Empress Dowager Mingxian's greatest pleasure, aside from music and drama, was tending her plants. She loved th…
Empress Dowager Mingxian's greatest pleasure, aside from music and drama, was tending her plants. She loved them without discrimination, and the Emperor himself kept two of her favorite pots.
Though she has passed, the palace maids who once served her still care for those flowers with devotion, and the greenery remains as vivid as ever.