Although the women of the harem of the Qing Dynasty have a special tragic fate, there are many advantages to living by the emperor's side, such as if they can make the emperor happy, maybe there will be a lot of rewards that can be in their hands, or when a concubine celebrates her birthday, the emperor will also reward a lot of good things to her, in short, at least in terms of material conditions, it will not be backward, but the treatment of different positions is not the same, and the competition for favors has become the most important thing for these women.
In terms of the birthday of the concubines to give the reward, in addition to looking at the position of this concubine, the important thing is how much weight this woman has for the emperor, in terms of money, the empress naturally has the most, and those who often agree to what will naturally be pitiful, the gap between them can be said to be very large, in addition, if the position is above the noble concubine, in addition to rewarding some pocket money, there will be some other things in it, in order to express the emperor's attention to these concubines.
For example, the pure noble concubine beside Qianlong, when she had a birthday, in addition to getting the four hundred taels of silver that she should have, she also got some other relatively rare things, it seems that she still had to squeeze her head to the upper level, otherwise the treatment was really very bad. Usually, the birthday is already enough trench, if you wait until the birthday of the whole number, it will be even more exaggerated, just like when Qianlong's second empress Huifa Nalashi had a fortieth birthday.
It can be said that a piece of paper is not enough to list the rewards she received, and I think that being an empress is really a very happy thing. There is also a concubine on the sixtieth birthday, is even more grand, to know that in addition to those real money and silver worth of some treasures, Qianlong also gave her a microscope, like this some foreign things are estimated not within the scope of Qianlong's interest, is it said that this sixty-year-old concubine is still an old woman who yearns for science.
And for those harem concubines who are particularly favored by the emperor, of course, there will be additional rewards on their birthdays, such as giving a concubine some of the positions she most desires but is not easy to get, which is a relatively generous reward. On Empress Fucha's first birthday, it happened to be in the middle of Yongzheng's funeral, so there was no birthday party for her with great fanfare, just a little bit, but this is also because of the special period, so it is still understandable.
In addition to money, good food, good drink, there will be some other treatment. For example, when the empress celebrates her birthday, she can also enjoy other concubines, eunuchs and palace ladies like her, for example, on the birthday of Empress Xiaoquan in Daoguang, other concubines all have to pay tribute to her, after this, there will be opera activities arranged in advance, but the length still depends on the mood of the emperor, for example, on the birthday of Empress Xiaoquan, she sang for two days, and Empress Xiaoquan only had one day at that time, so these things are sometimes not necessarily fixed.
In this way, how low the status of a woman living in the harem is, how sad her life will be, take the birthday thing, if a promise, how can she live a birthday like the queen. However, from the beginning of Qianlong's Empress Xiaoxian, the concubines' birthdays seemed to be particularly deserted, the reason was that Qianlong felt that such a beautiful birthday would cover up the majesty of his emperor, so from this empress, the concubines' birthdays were far less lively than seen on the TV series.