Moreover, the previous emperor was licentious and immoral, and had a fondness for slender waists.
This trend of superiors influencing subordinates has led to a nationwide rush among women to lose weight, resulting in an exaggerated level of body image anxiety.
In the worst cases, women often starved to death in their attempts to lose weight.
During the Great Jing Dynasty, despite the court's propaganda, no exaggerated incidents like women starving to death for a slender waist occurred.
However, the current social aesthetic still favors thinness as beauty.
Ordinary peasant women are one thing; they're only thinking about how to survive.
Women from official families, like Madam Pei, paid special attention to their figure.
They also need to learn many rules.
Being dignified, proper, and knowledgeable about rules and etiquette are their basic qualities.
Just eat the bottom of the bowl when you eat.
A heaping bowl of rice is neither proper nor dignified.
Those are the poor and lowly people who have to work in the fields and do other things every day; that's how they eat.
Elegance and superiority were the hallmarks of these women from official families.
If one behaves like those lower-class poor people, one will only be laughed at and one's family will be disgraced.
So it's really no wonder that Madam Pei herself is blamed.
There are too many things to do and too many worries, but there's nothing I can do about it.
The situation was complicated at the time. As the matriarch of the Marquis's mansion, the affairs of the mansion were her responsibility.
She also worries about her family's affairs.
Her family raised her, so it's her duty to take care of them.
"Old lady, what wrong have you done?"
"You endured the pain of pregnancy, you borne the grief of losing a child, and you managed everything at home and outside..."
"Even if that child didn't survive because of your poor health, it's not your fault..."
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