In ancient times, the status of the emperor was supreme, and after becoming an emperor, he could not only enjoy privileges in terms of food, clothing, shelter and transportation, but also in terms of feelings. Every few years, there will be a draft in the palace, and only young women with clean and good looks are eligible for selection.
Among the large number of beautiful women, the emperor would choose the ones he liked the most, and those who were not good enough to be liked by the emperor became palace women.
These palace women entered the palace in their teens, they will be released in their twenties, after leaving the palace, they are equivalent to restoring their free bodies, and they can marry freely in the future, and when the last emperor Puyi abdicated, the palace also dismissed a large number of palace women, but none of these palace women dared to marry, what is going on?
After the promulgation of the abdication edict, Puyi also lived in the Forbidden City for a period of time, but the Forbidden City at that time was no longer the imperial city of the past, everyone in the palace was in danger, and Puyi could not afford the huge expenses, so he took the initiative to dismiss the palace women and eunuchs.
Thinking of the previous master-servant relationship, he also took the initiative to give each palace eunuch a hundred oceans as a severance payment, which can be said to be the end of benevolence and righteousness. In this way, many palace women left the Forbidden City where they had lived for many years.
And the outside world has long changed, everyone is struggling in the tide of the alternation of the old and new eras, they used to live dependent on the royal family, there is no ability to make a living, after leaving the palace there are only two ways out, either marry or go to the home of a large family to continue to be a maid.
However, with the advent of a new era, everyone is pursuing independence, freedom and humanitarianism, many large families are no longer in groups of servants, and at most they employ nannies and cooks.
Moreover, compared with eunuchs, palace women have relatively little strength as women, and it is impossible to do hard work for a long time, which is also their shortcoming. In the context of such an era, most of the palace women have no good way out after leaving the palace, and even many people have fallen into the wind and dust.
In fact, in ancient times, most of the palace women would choose to marry after leaving the palace, and after having a complete family, even if they could not be rich and noble, they could at least live a stable life, so why did the last batch of palace women in China not make such a choice?
In fact, in ancient times, it was not so easy for palace women to remarry, and since these palace women did not get the emperor's favor in the palace, it showed that their posture was not human, and the average age of the palace women when they left the palace was about twenty years old, which belonged to the elderly leftover women in ancient times, and the average man would not choose such a woman to marry.
And the last batch of palace women who were dismissed were about thirty years old, and it was definitely not a simple thing for women of this age to marry at that time, not to mention that they had served the emperor in the palace.
At that time, the common people were prejudiced against the palace women, believing that they were definitely not innocent by the emperor's side. Therefore, after the last batch of palace women left the palace, in the eyes of everyone, they were innocent old women, and it was not so easy for them to marry out.
In addition to these two points, there is another reason that is very important, Puyi once said that this last key reason was broken. Life in the palace is very depressing, and the palace maid, as the lowest slave maid, needs to be careful in words and deeds after entering the palace, and lives in worry and trepidation every day.
Whether it is cold winter or hot summer, the palace women need to overcome the harsh climate to serve the master, and it is very tiring to get up early and get dark every day. In the case of physical and mental torture, many palace women suffer from hidden diseases, in the words of Chinese medicine, "accumulation of diseases, the formation of blood stasis." ”
Women suffering from this hidden disease will have a very difficult time giving birth, and most palace women have this disease. There are so many dinks in modern society that some people may think that not having children is not a big deal. But in that era, the woman who could not give birth was the "hen who would not lay eggs", which had no value to the husband's family, which was the most important factor hindering the marriage of the palace women.
In the eyes of most men in ancient times, women were like a commodity, and if this commodity had no value, it was not worth anything for them. The label of the last group of palace women in their eyes was that they were old, innocent, and not yet fertile, so men with slightly better conditions would not choose them as spouses.
There may be some men with bad conditions who are willing to live with these palace women, but they have seen more glory and wealth in the palace, and they do not look up to too poor people, so most of the palace women end up alone. Actually analyzed so much. The fundamental reason why these palace women had a miserable life was the oppression of women in feudal society, and the last batch of palace women actually became victims of the change of the times.