Some people want to know how much money a concubine in the ancient Qing Dynasty could earn in a month? First of all, we have to convert, according to the < Qinghui Canon > records, the Qing Dynasty at that time one or two silver can probably buy more than 100 liters of rice, according to the price of rice, now one or two silver is about 300 yuan yuan.
List of Qing Dynasty civil servants
Before converting the monthly salary of concubines in the Qing Dynasty, first understand the rank of concubines in the Qing Dynasty, although many people understand it in the popular drama "The Biography of Zhen Huan", but it is not very specific. The following example:
Zheng Chaopin - Empress (1);
Zheng Yipin - Imperial Concubine (2); Congyi Pin - Guifei; Shu Yipin - Concubine (Defei, Duanfei, Lingfei, Chenfei, Jingfei, Jinfei, Yifei, Shufei, Zhenfei, Roufei) (1 each).
Zheng Erpin - Lady; Conger erpin - Noble Concubine; Shu Erpin - Concubine.
Zheng Sanpin - Zhaoyi, Zhaoyuan, Zhaorong; from the three products - Xiuyi, Xiurong, Xiuyuan; Shu Sanpin - Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan.
Zheng Si Pin - Shu Yi, Shu Rong, Shu Yuan; from the four pins - Gui Yi, Gui Rong, Gui Yuan; Shu Si Pin - Yue Yi, Yue Yuan, Yue Rong, Yue Hua.
Zheng Wu Pin - Wan Yi, Wan Yuan, Wan Rong, Wan Hua; from the five pins - Deyi, Deyuan, De Rong, Dehua; Shu Wu Pin - Li Yi, Shun Yi, Pei Yi, Fang Yi.
Zheng Liu Pin - Gui Ji; From Liu Pin - Ji; Shu Liu Pin - Rong Hua.
Zheng Qipin - Jie Yu; From Qipin - NobleMan; Shu Qipin - Always present.
Zheng Bapin - beauty, beauty, good people; from eight pins - Shunren, Talented, Lady; Shubapin - Xiaoyi, Xiaoyuan, Xiaodi.
Zhengjiupin - Chenghui, Chengrong; from Jiupin - Baolin; Shujiupin - Cainu.
Zheng Shi Pin - Choose a Waiter, From Ten Pins - Promise; Shu Shi Pin - Show.
The first is to promise and often offer four or two in the month, that is, RMB 1200; Noble Monthly Offerings 8.32, RMB 2400; Concubine Moon offering 16.62 RMB 5100; Concubine Moon enshrines 25 taels, RMB 7500; Guifei Month enshrines 52, RMB 15,000; Imperial Concubine Moon Enshrinement 66.62, RMB 20100; The Queen's Moon is enshrined at 83.32, RMB 24,900. In addition to the empress and the imperial concubine, it is still an executive income, and the others are better than finding a job.
But then again, people are in charge of food and housing, this point is at best a pocket money, if there is a happy event or something in time for the New Year's Festival, the emperor and the empress dowager will also reward it. If any concubine, if he gives birth to a dragon heir, the emperor will give a special reward, which is a real step to ascend to the heavens, even if he promises to have a bounty of fifty taels, if so calculated, he can still apply.
It should be known that the per capita annual income of the poor peasants at that time was less than 2 taels, but the poor peasants were self-sufficient, basically did not produce products and trade, and this part of the population also accounted for a very large part of the population of the Qing Dynasty, at least 80% or more, or even more than 85%, taking 85%, and the urban population was about 7%, and the rest were landlords and rich peasants and middle peasants, accounting for about 8%, temporarily according to the middle peasants 5%, rich peasants 2%, landlords 1%, roughly this ratio. Even many people do not have enough to eat, and if there is a natural disaster, countless people will die. Therefore, it is a good choice for a woman who enters the palace to become an emperor.
Concubines of the Qing Dynasty
The process of selecting women in the Qing Dynasty was very cumbersome, and it is not too much to describe it as thousands of troops and horses crossing the single wooden bridge. The harem of the Qing Dynasty, from the empress to the palace women, was selected from among the flag women. In the process of unifying the Jurchens, Nurhaci, the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, created the eight flags system, marked by the yellow, white, red and blue flags, and formed the eight flags of yellow, white, red, blue, yellow, white, red and blue.
Because the leader of the Qing Dynasty was a Manchu, since entering the customs, he did not advocate intermarriage between the Eight Banners and the Han People. Both Emperor Taiji and Kangxi had stipulated that the Eight Banners were forbidden to intermarry with the Han People, and the Han people in the harem were actually han Eight Banners. The Manchu-Han non-marriage advocated by the Qing Dynasty did not mean that manchus and Han people could not marry each other, but that the Banner people did not intermarry with Han civilians.
Eight Flags costume of the Qing Dynasty
The Flag People of the Qing Dynasty are divided into Manchu Eight Banners, Mongolian Eight Banners, and Han Eight Banners, of which the Han Eight Banners are more special, from the ethnic point of view, they are Han people; from the perspective of attributes, they belong to the Banner People. That is to say, the flag bearer written in their household registration book, no matter which ethnic group's blood he shed, he enjoys the rights and obligations of the flag bearer according to law.
Returning to the truth, the Qing Dynasty stipulated from the time of Shunzhi that all women from the Manchu Eight Banners family who were thirteen to sixteen years old must participate in the emperor's draft every three years, and those who were selected were left in the palace to serve the emperor as concubines, or were given to the descendants of the imperial family to be blessed to be women who did not participate in the draft, and could not marry.
First of all, it is necessary to strictly examine the flag genus and age to conduct a strict screening of the women who come to the draft, mainly to see whether the family background is qualified, whether there is a disability, physical condition (including the verification of the body), manners and demeanor. Those who are not in the flag want to participate in the draft, and the situation is better than the sky; those who want to escape the draft in the flag are also self-pleading.
When reading and selecting, according to the order of the eight flags, generally seven or eight people stand in a row and are selected by the emperor and empress. The names of the women who are selected are written in each row and left for archiving in the palace, and this list is called "show women's volleyball list" in the archives.
The third step is the most important, the group of women who were left with a sign in the previous level, if they are favored by the emperor or the empress, may be directly named as chang zai or concubines. After the emperor had kept them, the remaining women would be assigned by the emperor to the sons of the imperial family, either for Fujin or for The Lateral Fujin. In short, the women in this round are generally the winners in this draft event, and generally have a good home.
The Qing Dynasty saw the choice of concubines as a major politics. The Qing Dynasty chose concubines, mainly from the Manchus and secondly from the Mongol nobility, in order to strengthen ties with the Mongol nobility. Tong Xun and Hou Jiuxuan listed a total of 187 concubines of the 12 emperors of the Qing Dynasty in the "Table of Concubines of the Qing Palace", except for 8 unmarked ethnic names, 12 were Jurchens, 136 were Manchus, 21 were Mongols, 9 were Han Chinese, and 1 Uyghur was used.