Whenever the emperor dies, what should the three thousand beauties in the harem do? Let's take a look at what I recommend carefully. After reading this article, maybe your question will be answered.

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As we all know, the ancient emperor of China had 3,000 harem beauties, that is, only a few of them could be favored, and some even never met the emperor until their death. So many Harlem, what should they do after the emperor dies?

"Historical Records of the First Qin Emperor" mentioned: "The second emperor said: The harem of the first emperor should not have children. They are all dead, and there are many dead. " It means that all childless concubines should be sacrificed. Archaeological excavations have found that there are nearly 100 tombs of these concubines in the northwest of the inner city of Qin Shihuang's mausoleum.

1, harem concubines have princes, and anyone whose son has a feudal country can leave the palace and enjoy his old age in his son's feudal country, so he is called the queen mother. For example, the concubine of Emperor Gaozu went to the feudal country of her son after the death of Emperor Gaozu, and was called the acting queen mother. Because Guo Shengtong in the Eastern Han Dynasty was called Empress Zhongshan after being abolished, we can know that the Eastern Han Dynasty followed the customs of the Western Han Dynasty.

2. According to Han Shu, a tomb guard, the "Emperor Wu" of the Western Han Dynasty took more than 1,000 women to fill the harem and abandoned the world, showing that the emperor was young and weak, Huo Guang was expert in etiquette and righteousness, and hid money, property, birds and animals, fish and turtles, cattle and horses, tigers and leopards, and raw birds. After all, putting maids in the garden is rude and rebellious, which may not be the original intention of Emperor Wu. Emperor Zhao took the lead and recovered lost ground. When the emperor was proclaiming filial piety, his majesty Yuan Di * * * said a bad word, and his ministers followed suit, which was very painful. "The disposal of Yuanling can be explained from two aspects. Some people say it's a mausoleum, others say it's a direct human sacrifice. The former has more evidence. For example, after the death of Emperor Cheng, Ban Jieyu went to the cemetery to guard the mausoleum until his death, and was buried in the cemetery after his death. "Hanshu" Volume 97 "Biography of consorts": "When Emperor Cheng collapsed, Jieyu was full of gardens. "There is also a poem by Ban Jieyu in the biography, which reads:" I will die for a period of time, hope to return to the foothills and rest in accordance with pines and cypresses. "So, ZhiBan didn't die when he got to the cemetery. When the emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty died, those who had no children or died young were called "nobles in the garden". "Han Andy Ji" said: "It is said that the imperial secretary has no children and guards the cemetery. So we can see that these concubines are also going to guard the mausoleum.

3. Special concubines, such as Lady Qi, were hated by the Empress Dowager and killed after the emperor's death. In the Han Dynasty, few concubines died.

1. During the Three Kingdoms Period, take Shu as an example. After Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor, his empresses were recorded as Wu Huanghou and two sons. Liu Chan was honored as the Empress Dowager, lived in Changle Palace and was buried with Liu Bei after his death. Therefore, the woman remarried Liu Bei as a widow after her death. Considering the upsurge of remarriage of widows in the Three Kingdoms at that time, it was also possible that the concubines buried by the monarch were dismissed and remarried.

2. Jin Dynasty: There are too many unrecorded concubines. There is a record that a concubine gave birth to a son, and she was named Wang Taifei together with her son.

3. Wei Dynasty. "Zi Jian" autumn, August, Wushen, Wei used Gaozu's posthumous edict, and all the following ladies were sent back. It can be seen that after the death of some emperors, the lower concubines can return to their parents' homes, but as for remarriage, it is estimated that they will not. The emperor's biological mother, Hu, was made the imperial concubine and later the empress dowager. The records of other senior concubines are as follows: Li Jieyu, Xuan Wudi of the Northern Wei Dynasty, "Sejong's collapse is a bhikshuni", so it is known that childless concubines who have not entered the palace should generally end up becoming monks.

4. After the Chen Dynasty, Chen, Shen Shi and Yu were captured in the Sui Dynasty. After the demise of the Sui Dynasty, they became monks. After crossing the river from Guangling, he became a nun in Piling Temple and was named Guanyin.

5. Other concubines in the Southern Dynasties generally came from noble families, so it is more likely that the emperor will return to China after his death.

1, Emperor Wendi of Sui Dynasty: Apart from Mrs. Zheng Hong's records, Mrs. Xuanhua and Mrs. Ronghua were both concubines of her son Yang Guang.

2. Yang-ti: After the fall of Yang-ti, Xiao Huanghou married Yu Wenhuaji and Dou Jiande successively, and was married by Princess Sister-in-law Yicheng to Turkey. After the demise of the Turks, she was welcomed to Chang 'an by Emperor Taizong and died peacefully.

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2. In the early Tang Dynasty, childless concubines had two endings. One is that the lower concubines become nuns, such as the four gifted scholars who came to Ganye from Wu; One is that senior concubines don't have to become monks, but live in the sacred palace of Taizong Bie Temple as usual. Such as "Winnie the Son" and Xu, who was martyred later, died here.

3. martyrdom Tang Wuzong has two concubines, one is Wang Xianfei. "The emperor looked at it and said," I'm dying and my feelings are exhausted. I care about you. " A: "Your Majesty has good news, but bad news? The emperor said, "What can I do if you take it off as I say?" "He said," Long live your majesty, my concubine will be martyred. "Therefore, the emperor died after the collapse. Meng Cairen, another concubine, was not recorded in the official history, but Hu Zhang had a "Meng Cairen sigh" in the Tang Dynasty. Wu Zong was seriously ill and realized that he was dying soon. He called Cai Meng to his side and asked him, "What are you going to do if I die?" Meng Cairen cried and replied that he was willing to hang himself to follow his majesty. From then on, he acquiesced. Meng Cairen asked to sing a song to express his grief, and Wu Zong nodded in response, so he sang "He Manzi" and fainted in front of the emperor's couch after singing, that is, he died.

4. Shouling's "Zi Tong Zhi Jian" (Volume 249), in the twelfth year of Xuanzong's reign, quoted Song Baiyun: Tang system, "Where emperors climb mountains, no sons and daughters learn to send Yishanling to worship, comb pillows, and things die like things." Han Yu's Mausoleum in Shunzong, Fenglingxing, thirty miles northeast of Fuping County: "Set officials to lock prostitutes and raise elephants to live in peace."

1, the concubines of the Empress Gao moved to other palaces, such as Wu moved to Deshou Palace after the emperor collapsed, and the number can be continuously upgraded, such as Wu Xianfei, "a beauty, an Jieyu". Hui Zong acceded to the throne and entered Zhao Yi and Xianfei. "

2. martyrdom. Reuse talents Li and Wang. After the death of Emperor Gaozong, Xiaozong discovered this situation and forced him to save himself. Li and Wang can only be martyred.

3. Low-level concubines guard the mausoleum. After his death, some of his beauties guarded the mausoleum, including Chen, who accepted an adopted daughter. Later, this daughter also entered, and Chen is the mother of Zhao and He.

He died unexpectedly. According to the statistics of Kaifengfu, during the Jingkang Rebellion, there were *** 143 concubines and female officials in Hui Zong, and there were as many as 504 maids without titles. Most of them were killed or captured by Jin people.

1, martyrdom: Persian historian Feini Zhi wrote that when Genghis Khan died, he said, "Choose forty daughters from different rice and Yan Na families, dress up with pearls, jewels and beautiful robes, put on expensive clothes, and be sent to accompany Genghis Khan's soul with a good horse." The accompanying spirits here should be solved by martyrdom.

2. Become the concubine of the deceased. After Wokuotai acceded to the throne, he often gave preferential treatment to Temujin's concubine according to Mongolian customs.

3. Being the Empress Dowager or the Toffee: After Genghis Khan died, he was also honored as the Empress Dowager. Another Emperor Taizong, Empress Zhaoci, named Toregene, was Manet Zhen Shi, who was born in the year of Dingzong. In November, Emperor Taizong collapsed and was later called the monarch for five years.

2. Burial: As many as 38 people were buried after Zhu Yuanzhang died? And they are all Mao's concubines. According to Biography of Empresses and Concubines of the Ming Dynasty? Only Mao and his four successive emperors buried hundreds of concubines. More than 30 ladies-in-waiting concubines died for Ming Chengzu. After Jingdi's death, Yingzong made his harem, Tang and others martyrdom.

3. Foster care in other hospitals and other palaces. Liu is a concubine. The title is Zhao Fei, aged 2 1. No pets, no children. At the time of the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, he was honored as a toffee and lived in Cining Palace.

4. Send it home. Yingzong once gave an imperial edict to Wang Di Zhu Youwei of Zhou Xian, saying, "The following maids don't have to die. Those who had parents when they were young were sent back. " Although it is only the Prince's Mansion, we can also see the attitude of the emperor.

1. martyrdom: After Nurhachi's death, his eldest concubine Ulanala and his two concubines Azigen and Derenza were buried.

2. Living in a palace. In the northwest corner of the Forbidden City, there are palaces specially built for the concubines of the first emperor, including Cining Palace, Shoukang Palace, Shouan Palace, Huaying Hall and Cining Garden. Successive emperors generally supported the princess of the first emperor by adding titles.

3. Some of them can get the support of their sons, such as Princess Sejong Geng Shi. After the collapse of Sejong, she was allowed by Empress Dowager Cixi to live with her son and Prince Hongzhou's mansion. But there is no record in the official history, only the record of poetry.

Introduction to the harem:

The harem refers to the place where the emperor's wives and concubines live. Usually refers to women living in the harem. Under the Zhou system, officials were set up in the harem to praise the internal governance. There were 14 officials in the Han dynasty, and there were hundreds of them. Tang set up six bureaus and twenty-four departments, with 90 officials/kloc-0 and more than 50 women history, all of whom were selected by good women. The ancients often described the numerous concubines of the ancient emperors as "there are other ladies in the harem, with 3,000 stunning".

Ventilation system:

Modern beauty contests have a variety of names. I didn't know there were different beauty contests in ancient China. If there is a file record, it is considered to be a female activity in the Qing Dynasty draft.

Beauty is also a beauty. What is a beautiful woman? Different periods have different views. Each class also has different standards. There are both the beauty of being fat and thin, the beauty of "three-inch golden lotus" and the beauty of being weak and pitiful. The court beauty pageant in the Qing Dynasty, the so-called show girl, must first be the daughter of an official with pure blood, so as to safeguard the dignity and privileges of the Manchu nobility. Only by ensuring blood relationship and social status can we talk about the beauty and quality of women. Choosing a woman is to be a concubine for the emperor or marry a prince, so you should have a good figure and good conduct. Therefore, it is necessary to go through layers of selection to ensure correctness.

During the period of choosing a female student, all flags will be unified by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and the age of the female student to be studied will be reported to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development one by one by the participating, auxiliary, small seven schools, urging and heads of families, and then the opinions of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development will be consulted, and the emperor will invite them. After the emperor approved when to choose female practitioners, the Ministry of Housing will immediately compile all flags and list female practitioners. 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 aged from 13 to 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. Empress Dowager Cixi entered the palace as a scholar and was elected as a noble by Emperor Xianfeng. Because of the emperor's favor, she was promoted to a concubine, and then she was promoted to a concubine. After the banquet in Jehol, Emperor Xianfeng was appointed as the Empress Dowager of the West, and together with the Empress Dowager of Oriental Ci 'an, he listened to politics and assisted his son Zai Chun to be emperor. Empress Dowager Cixi, who is good at playing politics, has been in power in China for 47 years. Here I want to explain the name and amount of the emperor's wife to readers.

According to the palace history of the Zhou Dynasty, the emperor's first wife was a queen, and only one person was allowed to preside over the affairs of the inner palace. The second is the princess, including one imperial concubine, two concubines and four concubines. The third place is six people. The queen is in the middle palace and the concubines live in the twelfth house. The fourth is a noble person, the fifth is forever, and the sixth is a promise. This is not limited to the amount, but depends on the energy and love of the emperor.

The triennial beauty pageant for emperors is a bit too long, and there is an annual female activity, which is a supplementary form of beauty pageant. This year, there is a female draft, mainly to select maids to serve concubines in the inner palace. The scope of its selection is the women of ordinary families who belong to the three flags of the Interior Office, that is, the three flags of the Interior Office set by the emperor in the early Qing Dynasty in yellow, yellow and white. Women over the age of three flags 13 should choose, and most of them will go to the palace to be maids.

During the period of being a maid of honor, if the emperor takes a fancy to her, he can also promote her to be a concubine. If the emperor doesn't like it, he must serve until he is 25 years old, and then he can leave the palace and get married. A few female monks who were elected to the palace were chosen as concubines, which would be worth a hundred times. But except for a few who were favored by the emperor, most of them lived in the cold palace for a long time and lived the life of a grass widow. Girls who are not chosen as concubines are mostly obedient to their masters, such as empresses. If they are not satisfied, they will be whipped and punished, and even forced to die. Their miserable life is also worthy of sympathy. Outside the Longzong Gate of the Forbidden City, there is a group of buildings with Cining Palace as the main body. Some people call it the home of widows in the Forbidden City. Because the original owners here were the empress, concubines and concubines of the first emperor.

Among them, women entered the palace mainly through the draft. Although the Ming and Qing emperors were not like the "three thousand harem beauties" in the Tang Dynasty, the number was not small. Empress, imperial concubine, concubines, nobles, Chang Chang, Yan Xu, etc. They all live in the East-West Sixth Palace on both sides of Gan Qing Palace. Once the emperor died, according to the ancestral system, everyone moved to Cining Palace to live. Life here can be said that there is no chance to laugh, only in the lonely and monotonous life of "beauty is old and white." Occasionally, there will be joy in Cining Palace, such as giving the Empress Dowager Cixi the emblem and conferring the empresses. Grand celebrations are held here on New Year's Day, winter solstice and Empress Dowager Cixi's Wanshou Festival. So that the widows of the Qing dynasty could get together to drink and have fun. But after all, such activities are only a few days a year. At the end of Qing Dynasty, with the decline of Qing Dynasty, these activities were forced to stop. Only day and night, bloom flowers fall, year after year, lifeless life. There are many Buddhist temples in the complex of Cining Palace. During their bored widowhood, the Empress Dowager, Tai Ai and Tai Fei burned incense and worshipped Buddha, trying to seek spiritual comfort and sustenance from the illusory Buddhist world.