Did Cixi really wipe her ass when she went to the toilet?

Not when you are young, it is true in old age (55 years old). See the living notes of the concubines of the Great Qing Dynasty.

The object that Cixi used to hold feces was called the "official room", that is, the bedpan in the mouth of ordinary people.

As soon as Cixi said that the "official room" was transmitted, several palace maids immediately took action, each with their own errands. A eunuch who went to serve the official quarters. This eunuch has been waiting for a summons at any time since Cixi came back from the Yangxin Palace, so the palace maid went out and came with her head.

The eunuch respectfully put the "official room" wrapped in Huang Yunlong's suit on his head, sent it to the door of the dormitory, and asked him to kneel down (because there is an official room on his head, he can't kowtow), and then quickly opened the Huang Yunlong suit, and invited him out of the "official room" and carried it into the dressing room by the palace maid. In this moment's work, Cixi had already untied her clothes. The second maid hurriedly went to fetch the tarpaulin and spread the ground about two feet square.

Each time, the ground was covered with a tarpaulin and the paper was placed on the gecko's mouth. When Cixi used the "official room", she often teased the big gecko with tissue paper.

It can be seen that Cixi still did it herself.