During the feudal society period, the emperor was the king of a country and ruled an entire country, and the emperor's harem had the most honorable women in the country, some of whom were talented and beautiful, and some of whom were the daughters of high-ranking officials and nobles. But there is only one lord of the harem, so many women compete for this position, and the intrigues and intrigues and tricks in between cannot be avoided, not only that, the women in the harem will also be affected by the political affairs of the former dynasty, and may fall from heaven to hell if they are one step worse.
Where is the hell of the harem women? Not to be relegated from the palace, but to the cold palace. How terrible is the Cold Palace? It is not just the same as played in the TV series, the real cold palace is a hundred times more terrible than that, and most of the concubines who are assigned to the cold palace can only fend for themselves, and even life is worse than death.
A mysterious and bleak cold palace
Most of us, as we know, are seen in various TV dramas. The huge imperial palace, so many palaces, are magnificent, carved beams and paintings, high red walls, separating the sense of distance between the palaces.
Even the green plants in the corners of the walls are very lush, the royal garden is always full of life, the guards walking in the palace are serious and cold, and the palace eunuchs who come and go perform their duties.
But inside this majestic palace, there is always a place, remote, as if no one will pass through here, even the walls of the palace garden are not repaired, the courtyard walls are overgrown with wild grass, and the doors are still locked, so there is a good chance that such a place is a cold palace.
The Cold Palace is said to be a "palace" only because he is located in this imperial city, in fact, it does not look like it should appear here, and the cold palace is closed to the concubines who have made mistakes and angered the emperor, or because their families have made mistakes and been affected by the daughters of sinners.
The concubines around the emperor, which are not a group of servants and eunuchs, serve thoughtfully and thoughtfully, whether they are low-ranking concubines, nobles, or high-ranking concubines and noble concubines, all the same, and the higher the position, the better the treatment in this palace.
But no matter what position of woman? Once she was beaten into the cold palace, even if there were anyone to serve them, the palace eunuchs who had served her were all redistributed, and they already had new masters.
From the clothes to the hand, the food to open the mouth, it has become that everything needs to be done by themselves, and the palace eunuch who distributes food to the women of the cold palace, in the face of these noble women who used to be high up in the sky and often beat and scold the people, where will there be a good attitude, not to say that the tiger falls in Pingyang and is bullied by the dog, but in fact, it is such a truth, the meals sent will no longer have delicacies, and the cold soup has become a common thing.
Before entering the cold palace, these concubines, wearing the best cloth, is the precious silk, is the Fanbang tribute people have never seen the things, wear pearls, jade, all kinds of rare jewelry, but once into the cold palace, these are gone, not to mention the use of expensive materials, when needed can have it is good, cold winter may even be difficult to resist the cold.
We see in the TV series, but when any concubine is beaten into the cold palace, when they learn the news, which one is not crying loudly, from their expressions, we know that the cold palace is quite terrible.
But what we acted out in the TV series is nothing more than what we said before about these lack of clothes and food, no one to take care of, as if they are self-sustaining lives, and the rest is passed.
However, when the women who were beaten into the cold palace, when they had their shots, most of them were no longer as dignified and virtuous as in the past, gentle and lovely, and everyone became hoarse and exhausted, and the ghosts cried wolf, either crazy or stupid, was it because they could not stand the treatment of the cold palace?
Let's say that the princess's birth mother Yue Guifei, who once favored the sixth palace in the "Langya List", this rather clever woman in the former dynasty can help the prince plan political affairs, in the harem, can compete with the empress, but once she loses power, she is beaten into the cold palace, not only does not have the palace eunuch who was once waiting around, but even the courtiers who were good friends with her in the past are not willing to have any contact with her, let alone help her.
After many days, when I saw her again, I saw that she was wearing a shawl, her clothes were disheveled, and she was full of shouts to see the emperor, which had long gone, and the posture and manners of the once dazzling crowd were like a female ghost returning from hell, which showed the power of the Cold Palace.
From the inside "cold" to the outer cold palace
The real cold palace, cold is not only the temperature, but also the heart and spirit, in addition to what we have said, the supply of charcoal and quilts and cotton clothes in winter is insufficient. In fact, the most important thing is in the cold palace, the spirit and heart that are hit.
For the concubines, the Cold Palace is like the heavenly prison for the felons, but the felons are different, they either die or live, they are just around the corner. What about the concubines who can be imprisoned like the Cold Palace? They didn't even have a thought of anticipation, the Cold Palace was a place called Heaven and Heaven, and the earth was not spirited, and all they saw all day long were only three or two palace eunuchs.
In fact, the Cold Palace has different names in different dynasties, such as Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's deposed empress Chen Ajiao, where the Cold Palace is called Nagato Palace, and the Ming Dynasty is the Anle Hall in the beekeeping lane, each name seems to be the Palace of the Right Honour, but in fact, the inside has long been ruined, I don't know how many white bones are piled up. As we know, the last concubine to be sent into the Cold Palace was the Guangxu Emperor's Concubine Zhen, who was imprisoned in the Beisansho near the Zhong Pu Palace.
Princess Zhen was imprisoned by Cixi, and Cixi's fierceness was famous in the harem, and she could have a good end if she offended Cixi. She was imprisoned in the North Third House and lost her freedom, and this freedom was not the freedom to go out of the palace, but the freedom to go out of the house.
There was only one window left in her communication with the outside world, and this window was still there
It will only be opened when the meal is delivered, and the palace maid who delivers the meal to her will never say hello or say a word to her.
When she could see people only two days a month, the first and fifteenth days of the first month, someone would come to discipline her, not to chat with her, but to simply admonish, which could also be called punishment.
In this cold palace, she could not survive, there was no way to die, not even a white aya, not a beam was left for her, just like this, she spent day after day in the cold palace, until the arrival of the Eight-Nation Alliance, Cixi gave her a hard time, and sunk her into the well to end this life.
epilogue
Are the concubines who were once locked in the Cold Palace really the most heinous crimes? Not necessarily, some of them are just victims of the previous dynasty, who let them be women, and they were born in such a feudal and unequal era. Fortunately, there will be no more cold palaces today, and there will be no unequal treatment of women.
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