Regarding the Qing Dynasty palace fighting drama, there must be four characters: the master of the harem, the court lady, the eunuch, and the only male master in the palace, the emperor. The protagonist of Gong Dou naturally refers to the masters of the harem. In fact, as women, the reason they fight is nothing more than the tone in their hearts. As the saying goes, why should women embarrass women. They filled the harem, to outsiders, it seems that the beauty is boundless, but in their hearts, the pain and tears can only be realized. How did they enter the palace in the first place, and what special circumstances will happen before and after entering the palace?
is forbidden to marry without reading, once it is found that everyone is involved.
As we all know, the women who were eligible to participate in the draft in the Qing Dynasty were all girls who were in good standing. Once these girls are selected, there are three main destinations: one is to fill the emperor's harem; the other is to marry the prince and grandchildren; and the third is to marry the children of the royal family. Of course, the most important thing is the emperor first. The draft is held every three years, and the girl from the banner family will participate in the draft at the age of 13.
However, not all the parents of the banner girl want their daughter to enter the cage-like harem. In order to prevent girls from participating in the draft, many parents can only take the sideways and pay to buy women from impoverished Han families to replace them. But there was a big difference between Manchu girls and Han girls at that time. Manchu girls don't need to bind feet, while Han girls start to bind feet since they were young. But for the sake of their daughters, those Qi people's parents still bought Han girls to replace their daughters. Sure enough, in Jiaqing, 19 girls with bound feet were found participating in the draft. Therefore, in the ninth year of Jiaqing, the Emperor Jiaqing issued a decree: prohibiting show women from wearing Han clothes and binding feet. But many people don't know that some of these foot-binding women are imposters to participate in the draft. In addition to buying a Han girl as an imposter, there are even banner parents who have scarred their daughter's face with their own hands to avoid participating in the draft.
Imposter, once found out, the consequences will be very serious. But if you deliberately delay not participating in the draft, you will not only be unable to marry, but you will also be convicted. The Qing Dynasty stipulated that those who have not been selected and read by the Eight Banners are not allowed to hire privately. Of course, there are two exceptions: one is severe disability; the other is marriage with a Mongolian prince. In addition, if there is a violation, not only the person and his parents will be punished, but the relevant officials will also be punished together. Even if some girls did not participate in the first draft due to various reasons, they still have to be in the next by-election if they are delayed to 20 years old. The relevant officials must find out the relevant reasons and submit the emperor's ruling. There are two kinds of results of this kind: one is that the emperor recognizes the reason for not participating in the draft and can be hired privately; second, the emperor denies the reason for not participating in the draft. But at this time the girl is already twenty years old and has already exceeded the age of the draft. The saddest thing is that the girl can neither participate in the draft nor get married, and can only stay with her parents for a lifetime.
Even if the daughter of an official in Xinjiang, if she did not participate in the draft, she would marry directly, and there was no room for maneuver. In the sixth year of Qianlong (1741), the daughter of the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Martai, was 17 years old but had not yet participated in the draft. It turned out that Marty had privately contracted his daughter by marriage with a man named Depay. Because Maltai's daughter never wanted to participate in the draft, therefore, to marry Depay, the consent of Emperor Qianlong must be obtained. As the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, Maltai has the power to make memorials directly to the emperor. Therefore, Maertai wrote a memorial specifically to Qianlong, requesting permission for his daughter to marry Depay. When Qianlong saw Maertai's memorial, he was instantly furious, and while reprimanding Maertai for violating the old system of the court, he once again warned that banner women who did not participate in the draft in the future should never get married without permission. Marriage must be approved after the selection. It can be seen that if the banner girl wants to escape the draft and marry a man who agrees with her, it is simply difficult to go to the sky. If you keep evading the draft, you will be prepared to never get married.
There are procedures for participating in the draft, and it is very hard at night and day.
The girl from Qiren’s family is eligible to participate in the draft at the age of thirteen. However, it is most appropriate to be between the ages of fourteen and sixteen, and it was called a "combined law" at the time. If you don’t participate at the right age due to various reasonsThe draft is over-aged once it is over sixteen. At that time, it was called "over-age." Don't think that over-year-old girls can not participate in the draft. They should still be seen like other eligible girls, but they must be ranked behind the eligible girls.
The girl who participated in the draft at that time, living in Beijing is naturally much more convenient. Just like the current exam, those who live near the exam room are naturally more convenient than those who are far away from the exam room. Therefore, for those girls from banner families far away from the capital, it is very hard to travel all the way to the capital to participate in the draft due to the inconvenient transportation. However, the emperor's fate is difficult, this is what all of them will experience in their lives. When the girls outside the capital who participated in the draft have gathered in the capital, they have to arrange them according to their respective flags. For example, the yellow flag is in one place, the yellow flag is inlaid together, and the other six flags are the same. Each of these flags is divided into Meng Han, Man in the front, Meng in second, and Han in the last. In this way, they set off after sunset in a mule car and arrived at the Shenwu Gate, the north gate of the Forbidden City, at midnight. They waited for the door to open, and then a leading eunuch led them into the palace.
Regarding the location of the draft, there is no unified place, sometimes in front of the Kunning Gate of the Royal Garden, sometimes in the palace. When choosing to watch, there are usually five people in a row, but they are not uniform. However, every girl who participated in the draft had a small wooden board on her chest with her surname written on it, and the imperial case in front of the emperor and the queen dowager also had veneers of detailed information about the girls. The thin piece of wood has a green head and a white body, with the name, the daughter of a certain official, the national flag and the age written on it. Refer to the draft, for convenience, the girl can stand without kneeling. If the emperor and the queen dowager choose to leave a sign, it is called a reserved sign and revisited regularly, and those who do not have a reserved sign are called a left sign. These girls are free, and after they go home, they can get married freely.
is in the process of being selected when the girls enter the palace. They each took a mule car, step by step, from Shenwumen to Donghuamen, then from Chongwenmen Street to North Market, and then bypassing the back door (Di’anmen) to Shenwumen. It was already noon. . After the girls who were selected to watch went out, they boarded their mule carts and went back to their homes. Although there are many mule carts, they are orderly, mighty, and quite spectacular. They were called platoon carts at the time. From here we can see the specific time of the draft girl. Starting at sunset, arriving at Shenwu Gate in the middle of the night, when the door opens, the girls enter and start the draft. They finish the selection at about noon the next day, and then go out of the palace and take a mule car home, or return to their residence. Of course, every day, only the girls from the two banners are selected, and the next day, at the same time and in the same process, the girls from the back banners are selected. We can see that the process of participating in the draft is day and night. So why did the girls who participated in the draft enter the palace from the north gate of the Forbidden City, Shenwumen?
Anyone who has been to the Forbidden City knows that once you enter the Shenwu Gate, you are the palace of the inner court. Naturally, the palaces of the inner court were not allowed to enter and leave at will. Officials of foreign dynasties usually enter and exit through the first three gates of the Forbidden City: Meridian Gate, Donghua Gate, and Xihua Gate. These three doors are also not allowed by the harem concubine. In addition to accompany the emperor to Sanhai Xiyuan, those concubines could follow the emperor in and out of Xihua Gate. In the harem, the only people who can walk from the Meridian Gate are when the Queen of the Harem is married to the emperor, take Fengyu from Daqing Gate to Meridian Gate and pass through the palaces of Taihe, Zhonghe, Baohe and other foreign dynasties until Kun Ning Gong drops public opinion. This is the only woman in the harem that can pass through the gate of the outer dynasty. Of course, this is the only time in the queen's life. We said that in the Qing Dynasty, only the five queens of Shunzhi, Kangxi, Tongzhi, and Guangxu received such treatment.
The gate of the palace is as deep as the sea, and the gate of the maiden family will be missed in this life. The young one is ready to re-elect when he grows up, but the registration period is five years. For females of people below Grade 3, one or two silvers per month are stipulated. If you participate in the re-election and lose the election, you will withdraw from the registration and go home and get married freely. If you withdraw after five years, you will get another twenty taels of silver. Many people think that one tael a month is very small, but for a girl at that time, one tael a monthSilver is also a considerable income. In the Qing Dynasty, an ordinary flag soldier was only 1.5 taels per month and 24 cents per year, but the income had to support the family. Therefore, for a girl, one or two dollars a month is enough for living expenses. Of course, the money came at the cost of their youth.
However, there are still some named show girls who have not been re-elected for a long time, so there is no express provision for them to withdraw from the registration. If so, they will have to stay away from marriage forever. For those show girls who are selected into the harem, everything about them will also undergo tremendous changes. When the Xiu Girl fills the harem and has a name, it means that her life will be permanently tied here. If you want to see your parents again, you can't be too casual, you must have the emperor's will, a year or a few months before you can meet your parents with the emperor's consent. Except for parents, other relatives are never allowed to enter the palace, so it is naturally difficult to see one side. And for those show girls who did not get the title, or the emperor did not agree that the parents of the show girls who had the title enter the palace to see their daughters, it is really as deep as the sea to enter the palace, and never have the chance to see their parents.
Some people would say that there is no concubine Yuan in "Dream of Red Mansions", can you meet your parents and family? However, this can only be a beautiful and unrealized longing for the harem concubine of the Qing Dynasty. The harem concubine may meet with the parents who enter the palace with the permission of the emperor, but she must never return to her natal home to meet with parents or relatives. It can be said that the Empress Dowager Cixi, who has held the power of the Qing Dynasty for 48 years, has never returned to her natal family in her entire life after she entered the palace in the second year of Xianfeng (1852). Of course, Cixi also went out of the palace many times for various reasons, but after all, she did not go back to her natal house to take a look. At the same time, because she is above the emperor, even if she cannot go back to her natal family, she can often call her family into the palace. This is the difference between Cixi and other harem concubines, because they have power and do not need the emperor's consent. There were also examples of concubines in the Qing Dynasty returning to their natal family, that is, Jin Fei's sister Jinfei once returned to her natal family to wish her mother's birthday. The reason why Concubine Jin was able to return to her natal family was that the Qing Dynasty had been over for more than ten years, and the entrance and exit of the palace were not as strict as before, so she was able to go home to celebrate her mother's birthday once, as the royal concubine of Duan Kang. Of course, for the younger sister Zhenfei, from the day she entered the palace with her sister to the end of the well, she never returned to her natal house in her entire life.
The harem concubine can't go back to her natal home casually, and she must agree to the emperor to see their parents. Then how do they usually contact their parents and family? You can only rely on the eunuchs around you, because after all, the eunuchs have many opportunities to go out of the palace, so at this time the concubine will entrust the eunuchs to contact the family. Of course, this kind of behavior is not allowed according to the regulations, and it is only a risk for concubines who have difficulty seeing their family. Therefore, the eunuchs whom the harem concubine can trust are generally better. This is also a reason.
The personality show girl tried to resist, and offended the emperor.
Behind Jingshan in the capital, there was a Ji’an office. This place is specially built for those who often have low status in the harem or promise. If some of them get seriously ill or die suddenly, they are quite taboo in the palace and must not stay in the palace. Therefore, they will be carried to this Ji'an office in the end. Once in the palace, it is difficult to get out of the whole life, and finally the flower is in Ji'an. For those beautiful women who did not have titles, the Kangxi period stipulated that those over the age of 30 should be sent out directly from the palace. In the Yongzheng period, they were changed to 25 years old. Of course, whether it was twenty-five or thirty, for the girl at that time, she was already an older girl, and her beautiful youth was wasted in the palace.
Of course, there are also individual show girls who are determined to fight for their own destiny. In the winter of the ninth year of Xianfeng, the daughter of a fourth-rank official entered the palace as a candidate. However, the girl was really unbearable because of her thin clothes and not cold-resistant, but she couldn't leave the palace. In the end, the show girl couldn't bear it, she actually yelled: "I heard that the court is very measured and well-mannered. Now the world is in chaos (Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement), and there is a shortage of clothing and food in the capital. Many people You can only drink gruel to sustain your life, and there is no extra food. Now it is difficult for a father and son to save each other. However, even so, the court has never selected a general and summoned a magi, but today chooses a concubine and tomorrow a daughter.I heard that there were unscrupulous monarchs in ancient times, and they should be similar to today. "(After translation)
This candidate show girl yelled, one is because she really can’t stand the cold; the other is to arouse the anger of inaction towards the court in her heart, and the third is , I wanted Xianfeng to know what he was doing. Sure enough, Emperor Xianfeng knew a lot about this, and he also knew about this beautiful girl. However, on the surface, Emperor Xianfeng didn’t get angry with this beautiful girl, but made people Send her out of the palace. But Xianfeng will not forget the insult of the show girl to him, and soon found a reason to demote the show girl’s father by one level. Even so, Xianfeng still did not stop. After an old prince was widowed, Xianfeng referred to the show girl to marry the widowed prince. In the end, the individual show girl did not escape Xianfeng’s palm. It can be seen that the show girl Offending the emperor will not end well.
This is the story behind the show women in the palace. They can’t control their own destiny. Not every parent, every girl is willing to enter. In the deep palace compound. But their backgrounds have determined that they must participate in the three-year draft. If they are branded, they will at least never worry about meeting their parents again; if they are left branded, eventually Entering the harem and becoming the emperor's concubines, they will never be able to step into their natal family anymore, and will never see those relatives and childhood playmates again. They do not worry about food and clothing, but the depression in their hearts is incomprehensible to the women outside. , Destiny seems to have been arranged, once you have your own ideas and try to resist, you will often overturn.
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