After Puyi abdicated, a large number of dismissed palace women were not willing to marry, and Puyi told the truth in his later years that "palace women" were women in the palace as the name suggests, but their identity and status were far less than the emperor

After Puyi abdicated, a large number of dismissed palace women were not willing to marry, and Puyi told the truth in his later years

"Palace women" as the name suggests are women in the palace, but their status and status are far less than the emperor's women, the emperor's women are the masters of the harem, and the palace women are the maids who serve these masters, taking care of the masters' food, clothing and living. Since Qin Shi Huang created the feudal social system, the harem management system also came into being, and a large number of folk women were elected to the palace to show the noble style and majesty of the royal family.

Puyi should have been the son of the Wang Ye family, his father Zaifeng was the Prince of Alcohol, Puyi as the eldest son is entirely possible to inherit his father's throne, but his fate was arranged by Cixi Lafayette, the three-year-old milk baby turned into an emperor, even his father had to bow to him, in Puyi's cries, the Qing Dynasty was also shaky.

Puyi Zheng'er Bajing's throne had only sat for three years, and he was only six years old when he abdicated, how could a six-child child know the emperor's honor, and when he was still ignorant, he was thrown off the dragon chair, and the space he lived in was reduced from the huge Forbidden City to an acre and a third of the inner palace. Fortunately, Yuan Shikai did not force their orphans and widows into a desperate situation, at least providing Puyi with four million taels of "alimony" every year.

Four million two silver sounds like a lot, but it is far from enough for the huge palace expenses, and it should be known that the people who can continue to live in the palace are all royal nobles who have enjoyed the habits from childhood to adulthood, although they cannot change the fate of the fall of the Qing Dynasty, they still have the right to enjoy the afterglow of being the master. Therefore, in order to reduce expenses, the royal nobles could only dismiss a large number of surplus palace women to maintain their normal expenses, ostensibly to give the palace women freedom, but in fact, their fate was even more tragic after leaving the palace.

Most of the people who can enter the palace as palace women are the children of poor families, the daughters of rich people are reluctant to be sent into the palace, and it is also the material for the master to be sent into the palace, even if they cannot be the master, they are also a female official, but the palace women with such status are still in the minority after all, most of the palace women are helpless after leaving the palace, and they have lived in the palace for many years and have long lost contact with their families.

Those palace women who found their families were not willing to accept them at home, not because they did not have family affection, but because they could not continue to support them in their already poor days. Some people may say that palace women will also do some female workers to make a living, but in the ancient times when women's reputation was concerned, who would want to raise an old girl? You must know that the women who were dismissed from the palace were all women over the age of twenty-four.

In order to reduce the guilt of these palace women, when dismissing the palace women, the royal family gave each of them a hundred pieces of ocean, a hundred pieces of ocean seems to be a huge amount of money, but for these palace women who have served the masters and masters, it is only a cup of water, because their future has no direction, they want to retire in the palace, it is better to be a grandmother than to suffer outside, and now they are sent out of the palace, waiting for them is a daze.

At the same time, there are eunuchs who are dismissed from the palace, eunuchs are better, after all, men still have the strength to do some physical work to maintain their livelihood, and the palace women are not so easy, they will not do anything except serve the master when they leave the palace, and some lucky palace women have found good families, continue to do the old business of serving people, and what awaits them is still endless labor.

And the poor luck of the woman in the case of no way out, can only fall into the red dust, with their remaining youth in exchange for the money of the future pension, it is really pitiful and sad to think of here, their good age is handed over to the palace, the last sentence to dismiss the palace is equivalent to cutting off their way of life, but if there is a little vitality, they will not choose to fall into the road of red dust.

So some people have questioned, it is reasonable to say that the women who can be elected to the palace should have some posture, plus the dowry of 100 oceans, why not marry and choose to continue to serve others, or even fall into the red dust? In fact, it is not that these palace women do not marry, but no one is willing to marry, these palace women are more than 24 years old, in ancient times, they already belonged to the age of the half-old Xu Niang, and they could not find a marriageable object, and Puyi also told an unknown truth in his old age.

Palace women in the palace can also be regarded as women who have seen the world, they contact and see the royal relatives and nobles, living in the palace for a long time, a little posture is inevitable not to be favored by some masters, to put it bluntly, it has long been not a virgin body, this is already an undisclosed secret in the palace. Some palace ladies also played with eunuchs in order to get rid of loneliness.

Therefore, outside the palace, the palace maids here have long been unclean. In the ancient times when machismo was prevalent, no one would accept such a woman's entry, even if they had a posture and money, they were not willing to wear this green hat, once people's psychology had a shadow, it was inevitable that they would associate themselves with a piece of grassland, so those men would rather be single than marry a palace girl.

Another point is the most important, Puyi once said in his later years that most of the palace women suffer from "blood depression", which is the main reason why no one wants to marry. The disease of "blood depression" is explained in Chinese medicine as follows: blood depression, limb weakness, red food and stool, and deep pulse. The consequence of this disease is infertility caused by the woman's lack of qi and blood.

The palace women's "blood depression" disease is related to the environment in which they live in the palace, and on the surface it seems that serving the master is a very glamorous thing, but they live a life of fear every day, and if they are not careful, they will be punished, and they will lose their lives in serious cases. In addition, these palace women have been exposed to cold water for a long time, wet and cold slowly invaded the body, and their health has deteriorated, just imagine a person living in such an environment for a long time, the body and mind will be tortured, and it is understood to suffer from the disease of "blood depression".

Then again, in ancient times, there were three filial pieties, no queen was greater, the main purpose of marrying a wife was to pass on the generations, and the palace women suffering from "blood depression" could not get pregnant and have children, so wouldn't it be impossible to play their surplus value when they married back? Therefore, the fact that none of the dismissed palace women are willing to marry is very cruel, and those palace women can only work for a lifetime and die alone.