"Looking back and smiling a hundred beautiful lives, the sixth house pink has no color."
Yang
A poem in Bai Juyi's "Long Hate Song" describes that Yang Guifei's beauty made the emperor's harem beauty lose its brilliance. Let Tang Xuanzong fall for it. It also makes countless people think about its beauty, and often see countless beautiful emperors' harems in TV series, each beautiful and moving, making people envious.
Bai Juyi
The Qing Dynasty was the last dynasty in Chinese feudal history, and in the late Qing Dynasty, there were already cameras, and it also gave us the opportunity to understand the appearance of ancient imperial palace concubines. You can see Cixi, Empress Longyu, Empress Wanrong, and some unknown concubines.
Empress Longyu
Seeing the appearance in the photo, I was really disappointed, one by one, it was not beautiful at all, like crooked dates, seriously doubting the aesthetics of the Qing Dynasty emperors, and also made me put a big question mark on the beauty of Yang Guifei in Bai Juyi's poem!
Empress
What is so different from what I imagined that the appearance of the Qing Dynasty concubine was so different? Everyone has a heart for beauty, I believe that as an emperor, the emperor should not be so aesthetically poor, right? In fact, looking at the historical data, we can see that all this is related to the ancient system of selecting show women.
The Qing Dynasty selected beautiful women
The transformation of the system of selecting concubines in various dynasties
Although the aesthetic differences of each dynasty will be different, the general difference will not be very large, just like the Tang Dynasty took fat for beauty, etc., but the most basic facial features must be exquisite to be beautiful, but the Qing Dynasty concubine is really ugly.
Qing dynasty concubine
According to historical records, many harem concubines of the dynasty had exquisite facial features, enchanting and moving, and were very beautiful. The reason why the concubines of the Qing Dynasty were so ugly must be very tricky in their selection system.
Before the Han Dynasty, Xia Shang Zhou Xuan Concubine was a woman captured by political marriage or war. The queen of King Jifa of Zhou Wu was the daughter of Prime Minister Jiang Ziya. King Yin's concubine, Su Daji, was also the daughter of the princes of the Su clan. In addition, through victory over other countries, the people of other countries or the women of the royal family, all those who are outstanding in appearance, are added to the harem. Some had to become palace maidens, and some had to become concubines after being pampered.
Queen Wu of Zhou
After the Han Dynasty, there were two kinds of concubines, one was to continue the previous marriage system, and the other was to start selecting women from the people to enter the palace. At this time, marriages would also be more concentrated on the daughters of those courtiers, which would make the courtiers more loyal to the emperor. But it is also prone to foreign interference in politics.
When the people choose women to enter the palace, a large number of young women will be recruited, born innocent, beautiful in appearance, but only a small number will be favored, soaring, and other women will become palace maidens, maybe one day they will be favored by the emperor.
Zhu Yuanzhang
During the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang stipulated that the selection of concubines could only be selected from the people to prevent foreign forces from affecting the imperial power. At the same time, it was stipulated that palace maids in the palace were not allowed to have an affair.
Before preparing for the draft, the imperial court sent people to all over the country to select 5,000 young and beautiful women who were born innocently, and after coming to bring the palace, they carefully screened for peculiar smells, deformities, and skin and milk, and would be dismissed before they did not meet the standards, and finally those who stayed to live in the palace for a month to observe and screen, and finally the Empress Dowager selected three people to be appointed as empresses and side concubines.
Queen Ma
Therefore, the previous dynasties of the Qing Dynasty were selected by the people through marriage, but in the Qing Dynasty, the system changed its taste.
Eight Flags Draft
As we all know, the Qing Dynasty was taken from the hands of the Ming Dynasty by the Eight Flags Army, and the Eight Flags disciples had a great influence in the Qing Dynasty, and the Qing Dynasty emperor's draft was based on the Eight Flags system, and the selected concubine must be a Eight Flags woman, which can effectively ensure the purity of the bloodline.
Eight flags
The Qing Dynasty draft is divided into the Eight Flags Draft and the Wrapping Three Flags Draft, and the Wrapping refers to the banner man of the Internal Affairs Office, and the status is lower than that of the Eight Flags. The woman selected by the Eight Flags can become a concubine empress, and the woman selected by the Three Flags can become a palace maid.
Three flags on the coating
Therefore, in the Qing Dynasty, great importance was attached to the rank of bloodline. Therefore, it is almost impossible for a folk Han woman to enter the palace as a concubine, so the TV series are all big flickers.
During the Qing Dynasty, it was also stipulated that unmarried Baqi women must participate in the draft, and if they did not participate, they were not allowed to marry for life. As long as it is a disciple of the Eight Flags, no one can escape this iron rule. Those who are selected will be given a plaque, and after re-selection, those selected will be given to a member of the royal family.
Qing dynasty showgirl
If you are left a sign for the first time and are not selected again, you can continue to run, or if you do not want to run, you will wait for the emperor to marry someone other than the royal family.
Those who were not left with a sign in the first round of selection can return home and find someone else to marry, or stay as a palace maid.
The selected showgirls were selected by the emperor first, and the rest were distributed by the clansmen.
Show girl
And the emperor can not choose the concubine from the appearance, but the family, its female family is powerful in the eight flags, even if it is ugly, you have to choose, the family power is weak, no matter how beautiful it is, you can't choose, and at the same time, you have already done tricks when you choose to leave a brand. This is also the reason why every emperor of the Qing Dynasty will not indulge in beauty and delay the imperial government, it is really too ugly, can only be busy with the imperial government, distract energy!
Yongzheng who loves to work
In the final analysis, the draft of the Qing Dynasty was firmly controlled by the Eight Flags system, under the banner of maintaining the bloodline, in fact, it was to consolidate the status of the Eight Flags, and the emperor had to rely on the Eight Flags for many things, so he had to let it operate in terms of drafting. At the same time, there will also be women born to close relatives between the eight flags, which is also one of the reasons for ugliness, and finally under this system, we see late Qing concubines, which is really called an ugly! I can only feel sad for the emperor of the Qing Dynasty!
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