"Once you enter the palace, the door is as deep as the sea", the ancients all believed that once a woman entered the palace, it would be difficult to leave, and many palace women would die tragically in the deep palace, even if they were lucky enough to survive, it was difficult to get grace and be released from the palace. However, there are also some exceptional points in history, such as the end of the Qing Dynasty, after Puyi abdicated. Although Puyi was allowed to live in the Forbidden City at the time of his abdication, he soon dismissed a large number of palace women.
These palace women who were released from the palace were far less happy than the palace women who left the palace during the other feudal dynasties. Because many palace women who have left the palace have not only been unable to find their own families, but even have no means of making a living, even if they want to find someone to marry hastily, no one is willing to marry.
Under economic pressure, Puyi had to dismiss a large number of palace women
The dilemma of the palace women after leaving the palace was something that Puyi could not anticipate, and he would initially choose to let the palace women leave, only because he was unable to bear the daily expenses of the palace women. Since the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the fate of Puyi and the people in the Forbidden City has become a problem. Because the Qing Dynasty left many old and few, Puyi still had the role of "mascot", so the Beiyang government finally decided to let Puyi stay in the Forbidden City.
In order to appease Puyi, the Beiyang government would give him a large amount of money every year for him to spend at will, but this money was not enough to meet Puyi's needs. After all, what was once provided for Puyi to withdraw at will was the treasury of the Qing Dynasty, in contrast, the money of the Beiyang government belonged to the "small witch see the big witch".
Since the establishment of the Beiyang government, the financial crisis has never stopped, so even this money is often not received in time. In order to maintain daily life, the people around Puyi sometimes take antiques from the palace to sell, and it is not difficult to imagine the difference in Puyi's financial situation.
To solve the current financial crisis, Puyi has only two ways: open source or throttling. For Puyi at this time, open source is almost impossible, he has been disguised as house arrest in the Forbidden City, there is no opportunity for open source. Throttling is the fastest and most effective method, so Puyi chose to dismiss a large number of palace people.
When selecting the dismissal object, Puyi is naturally more inclined to leave those who are young and beautiful, have excellent families, and have strong work ability, which is equivalent to a large-scale elimination of palace people, and the nature who is finally selected to be dismissed from the palace is the "eliminator". Therefore, from the very beginning, those who left the palace were not of good quality, and the way out after leaving the palace was naturally relatively small.
Most of the palace ladies did not have normal means of livelihood after leaving the palace
According to the rules of the Qing Dynasty court to select palace people, most of the palace people were selected into the palace when they were young, and by the time Puyi was dismissed, ten years or more had already passed outside. The Qing Dynasty was gone, the feudal imperial system was overthrown, and the outside world underwent earth-shaking changes, but the thinking of these palace people was still stuck in the Qing Dynasty.
At the same time, due to the chaos of the situation, many palace people can not find where their original family is after leaving the palace, and can only find an errand for making a living on the spot. At this time, the difference between a palace maid and a eunuch was revealed.
Even if the eunuchs had been castrated, they were still men after all, physically stronger, and able to barely do some physical work to support themselves. The palace ladies do not have this ability, they can do nothing but serve people, they do not have the strength to do physical work, and their thinking cannot keep up with the outside world, and most of them end up very miserable.
In fact, Puyi did not consider the situation of the palace people after leaving the palace, he prepared a severance payment of 100 oceans for each dismissed palace person, but unfortunately this money was not enough for these people to live. In the eyes of ordinary people, 100 oceans may be a lot, but for these palace people who have no land and a home, 100 oceans is simply not enough to spend.
Regardless of the extent to which the soaring prices brought about by the fall of the Qing Dynasty devalued the 100 oceans, even according to the usual prices, it is very difficult to buy a house for themselves with 100 oceans in Beijing, not to mention that the palace people have to provide for their old age in addition to this. In desperation, some palace women also thought about marrying someone, but what they did not expect was that no one was willing to marry themselves at all.
The reasons why no one wants to marry a palace maid are very complicated
In fact, it did not happen very often that no palace women were willing to marry, and in many previous dynasties, the palace women after leaving the palace were the objects of small and rich families competing for marriage. Although these palace women are older, they have a lot of knowledge in the palace, and many palace women still have contact with their old main family after leaving the palace, and their connections are relatively wide, so they are very popular in the marriage market.
Unfortunately, the palace women dismissed by Puyi did not have enough connections to support them, or in other words, the palace women with connections remained in the palace. As for vision and insight, there is not much use at all in the midst of wars and horses, if you marry a palace girl, there will only be one more drag when the family flees, and it is better to marry a country girl with better physical fitness.
Of course, the reasons why the palace maid can't marry out are very complicated, and it is impossible to have only these two reasons. The first reason for this is actually the advanced age of the palace women. Many of the palace women who were dismissed from the palace were over 30 years old, and this age is often called "leftover women" even today, let alone when the feudal Qing Dynasty had just collapsed.
Even if some people don't care about the age of the palace women, it is impossible not to care about the chastity of the palace women. The Qing Dynasty was a dynasty that promoted chastity to the extreme, men were very concerned about women's chastity, and those who were dismissed from the palace were naturally often questioned whether chastity was still there.
In the imperial palace, there are only two types of people who may make the palace women lose their virginity, one is the emperor, that is, Puyi himself; the other is the eunuch, although the eunuch has been castrated, but the mutilated body not only does not make them give up male and female love, but is more perverted in this kind of thing. It is not uncommon for eunuchs to play with incidents that lead to the loss of virginity of palace women.
epilogue
Puyi himself has also responded to the reasons why it is difficult for palace women to marry, and in his memoirs written in his later years, the main reason is bluntly stated: many palace women suffer from blood stasis and are difficult to have children. "There are three filial pieties, and no queen is greater", under such a thought, naturally no one is willing to marry these palace women.
In fact, palace women will suffer from blood stasis, most of which are because they often use cold water for a long time in winter, and the mental pressure of life in the deep palace is very large. However, no matter what their illness is, they are rejected by the marriage market, and no one wants to marry. Many palace women, after spending all their severance payments, were forced to become prostitutes to make a living, so it was sad and lamentable that the feudal imperial power oppressed women, which can be imagined.
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