Chapter 24 3. The Queen's Palace

The back bedroom hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation is actually the harem of the Eight Dynasties of Yong, Qian, Jia, Dao, Xian, Tong, Guang, and Xuan.The East Wai Room and West Wai Room in the Back Sleeping Hall of the Hall of Mental Cultivation are, in a sense, like the East Sixth Palace and West Sixth Palace on both sides of the Housan Palace. There are five rooms in the back bedroom of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, with the hall in the middle, where the throne of the emperor is set.The East Nuan Pavilion and the West Nuan Pavilion are two rooms each - equivalent to one bedroom and one living room in a folk house.The bedroom in the East Nuan Pavilion and the bedroom in the West Nuan Pavilion each have dragon beds, and the curtains are lowered at night, so that strangers don't know which bed the emperor sleeps on, just in case of accidents and to ensure safety.

On both sides of the back bedroom hall are the Tishun hall in the east ear room and the Yanxi hall in the west ear room, which are symmetrical from east to west, with five rooms in each.During the Tongzhi and Guangxu periods, because the emperor was young, the Empress Dowager Ci'an lived in Tishun Hall, and the Empress Dowager Cixi lived in Yanxi Hall.The two sides of the back bedroom hall are the East Wai Room and the West Wai Room, facing east and west, with six rooms each.The layout of these six rooms is very interesting. In today’s words, each room and one living room (two rooms) form a set. Live six concubines.

What is the enclosure for?It is the value room for concubines.What is a sleeper?It was to be favored by the emperor at night.Someone asked: Why do you need to surround the room when you see the emperor spend the night in the concubine's room in the TV series?In fact, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty did not spend the night in the concubine's palace at night.why?for safety. How did the concubine come to the enclosure of the Hall of Mental Cultivation when she was in her own Sixth Palace?Generally speaking, after dinner.Dinner in the Qing Palace is usually at Weishi (two or three o'clock in the afternoon).This habit may be related to the fishing and hunting life of their ancestors outside the customs.At that time, the Jurchens went up to the mountains to hunt or gather ginseng. It was dawn, and after breakfast, they went up to the mountains to hunt or dig ginseng. After a hard day, they returned home after noon and had dinner.In winter, it gets dark early outside the pass, and it will be dark at five or six in the afternoon.They work hard and are used to going to bed early and getting up early.The Qing emperor went to bed early at night and woke up early in the morning.For example, Emperor Kangxi waited for Yin time in the morning, that is, he got up around four o'clock in the morning and went to bed early at night.The concubine should also accompany her in her daily life.

When the concubine goes to bed, she is notified first, dresses up, comes to the enclosure, waits for the decree, and goes to the same room.How do you know who's going to sleep?According to records, after the emperor's dinner, the eunuch presented the green card with the concubine's name in front of the emperor.According to his own interests, the emperor turned over the green-headed card of the concubine who was going to sleep, indicating that he wanted the concubine to come to the same room. What about the concubines who were not selected?I can only be accompanied by a lonely lamp in the enclosure, or chant scriptures to pass the time.Attention everyone, each enclosure has a Buddhist niche for concubines to worship Buddha and chant scriptures.Where are they at night?There is no clear record in the history books. Some people said that they went back to their own rooms in the palace to spend the night. Some people thought that the palace gate was closed at night, and they might not be able to return to the palace until the next morning.

"Grand Views of Unofficial History of the Qing Dynasty" said: The concubines who serve the bed first take a bath, smell incense, make up, and then don't wear clothes, wrapped in white silk, and carried by the eunuch to the dragon bed in the Nuan Pavilion.Some gentlemen asserted in the book: This is impossible!It is impossible to say that it is possible because no one has seen it; it is impossible to say it is possible because no one has seen it.In short, the secrets in the palace were not written by those who saw them, and those who wrote them did not see them.It's all based on hearsay, true and false.

Someone said: When the emperor came to the harem, he was accompanied by so many court ladies.In fact, the emperor rarely saw court ladies.All those around the emperor were eunuchs, and there were no court ladies.Only by chance can a court lady be favored by the emperor. If she is not pregnant, that's fine; Some people said: The emperor can't see a few women, and he is surrounded by eunuchs and concubines, which is very pitiful. Someone asked: Do concubines sleep with the emperor all night?no.After the concubine is favored, she will leave.Why?Possible reasons: First, for safety.If the emperor fell asleep, but the concubines did not sleep, they would have malicious intentions and murder the emperor!Second, for health.After the concubines left, the emperor could sleep peacefully and rest.Third, for work.The emperor had to go to court early (except for the lazy emperor), and he had to get up around four o'clock in the morning.If the concubine doesn't leave, she will be in love with each other, and she will miss the early court.

Someone asked: Did Emperor Yongzheng have a son named Hongluo (yan)?some.What is the true history of the four-corner relationship between Hongluo, Yunli, concubine (Zhen Huan), and Emperor Yongzheng?Is it the same as Hongluo in the TV series? Let me talk about Yunli first.Prince Guo Yunli is really a real person. He is the seventeenth son of Emperor Kangxi, nineteen years younger than Emperor Yongzheng.When Emperor Yongzheng came to the throne at the age of 45, Yunli was 26 years old. He was the king of Guojun and managed the affairs of the Fanyuan (responsible for ethnic affairs and other affairs).Two years later, the decree said: "The king of Guojun is sincere for the country and upright, so it is appropriate to give the prince a salary." Enjoying the treatment of the prince, he will soon be promoted to the prince.It is a fat job to be in charge of the household department and also manage the three warehouses of the household department.Before Emperor Yongzheng died, he left an edict to Prince Guo to assist the government.After Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, he ordered the prime minister's affairs to be allowed, and the prince was given double salary, and he was exempted from banquets and kowtows.Prince Guo is familiar with poetry and books, and is good at calligraphy. His descendant, Mr. Aixinjueluo Qixiang, has an ink stain recording "Yuan Ren Sentence" in the family of Prince Guo:

Leaning on a stick to stand on the lake, the setting sun brightens Yuanyu. Seeing dikes across the water, traveling Xinghao is hard to stop. The light boat swings lightly, and the fish blow the waves and spit out the waves. Looking around the mountain, I feel good, pushing the peng and chanting again. Yuan Dynasty Juguo Prince Bao (printed) Because Yunli was weak and sick, he was ordered to work in the mansion.In the third year of Qianlong's reign (1738), at the age of forty-two, Emperor Qianlong came to pay homage in person.Yunli had no sons, and at the request of Prince Yunlu of the 16th elder brother Zhuang and others, Hongluo, the sixth son of Emperor Yongzheng, was adopted as the successor, mainly to continue the incense and solve the problem of the county king's treatment.This Hongluo could not be the illegitimate son of Yunli and Emperor Yongzheng's concubines.

Said Hongluo again.Hongluo is recorded in "Manuscripts of Qing History Zhuwang Biography" as the sixth son of Emperor Yongzheng. He was born in the eleventh year of Yongzheng (1733).When Emperor Yongzheng died, Hongluo was three years old.In the third year of Qianlong (1738), the six-year-old Hongluo was born to Prince Yunli, the seventeenth son of Emperor Kangxi.Hongluo is twenty-two years younger than his fourth elder brother Hongli.Hongluo is good at poetry, elegant and good at collecting books.He is very strict with his subordinates. He often gets up in the morning and puts on his clothes to patrol.Be thrifty and good at living and accumulating.Because of the fire in Yuanmingyuan Kyushu Qingyan, Hongluo arrived later, talking and laughing with the princes, Emperor Qianlong was unhappy, convicted him, demoted him to Baylor, and was relieved of all errands, that is, dismissed from all positions.From then on, I stayed at home behind closed doors, depressed, and became seriously ill two years later.When Emperor Qianlong visited the palace, Hongluo kowtowed and blamed himself in the couch.Emperor Qianlong held his hand and said sadly: You are young, so you are punished a little, how can you be so ashamed!Restore the county king and die soon. (Tang Bangzhi's Four Spectrum of the Qing Imperial Family: The Prince, Volume 3)

Let's talk about the concubine.As the concubine of Emperor Yongzheng, it is absolutely impossible, absolutely impossible, to have an affair with the imperial doctor, or with his younger uncle Yunli.When an imperial doctor treats a concubine, two people must go together. When taking the pulse, they can't feel the pulse directly with their hands through the curtain.According to the biography of concubines in the history of Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were no concubines in the Ming and Qing dynasties who went to the nunnery to practice. This kind of story used to be Wu Zetian in the Tang Dynasty.The emperor's brothers generally do not see concubines.

I always say that dramas and TV dramas are stories, they seek vividness and excitement, not history.Watching historical TV dramas can increase historical knowledge, and historical TV dramas must not be regarded as real history.