It seems that modern people have a misunderstanding of the ancient palace women, that is, the palace women in the harem are all the emperor's women, counted as harem reserves, which day the emperor is in a good mood, which palace girl, the palace girl can start the road of palace fighting. Especially in some of the current Qing Palace dramas and Qing Palace novels, many female protagonists are holding the scripts of the palace women and struggling all the way in the harem. One of the most famous is the heroine of "Yanxi Raiders", Wei Jiashi, who was born in clothing.
However, like Wei Jiashi, who holds the real "heroine" script is after all a minority, the whole Qing Dynasty can not find a few, those who learn to make concubines and concubines take the role of the palace girl together with the heroine of the novel have been mistaken from the beginning, the Qing Dynasty draft can be divided into two types. "Whoever elects the Eight Flags Showgirl once every three years... This paragraph is from the "History of the Qing Palace", which refers to the qing dynasty's draft women divided into three annual elections, that is, the draft women; and the annual selection, that is, the selection of palace women.
Showgirls must be from the Eight Banners of Manchuria to qualify for the draft; the selection is different, the object of selection is mainly the daughter of the Baoyi family of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, "Baoyi" in Manchu refers to the slave of the family, which is a kind of servant of the world. However, this servant was only facing the Manchu Nobles, and from the perspective of the entire Qing government dynasty, the Baoyi still held a lot of important positions.
Therefore, from the very beginning, the selection of women and the women to be selected are two concepts, and their promotion channels are not the same. After being selected layer by layer, not all of them were transported to the harem and became the emperor's concubines, and a large part of them were used to assign to other royal relatives.
The part of the show girls who remained would not necessarily be selected into the harem, and some of them who fell off the list would be sent back home to marry themselves, and only this last handful would be the reserve personnel of the concubines who could be given the ranks, and as for whether the emperor was lucky or not, it was another matter. Therefore, the daughters of some small officials in Jiangnan and Sichuan in the novel also entered the palace draft, which is a situation that is simply impossible.
As for the palace women, they can wait until the age of 25 to get married when they are released from the palace, but this age is undoubtedly too late compared to the ancient Chinese people who advocated early marriage and early childbearing, so some of the higher or more favored "niangniang" will use the reward marriage as a means to win people's hearts, especially for the first-class palace women who are close to them, many times the treatment is better than the daughters of some local petty officials.
The main promotion channel for palace women is to enter the female official class of the palace, such as some female officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, or ceremonial ceremonies and the like, and the higher point is the head of the palace, such as Rong Mama in the famous Qing Palace drama "Huan Zhu Gege". Their power is so great that even some low-ranking concubines have to look at their faces.
As for Wei Jiashi, it is indeed a unique first, after all, in order to become a concubine, her birth was carried by Qianlong from the bag to the Eight Banners of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and it was difficult for the qing harem to find a few people as honored and favored as her.