In ancient times, after the wives of rich and noble families gave birth to children, they did not have so much energy to feed their children, and they would go to the nurse to ensure that the children could have adequate nutrition. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, wives and wives generally did not feed their children themselves and would look for nurses. And the imperial family of the Qing Dynasty is naturally no exception.
Puyi, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, wrote in his autobiography that his only nursing mother was called Wang Jiaoshi, she was originally a peasant woman, illiterate, and the palace was interested in the simplicity of her family, so it chose her as Puyi's grandmother. Because the relationship between the nurse and the master is generally very close, even better than the relationship between mother and son, the palace will also attach great importance to the selection of the milk lady to avoid the emergence of a milk lady with greater power.
In the Ming Dynasty, there was a grandmother named Keshi, who had a good relationship with the emperor and mixed with Wei Zhongxian to power the opposition. In order to avoid this situation, the Qing Dynasty was very repressive of the nursing mother, and there were two regulations, one was that the nursing mother must eat a pig's elbow every day, and could not put a little salt. The second is that the grandmother must not go home, and it is strictly forbidden to see her own children.
The second rule, separating mother and child, is indeed cruel. In the third year of Wang Jiao's entry into the palace as a nurse, a tragic incident occurred. Her biological daughter died of malnutrition. But no one told him the news, she still did her best to feed Pu Yi every day, and her daughter died prematurely. He still sent his monthly salary to his family, hoping that they would have food to eat.
Puyi was very naughty when he was a child, but no one dared to say that his mother had a very bad relationship with him. But only his grandmother's words, he could listen to them. When Puyi was nine years old, he should be weaned, so he sent Wang Jiaoshi back, and the nurse returned to her hometown and found that her daughter had died a long time ago, and she must have been grief-stricken. Later, puyi got married, and he also specially found the grandmother back and specially supported him. It was not until 1946 that the obscure grandmother died at the age of 60.