The history of eunuchs can be said to have a long history, as early as the pre-Qin period, there were records about eunuchs, but at that time they were called eunuchs, of course, eunuchs are not necessarily eunuchs, but eunuchs must be eunuchs, after all, eunuchs were completely used as eunuchs after the Eastern Han Dynasty.
Several eunuchs in the late Qing Dynasty, Zhang Haiting, Liu Xingqiao, Wang Fengchi, and Yang Zizhen.
There are many reasons for being a eunuch, such as An Lushan's personal soldier Li Zhu'er was castrated by An Lushan himself, and later became An Lushan's favorite minister, and finally An Lushan, such as Zheng He, was captured by the Ming army in the early years, and finally became a famous Sanbao eunuch in history. In addition to the above people who are "forced" to become eunuchs, there are many people who take the initiative to enter the palace as eunuchs, the main reason is that they are too poor, and they can get rich and rich if they are lucky to eat in the palace.
Talent is needed.
However, eunuchs are not what you want to be, because there are too many people who want to cut a knife in this kind of "wealth and danger", so in the Qing Dynasty, a very standard system and process were formulated for eunuchs to enter the palace and cleanse themselves, so a "qualified" eunuch also has to go through a lot of processes.
First of all, the necessary condition for entering the palace is that there are many children in the family, and only a family with more than four or five sons can have one person apply to enter the palace, after all, the incense in the family is to be inherited, and the incense will be cut off once it enters the palace.
Castrated sculpture.
Secondly, you must go through the most painful "purification", that is, to survive with a knife, after all, if you don't survive, don't talk about the future, the identity of the person who survives the purification needs to be reported to the Ministry of Rites for record, and when there is a vacancy in the palace, you can enter the palace to become a eunuch.
It's easy to say, but it's actually complicated, so how complicated is it?
If you have a lot of children in your family, four or five brothers are poor and can't open the pot, and you are "lucky" to be selected to enter the palace, then the next step is the first level of "purification".
If you are not poor, who would want to send your children to be eunuchs?
For the purification, the court has a special person to be responsible, the official is called "castration", the folk call it "knife craftsman", which is managed by the imperial court called "official knife craftsman", and the private eunuch is called "private knife craftsman", of course, these knife craftsmen are recorded by the imperial court, it is okay when it is not strict, and it is forbidden to eunuch the people when it is strict, and only the "official knife maker" is retained.
Lin Zhengying's stills from "China's Last Eunuch", cut off his son as a eunuch.
This kind of knife craftsman's craft is passed down from father to son, and the secret is not revealed, each faction also has its own unique skills, and it is absolutely not allowed to pass on to outsiders, because making the knife maker eunuch is the only way to become a eunuch, and the knife craftsman's craftsmanship is not bad, and the success rate is still very high in the case of substandard environmental sanitation in ancient times, so an excellent knife maker has a very high status at that time.
Well, since you have decided to enter the palace as a eunuch, you must first cleanse yourself, so you have to find a knife maker to clean your body first, of course, you have to give money and gifts before seeing the knife maker, and even have an apprentice, of course, not really learn his craft, just make a good fate, in case one day you can take care of the master, after all, one day for the master and lifelong father, as for the apprentice, of course, it is also a gift, generally a pig's head, a chicken or a bottle of liquor.
I really don't have any money, learn from Wei Zhongxian, and cut it myself.
However, generally those who want to enter the palace are too poor to open the pot, and there is really no apprenticeship, if the knife maker thinks that you are a "great talent", you can be promoted in the future, or you can not give gifts, but will say to you, "When you are favored and developed in the future, don't forget to honor the master" and other words.
After the apprenticeship or anything is done, the knife maker will give you a paperwork, similar to signing a "surgical instructions" before surgery now, telling you what may happen, and have a preparation in your heart, one of which is life and death, which means that in case of failure to purify, it has nothing to do with the knife maker, although it is a bit of an overlord clause, but there is no way, you must be purified to enter the palace, and you must be a knife maker, there is a "core technology" in the world, and you have no way to take him.
The old eunuchs Ma Deqing and Sun Yaoting lived to the founding of the People's Republic of China.
After signing the paperwork, you have to prepare something, first of all, there must be a ward, this ward is to let you rest in bed for a month after cutting, of course, this ward needs to be alone, it is best to be soundproof, after all, there are no painkillers, it is completely up to yourself to endure the pain, I really can't help but shout, but no one can stand it for a month, so the ward has to be independent.
This ward also has to keep warm, because the body is generally selected in late spring and early summer, when the temperature is right, but early summer is not too warm for people who are clean, and they need to keep warm.
In addition to keeping warm and windproof, you also have to make a special clay kang to let you release feces and urine, after all, the wound location is too special, you can't take care of yourself, so this kind of clay kang is made of bricks and stones, put a door panel on the pit surface, and leave a trap on the door panel, which is convenient for you to lie down and urinate, which is very convenient, of course, in order to prevent you from itching casually because of the wound healing, you have to tie your hands, feet and thighs firmly to the door panel to prevent breaking and ulcering infection.
The intimate knife maker will also prepare a few flat stalks for you to use, because defecation or pee accidentally left on the wound, but can not be cleaned with water and wiped with a cloth, so what to do? It is this kind of ash that is sprinkled on it and then blown off, which can not only clean up the dirt but also not hurt **, which is simply not too easy to use.
Sesame stalk ash. Now that you are ready, then let's find a knife maker, a few days before the cleansing, I will look for a knife maker with thirty catties of millet on my back, of course, the rice is not for him, but the rations you will lie in the ward for the next few months.
After meeting the knife maker, the knife maker will prepare a new barley stalk for you, and the intimate knife maker will cut one end round, and it will not hurt if it is pierced on the **, and then insert it into the wound urine, similar to the current urine catheter, which is to prevent urine from sticking to the wound and causing infection, of course, there are two fresh pig bitter gall bladders and two hard-boiled eggs, guess what it is for?
Barley stalks. In addition, the knife maker will also prepare a mandala for you, which will have an anesthetic effect at that time, and at the same time, the mandala will be boiled into a medicinal soup with mugwort, dandelion, gold and silver vine and other medicinal materials, and wait for you to take it internally and externally after being cleaned.
Mandala fruit.
On a good day, you are ready to cleanse your body, you are not allowed to eat or drink the day before the cleansing, you are taken to the "operating room" by the knife maker, first drink a few bowls of mandala soup and then say, after a while you will feel confused and numb all over your body, and after the skin and flesh are completely numb, it will be time for the knife maker to play.
Drink a few bowls of decoction and medicine.
First of all, the cutlers take an old strip of cloth and blindfold you, after all, the scene is too bloody for fear that you will faint, and first sprinkle the ashes of the sesame stalk under you, and cut the bitter gall of the pig in half, and beside it are the peeled eggs and the squirted barley stalks.
Then, the knife maker first makes two horizontal incisions on your two balls, with the aim of cutting the ligament between the balls and the balloon. In fact, castrated people can still tolerate this step. After cutting the balloon, the knife maker will put a peeled egg in your mouth all the way up to your throat, so that you can't scream, and then the knife maker will quickly squeeze out the two eggs while your attention is attracted to the egg.
Put the eggs in your mouth.
When you haven't felt the pain, the knife maker will cut the pig bitter gall in half on the wound of the balloon, used to stop the bleeding can also reduce the swelling, although the pig bitter gall is sticky, but the cold is just to relieve the pain, and then the knife maker will take out the egg in your mouth to let you take a breath.
You think that's the end of it?
After the balls are squeezed out, your dings are still there, and the knifeman will use special tools to cut off your tintins, not too shallow, if the stubble is left outside, it is unqualified, and you will have to cut it when it is inspected in the future.
The castration prop looks like it makes people tighten.
But you can't cut it too deep, it's too deep and easy to form a pit, and when you squat and pee in the future, it will fan-shaped spray out everywhere, and it will flow down the root of the thigh, which is very disgusting, and the impact is a lifetime. Therefore, the knife maker's cutting technique must be very good.
Until it is completely cut, the knife maker will insert the barley stalk that you have cut for you before on the urethral opening to make you pee, and then put another pig bitter gall on the wound to relieve pain and reduce swelling.
All kinds of treasures hanging on.
As for your cut off Dingding, it will be kept in a bamboo tube filled with lime by the knife maker, wrapped in red cloth, and hung on the beam of the house with your purification paperwork, and when you are developed one day to redeem it with heavy money, after all, it is rumored that after the eunuch hangs, if his "treasure" is not on his body, not only will he have no face to see the ancestors and ancestors underground, but also the Lord of Yama will not accept yin and yang people, so he will redeem his treasure.
Baby's room. Cut and cut, the rest is to lie down and rest, but it is not allowed to lie down immediately, you need to pace indoors for a few hours before bed rest is allowed, during which it is strictly forbidden to drink water, until three days later pull out the barley stalk to pee out of the urine, your purification is half completed, as for the other half, it is naturally the rest and maintenance after the cleansing.
Sun Yaoting, who was born in 1902 and died in 1996.
If you want the incision to grow well, you must change the dressing every day, it is said that you can't let the wound scab directly, you must let it out of pus, grow flesh, so every time you change the dressing, you have to wipe back and forth, this kind of rubbing method is equivalent to stimulating your wound again, this pain can not be resisted by ordinary people, it will make you howl, which is why you have prepared a room alone.
After a few tosses, you have been tortured to the point that your bones are withered, and after three months of life that is worse than death, after no heavy bleeding or tetanus, you can finally go out, you can see the sun, and your cleansing is finally successful.
It just so happens that there is a lack of conditions in the palace, and you are "lucky" to be elected to the palace, first after entering the palace, you will be registered in the accounting department, that is, you will register and file in the army, and then the accounting department will buy clothes, and then wait to be selected and left.
Eunuch Files. First of all, the smart and smart, handsome and young and powerful will be selected by the queen mother's palace, and the rest have been taken away by the emperor, the queen and the concubines.
Eunuchs also have to have rules.
The master's temper is good, once the master's temper is not good, he will be slapped at the lightest, and he will be punished by the board and confinement, and when he is beaten, he can't dodge, let alone shout pain, he must keep saying "good, good", after all, this is the rule of eunuchs.
Only by enduring hardship can you become a master.
Every day in the palace tired and tired, you must take a bath, there is no place for eunuchs to bathe in the palace, only a special bathhouse for eunuchs at the north end of Beichang Street to wash, of course, the pedicures and baths are eunuchs, but you also have to be careful, in case you are good-looking and **white, you will be targeted by some old eunuchs with special hobbies, when the time comes.
Slowly you have gained a firm foothold in the palace, and you have gradually been favored and slowly developed, you can find the right "palace maid" as the "right food", you can also find a house outside the palace to marry a concubine or something, and your home is also better because of your career, but look at your eyes in awe of excess family affection, and you are also used to groveling to the top, to the subordinate command, you are also used to this kind of life, and when you are old, redeem your baby, and then return to your hometown, live a peaceful and stable retirement life, It's just that the scene of being cut becomes a lingering shadow for a lifetime, and it appears in a dream for a long time until the end of this life.
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