慈禧太后酷爱看戏。在看戏时，慈禧往往要“请”一些官员陪看，叫作“赏戏”。官员必须跪在戏台下的平地上看戏，夏天烈日当头，地上滚烫；冬天寒风刺骨，全身冻僵。于是，每逢慈禧“赏戏”，就成了太监勒索官员的良机：热天，太监给他们送垫送茶；到冷天，太监给他们送皮袄送 Empress Dowager love to watch the opera. In the theater, Empress often “please” some officials to accompany the show, known as “viewing.” Officials must kneel down to watch the play in the flat under the stage, hot summer days, hot on the ground; winter breeze, body frozen. Thus, every Empress “play” has become an eunuch of extortion officers: eunuchs, eunuchs to give them a cushion to send tea; to the cold, the eunuchs give them a leather jacket to send