Legend has it that there are 3,000 beautiful women in the afterwords of ancient emperors, but there are actually not so many. According to historical records, it was stipulated in the postscript etiquette formulated during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. The harem includes dry and clear words and kind words respectively.
There are 68 people in Gan Qingyan's speech, namely a lady, a Yi Shu, 30 gentle and 30 graceful. From this point of view, there are not so many concubines in reality, just like in TV series. Besides, the emperor is too busy with state affairs to spoil concubines, let alone fight every day. The rank and title of concubines in Qing Dynasty
During the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, a new concubines system was gradually established. Concubines live in Dongyan, Zhonggong and Xiyan, and the East Palace is Ren Jing Palace, Chenggan Palace, Zhongcui Palace, Yan Xi Palace, Yonghe Palace and Jingyang Palace.
The Middle Palace is where the Empress lives, and the West Palace is also divided into six words, namely Yongshou Palace, Yikun Palace, Chuxiu Palace, Qixiang Palace, Changchun Palace Palace and Xianfu Palace.
Concubines live in the East Palace and the West Palace respectively, and the concubines system has undergone new changes. The highest is the queen, followed by the imperial concubine, the imperial concubine, the concubine, the concubine, the noble and the infinite.
The queen is the wife of the emperor. Han Cai also "Arbitrary" volume: "Empress Dowager Day." The interpretation of "Huang" in Shuo Wen Jie Zi is as follows:
Great, let's start with the door, the door. The first emperor, Huang San, the king also.
The title of "Queen" means that her status is unique and her mother instrument is the best in the world. The queen is above all the concubines, and the living area is mostly Chinese. The establishment of the imperial concubine gave the queen a great sense of crisis.
The imperial concubine is second only to the queen, above the imperial concubine, equivalent to the deputy queen, and only awarded to one person. The "imperial concubine" is slightly lower than the queen, because the word "concubine" shows that "imperial concubine" is not the emperor's first wife, but the most favorite woman of the emperor.
Like the imperial concubine, the imperial concubine also belongs to the high rank of the imperial harem in Qing Dynasty, but the imperial concubine can have two people without exclusion. In the Qing dynasty, the queen stood out, in the same order as the emperor, without rank.
The imperial concubine ranks first, and the imperial concubine ranks second. Being canonized as these three titles is very beneficial to the fate of oneself and the family.
Princess and funeral are the concubines and attendants of the emperor. From the "princess", there will be no "emperor" in front of the title, which means that their position in the harem is not to be highlighted first. But even in the same title, there will be three, six and five grades.
For example, if two people are conferred as "concubines" by the emperor at the same time, the status of concubines who are given words will be higher than that of concubines who are not given words.
Noble people, constant attendants and infinite promise are all appellations for women in Qing Dynasty, which are not fixed and belong to low-level grades.
Although the word "noble" is decorated with the word "expensive", it still cannot show the identity of a powerful person. The word "person" behind has even pulled this title down, close to "ordinary people."
The word "Chang" in "Chang" has a common and general meaning, and the title of "Chang" shows that the position is ordinary and not important.
And "promise" means response. Using the word "promise" as the title shows that the status is low and there is no right in the hands, so we can only promise things and obey the wishes of others.
Noble people rank below concubines and above those who are always present. Generally speaking, when a dancer enters the palace, she will get a promise first. Then some were promoted to righteousness, nobility, mourning, concubines, and imperial concubines.
Noble, constant and infinite are all titles without positioning, belonging to five, six and seven products respectively. Women in these grades have a miserable fate and no future.
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Princess selection process
Every three years, the Ministry of Housing will preside over the selection and reading of the daughters of the Eight Banners stationed in the garrison and foreign flag-bearers. Zhen Wu's "Shou Ji Zhai Cong Lu" Volume 25 describes the practice of choosing the Eight Banners for female cultivation:
Under the old system, female monks, relatives and sisters of the queen and the palace were exempted from selection. All Eight Banners officials, soldiers and idle women are optional. In the eleventh year of Jiaqing, the Han army was ordered to write their own posts, and women above the Seventh School were selected. In eighteen years, Manchu Mongols were ordered to protect the army and urged the above substitution. Women who worship Tang A (deacon) and Ma Jia (another name for cavalry in the Eight Banners Battalion in Qing Dynasty) are not free.
Choose the Eight Banners female practitioners and transfer them to the household department. Its year is from fourteen to sixteen. If you have to pick and choose because of illness, you will pick it next time.
17 years old or older is 17 years old or older, after this year's women. Choose two flags every day, evenly distributed according to the number of people, and the order of flag distribution is wrong. The flag will be sent to the queue first on the day before the selection.
If two flags, Huang Zheng and Huangbian, are selected, then Huang Zheng will be divided into three parts: Manchu, Mongolian and Han, and each part will be arranged in chronological order. The yellow-inlaid Manchu-Mongolian Han Dynasty is also divided into three places, each of which is also arranged according to chronological books, and then the car knows the line.
The first is Manchuria, Huang Zhi, Mongolia and the Han army. Followed by full Mongolian and Chinese inlaid with yellow. Through the fish and into the tail, the car tree has two lights, each with its own logo. Starting at night, enter the Shenwu Gate from the back door at night. After the door is opened, get off and enter. Its car came from the Shenwumen passage outside Donghuamen. From Chongwenmen Street to Zhibei Street, it also goes around the back door to Shenwumen.
The time is arranged at noon the next day. Those who have finished the election will get on the bus again and go back to their homes. Although there are thousands of cars, they are in good order. It's called queuing. It is said that in the old society, there were a lot of cars and horses, one after another. The chosen ones are not allowed to enter the road, so they can only stay. Since the Jiaqing period, Danbador has made this law, and everyone is very satisfied. There are also three flags of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and cars are arranged at the beach of Di 'anmen.
Women should be selected to enter Shenwumen and wait outside Shunzhen, and the director of the household department is responsible. At that time, eunuchs were introduced by class, with five people in each class, standing without kneeling. When you are interested, leave a famous brand, which is called leaving a brand. Check regularly, and if you don't leave, it's called discard. Its brand book is the daughter of an official, and a flag belongs to Manchuria (Mongolia, Han army, Mongolia, Han army), several years older than her.
When a female practitioner enters the palace, she usually promises her. Then some of them were promoted to regular customers, concubines, concubines and nobles. Noble people and above are produced from the dignitaries of past dynasties. Noble people and below only need to choose from the children who worship Tang A, and some are accompanied by royalty or grandchildren.
As for the empress, Empress Dowager Cixi usually chooses from the daughters of the nearest princes and ministers and is canonized by the emperor. The emperor can change it if he doesn't like it in the future. In August of the eighth year of Shunzhi (165 1), the emperor shunzhi abolished the canonized queen Bolzigit.
In order to maintain the dignity and privileges of the nobles in the Qing Dynasty, the so-called show girls in the court beauty contests in the Qing Dynasty must first be honest women.
Only by ensuring blood relationship and social status can we talk about the beauty and quality of women. After customizing "draft girls" among the children of the Eight Banners, a group of young flag girls are selected to enter the palace every three years. Not only the empresses of the emperor should be selected from these women, but some xiunv may also be assigned to the emperor's closest relatives.
There are strict conditions for choosing a woman as a concubine. According to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, female practitioners were generally selected from the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners, and all flag women aged between 13 and 16, who were healthy and without disabilities, must participate in the reading and selection. Before the sixth year of Jiaqing (A.D. 180 1), even the daughter born of a princess's marriage had to go through a female draft to talk about marriage.
Female practitioners are called "He Sui" when they reach the age of thirteen, and "over sixteen" when they reach the age of sixteen. People who are "over 60 years old" generally no longer participate in the selection. If you fail to pass the reading for some reason, you must take part in the next reading, otherwise you can't get married even if you are in your twenties, and offenders will be prosecuted.
Anyone who marries others privately before reading the flag girl will also be investigated by the flag girl. Even if they are disabled and do not have the conditions to choose women, they should be reported by the flags, and finally reported to the housing department by the flags, and they can be exempted from election only after being approved by the emperor.
During the selection of women's training, all flags are uniformly stipulated by the Ministry of Housing, as well as the age of women. I should have read it, and the leaders, assistants, Xiao Qi faction, leaders and the Council of Chiefs made statements one by one and reported them to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and then reported them to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, where the emperor played, and when the emperor approved the election of female students, the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development immediately wrote all the flags and made a list of female students.
Leaders attending the meeting, leaders' assistants, Xiao Qi faction, leaders, heads of families, and wives of my parents or uncles' parents and brothers will personally take their daughters to the Shenwumen Gate of the Forbidden City, which will be arranged in turn and handed over to the internal staff for supervision. This is the first choice. Anyone who is registered after being selected by eunuchs must be re-elected. This is the second choice. Anyone who is anonymous will be employed by his family. For example, the flag officials and women can't compete with the candidates because of accidents, so they will be sent to be read next time.
Women who have never seen it, women whose names have been registered, and women who are married privately should talk to the governor, the assistant leader and the head of my parents respectively. The women selected in the draft must be unmarried women between 13 and 17. After two exceptional selections by eunuchs, they were finally submitted to the emperor for selection, or were accepted as concubines or married to princes or princes.
During the registration period (usually five years), the selected registered female practitioners are not allowed to get married without permission, and offenders from commanders, deputy commanders, assistant tour leaders, flag bearers to my parents will be punished to a certain extent. If a woman who has chosen to leave the brand has not re-examined for a long time and the registration period has passed, then such a woman will never marry.
The Qing dynasty regarded the election of empresses as an important politics. The Qing dynasty chose empresses, mainly Manchu, followed by Mongolian nobles, in order to strengthen ties with Mongolian nobles. The concubines of Qing Dynasty compiled by Tong Xun and Hou Jiuxuan according to the Four Classics of Qing Royal Family lists 187 concubines. Except for the eight unmarked surnames, 12 is nuzhen, and 136 is Manchu and Mongolian.
References:
Baidu Encyclopedia-Empress System in Qing Dynasty