The Qing Dynasty was the last feudal dynasty in Chinese history. Due to the closure of the Qing Dynasty, when the whole world was undergoing earth-shaking changes, they were still lying in the dream of a "heavenly power". The industrial revolution in Western countries brought some advanced Western technologies into the Qing Dynasty, such as Western wine and cameras. The introduction of the camera left many old photos for the Qing Dynasty harem. The queens and concubines in the recent Qing palace dramas are all graceful. Their beauty has amazed the audience and friends and made people shine. But what exactly did the concubines of the Qing Dynasty look like, because at that time it was the painter who left their shadows. After all, they were the imperial concubines. If the painter painted too ugly, you can imagine the consequences of the painter.
However, in the late Qing Dynasty, due to the advent of Western cameras that was loved by the Empress Dowager Cixi, who was in power at the time, she pulled the people around her to take pictures when she was fine, and left many photos. However, from these photos The concubines in the Bin are all very ugly, don't the women of the Qing Dynasty look very ugly? Of course not, because you didn't see beautiful ones. The concubines in the old photos are very ugly, and they are dressed in old fashioned clothes, holding their heads, and look listless. According to reason, the concubines in the palace should be beautiful women. Why are they so ugly?
Here we will start from the criteria for selecting queens in the Qing Dynasty. Generally, the drafts for palaces should be beautiful, talented, and family-born. However, the draft of the Qing Dynasty was different from all dynasties. The emperor first considered family origin when drafting. The queen mother of Xiaozhuang Huangwen of the Qing Dynasty Huangtaiji was a Mongolian Horqin. The marriage of the Qing Dynasty royal family was a strong alliance, which was conducive to consolidation. Their rule, so when the empress dowagers of the past dynasties choose the concubines for their sons, they will always be elected from the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and their first consideration is family background, as long as the roots are ugly or not.
The empress dowager Longyu of Emperor Guangxu was chosen because she was the niece of Empress Dowager Cixi, and Emperor Guangxu did not look at her because she was too ugly. However, Empress Dowager Cixi likes it. It is her niece who is uglier than her. Because the queens and concubines of the Qing Dynasty are all selected from the Eight Banners, how many beautiful women can the Eight Banners have? Besides, as the empress dowager, the criterion for choosing the concubine for her son is that the first one must be the most powerful person among the Eight Banners.The second is character, the ignorance of a woman is virtue, and the third is not to be too high, because they think that the beauty of beauty will fascinate the emperor, and the ministers disagree.
So the Qing Dynasty harem concubines were selected for the national selection in name, but in fact they were only selected from the Eight Banners. The slightly more beautiful ones were eliminated directly. In order to consolidate the regime, they were often married by relatives. I guess that one generation is not as good as the previous generation. Because of their special identities, they don't have to do anything. They are always holding their heads all day long, looking listless. The last emperor Bo Yi and empress Wan Rong, the imperial concubine Wenxiu once circulated many photos, Wan Rong is not bad, and Wenxiu's appearance makes people's stomach upset. In fact, Wanrong and Wenxiu are not that ugly. In the photos they left behind during the Republic of China, you can see that the changes in their hairstyles and clothing have changed the whole person. The photos of the harem concubines are very ugly, because you didn't see the beautiful ones.
At that time, only women in the palace were able to take pictures. Ordinary people didn’t even know that there was such a thing, even if there were big beauties among the people, they would not be able to see them. The Republic of China is not far from the Qing Dynasty. Why are there so many beautiful women in the Republic of China? Not only the camera technology has been improved, but women’s minds have also been liberated. Unlike the concubines in the imperial palaces of the Qing Dynasty, their eyes are hollow and their expressions are indifferent, like a corpse of a walking dead. What?
In the Qing Dynasty, civilian women did not have the opportunity to take pictures, so even if there are beautiful women, we can't see them. This leads to misunderstandings that women in the Qing Dynasty are ugly. The selection criteria for concubines in the imperial family are limited to the few eight-flag brothers. The women between them can be said to be a drop in the ocean. They are picked back and forth. It is not ugly. When the concubine’s old-fashioned flag dress also affects them The beauty of the Qing Dynasty concubines is very ugly, because you have not seen beautiful ones.
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