to the royal family of the Qing court. She is honored as a relative by the royal family. When she died, the whole royal family mourned for her. This can be said to be the counterattack of the maid, and it is also a very inspirational story. But her name has never appeared in the official history of China, and her image has only been described in some short historical notes. However, when studying the history of the Qing court, it can be proved that Su Mo was a legendary and important woman in the early Qing dynasty.
It is said that Su Mo's life has two different characteristics: one is that he doesn't take a bath all the year round, but only washes his body with a small amount of water on the last day of the year, that is, New Year's Eve, and then drinks the used dirty water; The other is that she won't take medicine for life, even if she is seriously ill. She has two special living habits, which even the emperor who respected the Ninth Five-Year Plan knew. Why is this happening? People have different explanations, but none of them is convincing. But her health has been very good, and she lived to be over 90 years old, which is of course a rare longevity in the era of "seventy years old is rare".
There are various interpretations on the Internet about Su Mo drinking dirty water without taking a bath. I don't think I have the habit of taking a bath, perhaps because in the Mongolian plateau, water is extremely precious and only people can drink it. Washing dishes, bathing and washing hands are regarded as disrespectful to "heaven" and will be condemned by God. Therefore, even though Su Mo II came to the Central Plains where there was no shortage of water, he still respected the original habits and rules. Even as a "red man" around the emperor, she always abides by this habit of cherishing water. In order to show that she didn't waste water, she would drink the water she wiped. It is said that people in some arid and water-deficient areas only use water three times in their lives, the first time is birth, the second time is marriage, and the last time is burial.