The Qing Dynasty selected a showgirl every three years, and what if the harem arrangement could not be completed? Such people want to take advantage
In China's two-thousand-year-old feudal society, only the Qing Dynasty enriched the harem through the annual "draft", and according to the records of the Great Qing Huidian, the inventor who sent talents to the harem through the draft was the Shunzhi Emperor. Starting from the Shunzhi Emperor, the Qing Dynasty would conduct a draft every three years, and so many showgirls who were selected into the palace would be arranged to enter the harem? Of course not, if the harem arrangement is not complete, such people will take advantage.
The Shunzhi Emperor made detailed regulations on the specific matters of the draft, and the Shunzhi Emperor issued an edict announcing that all the officials of the Eight Banners of the Manchu, Mongolian, and Han Armies, non-commissioned officers from other households, and women aged 14 to 16 in the idle and strong Ding family must participate in the draft once every three years. This is Shunzhi in order to reflect the emperor's grace and grandeur, not only for pleasure, to the Qianlong period, and further regulations have been made for the draft, if the children of the flag people do not participate in the draft for various reasons within the prescribed age, the next session still has to participate in the draft, and the flag woman who has not participated in the draft cannot marry without authorization. From then on, the flag woman became the exclusive property of the royal family, becoming the private property of the royal family, and the royal family enjoyed priority.
The organizer of the selection of show girls is Hubu, and the show girls selected by each flag must be sent to the capital in advance before the start of the draft day. Due to the different family conditions of many showgirls, the official eunuch women had their own vehicles to send to the capital, while the women of the soldiers' families could only hire cars to go to the capital. Therefore, Qianlong stipulated that the showgirls who selected the show to enter Beijing, whether they were officials or the children of soldiers, would each be rewarded with one or two pieces of silver as a need to hire a car.
In the draft period, the show girls had to take a mule cart to assemble outside the Shenwu Gate, and then the eunuchs were brought into the palace from the side door in order, gathered in front of the Shunzhen Gate, and then entered the Shunzhen Gate in accordance with the pre-arranged list order for the emperor to personally choose. The emperor only looks at two flag women every day, and the show girls are in a row of six people, and if they are selected, they will leave the name tags, and those who are not selected will be branded. The selected showgirls will choose a date to re-select again, and after passing the re-selection, the showgirls can stay in the palace, undergo a period of training, and then be assigned to various places in the palace.
Not all the showgirls who were chosen to stay in the palace could become emperors, and only those with particularly outstanding postures would serve the emperor as soon as they were selected. The original identity of these showgirls was only that of ordinary palace women in the palace, doing the physical work of serving the master, and only after being favored by the emperor could they get a name. After the draft of the selected women can not all stay in the harem, the Qing Dynasty every three years to select the show girl, in addition to enriching the emperor's harem, will also benefit the age of the prince, emperor, prince and other people, of which, only a small number of people can go to the emperor's harem, most of the show girls are for the royal children and grandchildren, outstanding show girls will be allowed by the emperor to be their own prince, the emperor's grandson's main room.
The draft and beauty pageants in the Qing Dynasty can not be equated, the two are completely different, the criteria for beauty pageant selection are "beauty", and the criteria for draft selection are character and origin, and the more important of the two is birth. Therefore, the women selected are not necessarily the most beautiful, just like the palace girls in the old photos of the Qing Dynasty, the real Qing Dynasty palace women are not as bright and beautiful as the women in the tv series now.
For example, the appearance of Empress Longyu of the Guangxu Emperor was not flattering, but she was the niece of Empress Dowager Cixi, so she could become an empress. Therefore, although the emperor is the lord of the world, he sometimes cannot decide who his wife is.