In ancient feudal society, the emperor was often accompanied by a close eunuch Zhang Luo, but the outside world could not help but wonder, why did these eunuchs invariably carry "dust" everywhere? And not taking it will also provoke the anger of the dragon!
"Whisk dust", also known as whisker, tail, is a kind of instrument attached to the front of the handle with a bunch of animal hair or filamentous hemp brown, first appeared in the Han Dynasty, as a whisk to remove mosquitoes.
In Taoist culture, dust is a commonly used artifact of Taoists, and some martial arts schools regard it as a weapon, there is a saying that "holding dust in hand is not a mortal", pointing out that dust has the meaning of dust removal and otherworldliness; Chinese Buddhism used the same allegory to introduce it, but dusting later developed into a weapon in Taoism.
However, the eunuch's dust has nothing to do with the otherworldly, and its real purpose is to "clean", because in the vast palace, the eunuch's initial position is to take care of the emperor's palace, and the personal eunuch follows the emperor in and out every day, where the emperor rests, the eunuch must preemptively brush the dust off the seat, and the movement is too slow to make the emperor unhappy.
However, not every eunuch is eligible to take the dust, generally only the eunuch who is a high-powered leader is qualified, so in addition to the actual use of cleaning, the dust is a symbol of the eunuch's status in the palace.