The secret of eunuch marriage eunuch is the official position of the court. Its duty is to manage all kinds of affairs in the court and wait on concubines, queens, empress dowager and the emperor himself. Eunuchs are generally eunuchs. Eunuchs have different names in different dynasties. They are called eunuchs in the Han Dynasty, and they are not necessarily filled by eunuchs. It is said that eunuchs were appointed only during the Jianwu period of Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The dynasty with the most eunuchs was the Ming Dynasty. At the end of Chongzhen, there were 90,000 eunuchs. In the Qing Dynasty, the Western Empress Dowager was in power and there were about 3,000 eunuchs. After the Revolution of 1911, due to the separatist regime of warlords and frequent civil wars, the royal family of the Qing Dynasty still proclaimed itself emperor in the Forbidden City, maintaining a small court. Some low-level eunuchs saw that the tide had run out and fled one after another, but there were still more than 1 100 people left. There are two kinds of eunuchs in Qing dynasty, one is to serve the emperor, queen and concubines, and the other is to deal with all kinds of affairs in the palace. They are hierarchical, roughly divided into general manager, chief, eunuch in charge, eunuch in the temple and eunuch in general. To serve the emperor, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager are the general manager, and the concubines are only the general manager. The highest rank among eunuchs is the three items, and there are also some individuals, such as Li, the favorite of the western empress dowager, who was rewarded with two items. Junior eunuchs have no official positions, only do odd jobs and suffer all the year round. The upper eunuchs in power all have their own small kitchens, and the little eunuchs wait and live a pampered life. Because of the close relationship with the emperor and queen, some people who pursue fame and fortune and want to be promoted and rich all use bribery to go their own way. Therefore, those eunuchs in the upper class are rich, extremely rich, powerful and hot, and become a special class in the court. "Marrying and starting a career" means that most of the eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty came from Qingxian, Jinghai, Renqiu and Hejian in Hebei Province. Some children from poor families were castrated at the age of eleven or twelve in order to get enough food and clothing. In the expert's view, they were "cleansed" and then introduced into the palace to be little eunuchs. It is said that cut genitalia, including penis and testicles, are generally treated with antiseptic methods and properly preserved. When he dies of old age, he will be put in a coffin so that he can support the afterlife with a complete body. In the eyes of ordinary people, eunuchs are castrated eunuchs, which can no longer be regarded as male surnames. Although they have no beard and sharp voice, they are definitely not women because they have no female reproductive organs, and they can only be regarded as "neutral people" without sex. But strangely, some rich eunuchs actually begged their wives to get married outside the palace! After the demise of the Qing dynasty, a large number of eunuchs flowed into the people. Those rich eunuchs, relying on their own wealth, started a big business. It is said that they opened many jewelry stores, antique shops, pawn shops and silk shops at that time. They still enjoy untold splendor, and the wedding is no longer furtive, but public and vigorous. Some eunuchs even have three wives and four concubines, and there are all kinds of maids and maids, just like everyone else. Although this strange thing seems incredible to modern people, it is a fact. In the famous drama Teahouse written by Lao She, there is a scene in which a woman who was cheated and sold to a eunuch as her wife cried! ? A short story? Why did eunuchs get married? Someone explained that although the eunuch was castrated and there was nothing to do in the normal life between husband and wife, as a rich man, he always wanted to enjoy his family and live a more comfortable life. He needs a woman to wait on him, and the best way is to marry a wife. This explanation has some truth, but it is not comprehensive. It only answers one aspect of the question, and it is not the main aspect. Small stories can inspire people to think deeply about this problem. In the era of the dictatorship of Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty, all famous eunuchs except Li, an old prick, were called Xiao. Filial piety Zhang surnamed Zhang, a native of Qingxian County, Hebei Province. At that time, there was a rich man in his small hometown. He had a gorgeous two-wheeled carriage. One day, the double-decker carriage is going to travel. Twelve-year-old Zhang Xiaode just watched, so envious that he forgot to give way to the cart. "Since you love carts so much, it's no use just looking at others'. You can buy one yourself ... The driver laughed at him and said," Della, go away, go away! " This sentence made everyone present laugh, but also deeply hurt Zhang De's heart. After he returned to the village, he asked people, "How can I get rich and buy a big car? "? " Someone joked with him: "It's not easy to get rich, as long as you are willing to cut that off and become a eunuch, let alone buy a big car, and you can drive with the dragon every time you drive!" Zhang De listened to the ear and kept it in mind. One day, he made up his mind to go to the backyard, cut off his words cruelly, cried and bled, and fainted to the ground. When his family saw this scene, they were frightened and quickly escorted him to a "Wu Bi home" in Beijing, specializing in "cleansing" treatment and rehabilitation. After his recovery, Xiao Zhangde was sent to the criminal justice department to learn the rules and etiquette of the palace. Soon he was sent to the palace to run errands. Because of his handsome appearance, cleverness and ingratiation, he soon became a little eunuch in the palace of the Western Empress Dowager named Zhang Lande. Since then, Xiao has been smooth sailing and promoted step by step. First, he became the confidant of Empress Dowager Cixi, second only to Li. However, it is said that with the growth of age, Zhang Xiaode's behavior is somewhat abnormal, and he often shows interest in women, and some people are dishonest. At that time, Zhang De was red, strong and healthy, so naturally no one dared to make irresponsible remarks about him. It was not until the death of Yulong that Zhang Decai left the Qing Palace. By this time, Xiao was already very rich, even richer than princes. He has magnificent mansions in Tianjin and Beijing, seven or eight chefs, and his mother, maid, handyman and little eunuch are at his disposal. It is worth mentioning that Xiao got a wife named Tang before leaving the palace and died young. He also married two concubines, both of whom committed suicide because of unbearable abuse. After leaving the palace, he bought a prostitute named Zhang Xiaoxian in a brothel in Tianjin, which was his last wife. Zhang Xiaode is a eunuch, clean since childhood. Why did he suddenly become interested in female sexuality during adolescence? So that later, I married several wives in succession. Some people explained that Zhang De didn't thoroughly clean himself, leaving some roots, which led to future changes. God knows! Who asked the medical examiner to examine him? ! It's not just a "reasonable guess" by the writer who wrote unofficial history. Because it seems reasonable, I believe it! ? The truth is out? Recently, a sensational anecdote in foreign medical circles can give eunuchs a final answer to the mystery of marrying. Here's the thing. A boy in a country lost his penis when he was one year old because of a medical accident. For the sake of the child's future happiness, after consulting with the doctor, parents decided to change the child's sex: simply eradicate all the male gonads and inject him with a lot of estrogen at the right time to make him have a female secondary sexual characteristic. In other words, it is much more thorough than the eunuch's clean body! When he reached a certain age, he was implanted with an artificial vagina. Although he is infertile, he is still a woman. And from small to large, everything is girl-oriented. Fourteen years have passed, and the girl has grown into a slim girl. Parents are full of joy, and the attending physician is proud that this unprecedented experiment is about to be a complete success. Readers may ask, aren't there reports of sexual changes such as "men changing into young women" and "beautiful women changing into young men" in newspapers and periodicals? Why put the above experiment so high and call it "the first time"? It turns out that the objects of publicity in newspapers and periodicals are generally the so-called "hermaphrodites" with congenital malformation. These people have both male and female sex organs in their bodies, or look like men (or women), but their reproductive organs are actually women (or men), but they are all defective or deformed. This type of sexual transformation can be successful. But in this case, trying to turn a normal boy into a girl is really unprecedented in the history of medicine! However, just as this extraordinary experiment was about to succeed, things suddenly reversed. Girls are only interested in "same sex" and express their willingness to be "men". Needless to say, this "modification" experiment failed! Although the experiment failed, it still has great scientific significance. It proves that a person's sex is not only determined by reproductive organs. The real center of sex is the hypothalamus, which will promote the development of the human body to the established sex (male or female) during adolescence. However, the function of hypothalamus is controlled by genes on human chromosomes. The activation of sex genes is the real reason why the human body shows gender (male or female). The choice of this sex gene depends on the moment when the egg is fertilized. No clever doctor can change this established fact. Thus, although the eunuch lost his male reproductive organs, he is still a man. There is a natural need to approach women in adolescence, and "taking a wife" is just a further exposure of eunuch's possessiveness to women.