Whenever you watch a costume drama, you will see that a certain concubine is given the favor of the pepper room, and the people who get the favor of the pepper room feel extremely honored up and down, which is the extremely high favor on behalf of the emperor. So how did the pepper room come about?
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Pepper in the pepper room refers to the pepper, not the pepper. The earliest written records are in the Book of Poetry, indicating that we have been using peppercorns for thousands of years.
The pepper room began in the Western Han Dynasty and is the name of the temple where the empress of the Weiyang Palace of the Western Han Dynasty lived. Named after the pepper and mud-coated walls, the walls are painted with powder made from the flowers of the pepper tree to take the meaning of warmth, aroma and multiplicity.
"Hanshu Che Qianqiu Biography" Yan Shi Ancient Note: Pepper Room, The Name of the Temple, the Empress's Residence, Painted the Wall with Pepper and Mud, Taking Its Warmth and Fangye.
Ancient people believed that the aroma of peppercorns could ward off evil spirits. Therefore, some dynasties used peppercorns to paint the walls in the court with peppercorns supplemented with dirt, so it was called "pepper room".
The "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Long service, the head is not white, light body to increase the color of the year." And the wisdom of our ancients can also be seen from this.
In ancient times, there were two forms of princeship. More often than not, the system of concubines is adopted. Concubine refers to the right wife, the empress, the eldest is the eldest son, that is, the eldest son born of the empress to inherit the throne.
Pepper room, the ancient harem queen lived, the queen is the mother of a country, the mother of the world.
The Compendium of Materia Medica records that "peppers can be planted everywhere and are the easiest to reproduce." "Ancient emperors longed for heirs, and the harem longed for heirs, and it was more expensive for mothers to rely on children.
In addition to the desire for many children and many blessings, the tenacity of the vitality of the pepper may also be the ancients' use of obscure meanings to pray for peace.
There is also a person who has not been noticed by many people, that is, Lady Li of the Han Dynasty, Zhao Feiyan, Yin Lihua, etc. are favored by the emperor with their natural beauty, and the pepper of the pepper room may play a role in beauty and beauty.
The woman's body is cold, and the characteristics of pepper are mentioned in the "Compendium of Materia Medica": "pepper, pure yang", "its temperature is hot".
The cold physique will actually lead to poor physical qi. People who live in the pepper room are full of the fragrance of peppercorns, and use the pure yang smell of peppercorns to regulate the cold and humidity of the body and warm up the body's righteous qi between exhalations and inhalations.
Just like the southwest region of China, especially in the Sichuan Basin, the air is relatively humid, and it is easy for moisture to enter the body, and people use peppers and peppers to put them into food to remove the cold and humidity of the body.
And "pepper" is the same as "petite", the meaning of pet pet is not very clear!