Qing Dynasty There was a strange system when the concubines were sleeping:
eunuchs would strip the concubine's clothes naked, and then wrap her up from head to end with a quilt. Several eunuchs raised them over their heads and carried them into the emperor's room.
It is so shameful to serve the bed in this way. The concubines have no dignity after serving the bed in this way.
So who invented this sleeping method? Why is the process of
so strange? In fact, after reading it, I knew that everything was for the sake of the Emperor.
There was a special institution in the palace of the Qing Dynasty called Jingshifang .
After dinner every day, the eunuchs in the Jingshifang will take green-headed to find the emperor to flip the brand. If the emperor flips out the brand of the concubine, they can make preparations.
Although the process seems to be very simple, in fact, Jingshifang has more than that. The concubines are not finished after being carried onto the dragon bed.
The emperor is busy with state affairs all day long and must not have the energy to pass on the family line during the day, so the job of turning the brand is usually done after dinner.
Once the time comes every day, the eunuch in the Jingshifang will come to ask if he wants to turn the sign. If the emperor wants to take a break, he will let the eunuch retreat. If he is more interested in that day, the eunuch will bring up the green-headed sign.
After the emperor turned the sign, Jingshifang was going to notify the concubines and prepared to serve the bed tonight.
The next concubine will start to be busy. After all, what she wants to serve is the Nine Five Lords. Of course, the first step is to take a bath so that the smell on her body will not hit the emperor.
Some concubines are more favored. They will use some petals or aromatherapy when bathing, which will make the emperor very happy after smelling it.
After taking a shower, you must start dressing up. Dressing up is very particular. You must not only dress up beautifully, but you cannot wear too many jewelry on your head. You must also take off all the jewelry you wear. The step of
is still a normal process, but what you have to do next is more shameful.
No matter what kind of concubine you are, even the imperial concubine with a strong family background is no exception. That is, you cannot wear clothes after dressing up, and the eunuchs will come in to check.
After confirming that it is correct, wrap the concubine with a bright red satin quilt, then carry it to the place where she is sleeping, put it down and you can leave.
However, the eunuchs' work was not over yet. After they left, they did not finish their work and returned to Jingshi Room, but stayed outside the door. After the bed service was over, they sent their concubine back intact.
Just from the process of serving the bed, it was really hard to be a concubine in ancient times. It would be fine if the way of serving the bed was shameful, but the eunuchs would still be seen with brilliance.
If you don’t have a strong mentality, you don’t deserve to be the emperor’s favorite concubine. No wonder Anlingrong , who was serving in bed for the first time, was returned by Yongzheng .
Have you ever fantasized about being an emperor? The emperor had three thousand beauties in the harem and was above all sentient beings, which was indeed enviable.
However, as long as you know the life of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty and even the favored concubines will be taken care of, you will definitely not want to be the emperor again!
Although the emperor holds the power of life and death, he does not have the final say in everything. For example, when he favors his concubine, he doesn't count.
The eunuchs stand outside the door mainly for two purposes: one is to wait for the order at any time, and the other is to be responsible for timekeeping for the emperor. When the time comes, they will shout outside the door and wait for the emperor to notify them to come in.
In addition to the complicated work of eunuchs, the concubines are not willing to serve their beds. After they are sent to the dragon bed, they have to do something extremely unhonest:
That is to crawl into the quilt from the emperor's heels and slowly crawl to the emperor's side. In the entire harem, except for the queen, even the most noble concubines must abide by this rule.
In TV series, the emperor often visits his concubine's bedroom. If he is happy, he will spend the night here, or the concubine is carried to the emperor's residence to serve him. When he goes to the morning court, the concubine will also serve the emperor to change his clothes.
actually almost non-existent in history.
First of all, the concubine needs to serve her sleeping in a designated place. Generally, the location will be set up not far from the emperor's bedroom, so as to save the emperor from running around.
Secondly, after the sleeping service is over, the concubine cannot spend the night with the emperor. The emperor will return to his residence and the concubine will be sent back to his bedroom.
. In other words, there is only one reason, that is, the concubines are all concubines and are not worthy of being on an equal footing with the emperor, so they are not qualified to spend the night with the emperor.
So who invented this strange sleeping system?
In fact, this continued from Ming Dynasty period. At that time, the emperor of Jiajing was superstitious about the art of immortality, so he often caught palace maids to refine alchemy. After a long time, the people in the palace were panicked, and the palace maids and concubines hated him to the core.
One day, while a concubine was serving in bed, she suddenly pulled out her hairpin and wanted to assassinate Emperor Jiajing . The palace maids on the side were frightened and dared not speak out at first.
Emperor Jiajing rolled to the ground while struggling, and was about to alarm the guards outside. At this time, the concubine was wise and said loudly: "If you don't want to die, come and help."
At this time, a palace maid reacted. She hated the emperor so much that she died. It would be better to find a chance for herself, so she took the lead in holding up Emperor Jiajing.
When the other palace maids saw it, they all rushed up, pulled the tent and tied the neck of Emperor Jiajing. But what no one noticed was that a palace maid secretly ran out to report the news in the chaos.
Because of this, Emperor Jiajing finally survived. This incident made him very scared. From then on, he set a rule that as long as he was a concubine who was serving in bed, he had to take off all his clothes and search to ensure that there was nothing that could be assassinated on his body.
This system has been popular all the time. After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty continued this system.
Of course, although the late Qing Dynasty continued to decline until it perished, to be fair, there was never a foolish emperor, and there was no incident of a concubine assassinating the emperor.
But until this time, the preservation of the sleeping system was no longer just to prevent the emperor from being assassinated, but it also had greater significance!
The Qing Dynasty emperor favored the concubine and even had to nod his head to agree? In real history, what dares the queen really do this?
Surprisingly, this incident was recorded in "The History of the Qing Dynasty".
According to the records, before the emperor wants to favor a concubine, the queen needs to pass on the imperial concubine's instructions, and the concubine can only go to bed after she has obtained the queen's permission.
There is strict time to control the sleeping time. If the emperor does not come out after the timeout, the queen will exercise her powers and responsibilities to the concubine, but the emperor cannot rebel.
This is different from what you see in TV series. It is simply refreshing people's perception. Will the emperor really listen to the queen like this?
In fact, according to the system, although the queen also has to kowtow to the emperor, theoretically speaking, the emperor is on par. The emperor governs the world and the queen controls the harem, all belong to the "monarch".
Then since the queen has the power to manage the six palaces, of course she has the power to deal with the concubine.
These concubines have a "monarch-subject relationship" with the emperor and the empress, so they all have to abide by the strange system of sleeping, but the empress does not need it.
. The existence of these sleeping systems is actually the only way to the idea of "men are superior to women".
The concubine has been stripped of her dignity by the emperor since she was stripped naked and was wrapped in a quilt. For the concubine, although the eunuch is not a real man, she is still the opposite sex after all.
Being surrounded by so many eunuchs, the shame in my heart must be great.
When I was sleeping, I crawled into the emperor's feet, which was to reflect the imperial power. Even the woman who was favored must crawl at the emperor's feet.
After the bedtime service, the eunuch in Jingshi's room had to complete two more things. The first thing was to ask whether he wanted to keep the emperor's heir. If the emperor said he would stay, the eunuch would send the concubine back.
If the emperor says not to keep it, the eunuch will drink the prepared z-free soup for the concubine to make sure that it is correct and then send the concubine back.
The second thing is to record the time and location of the good concubine's bedtime, so that the time can be calculated when the concubine is pregnant.
To put it bluntly, the concubines are the emperor's tools of childbirth. They do not have any human rights, and they do not deserve any dignity, and the emperor will not care about their feelings.
There are 3,000 beauties in the harem. What kind of woman the emperor wants is just a matter of one word. No matter how favored the concubine is, she is small in the harem.
It seems that in this way, whether it is an emperor or a concubine, they are actually victims of the feudal system, especially women, who lived in ancient times, and even the first favorite concubine who is the most favored by the Six Palaces is just a glory in front of others.
