Ancient emperors' harem beauties Source: 1. They were originally from the war, and the female prisoners in the defeated country would become the concubines and maids of the victorious emperor. 2, a friend's gift, during the Warring States period, beautiful women were given to each other as gifts by emperors, which was more common. 3. The courtship of the emperor and the dedication of courtiers. Ministers and dignitaries pay tribute for various reasons.
4. According to certain rituals and systems, select and collect beautiful women from the people to fill the harem. For example, there are many in Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Han Dynasty: Traditional Chinese Medicine and Ye Tingcheng. The Book of the Later Han Dynasty (volume 10) records that (Liu Xiu) sent a Chinese medicine practitioner and Ye Tingcheng to visit a good girl in Luoyang Township. Those who have reached the age of 13 and are under the age of 20, with beautiful appearance, legally belong to the harem, depending on whether they can or not, but board the palace. Lin Bao Wu Xun often served Chao with the imperial edict of Bing Xu. Miscellaneous notes of Han dynasty
Jin Dynasty: Emperor Wu of Jin also sent officials to drive cars and take his entourage around the counties to find beautiful women. After the eunuchs chose the women, the queen chose them herself.
Tang Dynasty: Flower and Bird Messenger. An envoy who specially chooses concubines and maids for the emperor.
Song Dynasty: One is the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which used to be called Neizhong Quality School, Wu Xinyi School and Neihuangmen School. Hou province, for short, has all-knowing, all-knowing, assistant-knowing and class-taking officials. The other is the Ministry of Internal Affairs, formerly known as the Imperial Palace and Huangmenyuan, or the former province for short. Its officials include all left and right classes, all vice classes and classes. The latter province is particularly close to the emperor, and its status is higher than that of the previous province. Inherited the system of concubines in the Tang Dynasty and the system of choosing concubines every year. Moreover, this choice of concubine is also exquisite, which is divided into appearance selection and talent selection. Every year, a young lady is selected from the ranks of officials with nine grades or above to enter the palace, which is called a "lover". After careful screening, those lucky enough to stay can reach Ye Ting Palace: ... The official shows the jade card (registration), and you can choose between "appearance selection" and "talent selection". Then he will become a "beauty" or a "talent". After becoming a talent, you can move to the East Park of Yeting Palace: …… and after becoming a beauty, you can move to the West Park of Yeting Palace:
Ming Dynasty: The eunuch in charge of the beauty pageant was the eunuch in charge of the ceremony, and was an official in the secretarial office of the Sleeping Bureau. The daily work is to register who the emperor slept with and the year, month and day of sleep, so as to investigate the pregnancy of maids.
Qing Dynasty: Minister in charge of beauty pageant. In order to ensure the supply of harem staff, the Qing dynasty stipulated that a female monk should be elected every three years. According to statistics, in the Qing Dynasty, * * * was held more than 80 times without interruption. The draft girl is different from today's beauty contest. It doesn't mean that you can sign up for the competition if your physical condition and age meet the requirements, because you need to pass the qualification examination-see if you are a flag girl. During the period of choosing a female teacher, the Housing Department (following the tradition of Ming Dynasty, there were six departments in Qing Dynasty (officials, households, ceremonies, soldiers, punishments and workers), and the heads of each department (university students in charge of this department, ministers, assistant ministers, etc.) were called departmental officials, while doctors, foreign ministers and seven small Beijing officials in charge of all departments under this department were called departmental officials. Leaders attending the meeting, leaders' assistants, Xiao Qi faction, leaders, heads of families, and wives of my parents or uncles' parents and brothers will personally take their daughters to the Shenwumen Gate of the Forbidden City, which will be arranged in turn and handed over to the internal staff for supervision. This is the first choice. On the day of reading, all the female practitioners got off at Shenwumen, arranged in order, and were introduced by eunuchs to Shunzhen Gate for the emperor and queen to choose from. The location chosen varies from generation to generation. During the Tongzhi period, Empress Ci 'an and Empress Cixi chose to watch Xiunv in Jing Yi Xuan, while Empress Guangxu chose to watch it in the Tiyuan Hall in the West Palace.
Maids-in-waiting are also among the daughters. They are wrapped and helped by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. They are selected once a year and sponsored by the Accounting Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Their position in the palace can't be compared with that of the female monk, who mainly serves the palace.