As the saying goes, color is a steel knife, and gentleness is a hero's tomb.
But there is no man in this world who doesn’t love beauty. The more heroic a person is, the more he loves to be in trouble.
Emperor Xin What a hero, fight against the lion and tiger, and defend the ministers , but in the end he fell under the beauty's skirt.
Looking at the past and present, if you count the rise and fall, it is said that beauty is a disaster for the country and the people.
is irresponsible. As the saying goes, every man is responsible for the rise and fall of the world.
destroys Shang, Zhouwu is the same, what should a woman do?
In the feudal era, women's status was far lower than that of men. If there was inequality, then there would inevitably be oppression.
As the supreme ruler of the feudal ruling class, the emperor was rich in the world and the nine provinces and thousands of miles were all things of the emperor.
is the most prosperous and honorable person in the world. There are 3,000 beauties in the harem and countless beauties.
But there is a rule that no concubines over 50 will be allowed to sleep.
It’s not because people are old and ugly, the truth is too realistic.
Blood and tears sank
Thousands of years of feudal autocracy are the blood and tears of countless women, the shackles of feudal ethics and morals, and the oppression and bullying of power, which have caused them to suffer all the sufferings in the world.
Since ancient times, beauty has been too weak to live, and we are not allowed to see white hair in the world. The more beautiful a person is, the less fate it is.
Take the four beauties in ancient my country as an example. Let me ask you, from Xi Shi during the Spring and Autumn in the prosperous Tang Dynasty to Yang Yuhuan .
Who is not wandering around, like willow catkins in the wind, where is home?
There are many troubles in the world, The young man in a blue shirt and a sword is just a dream scene, and in reality, he is mostly a black-bellied uncle with a big belly.
The greater the power of a person, the more inflated and distorted his heart will become.
" Rites " says: " Diet for men and women, people's desire for ."
Human survival In addition to the necessary dietary support, the relationship between men and women is also an indispensable regulator.
In ancient Chinese feudal society, the status between men and women was completely different.
has an idiom called "House Singing and Married", and it is not difficult to see from just one idiom that the huge gap in status between men and women.
The king is the subject of the minister, the father is the subject of the son, and the husband is the subject of the wife. These are the three pillars proposed by Confucian , and it is also the general requirement for social ethics and morality.
The emperor can be said to be the biggest beneficiary of these three pillars. All laws of things must be followed by the emperor. It is precisely because of this that the imperial power can be stable.
The ethical and moral laws of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues have certain positive significance for society, but in actual use, they will gradually become tools that bind people's hearts and enslave thoughts.
This is not the original intention of the saint, while talking about the moral restrictions of the Three Bonds and Five Constant Virtues.
Confucius also said this: The king envoys the ministers with courtesy, and the ministers serve the king with loyalty .
meaning but not enough to be humane. In the final analysis, people are equivalent to people.
As a monarch, the social status of the minister is higher than that of the minister, but it is not above the personality of the minister.
The loyalty of a subject is based on the respect and respect of the monarch to his subjects.
But unfortunately, the starting point and intention of most saints' theories are good, but the result is not satisfactory.
Ancient women were thus bound by high-sounding ethics, especially after the rise of Cheng Zhu Neo-Confucianism .
The sentence "Starting to death is small, but losing one's fortune is big." completely pushed the status of women to the bottom.
If it is said that it is a loss of moral integrity, don’t some people say that there is gold under the knees of men?
In the past Han Xin was humiliated by the crotch, but he was able to become one of the three heroes of the Han Dynasty. He was not praised by the ancients as a great hero. Is it a great hero?
Wu Zetian was transferred to the harems of the father and son of the Li family, but in the end, he did not face the south and face the north, and was called the emperor.
One side has no words and a high monument, let future generations praise and criticize it continuously, I am flying to the world, and my husband must lower his eyebrows when he sees me.
is just a search of historical books. China has only produced a Wu Zetian for five thousand years.
Most women are eventually tamed by the so-called feudal ethics of the ruling class. Even if some people want to resist, they have to bow to reality and compromise.
Not to mention those civilian women who are struggling at the bottom of their lives, even the concubines of the emperor, are they still the canaries kept by His Majesty the Emperor?
Realistic problems
The so-called king and father means that the emperor is not only the monarch of all the people in the world, but also their father.
Although the emperor had three thousand beauties in the harem, there could only be one real wife, the queen.
The empress's mother is in charge of the world and is the mother of all people in the world. But the appearance of those who can become queen is not the key.
, even your own psychological ability is not the most important in many cases.
After all, no matter how outstanding a person's ability is, it is difficult to fight against the entire feudal rules with his own strength. There are very few people who can go against the will of heaven.
So what is the most important thing? It is the clan force behind the queen and the interest class it represents. This class is also called the power of foreign relatives.
The imperial twins of the Han Empire , General Wei Qing and champion Hou Huo Qubing , aren’t they all the families of the Queen Wei Zifu ?
external relatives can be either powerful local tyrants, or show off their official positions in the court, or middle-class or even grassroots.
Thunder, rain and dew are all the kindness of the king. Everything depends on the strength of the emperor. A hero like Emperor Wu of Han can naturally control the power. The rise and fall of a family is just a matter of his thoughts.
families have family rules, and states have national laws. Even a family of three has the most basic etiquette and rules.
Imagine in the emperor's deep palace courtyard, there is a department that makes clothes, and another department that cooks imperial kitchen .
The harem of tens of thousands of people is spreading. If there are no rules, wouldn’t it be a mess?
The rules of the harem are more complicated and complicated than those in the court. After all, is a place where a group of people who are full and have nothing to do. What else can they do besides being foolish and intrigue every day?
The empress's prominent position was mostly won by the clan power of her mother's family. This is a alliance between the imperial power and the literati class, just to better consolidate the rule of both sides.
Song Shenzong Back then, wasn’t he also sentenced by Wen Yanbo : “ Your Majesty and the scholars and officials rule the world together, but not the people, ” so hard that he couldn’t speak?
In addition to the queen, most of the concubines in each courtyard also have prominent family backgrounds, competing to win the favor of the emperor, all for the family behind him.
The mother is precious for her son. This sentence is most suitable for the emperor's harem.
Once the prince is born, the corresponding status of this concubine will also be improved. As long as she is successful, it is not impossible to counterattack from a palace maid to become an empress.
However, there is such an unwritten rule in the palace that after the concubine is over fifty years old, she no longer serves in the emperor.
Just imagine, these concubines are all the ages when they are beautiful and enter the harem. Not to mention the beauty of the country, they are definitely beautiful beauties with charming appearances.
till the age of fifty years old. If is maintained normally, it can still be said to be the afterglow of the rhyme, so the reason for not serving in bed is not because people are old and ugly.
is because of this realistic problem of elderly mothers in . Although the chance of getting pregnant after the age of fifty is very small, if there is a situation, it may end up with one corpse and two lives. It would be very bad if
caused such a thing, so there was such a rule in the palace.
