The last eunuch recalled that the palace was extremely wise, the beauty was not there, and the prince was short of food
There are many plausible places about the Qing Dynasty court in film and television dramas, but there is one thing that cannot be wrong, that is, the eunuchs and concubines really call the concubines"Little Mister", but this title, they only dare to call behind their backs, if they dare to call it in front of their wives and concubines, nobles, usually"Little Mister"It's just two words, that's self-righteous face. "Sir"That's self-pity.
Influenced by film and television dramas, many people mistakenly think that the palace is magnificent, the prince and princess are well-dressed, the harem is beautiful with three thousand, and the song and dance are peaceful, but look at the memoirs of Xin Xiuming, the last eunuch of the Qing Dynasty, the entire Qing Palace, only two and a half people are the most picturesque. There are 3,000 beauties in the harem, and they sing and dance, but if we look at how Xin Xiuming, the last eunuch of the Qing Dynasty, wrote his memoirs, we will find that in the entire imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty, only two and a half people have the most beautiful days, that is, the widowed empress dowager (sometimes the Empress Dowager Cixi), the emperor and the empress - the empress is one and a half, because sometimes they are deposed.
It is impossible to have three thousand beauties in the harem, because the little masters in the palace are too shrewd, and the emperor is even rarer, like Tang monk meat, they can bite as much as they want, they don't want to eat a few more beauties"Kitsune"。
The concubines always promised when the emperor's son was born that the emperor's concubines could not support themselves, and the queen and the imperial concubine might have to"Teach in person", the two elderly ladies do not take care of the young children, and the young children are handed over"Sister"with"Ji Di. "care, so it is difficult for the mother and son to meet. This situation caused two strange situations in the Qing Dynasty palace: there were no beautiful women in the palace, and the emperor often starved to death.
According to Xiuming's letter, the female officials used in the Qing Dynasty palace were called"Master", also called prostitutes, under the women's room, three flags (inlaid yellow, inlaid yellow, inlaid white three flags) show women's room, are poor family show girls. Show girls are selected in spring and autumn every year. The show girl in the courtyard must belong to a poor family, and must be afraid of the rich, and the rich will be replaced. All the palace maids not only have no beauty, but also have no good life, just like the emperor's favorite concubine in the TV series, after the chicken feathers become phoenixes, it is possible in the Ming Dynasty, and it is also possible in the Qing Dynasty, so there is no expectation, so there are no three thousand beauties in the harem of the Qing Dynasty, only countless insults.
Xin Xiuming wrote in his memoirs:"From my own experience, I can say a few words: the Empress Dowager Cixi used the woman under the corridor to gain power, and the only requirement was to be powerful, regardless of appearance. Other women have never been willing to choose beautiful food with Xi Shi, Zhao Feiyan is so beautiful, letting her serve the master for a long time is equivalent to looking for an enemy, and there is really no such a stupid little girl. "(This article is in bold for the original memoirs of Xiuming, **please indicate the source).
The concubines of the Qing Dynasty were not beautiful, but their status was higher than that of the eunuchs. "The Qing Dynasty's "Rules for the Current System in the Imperial Palace" clearly stipulates:'The eunuch's palace or attendant should let the woman pass again, and should not be hindered.
The Code also provides:"All palace maids, eunuchs and other relatives who are not under the orders of the Lord shall not speak or laugh without permission; Six people, including palace maids and eunuchs, who want to enter the palace for their uncles and brothers, will be severely punished, expelled from the palace, and the whole family will be assigned to Xinjiang. "
It's a tragedy:"Vegetative households"In the Ming court was treated"Vegetative households", but in the Qing Dynasty court, he was regarded as a criminal, not only killed and maimed, but also his family suffered.
Readers should remember that the fourth of He Shen's 20 major crimes is"The girl who went out of the palace married his family, ruthless and shameless", This is actually a crime of desire, the Qing Dynasty believed that as long as you leave the palace, you can get married:"A daughter is ten years apart, and the master rewards silver and goes out of the palace to choose a good match. If a woman is twenty-five years old, she shall be ordered to leave the palace until the expiration of the term of the decree of the lord of power. "
The Qing Dynasty had regulations that the female dependents of the three banners must participate in the selection of concubines at the age of fourteen, usually the Empress Dowager Cixi chooses the first episode, the queen chooses the second episode, and then the imperial sister-in-law, concubine, concubine, concubine, and concubine, generally according to the level of the promise, if these"Sir"、"Master"There are enough concubines around him, so he doesn't choose anymore, so only one hundred and ten people are selected every year, and most of them live in the palace for three days after entering the palace. They would bring home a new set of clothes.
Nuns are ordained at the age of fourteen and become ordained after ten years, and those who do well can do it for another year, but they cannot be retained until the age of twenty-five, nor can they be promoted"Small**"Or become"Mama"。"The hostesses of the Qing Dynasty were chosen from among the widows and were therefore more introverted. For example, Mama Yung is"The old palace maid"On behalf of the representative, she likes to put hairpins in her hair. For example, Mama Yung, who likes to put hairpins in her hair, is"The old palace maid"representatives.
Mama"Kangxi Emperor Xuanye gave birth to thirty-five sons, only twenty-four rows of teeth, among the twenty-four consecutive sons, the sixth son of the emperor Yinyu (1680-1685) died in infancy, the eleventh son of the emperor Yinxu (1685-1696) died at the age of eleven, the eighteenth son of the emperor Yinxu (1701-1709) died at the age of eight, and the nineteenth son of the emperor Yinxu (1702-1704) died at the age of three.
In these"Died young"Among the emperors, Chengren's filial son was the eldest son born to Queen Hua, and he became a tiger. Even the queen's own son doesn't live long, let alone the concubine's child. In the Qianlong Dynasty, the mortality rate of the emperor's son was much higher than that of ordinary people, so when Emperor Qianlong chose the best person, he had to remove him from the pile of great men and chose the very mediocre Nanyan.
An important reason for the early death of the Qing emperor was famine.
It is impossible to have an emperor who is poor and white, and during the great famine at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there were at least more than 300 professional chefs in the palace, not including the palace maid chefs who went to beat the little eunuchs and wash vegetables and peel garlic.
These more than 300 cooks, no matter how delicious the dishes are, the emperor must always be good at persuasion, and if it is not good, it will not be good. If the emperor said that any dish was not delicious, the palace maids and cooks would never be punished for two reasons: first"Imperial meals"It can't be salty and tasteless, in case the emperor eats too much and gets sick; The second is that the emperor said which dish is delicious, but he is also afraid of poisoning.
Since the food was not tasty, the imperial chef was happy to use his free time - and there was nothing wrong with some of the scenes in Qing court dramas: the concubines wanted to improve their food, often by the elderly""and cook with yourself, with the palace maid's private spoon,"Little master"Sometimes he personally cooks and cooks some good dishes for the queen mother, emperor, and empress, which even became a practice on the table in the late Qing Dynasty. ""Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"，"Little master"。Little master"Handmade.
Adults with status in the court were able to fend for themselves, but the emperor's sons were unlucky. Xin Xiuming witnessed the process of Emperor Guangxu being devastated by famine:"When Emperor Guangxu was about ten years old, every time a eunuch entered the palace, he would first turn over the food, pick it up and run. By the time the eunuchs caught up with him and knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, the little steamed bun emperor was already holding half of his stomach in his hand. "
Xin Xiuming said with emotion"The little emperor was hungry like that, and because of the restrictions of the ancestors' laws, people couldn't do it at all. Think of the peasant's child, a ten-year-old child who has not yet left the arms of his parents, who eats well during the day, runs all over the streets, runs when he is hungry, eats again, eats and runs, and develops, even if he is sick, it is not easy to get medicine. That's why children in rural areas are healthier and live longer, while children in rich countries get sicker and live shorter. "
Xin Xiuming said that these words do not know the suffering of the people, but there are"Don't eat meat"The meaning also reflects a truth, that is, the richer a person is, the more afraid of death, often minor illnesses are not cured, and many emperors are treated to death by eunuchs.
The pleasure of the emperor is not as good as the arbitrariness of the great merchants; The queen's stay is not as good as the boundless official"。The emperor and the empress are still like this, let alone the emperor's sons?
According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, after the birth of the emperor's son, he must be handed over"Milk ugly", you can't sleep with your arms at night - which slave dares to sleep with your little master in your arms? If someone is accidentally crushed to death, the whole family will suffer. Even if the slave was not afraid of death, it was allowed in etiquette.
When I was a child, I wrapped meatballs just to sleep, which made my child's physique relatively weak, and it is often said that this is'Diet shelter', it seems to have been prescribed by the imperial doctor'Prescriptions', but it is also made by the imperial chef, he does not invite credit, but he does not ask for full blame.
The imperial doctor did not dare to explain in detail"Prescriptions", sticking to the idea of the imperial doctor"Multilingual"It may be that the female Taoist priest and the master were injured in pain, and it was the royal sons who were even more painful:"The words of the imperial doctor reached the ears of the nursing mother, and this is a golden rule that cannot be turned into a golden rule"。
As soon as the little master fell ill, the minions were so frightened that they lost half their lives:"The little master is to be loved and taken care of, but he has a lot of evil spirits in him. He looked at the little master as if he were facing a great enemy, and touched him with tears. Although the eunuch's ugly wife had compassion, she did not dare to arbitrarily prevent the little master from taking change or stealing things to eat, because it was his own fault that the little master was sick and had no food. "
When the emperor entered the palace at the age of four, she was still peeling steamed buns for the eunuchs to eat, until she was ten years old, hungry for six years, and if the emperor chose by himself, she refused to be the emperor's"workers"）。
Emperor"is still alive, not to mention the emperor's son, the children of the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty are struggling in the semi-contemporary era, and there are very few who live to adulthood, so although the emperor of the Qing Dynasty has countless harems, he has no children and no hope under his knees, and in the end he can only choose ** people from the royal family, the most important reason for this is"Hungry! "The main reason is one"Hungry! "Word: Those who are weak are starved to death, and those who are strong depend on survival, so those who starve to death are passed down from generation to generation, and the beans of mice are all under the son, and one generation is not as good as the next.
The rules in the palace of the Qing Dynasty are very strange, the queen mother and the palace'Little master', the intelligence is not in place, which indirectly leads to the palace is not beautiful, they often starve, and the Qing Dynasty is exhausted, and finally he said,'He broke the qi of my Qing Dynasty, although it is far away, but it must be made up', but at the same time, I don't know if it's a tragedy or a comedy.