Ancient emperors or empresses, for the palace in favor, the place where the offending concubines or princes were placed, was called the Cold Palace! It can also be understood as a very deserted, rarely visited palace. Being beaten into the cold palace is generally common in film and television dramas, that is, concubines who fall out of favor in the palace or murder someone violate the criminal law, but concubines who do not die will be beaten into the cold palace.
The life of being beaten into the cold palace will certainly not be very good, and the bed and meals slept in the film and television dramas have been a bit out of line. The concubines and princes who were beaten into the cold palace in history did not have such a good life. The concubines who were beaten into the cold palace were actually imprisoned and completely isolated from the world. The emperor did not speak, and lived in one place for the rest of his life until he died of old age. Many live in the cold palace, and soon become insane and talk nonsense, or fall ill, and most of them can't stand it and die. Because, the contrast with the previous life is too great, and many people can't stand it. For example, in the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang demoted the emperors of Han Chengdi and Han Aidi to Shuren and asked them to guard the tomb, and the next day the two empresses, because they could not stand it, committed suicide one after another.
Zhang Yufei, the concubine of Emperor Mingxi Zhu Youxiao, is a good example! Zhang Yufei is straightforward and has a strong and upright temperament. At that time, Wei Zhongxian had monopoly power, and Keshi was Zhu Youxiao's nursing mother who dominated the harem, and Zhang Yufei did not want to join them, was framed by the two, and was finally planned to cold the palace. It is said that Zhang Yufei was already pregnant at that time, and the environment in which she lived was worse than that of the Cold Palace. There are still a few rooms in the Cold Palace, and a courtyard in the better ones.
However, Zhang Yufei did not, living in the aisle between the palace walls, all day long was either sunburned or rained, and there was not even a shelter. In addition, Keshi ordered her to be cut off from all diets. Until the rainstorm, Zhang Yufei was hungry and thirsty, creeping under the eaves to drink rainwater to quench her thirst, desperately trying to save her life. She was pregnant and starved for several days, and after suddenly drinking unclean rainwater, her body was extremely weak. After being starved for 14 days, he finally couldn't hold on, and finally he was starved to death, when he was only 18 years old, and finally buried as a palace girl.
Therefore, the concubines who were really beaten into the cold palace by jealousy were very pitiful. Like the Guangxu Emperor's concubines, who were imprisoned in the Cold Palace, there was at least one courtyard to walk in, while some concubines did not have such a good life. The reason why the Cold Palace is called the "Cold Palace" is mainly that the Cold Palace is too cold, and no one can speak, walking around in the courtyard all day. Poor conditions also have to do hard work. And the sleeping place is very bad, and it is estimated that there will be lice on the body for a long time. In a few years, it will either be sick or insane, and eventually it will be a dead end.