China's imperial dynasty of nearly two thousand years has given birth to countless emperors and countless concubines. These concubines of emperors other than empresses, that is, concubines, are collectively called internal women, so what are the names of the internal women of the Song Dynasty?
For the internal women, the Song Dynasty inherited the old system and basically followed it. Song Renzong's "Heavenly Divine Inner Destiny Women's Character Order" was customized, and the inner life of the woman was divided into five grades: the first class was the lady: including the four concubines of the noble concubine, the lady concubine, the virtuous concubine, the second class was the concubine, including Taiyi, Guiyi, Shuyi, Shuyi, Shunyi, Shunrong, Shunyi, Wanyi, Wanrong, Zhaoyi, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiuyuan, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan; the third grade was Jieyu; the fourth grade was a beauty; the fifth grade was a talented person and a nobleman, and the order of quality was as follows:
First class: Madame
1. Guifei: Before the Song Dynasty, Liu Junxiaojian, emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, began to set the title of noble concubine for three years, one of the three wives of the emperor, second only to the empress. The rank of the lady of the inner life is the four concubines, that is, the noble concubine, the lady concubine, the virtuous concubine, the noble concubine is the first of the four concubines, the grade is the positive one product, and the rank is regarded as the third duke. In the Northern Song Dynasty, it was difficult for the emperor's concubines to be noble concubines, most of them were spelled out because they gave the emperor more children. The most famous noble concubine of the Northern Song Dynasty may be Zhang Guifei of Song Renzong. Zhang Guifei's birth is not prominent, she entered the palace at the age of eight, because she was smart and beautiful, she was included in the harem by Song Renzong, first a talented person, then a Xiuyuan, and soon after she was demoted to a beauty, and suddenly rose to a noble concubine in the eighth year of the Qing calendar.
Regarding her, there was an interesting story that zhang had a cousin named Zhang Yaozuo, who had been an official in the prefecture and county for many years, and because she did not show the lintel, she hoped to strengthen her own door through Zhang Yaozuo, so she repeatedly blew a "pillow wind" in Song Renzong's ear and asked the emperor to appoint Zhang Yaozuo as an envoy. After Song Renzong put forward this proposal in the court, it was fiercely opposed by Yushi Baozheng, and when he spoke, Bao Zheng also spit on the stars and splashed the emperor's face, and the emperor kept wiping his face, and his expression was very embarrassed, so he had to cancel the proposal. Later, when Zhang Shi asked about this matter in front of the emperor, Song Renzong said without anger: "Bao Zheng resolutely opposed your uncle's matter, and even sprayed spit stars directly into my face." You just want to xuanhui envoy, Xuanhui envoy, don't you know that Bao Zheng is a royal history? Despite this, it is an indisputable fact that Emperor Renzong of Song favored Zhang Shi, and not only rose sharply to a noble concubine, but after her death, she was also posthumously honored as Empress Wencheng.
2. Shufei: It is said that during the Three Kingdoms period, the Wei Ming Emperor Cao Rui began to give the title of Shufei, who "regarded xiangguo as a prince and was better than the princes." "In the Song Dynasty, Lady Shu was one of the four wives of the emperor, Zheng Yipin, and the rank of the third duke.
3, Defei: Defei began with the Sui Emperor, when the Sui Emperor, began to place the name of the three wives, that is, guifei, shufei, defei, this is the beginning of the name of defei, defei grade is zhengyipin, rank three dukes.
4. Xianfei: Xianfei was first placed in the Tang Dynasty, and after the noble concubines, concubines, and concubines, new concubines were added, and four concubines were established. Song along the Tang system, Xianfei belonged to the rank of lady, Zheng Yipin, rank three dukes. Of the four concubines, Concubine Xian was the last.
Second class: concubine
Among them: Taiyi is located above Guiyi and Shuyi, and the grade is Zheng Erpin; Guiyi is located above Shuyi, initially from one product, and later changed to from two products; other Shuyi, Shu rong, Shunyi, Shunrong, Wanyi, Wanrong, Zhaoyi, Zhaorong, Zhaoyuan, Xiuyi, Xiurong, Xiuyuan, Chongyi, Chongrong, Chongyuan, etc., in the order of listing, the grade is Zheng erpin.
Third class: Jie Yu. It was first placed when emperor Wu of Han was born. Jie Yu is of the first rank among the inner women, second to the concubine, higher than the beauty, and the three products.
Fourth class: beauty. During the Warring States period, King Huiwen of Qin began to place beauty, second to Jie Yu, higher than cairen, and zheng sipin.
Fifth class: talented, noble. Talent is inferior to beauty, higher than nobles, and is five products. And the noble person is the last order of the inner life woman, and there is no quality.
When it comes to the concubines of the Song Dynasty Palace, the most legendary one is probably Liu E, the wife of Song Zhenzong. Among the many empresses of the Song Dynasty, the one with the lowest birth, the most bizarre experience, the greatest power, and the most controversy is probably Liu E, the empress of Emperor Zhenzong of Song. The "History of Song" says: "Gong Mei, a Shu man, took forging silver as his profession and brought him (Liu E) into the Beijing Division. It shows that Liu E initially went to the capital with a man surnamed Gong to work. By coincidence, the then prince and later Song Zhenzong saw Liu E, glanced at her, looked at her, and then sent money and gifts, gave the house to the car, and finally hugged the beauty, took her into his Xiangwang Mansion, and staged an oriental version of the story of the prince and Cinderella.
Since then, the prince has no distractions and "pampers the special room" for Liu E. The crown prince's nursing mother was quite unkind to Liu E, and went to Song Taizong to file a complaint, and Song Taizong was greatly angry and asked the prince to send Liu E away. The crown prince had too deep affection for Liu E, so he had to settle her in the palace to command the envoy Zhang Qi's family. Fortunately, there were lovers who eventually became dependents, and after more than ten years, Song Taizong died, and the crown prince succeeded to the throne, and then joyfully welcomed Liu E into the palace and was named a beauty, and later the original empress died, and Song Zhenzong crowned Liu E as an empress. And this Empress Liu, who is written into the story of "Tanuki For Prince", can be described as a legend of life and a legend.