In China's feudal society, if men want to get ahead, they can only obtain meritorious names through the examination system, so as to shine the lintel; or to make meritorious achievements in the army, of course, this road is to use their lives to win wealth, but even so, there are still many people who go to the front and follow, because once successful, the benefits are great. But women in feudal society were not so easy to come forward.
In some families with status and status, in order to show the status of the noble and privileged class, the wives of these families will generally choose nursing mothers to feed their children after giving birth. There is also the fact that in order to maintain their status in the family, the wives of these dignitaries need to be carefully dressed up after childbirth and quickly recover their shape, so breastfeeding is not suitable for them.
Handing over the child to the nurse, on the one hand, is for the concubines to serve the emperor more attentively, on the other hand, it is also for the stability of the regime, because if the prince grows up around the concubine from childhood, for the mother, more or less, there will be dependence, and all aspects of spiritual thought will be affected, for the stability of the royal family, so in general, the child is handed over to the mother to bring,
Concubines in the ancient imperial palace were isolated from their children when they were born, and they were not allowed to meet unless they were on a major holiday. And the nursing mother is to take care of these children as adults, of course, in addition to feeding the children, these nurses have another role, that is, to prevent foreign relations from monopolizing power. In ancient times, there were many things about the dictatorship of foreign relatives, and it was easy for the harem to interfere in politics.