In recent years, more and more costume dramas have been broadcast, so that the audience has a better understanding of the life of the palace, in the TV series, the emperor will have a small meeting a day, there is something to play, nothing to retreat from the dynasty, after the tide is to go around thickly, otherwise it is a micro-service private visit. So is the life of emperors and courtiers really like this in history? Many people have watched more costume dramas, and they can't help but wonder, is the ancient minister really so relaxed? What time is the commute? In this regard, the expert's answer is 10 hours a day, all year round.
According to our nearest dynasty, the Qing Dynasty, as we all know, the rulers of the Qing Dynasty are very industrious, the most industrious is the Kangxi Emperor, according to historical records, the Kangxi Emperor's last dynasty time is five more days, that is, five o'clock to seven o'clock, so the ministers often get up from the bed in the middle of the night to go to the court, to wait there before the emperor arrives, which means that the Qing Dynasty ministers will arrive at the palace before five o'clock in the morning.
In the TV series Kangxi Dynasty, the early dynasty time of the Kangxi Emperor was three to five o'clock in the morning, which required the ministers to get up earlier, and the Qing Dynasty had very strict requirements for official attendance, and commuting had to punch in, just like we are now clocking in. Secondly, in addition to normal working hours, Qing officials were also on duty, and the duty was also divided into a variety of situations, one of which was to take care of the emperor, called the early dynasty duty.
This care is not to serve the emperor's living, but the emperor gets up at four o'clock every morning and the morning dynasty, and each department must take turns to hand over the information required by the early dynasty, and some even send the relevant information to the relevant department at one o'clock in the morning, just in time for the relative department to work, if it encounters a major event, it will be even busier, such as the "autumn trial", the execution of the prisoner must be signed by the emperor, and at this time, the officials of the punishment department will always enter the palace on duty.
The Kangxi Emperor is still a bit humane, the working time is divided into winter and summer, winter is an hour later than summer, some ministers are old, you can also go to the early dynasty in two or three days, but this is of little use to officials, the Forbidden City is so big, people living outside the palace still have to get up early to enter the palace early, although some false festivals can be properly rested, but the holidays are also very few, equivalent to nothing.
After the ministers went to the early dynasty, they had to return to their own departments to deal with all kinds of things, and they could not leave work until the afternoon, so the ministers of the Qing Dynasty worked for 10 hours a day, or even more, and there were not many days off in a year, and there were lunch breaks throughout the year.
As early as the spring warring states period, the ministers went to work very early, often when the chickens were crowing, they had to get up to prepare, and when the sky was just dawn, the ministers would stand in the court and wait for the upper court. In ancient times, from such a morning dynasty, there must be a phenomenon of laziness, late to early return is very common, during the Song Taizu period, some local officials did not go to work, for this reason Zhao Kuangyin also side the board to admonish the county order, said: "Do not put in the yellow silk quilt."
According to the historical records of the Qing Dynasty, after the officials of the Qing Dynasty went to the dynasty, they had to leave work at four o'clock in the afternoon, and they did not have to go to the early dynasty, generally they arrived at work on five more days, plus the time on the road, so that the working time of the day was not ten hours, but also more than ten hours.
Therefore, the ancient officials are not as easy as on the TV series, the emperor is not casual, in fact, the emperors and officials in history are very industrious, this time to work, think about it feels hard.