"Subliminal Book": "Looking is not like a human body, it is not like a human face", the author Tang Zhen said this sentence is used to describe the eunuch, the eunuch does not grow a beard after purification, there is no throat knot, the voice is feminine, the action is not male or female, and it has become a "yin and yang person" who is difficult to distinguish between male and female. The Chinese eunuch system originated in the pre-Qin, when the Western Zhou Was still a tribe, there were eunuchs who served the nobles, but these people did not leave names in history, and the first eunuch who left a name was a Qi person in the Spring and Autumn Period, named Shu Diao, who dealt with himself in order to be loyal to the Huan Gong.
The status of eunuchs in the palace was very low, still scolded, but some eunuchs sat in a position of high authority, Zhao Gao, Wei Zhongxian, and Li Lianying were all red people around the master, and ordinary ministers did not dare to offend casually.
There are also eunuchs who have made great contributions to mankind, Cai Lun of the Eastern Han Dynasty improved papermaking to make it easier for people to write, and Zheng He of the Ming Dynasty went to the West 7 times to promote exchanges between China and the world.
In the last years of the Qing Dynasty, the people lived in a life of poverty, and some children took the initiative to go to the palace to become eunuchs in order to survive, and they also had to rush to go, if the number of people was too large, the palace could not be used.
A little boy named Sun Yaoting in Tianjin was purified by his father, he fainted in pain for three days and three nights, and when he woke up after he had a hard time escaping death, he heard his father say: "The Great Qing is dead!" "The Qing Dynasty was destroyed on February 12, 1912, when Emperor Puyi was only 6 years old, but Empress Longyu signed a "Preferential Imperial Conditions" with Yuan Shikai, and Puyi could still live in the Forbidden City, enjoy the title of emperor, and be cared for by palace eunuchs.
The eunuch's life is more humble than an ant in the eyes of the emperor, the emperor let you do whatever you want, Puyi said in his autobiography "The First Half of My Life", when he was 8 or 9 years old, in order to test whether the eunuch was really loyal to him, he let the eunuch lick the dirty things on the ground, and the eunuch really lay on the ground like a puppy to lick the dirty things. Puyi was also frightened, and he didn't expect that the eunuch really didn't say a word to lick it, but he saw that the eunuch obeyed his orders so much, and he felt that he was very great in his heart.
Puyi's side is full of all kinds of people, some people want to greed for his wealth, some people want to get an official and a half job from him, only the nurse Wang Jiaoshi is really good to him, never ask for benefits, Puyi was naughty when he was a child, wanted to hide iron sand in the cake to deceive eunuchs to eat, watch the eunuchs break their teeth, Wang Jiaoshi knew to take on the responsibility of educating Puyi, told him that "slaves are also people", Puyi people often think of Wang Jiaoshi when they are middle-aged and elderly, and remember the principles of life she taught.
In 1924, Feng Yuxiang launched a coup d'état and blasted the 18-year-old Puyi out of the Forbidden City, Puyi moved to his home, and the palace eunuchs were also dismissed and returned to their homes. Puyi experienced a lot of things in the second half of his life, on March 1, 1934, he became a puppet emperor controlled by the Japanese in Changchun, and on August 15, 1945, Japan surrendered unconditionally, Puyi became a political prisoner because of the experience of the puppet emperor, he originally wanted to escape trial by plane, but the Soviet Union caught him on the 19th, and he was imprisoned by the Soviet Union for 5 years.
Puyi spent five years in prison in the Soviet Union, and after being released and returned to China in 1950, he underwent labor reform in Fushun. Puyi was more serious in the reform process, and also carried out light labor, and was pardoned and released early in 1959.
Puyi was more than half a hundred years old when he regained his freedom, and he remembered to go to see the eunuchs who had taken care of him, but what he did not expect was that the eunuchs saw him kneeling down to him according to the rules of the previous Qing Dynasty and called him "Long live Grandpa". Puyi must have been extremely embarrassed at that time, the Qing Dynasty had been destroyed for a long time, he himself thought that he was a citizen of New China, not the emperor, and a few pedantic old eunuchs were still engaged in the customs of feudal society, if there was a seam in the ground, he would definitely go in and not see anyone.