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-This kind of peach blossom luck sounds a bit ridiculous now, but it was decided by the saints. If you don't believe me, please read the original text in the Book of Rites: "The female royal family is eighty-one people, and when it is nine nights. Twenty-seven women, when three nights. Nine wives and nine men, one night. Third mistress, when-overnight. After. When one night. On the fifteenth day. "
Think about it, the Zhou Dynasty was 3, years ago, when other people's ancestors were still climbing trees, and when they didn't know what private possession was, the emperors of China, with the help of saints, had invented a set of rules that were not only legal but also reasonable to use many backyard beauties.
However, these emperors in the Zhou Dynasty were dwarfed by those emperors who owned 3, powder and Dai emperors in later generations.
the most powerful Qin emperor in history, Hanwu, is "a little coquettish" in literary talent, but its "coquettish spirit" is the best in the world.
History shows that Qin Shihuang swept the world, and every time he destroyed a country, he must take his princess, princess, lady and beauty into the palace. Liu Xiang said in "Shuo Yuan Anti-quality": (Qin Shihuang) started the battle of Mount Li again, blocking the bottom of three springs, leaving 3 palaces in Guanzhong and 4 outside the customs, all of which were covered by bells and pans, and women advocated Excellence. * * * up to "tens of thousands of people, the music of bells and drums, endless flow." "Historical Records of Qin Benji" says: "Every time the Qin Dynasty broke a vassal, it wrote an imitation of his palace, and made it on the northern Osaka in Xianyang, facing Wei in the south, from the east of Yong Men to Jingwei, and the temple and house returned to Zhouge. The so-called princes and beauties are filled with bells and drums. " "Three Ancients' Old Stories" also recorded: "The first emperor ... showed that there were 145 temples at home and abroad, and there were more than 1, women in the harem, and they were angry with the sky (I don't know what it was, but it was rouge or coquettish)." Du Mu said in "Fu to the Abbang Palace": "There are 36 years to hide", which is not an exaggeration to think about it.
Qin Shihuang has tens of thousands of harem daughters, which is unprecedented, but by no means unique.
This record was quickly broken by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty is undoubtedly an emperor of great talent. But he was also a dissolute emperor. At the time of Qin Shihuang, concubines were divided into eight grades, and by the time of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty, the level of concubines increased to fourteen grades. Correspondingly, the number of people has increased from tens of thousands of people in Qin Shihuang to eighteen thousand people in the period of Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty. In the story of Hanwu written by Wang Jian, a native of the Southern Qi Dynasty, it was recorded: "In the first month of the Yuan Dynasty, there were 2, beautiful women from Yan and Zhao, and the rate was above 15, below 2, and those over 3 were married. There are 8, beautiful women in all the palaces. Jianzhang, Weiyang and Chang 'an Palace all belong to the same road. Fortunately, officials and women belong to each other, or they think that servants shoot, and the big ones get four or five hundred, and the small ones get one or two hundred people. Those who are often fortunate to be imperial have to live their lives and increase their salary, ranking 6 stone. Since there are many imperial concubines, those who are eager to be lucky will meet again every few years. There are many people who flatter women. Choose 3 people from Xing County, Xi 'an, and then pick up the bus. Sixteen people in the car will fill the number, all of which are natural and beautiful, not fake white and green. The same is true of those who serve Yi Xuan. Taste and say to yourself:' you can go without food for three days, but you can't go without a woman for one day.'
The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty, Records of Food Goods, also records: "There are tens of thousands of people in the harem of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who seek to conquer foreigners from outside and prosper the palace from inside."
Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty said, "You can go without food for three days, but you can't go without women for one day." It can be seen that he is indeed an energetic emperor. But even if the energy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty is vigorous, it can't meet the needs of 18, women. As the article says: "Even if someone has been favored, it will often take several years before he can be favored again by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty." Those women who have never been favored in their lives have to endure that loneliness and suffering for a long time until they are 3 years old, and when they are too old for the emperor to be interested, they will be released from the palace.
It is recorded in the history that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty "was good at Taoist cultivation (referring to house art), so he was always strong and happy." It seems that Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty completely achieved real luxury, which was much better than those weak emperors of the Ming Dynasty who could not enjoy beauty. It is no wonder that Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sighed in his "Autumn Wind": "There are many joys and sorrows, and when will you be young?" This is quite like a lyric in Kangxi Dynasty: I really want to live for another 5 years. Looking at this situation, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty really wanted to fuck him for thousands of years. Fortunately, a god of death came to take this old goat who monopolized tens of thousands of beautiful women away. Otherwise, let him enjoy it until today, and now young people really don't know where to find a good marriage.
Perhaps people who are known as the Emperor Wudi are stronger in physique and lust. For example, Sima Yan, another Emperor Wudi in the Western Jin Dynasty, went even further than the Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty in this respect, and had more patterns.
There were already many beautiful women in Sima Yan's harem, but in 273 AD, a imperial edict was issued to select women from families below the rank of official or official for the sixth palace, and it was extremely absurd to order that the world was forbidden to marry before the beauty contest was finished. In the second year, more than 5, women, including good women and young officials, were selected for the palace. "The mother and son cried in the palace and heard it." Eight years later, after he was in Pingwu, he "summoned Sun Hao to make 5, concubines enter the palace". In this way, the number of beautiful women in his harem swelled to more than 1,, so the slutty emperor with 1, beautiful women but no special love encountered a big problem: he just didn't know where to start. Later, I finally came up with a way: when I wanted to be lucky for the palace maid, I got on the sheep cart and wherever the sheep stopped, he was lucky for the palace maid. As a result, those lonely ladies-in-waiting often put bamboo leaves in front of the door and sprinkle salt juice on the ground to lure sheep to stop eating grass.
To be an emperor, it would be strange if you don't regard women all over the world as tools to vent your desires at your fingertips.
Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, perhaps the so-called Emperor Wudi, is full of energy. It is amazing that Sima Yan, the Emperor Wudi of the Western Jin Dynasty, has eight thousand harems, but the record of having the largest number of harems was not created by Emperor Wudi of the Han Dynasty, nor by Sima Yan of the Jin Dynasty, but by Emperor Xuanzong, the lover of the emperors.
We already know that these powerful emperors in China often have thousands of ladies-in-waiting (ladies-in-waiting in China can be used by the emperor at any time. According to the research of Mr. Bai Yang, a famous scholar in Taiwan Province, ladies-in-waiting wear open-backed pants. This design is designed to facilitate the emperor to overthrow and enjoy them on the spot in time. ), the average person may have thought about this question: which emperor has the most ladies in history? What is the number?
the answer is: the emperor with the largest number of maids in history was Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, who had more than 4, maids for a long time.
in the Tang dynasty, four princesses, namely, the noble, the virtuous and the virtuous, were the wives, and the harem set up six bureaus and twenty-four departments, with 19 people and 1 women's history. These are all graded, and there are quite a few maids without grades. In the first year of Baoying in Tang Suzong, 3 imperial secretaries were released at a time. In the Kaiyuan Tianbao of Xuanzong, there were only three palaces in Chang 'an, Daming and Xingqing, and two palaces in Dongdu, namely, there were 4, ladies-in-waiting (Note 6). It can be seen that there were more than 4, ladies-in-waiting of Xuanzong in Tang Dynasty, and the total population of the Tang Dynasty was 5 million at that time, which was equivalent to one wife and concubine of Xuanzong in one thousand people, more than the total number of officials in Tang Dynasty (Note 7) It can be seen that Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty deserved to be judged as the emperor with the largest number of maids in history.
Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, as an infatuated man among emperors (in fact, he is not too infatuated, and it is rumored that he is also having an affair with Yang Guifei's three sisters, Mrs. Qin, Mrs. Korea and Guo Guofu), when he has a deep affection for her, these 4, ladies-in-waiting can only look forward to the emperor's never-coming luck in vain. Since it is unlikely that Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty will be lucky to these lonely maids, why not let some out? Although the maid-in-waiting is not only used to let the emperor vent, but also used to serve the queen's concubines and sweep the floor, etc., but only in this case, hundreds of maid-in-waiting will be enough, so why get 4 thousand people? The answer can only be that Tang Xuanzong raised those 4 thousand ladies-in-waiting only for that kind of ostentation and extravagance and occasional whim.
Tang Xuanzong's own sexual ostentation and extravagance is great. He loves Yang Guifei alone among 4, cosmetics, which shows his deep affection for Yang, raises Yang Guifei and exaggerates his amazing love. Very legendary effect. It's a pity that I have suffered thousands of unfortunate maids, so I can only sit in the deep palace and wait for the beauty to grow old. Yuan Zhen, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, said, "in the faded old imperial palace, peonies are red, but no one comes to see them. The ladies-in-waiting have grown white-haired, debating the pomps of Emperor Xuanzong. " These beautiful women just died in the palace. (Of course, most of these 4, people were released in the end, but that was after their beauty died. ) 4, ladies-in-waiting became lonely and helpless green leaves for no reason, only lining Yang Guifei. It's really "one woman's love becomes ten thousand women's silence."
Huang Zongxi criticized the feudal emperor for taking the world as his private property, "ripping off the bone marrow of the world and dispersing the children of the world" in order to honor his "one-person lewdness", which seems to be absolutely correct. Even Tang Minghuang and Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who are known as Ming monarchs, have this virtue.
There were fewer maids in the Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties than in the Han and Tang Dynasties, with an average of 2-3,. In the Ming Dynasty, tasting delicious food and enjoying womanhood were the life interests, and the true joy of life was promoted. Yuan Hongdao advocated such a sensual life in "Zheng Zheng": "The eyes are extremely colorful, the ears are extremely vocal, the body is extremely fresh, and the mouth is extremely tan." The emperors of the Ming dynasty did set an example by themselves, eating and drinking excessively. In addition, his natural qualification is far less than that of a macho man like Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, so the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are often sickly, lack of energy and have a short life. Later, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty were all whimsical: on the one hand, they engaged in sex as usual, but on the other hand, they wanted to cultivate immortality and live a long life. For example, Emperor Jiajing of the Ming Dynasty believed in Taoism and pursued immortality. He built a "Tianlu Palace" in the Inner Palace, and visited the gods every day. However, if you want to live forever, you need to ban womanhood, and you can't have both. For the emperor, the purpose of living forever is to have fun forever, so that he can't be close to womanhood. What's the point of being an immortal? Therefore, Emperor Jiajing, who wants to have both sex and immortality, is very worried about this. As a result, a clever Taoist thought of a way: having sex with virgins has nothing to do with it, but it is helpful to practice. Hearing this, Jiajing immediately recruited virgins to vent his lust in Tianlu Palace, where he visited the gods. It was not easy for his emperor to engage in virgins. Fortunately, his old man was finally recruited by God when he was only sixty years old. Otherwise, it is hard to imagine the present world situation.
by the Qing dynasty, the status of maids went from bad to worse. Judging from the historical materials left now, those ladies-in-waiting in the Qing Dynasty simply became playthings for the emperor to vent his desires and tools for having children. Every time the Qing emperor had dinner-history books called it dinner. All the concubines who are lucky-that is, those who are lucky-have prepared a green head card for them with the names of the concubines written on it. The style of the brand is the same as that introduced by foreign officials in Beijing. Or more than ten, or dozens. The eunuch put these signs in a big silver plate and prepared to present them after dinner. So it is also called a meal card. After the emperor finished his dinner, the eunuch knelt before the emperor. If the emperor is lucky, he will say, "Go." If there is a sense of belonging, take the card and flip it so that the back of the card is up. The eunuch stepped down and handed this card to another eunuch, who was responsible for carrying the concubine and putting her on the royal couch. At that time, the emperor will lie on the royal couch first, and the bottom of the quilt will be scattered. When the eunuch carrying the princess stripped off all her clothes, she wrapped her body in a big coat, carried it back to the imperial couch, removed the big coat, and the princess climbed up naked from the bottom of the quilt to have sex with the emperor. The whole feeling is like ordering food, and intercourse is like eating food, slowly swallowing the naked food that has been ordered and peeled. At this point, China's food color culture has been perfectly integrated in the emperor's mouth and arms.
The number of harems owned by emperors in China and their sexual indulgence are unparalleled at all times and in all countries. It is the saying circulated by the Romans under Nero, the most lewd Roman emperor: "Romans, hide your wife well! Because Caesar, the famous goat bald, is going to triumph. " This Nero killed a wife, raped a priestess in the temple of Vesta, insulted and castrated a man named poros, and was soon executed by the Senate and the army. -forced to stab into the throat with a sword, only 3 years old when he died. The social atmosphere of France in later generations was more romantic, and the emperors and nobles were even more extravagant, even to the extent of metamorphosis. Louis XIV, known as the "King of the Sun", was one of the most dissolute emperors in Bourbon. And how many wives does he have? There are dozens. But compared with the emperor of China, it's just a piece of cake! That is to say, in India, whose population is comparable to that of China, the number of imperial harem of its king has never reached the level comparable to that of China.