Some time ago, court dramas were chased, of course, most of the so-called court dramas were Qing Dynasty dramas.
The emperor's harem was three thousand, and all kinds of concubines ran all over the courtyard, and such a day was actually quite comfortable.
Cough, everyone must not want to be crooked, let's continue to make a fuss along this topic.
I don't know if the friends have found that in the court drama, especially when it comes to the problem of concubines in the Qing Dynasty, those concubines are habitually carrying a white strip around their necks.
What is the meaning of carrying this white strip? Why did the vast majority of concubines, including but not limited to the empress, wear such white stripes?
To this end, I deliberately looked through the history books and some wild history records, and suddenly found that this white strip was not as simple as we thought, and he was also of great use.
And the main purpose is to facilitate the emperor.
First, the beauty of wearing white strips is simple.
First of all, we must know that the royal appreciation vision and the appreciation vision of our ordinary people are different, the royal appreciation is simple, and ordinary people think that the more luxurious the better.
This is quite a bit like the more you don't get it, the more you want it, and the more you have it, the more you spit it out.
To take a simple example, if you eat big fish and meat every day, and suddenly a nest head comes coldly, you will think that this nest head may be more fragrant than the big fish meat.
If you eat nest heads every day, occasionally nibble on some bark, and suddenly a piece of pork belly comes, this pork belly may not be so good, and even a little greasy feeling, but you have to go down and spit it.
In the vast majority of cases, people want to pursue things that are not directly related to themselves, of course, we can also use another idiom to describe, called self-seeking troubles.
In the palace, in the courtyard of the deep palace, there will be special people to arrange every day's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and their food and clothing are taken care of to the extreme.
Under such a background and market, naturally countless concubines, countless queens, etc., the queen seems to be able to count clearly, if there is no accident, a dynasty generally will not exceed 5 queens.
After all, only when the previous empress died, or left the harem for some reason, the next empress would be selected.
Every day they wear colorful clothes, all kinds of beautiful looks, if you add some heavy makeup on the original basis, it may not be suitable, this time directly take a white strip wrapped around their neck is more sexy.
This is equivalent to a nest head suddenly growing out of a pile of pork belly, and it is difficult for ancient emperors to pay attention to this nest head even if they want to.
But when this aesthetic formed a fixed pattern, when this aesthetic had a positive tendency, more and more concubines began to try to bring white strips.
Second, it is convenient for the emperor to remember people.
When everyone is working in the workplace, they should have the corresponding experience of punching in to work, what is punching in to work? He took out a card and put it next to the machine, and then only listened to the drip, and then he finished the card.
After punching the card, you will be identified and identified, and at this time, the system knows what your name is.
If we think of these concubines as office workers, and the white stripes on their bodies as the machine that punches the clock, then the emperor is identified.
Under normal circumstances, these concubines will have their own personal information on the white stripes, including but not limited to their own rank, their own rank, and the emperor can directly call out her name at a glance.
Everyone must not think that the emperor is lazy, and doesn't the harem have more wives? Can't remember the names of these wives?
Yes, sometimes this is the case, the drought death, the flood death, the emperor in the harem, he really can't remember how many wives he has, and he may not be able to remember what his wife's name is.
But to understand a point, the so-called harem beauty 3000, this is definitely not a joke, Bao Buqi can really have 3000 beautiful women, but these 3000 beautiful ladies can have a relationship with the emperor, I am afraid that it is only those few.
By the way, the beautiful ladies in the harem are actually very pitiful, if the emperor likes the new and is tired of the old, then there is nothing to do, after all, he has had a relationship with the emperor, and his status is different.
But the crux of the matter is that there were times when the emperor didn't know how many concubines he had, so he stayed in the palace, from 20 to 40 years old, and when people got old, they had no place to live, and the end was very pitiful.
This is also why the struggle in the harem is even more fierce than the struggle in the court, where the struggle is a big deal, and only when the luck is bad will you put your life here.
However, in the struggle in the harem, if you are not careful, you may end up alone.
The harem is more competitive, all the concubines, all the palace women, all the concubines, they have only one competitive goal, and that goal is the emperor.