Ancient emperor harem has concubines three thousand, there are favored concubines, there are snubbed concubines, many people think that entering the harem, you can enjoy the glory and wealth, in fact, the real harem life is not like that, often concubines in order to compete for favors, intrigue, its degree of fierceness is no less than the battlefield fighting, a careless, caught handle, will be punished, not to die, to be beaten into the cold palace.
The Cold Palace is the most terrible place in the harem, it is not a specially built palace, but a relatively remote or abandoned house can be a Cold Palace, once a concubine is guilty, it will be sent in, and for the rest of her life, without special orders, it will die in the Cold Palace for a lifetime.
Concubines who were sent to the cold palace were stripped of their identities and restricted their personal freedom, because they were people that the emperor or empress did not like, and they were also people they did not want to see. The cold palace played in the TV series is often a relatively beautiful and remote palace, in fact, the real cold palace is far less than, just some dilapidated ordinary houses, even a dark small room, the cold palace is locked all year round, the room is dark and damp, there is no sunlight, the house is also very shabby, the furnishings are broken, the concubines who enter the cold palace are people who have lost their position, they are no longer the masters on high, no one will serve them again, but those palace women and eunuchs who are usually angry will ride on their heads to bully them. Other concubines who had a vendetta against them would also take the opportunity to fall into the well. Every day, someone would deliver food regularly, so as not to starve to death, the cold palace was dark, no one lit candles, no one would clean it, it was very dirty all year round, and only cockroaches and rats accompanied them, no different from prisoners.
Staying in such an environment, ordinary people can't stand it, not to mention these weak women, often after being locked up for a period of time, they will become full of odor, unkempt, dirty and depressed, the body and mind are endlessly tortured, for a long time, many people will have a complete mental breakdown, either crazy, or suicide, so near the cold palace, there will always be all kinds of miserable cries or laughter, all of which are issued by those crazy concubines, and at night, it is even more terrifying, like a lone ghost, gloomy, very miserable. Therefore, from ancient times to the present, the spiritual legends about the Cold Palace have been continuous.
The Cold Palaces in the Forbidden City are all relatively remote courtyards or dilapidated houses, and the three more famous Cold Palaces are Jingyang Palace, Anle Hall and Beisanshao, all of which have imprisoned more famous concubines.
Nowadays, the cold palace of the Forbidden City is not open to the public to visit and visit, many people are very curious about this, as for the reason, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty Puyi recalled in "The First Half of My Life": The Cold Palace these places are very dilapidated, basically will be forgotten by the emperors, the Forbidden City is so large, the national treasury has no extra cost to repair the places that do not need to be used. Director Yu of the Research Office of the Palace Museum also said that the "Cold Palace" of the Forbidden City has no valuable cultural relics, it is very desolate, it is difficult to repair, time-consuming, laborious and expensive, and it is not open to the public considering the safety of tourists.