As a son of heaven, he stands above all people and is the top of no one. The emperor holds supreme power, and according to the ideas of ordinary people, the emperor can spoil which beauty he wants according to his own preferences.
But this was not the case, and when the emperor favored his concubines, he also had to have special officials around him to record them, and there were also strict norms, especially during the Qing Dynasty. In short, in the ancient harem, the process of concubines sleeping is extremely complicated and makes people sigh.
The ancient concubine's bedtime process was extremely cumbersome and beyond everyone's imagination
As the master of the entire dynasty, the emperor is not only responsible for himself, but also for the whole world. If you want to become a generation of holy emperors, you must exterminate your own personal selfish desires and not reveal your preferences to outsiders.
After all, if the emperor shows great love for which things, the people below will compete to imitate, resulting in price gouging and chaos in people's livelihood. The emperor's physical health was related to whether a court could run peacefully, and anything that hurt the dragon's body would be admonished by the people around him.
Before Tang Taizong Li Shimin ascended the throne, it could be said that he was fighting a southern conquest and a northern war, and it was a jiangshan that was immediately fought. However, after becoming emperor, Li Shimin still wanted to go out hunting, but he was strongly discouraged by Wei Zheng and other ministers, and even specially advised.
Just as the so-called "gentleman does not stand under the dangerous wall", if the emperor is accidentally injured while hunting, this is a turmoil for the entire imperial court. The emperor's various behaviors were strictly regulated, and even in the face of food, it was also required that "the meal should not pass three chopsticks".
One of the main reasons for this rule is to prevent someone from poisoning the emperor's favorite meal. Even the emperor of the dynasty had to act in resignation, so some people on the Internet ridiculed the position of emperor: "Get up earlier than chickens, sleep later than dogs, and eat worse than pigs."
The most unimaginable thing is that the affair of the emperor and his concubines is also recorded. Male and female love was originally a private matter, but it was put on the emperor to be made public, mainly because the royal bloodline could not be confused.
Therefore, when the emperor wanted to spoil a concubine, he needed to go through a series of processes. In terms of servitudes, on the first and fifteenth day of the first month, the emperor was to stay in the empress's palace. In addition, after the emperor had finished a day's political affairs, the little eunuch below would bring the green head cards of the concubines.
Each of these green heads represents a concubine in the harem, and the emperor chooses which one to spoil. When the concubine is selected, a special person will go to the harem to inform the concubine's palace.
The chosen concubines would first bathe, clean their bodies, and then be wrapped in a quilt and carried by the eunuch to the emperor's bed. The reason why the concubine was not allowed to get dressed and go on her own was to prevent the concubine from carrying a hidden weapon and harming the dragon's body.
Although the concubine has been sent to the dragon bed, but the process of serving the bed has just begun, in order to prevent the emperor from being greedy, there will be a special eunuch to "urge the bell", after all, the emperor is the ninth and fifth supreme, and his physical health cannot be sloppy.
When the concubine's bedchamber was over, a eunuch would come and ask the emperor if he could make the concubine pregnant. If the emperor replied no, he would send someone to send a special contraceptive soup, or use a special method to discharge the dragon essence left by the emperor in the concubine's body.
Not every concubine can get pregnant and be asked to take decoction pills
Most of the women in the harem want to conceive a dragon child, but not every concubine can be lucky to get pregnant. Even if a concubine received the emperor's favor, it did not mean that the emperor was willing to give her the opportunity to conceive.
If it is the emperor's favorite concubine, it is natural to have the opportunity to conceive a dragon fetus, but if the emperor has a general impression of the concubine, he will naturally not give her the opportunity to get pregnant, and after the bedchamber, he will send someone to give medicine to prevent him from giving birth to a dragon or a dragon girl.
Since every once in a while, new show girls will be selected to enrich the emperor's harem, so the emperor's women can be said to be innumerable. There were many harem women, but there was only one emperor, which led to some women who might not see the emperor for a year.
This makes the women in the harem more hopeful that they will be pregnant, so that they can improve their position and have a guarantee in the future. As the saying goes, "Laugh only for the new, and cry when you see the old", giving birth to a child, at least you can leave a mark in the emperor's heart.
But in the harem, if the concubines want to get pregnant and have children, it is simply difficult to go to the sky, even if the emperor is willing to let the concubines get pregnant, but other women are not willing, after all, if they give birth to sons, this may prevent their children from ascending to the emperor's throne.
Therefore, the fighting in the harem was no less than the fierce fighting on the battlefield, and two of the concubines ended up in a very miserable situation. These two miserable concubines, one was Lady Qi and the other was Concubine Xiao Shu.
Among the concubines of successive dynasties, these two concubines had an extremely miserable fate
Lady Qi was a concubine who was greatly favored by Liu Bang, the ancestor of Han Gao, and the child she conceived and gave birth to, Liu Ruyi, was even more valued by Liu Bang. Liu Bang repeatedly said in front of everyone that Liu Ruyi was very similar to Yuan, and that he should be made crown prince, but later he was advised by the ministers of the imperial court, which was not resolved.
However, this incident made Empress Lü Yan very angry, since the emperor was alive, hindered by the emperor's authority, it was impossible to send Lady Qi, but the emperor died, and Lady Qi completely lost her patron. Lü Yan, who became the empress dowager, deliberately created torture for thousands of years in order to deal with this love enemy.
Lü Yan sent people to cut off all the limbs of this lover, then gouged out his eyes, cut off his tongue, then poured copper water into his ears, and finally threw him into the pigsty to let him live in pain and hardship, this terrible torture is also called "ren yan".
Another concubine, Xiao Shufei, was born noble and was a noble daughter from a top family, and later married the crown prince Li Zhi, and after Li Zhi ascended the throne as emperor, she was given the title of Lady Concubine. Concubine Xiao Shufei was gorgeous in appearance and gave birth to a son and two daughters, which was very favored by the emperor.
After Wu Zetian entered the palace, Xiao Shufei gradually lost the emperor's favor, and she became more and more jealous and wanted to frame Wu Zetian, but Emperor Gaozong of Tang did not trust Xiao Shufei, resulting in her plot and trickery not succeeding.
Faced with the trend of Wu Zetian becoming more and more favored, Xiao Shufei chose to join forces with Empress Wang and prepare to poison people with doves, and was later relegated by the emperor to a commoner. But after all, Xiao Shufei had followed the emperor's side for many years, and the emperor could not bear it in his heart and wanted to give it a light rein on him.
However, Wu Zetian knew that if he let Xiao Shufei turn over, he was afraid that he would be unfavorable to himself, and Wu Zetian, who knew how to "cut the grass to remove the roots", deliberately learned Lü Yan's approach, sent someone to cut off Xiao Shufei's feet and legs, and removed her tongue and eyes, and finally sealed it into the wine jar and made her die of pain.
In general, the process of ancient concubines serving and sleeping is not simple, and the picture of competing for favors is even more cruel. What do you think about that?