The emperors of ancient times had supreme power, and many people dreamed of one day becoming the Ninth Five-Year Emperor. But as an emperor, not everything is more comfortable than ordinary people. Sometimes they are not even as convenient as us ordinary people. Because as the king of a country, you need to maintain a majestic image at all times, and there are many rules in the palace that need to be observed, which leads to many troubles and cumbersome things.
The emperor also had to go to the toilet, and it was more convenient to have someone waiting in the palace. But if he left the palace for reasons such as sacrifices, would he still go to the toilet so conveniently?
Inside the palace, everyone needed to observe court etiquette, even the emperor. We have also seen in many film and television dramas that from the prince down to the eunuchs and palace women who have just entered the palace, the first thing is to learn court etiquette, and there are also special teachers to teach these.
Especially on major occasions such as the sacrifice of ancestors, heaven, and earth, the rules are even stricter. But if you want to go to the toilet at this time, you must also strictly follow the rules set. It cannot be the same as in the palace, and you can always let the eunuchs and palace ladies bring spittoons to solve.
When the emperor was outside the palace and suddenly wanted to go to the toilet, someone would wait for us to come up with a cumbersome process that made us look like we couldn't laugh or cry.
When the emperor was outside the palace and suddenly wanted to go to the toilet, he would first tell the eunuchs around him. Then the eunuch told the dragon to stop. Then the vocals began to play in unison. After that, the emperor began to get off the palanquin and then found a lucky tree. But it is not directly convenient, and it also needs to wait for the eunuch to read out the process and follow the etiquette.
At this time, when the eunuch saw that the emperor was ready, he would shout "Open the dragon robe". After that, there would be eunuchs to help the emperor lift his clothes. Then shouted "Take off the dragon pants". Then the eunuchs helped the emperor take off his pants. Don't think that this way the emperor can be convenient, but also wait for the eunuch to shout "dig the dragon seed." When all this is over, we have to wait again, until the eunuch shouts "mountain flowing water" out, at this time, the emperor can really be convenient. It's convenient, but it's not as simple as putting on pants. Then, the eunuch would say, "Shake the dragon head, shake the dragon, shake the dragon, shake the second, shake the third." At the end of these, it is necessary to wait for the eunuch to shout "put the dragon species", and then "fulong pants", and after putting on the pants, you also have to "wear the dragon robe". After such a bunch of processes are completed, it can be regarded as a complete convenience before you can return to your own dragon. Maybe we ordinary people have been convenient for so long, and we can be convenient many times.
These are the emperor's set of procedures, but what about the emperor's empress? After all, unlike men, women are more troublesome. First of all, the eunuch could not follow the empress, and could only serve the palace maid, but these things that shouted the process needed to be done by the eunuch. Therefore, in this process, it is necessary for the palace maid to make eyes at the eunuch according to the situation of the empress, and then the eunuch can shout the process before it can be carried out. This adds a lot of time, and the "dragon robe" will be shouted as "phoenix robe", "dragon species" will be changed to "phoenix eye", while "alpine flowing water" will be said to be "rain hit basho", and the others will be the same. After such a set of processes, if the queen is in a hurry, she will have to hold back all the time, and it will be uncomfortable to think about.
Many of us may envy the power of the emperor and empress, these high-ranking people, the feeling of being served. But in many ways, these people are bound by countless rules and regulations, in fact, they are not as free as we are, and they need to endure more loneliness. In this way, sometimes being an emperor is not a happy thing.