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Yi Xiu in Zhen Huan's biography is very concerned about the dignity and inferiority of Concubine Shu, whether it is Concubine Hua who satirizes her with the example of Fan Lihua in the Tang Dynasty, or the later Qi nobleman Guar Jia Wenyuan said that he could not play with his sister in the family, the empress was very concerned.
Throughout the play, the empress is very attached to the dignity and inferiority of concubines, Chunyuan took the position of her concubine Fujin, and her son took the position of her son's concubine, so that she, who was originally a concubine, hated Chunyuan to the bone.
Why did the empress care so much about concubines? Because the ancient outflow is indeed very pitiful.
The so-called "three wives and four concubines" is actually a wrong name, because in ancient times, it was polygamous concubines, and no matter how many concubines there were, but the wife could only have one.
Under the patriarchal system, the wife is born of the concubine, and in contrast, the concubine is born of the concubine.
Concubines are large emperors, concubines are small sects, and after the death of concubines, they cannot be included in the clan tablets, and the children born cannot inherit the title, but they can share a small amount of family property.
The so-called concubines are different in dignity and inferiority, especially in the royal courts of previous dynasties. Since the establishment of the patriarchal system in the Zhou Dynasty, the theory of concubinage has been used to respect and inferiority, and to a certain extent, the elder and the young have been neglected.
In the court, even if the children born to the empress are relatively young, the older children born to the concubines are lower in status than the children born to the empress.
In the TV series "The Legend of Mi Yue", Mi Yue wants to salute Mi Shu, and Ying Ji wants to salute Ying Dang, which has little to do with the elder and young, mainly because of the status of the birth mother.
In the pre-Qin era, there was also a system of "concubines and dowries", where a concubine married as a proper wife, and a concubine could generally only be used as a dowry for a concubine, becoming a concubine, just like the relationship between Mi Yue and Mi Shu. And the concubine born, is still out of the house, if it is a woman, in the future it will still be the fate of the concubine, the fate can not be changed. Exceptions like Mi Yue's are really rare.
The so-called "li concubine is not long to be virtuous, and lizi is expensive but not long", and it is precisely because of this system that there are many benefits and also caused a lot of troubles.
Compared with China, the ancient Korean concubines were more inferior. The Joseon Dynasty was established almost at the same time as the Ming Dynasty, and in various systems, it also imitated the Ming Dynasty, and the Joseon Dynasty at that time was like a small Ming Dynasty.
North Korea implements the "law from the mother", a woman can only be a concubine and not a wife, what class is the mother, the child born is what class, in addition to the royal family, even if the father is a nobleman, as long as the birth mother is a pariah, the child born is also a pariah.
Emperor Suzong's favorite concubine, Jang, was born a dalit, and for this reason, even if Queen Inhyun was deposed, the early Qing Dynasty at that time always refused to canonize Zhang Yuzhen's children as sons.
This is more stringent than in ancient China.
In the Shang Dynasty in ancient China, because Wei Zi Qi was born with his mother as a concubine, and when Emperor Xin was born, his mother became the queen, even though Wei Zi Qi was older, he was still unable to take the throne because of his concubine.
Yi Xiu was born out of nowhere and did not pay attention to it, and developed the nature of working in a scheming mind and using various means to seek benefits, and it was indeed because the status of Shu Chu at that time was really low.
Although the emperor was established as the eldest son or even the concubine in Chinese history, it was very rare for an emperor to ascend the throne as the eldest son or even as a concubine.
For example, Emperor Liu Heng of the Han Dynasty was Shu Chu, Emperor Wu of Han's mother was also a successor although she was an empress, and even more so in the Qing Dynasty, The Shunzhi Emperor's biological mother Empress Xiaozhuang was a concubine, the Kangxi Emperor's biological mother Tong Jia was also a concubine in the Shunzhi Dynasty, and later the Yongzheng Emperor Yinchen's biological mother Wu Yashi, the Qianlong Emperor Hongli's biological mother Niu Hulu (Zhen Huan), the Jiaqing Emperor's birth mother Wei Jiashi (Ling Concubine Niangniang), the Xianfeng Emperor Yixuan's biological mother Niu Hulu clan, and the Tongzhi Emperor Zaichun's biological mother Yehenara clan (Empress Dowager Cixi) were not the original empresses. The only one in the entire Qing Dynasty who inherited the throne as the eldest son of a concubine was the Daoguang Emperor Ai Xinjue Luo Minning, and his birth mother was the Jiaqing Emperor's empress Dowager Xitala.