In many court film and television works, the existence of the cold palace has been mentioned, just as the so-called "people have no thousand days, flowers are not red", some unpopular or wrong concubines will be sent to the cold palace for this cruel life. In fact, the real cold palace life in history is even more cruel than in the TV series.
Once the concubine is beaten into the cold palace, it means that the life of wealth and nobility is over. Usually if she was beaten into the cold palace, the concubines who could still live in her original comfortable palace were not ordinary, or the mistakes she made were not excessive. Concubines who are sent to the cold palace are stripped of their identities and restricted from their personal freedom.
Especially the passage between the palace walls. This "cold palace" should be one of the most miserable ends for the unfavored concubines, because it does not even have eaves to shield the wind and rain, and can only endure the wind and the sun day and night.
Being beaten into the cold palace will bring shame to the family. If this woman not only did not get the emperor's favor, but also was beaten into the cold palace for various reasons, the whole family would become a laughing stock, and even the marriages of other women in the clan would be affected.