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Perhaps it is because of the "Qing Palace Drama" that many people around me can count the various official titles and institutions in the Qing Palace.
But for the history before the Qing Dynasty, it is not so clear and understood.
Especially for audiences who do not know much about ming history, when some "unheard of" official titles and institutions continue to appear in "Shang Food", it always makes people have a sense of "in the clouds and fog".
So, there was such an article.
On the one hand, I want the author to be able to more accurately understand the relationship between the characters in the play when watching "Shang Food".
On the other hand, I also hope that the content in the play that is not directly explained clearly will be more detailed and understood by the audience in this way.
Female officer
"Shang Food" is basically a "women's play".
Therefore, before talking about many official positions, one of the major categories of official positions that should be understood in advance is "female officials".
The so-called female officials are also called "palace officials", and they are usually promoted from the palace women.
When selecting female officials, most of them pay more attention to the "talent" of the palace women, and their "color" is secondary, but to a certain extent, there are still certain requirements for the "appearance" of the palace women.
Female officials can be understood as a kind of "palace girl with a grade", in the palace they will have a certain "rank", and like the minister, they also have a salary to be received.
The main job of a female official is usually to manage the lower-level palace women, train those who have just entered the palace, and take care of many princes, princesses, etc.
A large proportion of female officials can be promoted as long as they are senior, but there are also some "technical" female officials who need to pass the examination to be promoted.
The female officials in "Shang Food" are not only the "Shang Food Bureau", but also five bureaus such as the Shang Gong Bureau, the Shang Yi Bureau, the Shang Fu Bureau, the Shang Sleeping Bureau, and the Shang Gong Bureau, collectively known as the "Six Bureaus".
The establishment of these six bureaus is generally inherited from the Tang Dynasty, and is a kind of management institution set up in the harem modeled on the "six ministries".
In addition, the Ming Dynasty also had a "Gong Zhengsi", which was also an institution served by female officials, which was too much to repeat here.
Shang Food Bureau
The name of the play "Shang Food" is itself an official position.
The official position of "Shang Food" is the head of the "Shang Food Bureau" in the "Six Bureaus".
Under the female official Shang Food Bureau, there are also subdivided institutions such as "Si Shan", "Si Shu", "Si Yao", "Si Bao" and "Si Doctor".
The main manager of the si yao is called "dian shan" and "palm meal", the main manager of the si yi is called "dian" and "palm", the main manager of the si yao is called "dian yao" and "palm medicine", and the main manager of the si bao is called "dian bao" and "palm food".
It is worth mentioning here that the institution of "Si Bao", the so-called "Food" is a term for "cooked food".
After you have read these subdivisions, you may understand why Yao Zigen was punished for "cooking meat with medicine", because this is the responsibility of "medicine", not her Yao Zigen.
Shang ShanJian, Guanglu Temple, Shanglin Garden
These two institutions, similar to the Food Bureau, are also the main institutions that manage the food supply in the palace.
"Shang Shan Jian" is one of the "Twelve Prisons" of the Ming Dynasty, and unlike the Shang Food Bureau, the Shang Shan Supervisor is mainly male members.
The main responsibility of the "Guanglu Temple" is to be responsible for the procurement of imperial dietary materials, of which most of the ingredients purchased by the Guanglu Temple are purchased from the "Shanglin Garden".
Therefore, in "Shang Food", it is said that Yao Zizhen is likely to be "distributed" to go to the forest garden to be with livestock, and the reason is that there is an institution dedicated to raising or growing ingredients in the palace.
In addition, the Twelve Prisons of the Shangshan Prison are also known as the "Twenty-Four Yamen", which you can understand as a kind of "eunuch system" in the Ming Dynasty.
There are 24 institutions under the 24 Yamen under the twelve supervisors, the four divisions, and the eight bureaus.
Among them, the twelve supervisors are: The Supervisor of Ceremonies, the Supervisor of Internal Officials, the Supervisor of Imperial Use, the Supervisor of Division, the Supervisor of Imperial Horses, the Supervisor of the Shrine, the Supervisor of Shang Shan, the Supervisor of Shang Bao, the Supervisor of Yin Shuo, the Supervisor of Zhidian Temple, the Supervisor of Shangyi, and the Supervisor of Duzhi.
Celebrant
When Zhu Di held the "Chongyang Family Banquet", the eunuch who read the holy will was one of the celebrants.
This "Celebrant" was an internal court institution established after the "abolition of the chancellor", and its main duties were to assist the emperor in handling government affairs.
Because of this, the power of the eunuchs in the palace also soared.
From the early management of the emperor's clerical, seal, palace etiquette and other affairs, it gradually expanded to have more opportunities to participate in aircraft maintenance.
Although the eunuchs in the Si Li Supervisor only had the rank of "Four Pins of the Outer Dynasty", they had the power to "approve the red" on behalf of the emperor.
Such powers gave the Superintendent the ability to rival the first assistants of the Cabinet.
As a result, many famous celebrant supervisors such as Wang Zhen, Shang Ming, Feng Bao, Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian and so on were born.
Zhan ShiFu, Chunfang
"Zhan ShiFu" is the "subordinate" organization of the Prince's Mansion, of which the position of "Zhan Shi" is the "number one" of Zhan Shi Fu.
Under the Zhan Shi Mansion, there were also two subordinate institutions, "Zuo Chun Fang" and "Right Chun Fang", which were in charge of many affairs in the Prince's Mansion.
If there is no accident, most of the officials in zhan shifu and chunfang are filled by "Hanlin officials".
This is also one of the reasons why in the "Chongyang Family Banquet" of "Shang Food", many people with the official titles of Zhan Shifu or Chunfang have the official title of "Hanlin Yuan".
Hongxu Temple
The "Hongxu Temple" in "Shang Shi" was improved from the "Shi Yi Division" in the "Four Divisions" in the early Ming Dynasty.
Its main administrative positions are "Shi Qing", "Left and Right Shao Qing", "Left and Right Temple", and so on.
From this point of view, the title of "Hongxu Temple: Liu Shun" in "Shang Food" is somewhat simplified.
The main daily affairs of Hongxu Temple are to manage the etiquette and welcome of the pilgrimage.
The meaning of the word "Hongxu" was originally the meaning of "loud praise" and "guiding ceremony".
It is worth mentioning that the Hongxu Temple in "Shang Food" has been interrupted for several dynasties before, because the Southern Song Dynasty, Jin Dynasty, and Yuan Dynasty did not set up this institution until the Ming Dynasty.
Fellow of Hanlin Academy and WenyuanGe University
The so-called "Hanlin Academy" is also called "Hanlin Bachelor's Academy", and the Hanlin Bachelors can be said to be a group of people with very high social status at that time.
The Hanlin Academy is also a common way for countless literati students to enter the cabinet and participate in the government after obtaining meritorious titles in the examination.
Because of this, most of the officials in the six ministries were born in the Hanlin Academy.
This also led to the fact that although the rank of hanlin was low, it was a prominent status, and in many occasions it was possible to be higher than the official of higher rank than themselves.
It is also because most of the important ministers in the DPRK-China cabinet are born in Hanlin relations, and there is also a later saying that "non-Hanlin does not enter the cabinet".
The so-called "Bunkyoku University Fellow" is actually a kind of name for the "Cabinet University Fellow".
This is an official position that actually owns and exercises the authority of the prime minister after the "abolition of the prime minister".
Zhu Di was mostly an official of the Hanlin Academy before, and Zhu Di later used a Shangshu from one of the Six Ministries to serve as a "university scholar".
It is precisely because the university scholar has such power and can gain the trust of the emperor, so the university scholar is also called "the first assistant", which means "the first among the university scholars".
Write at the end
When I wrote this article, I actually only finished watching the first two episodes of "Shang Food", so I didn't know the official titles and institutions that appeared later.
In addition, names like "JinyiWei", which have appeared many times in many film and television dramas, have not been introduced too much.
If you are interested in other official titles and institutions in the Ming Dynasty or "Shang Food", you can also leave a message to the author, let's talk about these "strange" names.
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