If you often watch some film and television works related to history, you should basically find such a problem, that is, no matter in which dynasty there will be palace women! If you want to talk about it, the maids in the Qing Dynasty are obviously different from the maids of the previous dynasty, so why does the editor say so? Let's analyze it for you.
In fact, in general, these palace women in the Qing Dynasty are still relatively special in essence, and this is special in the following points:
First, during the Qing Dynasty, not everyone could be sent to the palace as a maid, and not being able to enter the palace was not the reason why women were not beautiful, not smart or in poor shape, after all, this was only the criterion for judging before the Qing Dynasty! Generally speaking, due to the qing dynasty's requirements and system for selecting maids, we all know that han women could not go to the palace at the beginning, and the people who could be selected were basically the queen daughters from the Three Banners.
Second, because the palace women in the harem during the Qing Dynasty were still relatively small in general, it should be understood that the emperors of the previous dynasties were accompanied by thousands of beautiful women, which shows that in fact, the palace women of the Qing Dynasty are still relatively small, adding up to about five hundred people in total, in addition to the concubines of the Qing emperors are also not many.
Third, because the Qing Dynasty had certain regulations and restrictions on the time of service for maids, unlike those women in the deep palace during the Tang and Song dynasties, they could only end up in the old death palace. Generally speaking, Manchu women will be selected to the palace around the age of fifteen, and then they will carry out a ten-year-long service career, but in fact, when they are twenty-five years old, they will be arranged to leave the palace to accept marriage, and then the Ministry of Internal Affairs will re-elect new women from the daughters of the Three Banners of the Manchus to enter the palace. If you look at it from this point of view, the people of the Qing Dynasty, whether they are maids or eunuchs, actually have corresponding subsidies and salaries, but in comparison, the maids are obviously much luckier, at least not to stay in the palace for a lifetime.
In general, the system of managing palace women in the Qing Dynasty was still very humane, and women of Manchu origin were more popular with men after being sent to the palace, after all, these maids who had been in the palace for many years had seen a lot of the world, and the money they received was also very rich, and the basic conditions for being selected to enter the palace were also outstanding, whether it was appearance or IQ.
However, in fact, there are also some maids who may be favored by the emperor during the palace service period. If it is good, it will be crowned as a concubine or a nobleman, but there are not many people who think about this situation, but there are also some! For example, Yin Yu's birth mother was not even a maid at that time, at best, she was assigned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to do rough work because of family crimes, but she did not expect to be favored by Kangxi later.
Another person was The mother of the Jiaqing Emperor, Concubine Ling, who was also very fond of Qianlong when she was a palace maid at the side of Empress Fucha, and after the death of Xiaoxian in the later period, she took the concubine seat of Wei Jiashi.
Speaking of this, you may all be very curious, so in the end, when the Qing Dynasty declined, where did all the palace women in the palace go? In fact, there is no need to explain more, the Qing Dynasty no longer exists, it must be more of their own home life, if there are any doubts at that time, you can continue to pay attention to Xiaobian Oh!