Why can’t the concubines continue to serve after being over 50 years old? The reason behind it is not simple. It is not just the age and the color is declining. During the feudal imperial period, women were vassals of men. Their lives that could not be controlled were always telling the injustice of fate.
The sorrow of men being superior to women making countless women helpless to break free from the shackles of society. They sighed to the sky and could only sink deeper and deeper in the unfair fate, and were eventually strangled by the times and suffocated.
Compared with modern women’s life, there are many ways to choose from. In ancient times, women wanted to make a name for themselves, and they were very single, that is, marry a good husband.
As for the good standards, it is very simple. wealth and status seem to be the main measurement criteria. As for whether there is love or not, not many people will pay attention to . After all, in the face of the hardships of life, whether you love or not is not worth mentioning.
Perhaps many people will say that in ancient TV series, the male protagonists loved the female protagonist very deeply, why did they have no love?
For this, I just want to say that TV series are adapted to the tastes that people prefer. If some strange plots are not produced, how can they win the attention of everyone?
However, for many women in ancient times, marrying a high-ranking and powerful emperor who are the only ones is not necessarily a good thing, because they are likely to spend their entire lives and cannot see the man they marry. There is actually no difference between tragedy and widowedness.
has been in the deep palace for a long time, and only I know the taste. But if we think from the perspective of others, we can know that this kind of day of waiting for death to come is really tormenting.
But those who can see the emperor's concubines are not necessarily a happy thing. Sometimes, the concubines can do whatever they want to compete for favor, and even sacrifice their lives.
, and records another little-known rule in "Inner Rules", that is, concubines cannot continue to serve if they are over 50 years old. This means that even if they are favored, they can only end up in loneliness after they are over 50 years old.
So why does this regulation exist? The reason behind it is too realistic, not just as simple as old age and color.
Surface reason: the concubine is old and weak and the beauty is a beautiful lady, a gentleman is a good match. The pursuit of beauty is the goal of perseverance for men with normal orientation, but for one reason or another, not every man has a beauty around him.
However, for ancient emperors, having beauty seemed to be quite easy. In order to collect all the beauties in the world into the harem, the emperors were very dedicated to choosing concubines and talent shows.
In ancient society, people's average life expectancy was not high. If you think carefully, women's beauty has only been for decades. Therefore, when the emperors were drafting, they basically chose girls of sixteen or seventeen years old.
These women cannot become the emperor's concubines immediately when they enter the harem. They also need to learn court etiquette. If a woman from a poor family has to engage in physical labor.
After everything is ready, it will be up to luck. It would be fine if you can attract the emperor's attention with your appearance. If you cannot stand out, you can only wait for your old age as a palace maid.
Wang Zhaojun , one of the four beauties we are familiar with, failed to attract the emperor's attention in the palace, but she was unwilling to die alone, so when the Han court was about to find someone to marry outside the border, Wang Zhaojun volunteered, which made a good story.
Time a carving knife can be made more obvious on the faces of ancient women, so when they are old and deteriorated, they have lost their attraction in front of the emperor.
After all, the emperor's talent show is held every year, which means that every year, a young and beautiful woman will be selected into the palace. Since there is a choice, which emperor is thinking about facing the old and yellow concubine every day?
The ancient makeup technique was not as good as it is now, especially the concubines over 50 years old, who have basically become old women. They basically have no advantage in front of young women . After being disliked by the emperor, they naturally have no chance to serve in bed.
Official Reason: Protecting the Life of the Concubine
It is really sad to say that the women selected into the harem have little wonderful lives. After all, there is only one task, which is to pass on the family line for the emperor.
In ancient times, inheritance of the family line was a very risky matter. If you are not careful, you will be in danger of life, especially when the fetus in the abdomen is not in the right position, there will be a risk of difficult labor. Difficulty is really fatal, because there was no technology like caesarean section at that time.
For young women, it is not easy to pass on the family line. After all, you have to give birth to a son to be competitive. If you give birth to a daughter, it will not help your competitiveness at all.
Therefore, some concubines in will spare no effort in inheriting the family line in order to gain power, and will even use any means to , especially when they are unable to have children due to their own physical reasons, they will try every means to murder other people's children, and in the end they will do ridiculous things.
As the age of concubines in the harem increases, regardless of whether they have completed the task of inheriting the family line when they are young, they are no longer suitable for continuing to have children after they are 50 years old.
According to the current concept of childbirth, women are already considered older mothers after the age of 35, and the risk coefficient they face during childbirth will also increase exponentially.
So, from the official reason, the concubine cannot continue to serve the bed when she is over 50 years old, which is also protecting the life of the concubine. The reason behind
: The emperor saves energy and
Although the emperor's harem three thousand beauties are an imaginary number, most emperors have huge numbers of concubines in the harem, especially every year, new girls enter the palace, which will naturally make the emperor even more moved.
From the time the emperor succeeded to the throne to the emperor's death, the concubines in the harem have been constantly updated over the years. After careful calculation, the number will be really not small.
However, the emperor's energy is limited. No matter how good their health is, as they grow older, they will be unable to do whatever they want, so they cannot do whatever they want in the harem.
The country needs a prince to take over. Those concubines over 50 years old are naturally not as good as those of young concubines in terms of fertility, so the emperor must leave the best state to the concubines who can give birth to the prince.
color word with a knife on the head. The emperor needs to always think about saving his physical strength. After all, excessive indulgence will be fatal.
This means that if the concubine continues to serve in bed after she is fifty, it will have no practical use to the emperor, but will instead waste the emperor's energy.
Therefore, for the emperor himself or for the inheritance of the throne, concubines over 50 years old are no longer suitable for continuing to serve in bed.
It can be seen from this that there will be no one in the feudal society to consider the concubines, especially in front of emperors, they are just tools for passing on the family line. When they lose the ability to pass on the family line, they will be deprived of the power to serve the emperor.
The reason behind this is too real, it is really helpless, but it is helpless. This is not only the sorrow of women under feudalism, but also the sorrow of the old era!
References: "Han Shu", "Nu Ze", etc.
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