With the popularity of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" on the screen, a trend of studying the politics, economy and culture of the Qing Dynasty has become popular.
There will always be such a plot in many Qing court dramas, and the protagonist often stands out from the draft at the time of the draft, thus entering the emperor's field of vision.
The depiction of the draft in the Qing court drama has made more and more people understand the scene of the draft, and it is also a question in the minds of many people.
There are so many women who enter the palace every time they are drafted, even if they are used as maids, they can't be used up, so is this the case that the harem of the Qing Dynasty is placed under it?What happens if these women are not resettled?Today, let's talk about this topic.
According to historical records, the "show girl" has appeared since the Han Dynasty, but it was the Qing Dynasty that pushed this system to its peak throughout the feudal dynasty.
Before the Jurchen clan was founded, the draft system did not exist among the Manchus, and it did not begin to appear until the establishment of the Qing Dynasty.
In order to win over the Mongols as his allies, the Manchu emperor deliberately chose the other half as a Mongol woman. The chain of interests of the Mongols and the Manchus was connected to each other through marriage, so as to achieve the established interests.
I have to say that it is a very good strategy to marry and find allies when fighting for hegemony in the world, and later with the help of the Mongols, the Manchus successfully completed the vision of entering the Central Plains and successfully included the world in their own pockets.
As the saying goes, "if you are not of my race, your heart will be different", after all, the Mongols are only allies, and in addition to eternal interests, how can there ever be eternal allies in this world.
The world is decided, the use value of the Mongols for the Manchus has been almost squeezed, and the urgency of the demand is no longer high.
In line with the principle that fertilizer and water do not flow into the fields of outsiders, Emperor Shunzhi set his sights on the Manchu nobles, but the women of the Manchu nobles were uneven, with high-quality and low-quality women, and how to choose became a difficult problem.
In order to assess these women, Shunzhi thought about breaking his head, and finally came up with a way to optimize the draft system on the basis of the previous dynasty and select the best to admit qualified Manchu aristocratic women.
Facts have proved that Shunzhi's consideration is very far-sighted, and after the draft rules are set, Aixin Jueluo's dominance over the Manchu aristocracy has been greatly improved, and the quality of women in the harem has also improved significantly.
As time passed, the draft system gradually became streamlined and statified, one of which was that all Manchu women had to participate in a draft when they reached the age of 14 to 16.
Before participating in the draft, women are not allowed to complete the marriage in private, and if they do not, they will face severe penalties.
Every three years, on the day of the draft, the household department will register the women of the Eight Banners of appropriate age and submit them to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which will arrange the recruitment and carefully escort them to the capital for protection, so as to wait for the emperor's selection.
While waiting, Xiu Girl could not relax, and they needed to learn royal etiquette so as not to be rude in front of the emperor. In fact, these royal ceremonies, or the entire draft system, are a kind of torture and harm for them.
The girl who used to be free and easy, in order to meet the royal standards, was forced to learn red tape and lost the right to freedom. There are many women who are eliminated at the first level, and even if some of them can persevere, they will have to face more severe screening.
The mothers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will conduct a detailed examination of the yellow flower girl, but if she is not good-looking or has scars on her body, it means that the woman will be ruthlessly eliminated.
After persevering through the second level, the remaining show girls can be regarded as entering the finals, and the emperor will personally come to the selection field to select these show girls one by one.
Getting the sachet given by the emperor at this level means that the women have been successfully photographed by the emperor and are about to start their harem careers.
The women who were successfully selected were naturally placed in the harem, waiting for the emperor to one day favor them.
The selected women will be placed in the harem, becoming the masters of each palace and the emperor's woman, and many unselected show girls will be placed in **?
In fact, the placement of show girls is not as simple as deduced in film and television dramas, show girls are not selected to enrich the harem, and they cannot be free, they need to obey the arrangements of the emperor's family, generally speaking, there are three placement methods for unsuccessful show girls.
The first is to become the ** of the respected grandmothers in the palace, and follow them to continue to learn various etiquette for the royal family in the future.
During the draft every year, in addition to the emperor staring at the show girl, the grandmothers in charge of etiquette are also paying attention.
The mothers are generally relatively old, and they have a certain status in the harem, and the average life expectancy in ancient times is not very long.
The triennial draft is their best chance to dig into the wall, from the time they teach the etiquette of show girls, they start to observe who has outstanding etiquette, and after losing the election, they will apply to the emperor to keep them by their side.
After the show girl becomes the ** of the grandmothers, under their training, they will become the next generation of etiquette teachers in the palace, some will leave the palace when they are old (generally around 24 years old), and some will die in the Forbidden City.
In addition to the path of etiquette coaching, another method of placement is to become concubines of princes, nobles and ministers.
We all know that the emperor, as the master of the world, will naturally only ask for the best and best women, although those show girls who have not been favored do not meet the requirements, but how can they persist will be crooked melons and cracked dates, embroidered pillows.
There are many women from good families with gentle temperament and dignified appearance, and since the emperor doesn't want it, the princes, nobles and ministers can pursue it.
Therefore, after the end of the draft every year, the princes, nobles and ministers will usher in a wave of "concubines" peak, and whoever they like can write to the emperor to ask for marriage.
In order to win the hearts of the princes and ministers, and in order not to waste it, the emperor would generally agree to their letters.
After the selection of the grandmother and the princes and ministers, seventy or eighty percent of the people have been properly settled, and if the show girls who have not yet been favored will come to the Internal Affairs Office, and the Internal Affairs Office will be uniformly assigned to the major palaces as palace maids.
In the end, those who are not even qualified to be palace maids will have their names crossed off the draft roster, and then the Ministry of Internal Affairs will arrange for someone to escort them home.
It may be fortunate for these women, although they did not get the glory and wealth, but they got the freedom that their son dreamed of.
At the same time, being removed from the roster of the draft means that they can not participate in the draft in the future, and they can freely marry and choose their favorite Ruyi Langjun.
In general, in ancient times, the status of women was very low, and the so-called draft was to treat women as commodities and let them be selected by emperors and princes.
At that time, women who were not chosen may be qualified to pursue an ordinary and free life, and their situation is much better than that of unfavored concubines and concubines.