One of the four beauties we often say is a fake, and this person is Diao Chan.
Diao Chan is a character in the Romance, and there is no record in the historical materials, so her reproductive rights are in the hands of the ** family, and we don't need to trace it.
The remaining three people, Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Yang Yuhuan, and Wang Zhaojun, have sons and daughters, but what makes her suffer should be the cultural differences that cannot be crossed.
She was sent to make peace with the queen and had a son with the Xiongnu Huhan Yeshan Yu, named Yitu Zhiyashi. But within a few years of marriage, Hu Han Xie Shan Yu died.
According to the customs of the Hu people, for the harem concubines, it is also the custom of succession between father and son, which is also the system of stepmarriage of ethnic minorities.
For example, in the post-Jin era, Nurhachi, he once entrusted his eldest concubine Abahai to his son Daishan.
Therefore, according to custom, Wang Zhaojun should marry the son of Huhan Xie Shan Yu, that is, the new successor Fu Zhu Ti Shan Yu. But she was unwilling, so she asked to return to the Han Dynasty, but was rejected by Emperor Cheng of Han, and then had to follow the customs.
In the eleven years of getting along with Fuzhu, she gave birth to two more daughters. has a son and a daughter, and can be regarded as a winner in life, but later Fuzhu Ti Shan Yu and her eldest son died, what happened to Wang Zhaojun? The year of his death is unknown.
Xi Shi and Diao Chan have similar life experiences, they are both victims of political struggles, even Yang Yuhuan is no exception, which is the sadness of ancient women.
Xi Shi is a figure in the late Spring and Autumn Period, while Yang Yuhuan is a figure in the middle of the Tang Dynasty, and neither of these women has childrenIt stands to reason that birth control measures were not developed in ancient times, excluding physical diseases, and having children was a very frequent thing, so why did they have no children?
There may be only one reason, and that is that they all use contraception in private, so how did women in ancient times have birth control? It's all bitter to say.
Contraception was not an unfamiliar topic to ancient countries, and the methods were also strange.
For example, the ancient Egyptians used gum arabic to mix other materials to make medicines and put them into women's bodies, because gum arabic contains lactic acid, which can achieve contraceptive effect; Ancient Greece used string-leaved pine herbs; The ancient Indians used crocodile feces to make pills, because the feces of animals such as crocodiles and elephants are highly acidic and can play a role in killing sperm, but the smell must also be unpleasant; In ancient Sumatra, opium was used; The European court also used animal casings, and so on.
For the ancient Chinese, the rule of contraception was inseparable from traditional Chinese medicine.
In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there is a plant called "Cistanche", which people can't give birth to if they eat it.
During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Jingchu women would wear a medicine pouch containing plants such as mugwort, agarwood, peppermint, and ginger, and it was said that smelling this smell could play a contraceptive role.
Xi Shi is a native of Yue and belongs to the south geographically, and this contraceptive method is more suitable for the era in which she lived.
In the Tang Dynasty, in Sun Simiao's "A Thousand Golden Prescriptions", a contraceptive method was also recorded, that is, "silkworms are one foot square of paper, burned to the end, and served with wine, and will not give birth for life." ”
What is "silkworm paper", also known as silkworm paper, is the egg shell after the moth egg hatches, which itself is a kind of traditional Chinese medicine. However, this method is recorded in the "Compendium of Materia Medica" on the contrary, but has the effect of aiding childbirth.
So which contraceptive method was most likely used by Yang Guifei in the Tang Dynasty?
Sun Simiao also has a method called "Returning to Essence", which is an acupuncture point massage technique. In the court dramas of the Qing Dynasty, we often see such a scene: after the concubine and the emperor, the eunuch will ask "whether to stay", if not, it is to use massage techniques to prevent pregnancy.
Zhao Feiyan, the queen of Emperor Liu Biao of the Han Dynasty, was also infertile all her life, and it is said that she used a traditional Chinese medicine patch called "belly patch", which can be pasted on the navel.
The main ingredient of this patch is musk, and later studies have found that musk does have the effect of anti-early pregnancy, but there is also a great long-term use that will cause irreversible damage to the body, because musk has a certain toxicity.
In the Qing court drama "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Concubine Duan could not have children for the rest of her life, which was done by Concubine Hua, and she poured a pot of saffron into Concubine Duan.
Saffron is also a commonly used drug for contraception in ancient times, and it is relatively safe, non-toxic, and has the effect of invigorating blood and removing blood stasis.
Also in the Qing court drama "The Legend of Ruyi", Ruyi has been infertile for decades, all due to a traditional Chinese medicine called Linglingxiang.
Lingling incense, also known as "smoked grass", is not toxic, can cure typhoid, toothache, abdominal pain, etc., but whether it has the effect of contraception, but there is no historical record.
From the above documents, it can be seen that the method of contraception in the palace is at least relatively safe, unlike the people, which is a kind of destruction for women, and it will kill people if they are not good.
In ancient times, the most common place to use contraception was Qinglou, where they would often take a so-called "cold medicine", which contained musk.
An even more terrifying method is to take mercury, which is put in a moderate amount of mercury in tea or food, which can also achieve contraceptive effect, but too much can be fatal.
For example, Lu Junyi in "Water Margin" died of mercury poisoning in the Shen River, but modern medicine has proved that mercury does have a certain contraceptive effect.
In film and television dramas, we have also heard of a contraceptive method called "Shunzi Soup", its principle is to use cold medicine to boil, drinking it will cause women to have cold uterus, and if you drink too much, you may be infertile.
Therefore, the so-called "Shunzi Soup" does not have a fixed formula, but uses one or several commonly used contraceptive Chinese herbs, and then formulates a new drug with other drugs, and then boils, like the saffron above.
In addition, there are many folk home remedies, such as the "persimmon contraceptive method", which roasts the persimmon stalks and washes them with boiling water. Eating seven a day for seven days in a row can ensure infertility for one year, but you can't eat persimmons again within a year. There is no scientific basis for the effectiveness of this method, and it is not credible.
In addition to the above-mentioned methods of medicine, acupuncture points, and ingredients, the ancients also used acupuncture to achieve contraception.
According to the "Qianjin Yao Fang", acupuncture and moxibustion Shimen acupoint will cause female sterilization, and acupuncture this acupoint will make the related blood veins uncoordinated, and then unable to get pregnant.
Whether this method is reliable or not, according to later studies, they used this method in nearly 300 cases of women who had contraceptive needs, but the results found that this method could not achieve contraception or sterilization, on the contrary, acupuncture Shimen acupoint could promote the probability of pregnancy in women.
To sum up, in the era of underdeveloped science, women have a lot of unspeakable secrets, how to prevent pregnancy is a difficult problem, for this reason, they use various methods, and even pay the price of their lives, which is really sad. List of high-quality authors