Most of them are ordinary people in life, but ordinary people can also have the power to grow upwards, so people have something called dreams. In modern society, if people want to achieve higher achievements, they must go through their own real talents and practical learning efforts, and through the selection mechanism, to put themselves on a larger and broader platform.
However, in that ancient society where ideas and concepts were extremely unflappable, men were fine, and the imperial examination system since the Sui and Tang dynasties gave many capable people the opportunity to live in this life, but for most ordinary women, people often called the traditional confinement of "women without talent is morality".
In ancient people's homes, the only way for a woman to get ahead was to be chosen by the emperor to enter the palace, so as to take the whole family off. During the Guangxu period, two daughters of a family were actually elected to the palace as concubines at the same time.
According to ancient etiquette, this was a great joy that needed to be greatly celebrated by the emperor, but their mother slapped each of them fiercely before the two daughters entered the palace.
Why is that?
Both sisters were selected
As everyone knows, the emperor who set the highest power in one in ancient times ate three palaces and six courtyards, and most of the three palaces and six courtyards had to go through layers of selection, which is the famous draft system, which is still not a small cumbersome thing.
First of all, after the royal family announced the start of the annual draft, the whole country will begin to select girls of the right age from each family, and a total of more than 200 women will be selected to enter the "audition".
After that, after layers of strict selection and elimination, there were only more than sixty show girls left at the foot of the imperial city. These more than sixty people also had to undergo strict physical examination and the system of etiquette before being officially canonized by the emperor. The standards in this are also extremely strict, after all, it is related to the future royal bloodline.
Next, the emperor had to choose one of these sixty or so people to be empress. The rest will be crowned concubines. The whole process will take more than a month to complete.
Speaking of the Guangxu Emperor, everyone's main impression of him is the famous restoration and change, but he is still under the control of Empress Dowager Cixi. Under the support of Cixi, the Guangxu Emperor was proclaimed emperor, but in fact it was a game of marionettes.
After that, Cixi began to choose concubines for him to enter the palace. At this time, a pair of Manchurian red flag sisters were both selected. This is simply a beautiful thing for ordinary people to get a chicken and a dog to ascend to heaven, not to mention that both of them were selected!
However, when the two sisters were about to enter the palace, their mother was not happy in any way, and she also slapped the two of them twice, and told them that the two of them had nothing to do with the family from now on.
The two sisters have very different personalities
In order to firmly hold the real power in her own hands, Empress Dowager Cixi forcibly installed her niece to Guangxu as empress. In this way, the only thing that the Guangxu Emperor could decide for himself was the concubine.
The Guangxu Emperor chose these two sisters, the older sister was Concubine Jin, and the younger sister was Concubine Zhen. After that, the two sisters began their completely different harem life.
Although they are the sisters of a mother, the personalities of the two sisters are very different. Sister Princess Jin was born a well-behaved and sensible woman, and she usually never took the initiative to open her mouth with people on weekdays, which was really a soft and weak look.
And the younger sister Zhenfei, when she was young, she was agile and lively, and her personality was also very cheerful, and her nature was a free and unfettered soul. Although she had now been selected into the Six Courtyards of the Deep Palace, she still couldn't lock her restless heart.
And she is very upright, there is no heart, there has always been something to say, joy and sorrow are also portrayed on the face.
Moreover, Zhenfei was well educated since she was a child, and she more or less understood the open and free democratic ideas in the West, and she also longed for it. The two sisters were arranged in Gyeongin Palace and Lama Temple, respectively.
Because Princess Zhen was also born very cheerful, coupled with her distinctive and flexible temperament, as soon as she entered the palace, she directly grasped the heart of the Guangxu Emperor. Therefore, the Guangxu Emperor also came to visit Zhenfei's Jingren Palace more frequently.
The Guangxu Emperor, who had more than enough but was not strong enough, always wanted to do something for his country in his heart, so in his communication with Zhenfei, he also gradually revealed his new ideas for reforming and changing the law. And this coincides with Zhenfei's concept of free thought.
Each exchange between the two was very compatible and pleasant, and gradually, Zhenfei became the only favorite concubine who could see the emperor every day in the three palaces and six courtyards.
However, her sister Concubine Jin, who was too introverted, was never favored, but silently stayed in her own palace. She didn't argue or scramble, but just lived her little life in peace and security.
Princess Zhen was punished by Cixi
However, if the light is too dazzling, it will always attract the jealousy of others, and this exclusive favor will eventually make Cixi's niece, Empress Longyu, eye it. The indignant and dissatisfied Empress Longyu began to go to the empress dowager from time to time to complain about Zhenfei's situation, and all kinds of slanderous rumors made Zhenfei unbearable.
When Cixi heard that there could be such a woman in the harem who challenged her authority, she was also very angry, and began to secretly promise Empress Longyu's revenge on Zhenfei.
Empress Longyu also joined forces with Li Lianying to frame Concubine Zhen for innocence, and Princess Zhen, who was weak enough to show weakness, learned that she had been framed and ran directly to Cixi in anger to ask for help.
However, Cixi did not listen to Zhenfei's self-testimony at all, but instead ordered someone to beat her up. Princess Zhen, who had suffered bitter fruit, also began to regard Cixi as an enemy, and all day long she confronted Cixi on the surface.
In fact, these little troublesome Cixi did not take her seriously, only as if she was a teenager's play. But in the end, the fatal thing was that Zhenfei continued to quietly discuss and plan the restoration and change with the Guangxu Emperor all day.
Empress Longyu, who had long regarded Zhenfei as a thorn in her eye, sent people to secretly guard against Zhenfei every day, and when she learned that Zhenfei was conspiring with the emperor to do such a "great disrespect", she immediately told Cixi.
Cixi, who had a strong desire for power, could not bear Zhenfei's behavior of touching the bottom line, and sent someone to imprison and oppress her for a long time.
And the end of the Hundred Days Restoration is also known to the world, and in the end, Zhenfei and the Guangxu Emperor are both under house arrest, and there is no longer a free body.
At this time, the rule of the Qing Dynasty had long been slaughtered by Cixi's repeated traitorous acts, and just when the Eight-Nation Alliance army entered the capital and Cixi led people to flee, she moved the idea of killing Zhenfei.
Zhenfei, who had a fierce personality, also vowed to die, and was eventually pushed into the deep well by Cixi's orders, covered with a manhole cover, and buried in the abyss.
And remembering that Princess Jin, who was safe and stable from beginning to end, can also be regarded as having lived a dull and desireless life, and eventually died of illness due to physical weakness.
Looking back at what the sisters and mothers did when they parted, it seems that many people understand something. Ancient women, once elected to the deep palace, it means that it is basically impossible to see their families for the rest of their lives.
And the mother also seems to be able to anticipate everything in the harem, so she slapped her daughter fiercely and made a decision early, at that time, she was also suffering from great pain in her heart...