Eunuchs are well known, and a profession dedicated to serving the emperor is also called gonggong, and there are also eunuchs who call themselves miscellaneous families. When you watch the TV series, you may find that many guilds are very fun to take a dust to throw around, so what is it for? Why did the things used in religion appear in the hands of eunuchs? After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the eunuch type of person also slowly disappeared, but in many film and television dramas now, we can still see the figure of eunuchs, and we can find a very interesting phenomenon, that is, most of the eunuchs are in the hands
Dust dust is a handicraft that has condensed the energy and information of the universe since ancient times, and has the miraculous effect of maintaining health and nootropics, dispelling diseases and fitness, and helping the right to avoid evil, so it has been used by Buddhas, Taos and Confucians throughout the ages. In the distant ancient times, there was a group of people who cut their own life roots in order to survive, and their physical and psychological injuries were greatly traumatized, and they were discriminated against, so they took the dust to show their status, and they could also play ash, and they could also pretend to be martial arts and become a magic weapon often used in the dojo. Taishang Laojun, Taiyi Zhenren, and Lü Dongbin all held dust in their hands, which further flattered their Fairy Wind Dao bones. Later, Chinese Buddhism also used the same allegory to introduce it, and the Buddhist abbot held a dust in his hand and had a special term when speaking
The eunuch who is castrated cannot become a real man, the eunuch is an indispensable role in the palace, the father-in-law not only has to take care of the emperor's diet and living, the emperor is not happy and is scolded by the emperor, and the father-in-law who serves the emperor cannot leave the emperor for half a step. The eunuch holding the dust has nothing to do with the "otherworldly", and the dust in their hands is originally a whisk that plays a practical use value, because the eunuch's initial position is to take care of the palace for the emperor. At the beginning, the dust was used to sweep away dust or drive away flies, because it was light and easy to carry, could be used anytime and anywhere, and the appearance was relatively good,So it was deeply loved by the scholar class in the Han and Wei dynasties. Then again, the dust was originally used to sweep the dust and clean, like where the emperor went to sit, sweeping the stool to clean up before letting the emperor sit and so on, and later became a symbol of status.
You see Xiao Yunzi in "The Biography of Zhen Huan", who was originally just an ordinary little eunuch. Later, he became Zhen Huan's chief eunuch. I took the black dust in my hand. But Su Peisheng was holding a white one. The highest-ranking eunuch takes the white dust. The second is black dust. Further down, it doesn't deserve to be taken. Eunuchs were mainly in charge of all kinds of chores of the palace, including cleaning the palace, the living and eating of the emperor and his concubines, etc., and the main purpose of holding the dust in his hand was to clean up in time in the huge palace, and it was also said that the eunuchs were like rootless people.
However, after the appearance of eunuchs, the dust gradually became a symbol of power, because those who were entitled to hold the dust all day were generally the emperor's personal eunuchs, that is, the emperor's confidants. Therefore, in the eyes of people who tend to be inflammatory, the eunuch's dust is definitely higher than the Taoist dust in terms of force value.