In recent years, the Qing Palace drama is quite hot, Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong has simply been turned over and over filmed "eight hundred times", but where to shoot large-scale royal activities, that pomp is absolutely enough, often thousands of soldiers, three circles outside the three circles to protect the safety of members of the royal family, the top of which is the emperor's personal bodyguard, then the real Qing Dynasty guards are really like in the TV series?
In 2012, the Palace Museum Publishing House published a book called "Memoirs of the Late Qing Dynasty Guards", written by Fucha Jiangong, whose ancestors were blue flag bearers, and he used the first-person oral technique to depict what his grandfather and grandfather saw and heard when they worked in the court as late Qing guards. Today, Xiaobian will take you to see their real life!
Fucha Jiangong's grandfather was called Fucha Abalihan, and the eldest grandfather was called Fucha Dolji, and the eldest grandfather also appeared in Puyi's book "The First Half of My Life", which shows that their families still have a good status in the Qing court.
For the surname "Fucha", everyone is certainly not unfamiliar, it is the oldest surname of Jurchen, is one of the eight surnames of the Manchus, the Qianlong Emperor's favorite original empress Xiaoxian Chun Empress is Fucha, daoguang Emperor's concubine is also Fucha, but to Fucha Abalihan's generation, Fucha is indeed no longer the glory of the year.
Abalihan started from a lowly bodyguard, but later made a great contribution during the "Xin You Coup", was appreciated by the emperor, and was promoted to the guard of Jingyunmen, this "Jingyunmen bodyguard" is not simple, although it is only a second-class bodyguard, but the geographical location of "Jingyunmen" is very special, and all the civil and military officials have to pass through here, and the guards here are full of oil and water.
But oil and water is not casually available, every day passing by here so many officials, they have to quickly distinguish his identity through each other's clothing, but also to remember their appearance and name background, if you make a mistake, the small life may not be guaranteed, it is the first difficulty.
What is the second big problem? The guards don't have a place to defecate at all! First of all, the guards in charge of guarding the door should stand guard, it is impossible to leave the post casually, but "people have three emergencies", which is also not up to them, at the beginning of the time when they did not come up with a way, even poor guards directly peed their pants, and later they secretly put a wooden barrel in the nearest duty room (similar to the office) to "solve the problem", that is, "Gong bucket", so in ancient times to go to the toilet is also called "out of Gong".
The third difficulty is that you are not allowed to snore when you sleep. This was a request of Empress Dowager Cixi, who felt that snoring was an act of disrespect to the gods. This is also very embarrassing, the guards are not deliberately snoring, no way, they found a piece of "bamboo board", when sleeping, if snoring will be woken up, think about it is uncomfortable!
There is also a big difficulty is "summer mosquitoes, winter cold", friends who have been to the Forbidden City must have seen a lot of "big tanks", basically where there are a few, in the past, it will be filled with water, convenient for palace people to take water, of course, the most important role is to extinguish the fire.
But in the summer, there will be countless mosquitoes flying into the vat, very disturbing, the guards are also responsible for putting sea salt in the vat to eliminate mosquitoes; in the winter, the guards can build a fire under the vat for warmth, and they strive to improve their lives.
As a part of the great imperial city, the guards did seemingly simple but troublesome work, with the abdication of Puyi, the feudal dynasty that lasted for more than 2,000 years came to an end, and the guards gradually disappeared into the river of history, which is really emotional.