In recent years, film and television dramas about the Qing Dynasty period can be described as a hundred flowers competing for each other's magic. The Qing Palace women on the screen are not only dressed in luxurious and splendid embroidery, but also have beautiful and stunning appearances. Even the palace maids or old grandmothers who are soft-spoken are also greased and powdered with heavy makeup. However, the real history of the Qing Palace women is not so, just as the real photos of the late Qing Harem women and eunuchs compiled in this article are to show the real style of the Qing Palace figures in the late Qing Dynasty.
Picture 1: In the imperial palace in the late Qing Dynasty, a small eunuch accompanied by a 60-year-old grandmother swinging an interesting photo. In fact, according to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, the empresses, palaces, concubines, nobles, and eunuchs in the harem need to allocate different numbers of palace women and eunuchs according to their status level.
Figure 2: Old photos of palace eunuchs in the late Qing Dynasty. According to the laws of the Qing Dynasty, the empress dowager was assigned twelve palace maidens, while the empress was ten. There are eight imperial concubines and noble concubines, and the rest of the ranks are gradually decreasing. The number of eunuchs assigned varies, and the empress dowager's palace can be equipped with 2 deputy liupin deputy chief engineers, 4 chief eunuchs, and 46 ordinary eunuchs.
Figure 3: The palace maid in charge of the late Qing Dynasty took a group photo with the newly entered palace girls. The palace women in the Forbidden City are usually selected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and most of them are born from households under the collar of the yellow flag, the yellow flag, and the white flag. When her maiden was 12 years old, she had to enter the Ministry of Internal Affairs to be selected to serve in the palace, and at the age of 25 she could leave the palace to marry.
Figure 4: Empress Dowager Cixi and harem concubines, palace ladies, and eunuchs in the late Qing Dynasty took a group photo in the imperial garden. If there were two concubines living in the same palace in the harem, eight places could be added to the original number of eunuchs. If they are concubines, four places are added to the common number. Moreover, the treatment of eunuchs and palace women is very different, and eunuchs can be issued according to grade. For example, the six eunuchs in the empress dowager's palace could receive five or two months of silver every month, and the publicly funded money was consistently one hundred, including five pieces of rice.
Figure 5: Portraits of eunuchs in the Forbidden City during the late Qing Dynasty. In fact, in the ancient imperial palace, whether it was a eunuch or a palace maid, they were all lowly slaves. If the person who serves is generous and benevolent, the person who is a eunuch is still comfortable. If the master who is served is arrogant and domineering, it is also common for a palace maid or eunuch to hang himself and die.
Figure 6: The portrait of the imperial palace lady in charge of the emperor in the late Qing Dynasty, the old photo of the imperial palace woman in the old photo is strong and strong, tiger back and bear waist, which shows that the life in the usual life is very moist and rich. In addition to these high-ranking palace maids and chief eunuchs, usually those eunuchs and palace women who had just entered the palace lived a cautious life. In normal times, if you accidentally do something wrong, you will be scolded by your master, and if you are serious, you will be punished with a cane. #Late Qing Dynasty##Old Photos##History##老照片上的故事 #
