The Forbidden City in Beijing is the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing dynasties in China, also known as the Forbidden City, in the first month of the nineteenth year of Yongle (1421 AD), Zhu Di moved the capital to Beijing, and in the following hundreds of years, it has become the political center of China, the Forbidden City has been repaired by the two rulers of the Ming and Qing dynasties, the atmosphere is elegant, magnificent, and has a very high artistic value.
According to expert statistics, the Forbidden City has a construction area of 150,000 square meters, more than 70 large and small palaces, and more than 70 wells for water, that is to say, basically every palace has a well that can take water and use it as a way to wash and drink.
According to the Records of the Emperors of the Qing Dynasty, they never drank the water in the wells of the court, not only did the emperor not drink it, but the empress concubines did not drink it, where did the water they drank come from? It turned out that there was a Jade Spring Mountain next to the Summer Palace, and the spring water here was sweet and delicious, and the emperor's concubines would sometimes drink the water here. When you don't drink spring water, you will buy water from outside the palace at a high price. Only when some of the female eunuchs were really thirsty would they drink the water from the well.
What is the secret of these wells, so that the emperor would rather spend a high price to buy water from outside the palace than drink from inside the palace? This is inseparable from the living environment in the Forbidden City and the stories that have occurred in past history.
Zhu Jianshen was the eighth emperor of the Ming Dynasty from 1464 to 1487, that is, Ming Xianzong, during the Tumu Revolution, Zhu Jianshen's father Zhu Qizhen was taken captive by the Wa thorns, his uncle Zhu Qiyu took the throne, the imperial court was in turmoil, the dark tide was turbulent, and the two-year-old Zhu Jianshen did not live with his mother, but was taken care of by the 17-year-old Wan Zhen'er.
Therefore, Zhu Jianshen and Wan Zhen'er also had a different kind of emotion, after Zhu Jianshen became emperor, Wan Zhen'er at this time was more than thirty years old, but Zhu Jianshen still made Wan Zhen'er a noble concubine.
Wan Zhen'er is a very jealous person, she herself once had a son with Zhu Mishen but died early, after which Wan Guifei did not have the ability to give birth, she was afraid that other women giving birth to a prince would shake her position, so she quietly sent someone to poison Zhu Mishen's other pregnant concubines in the well, some concubines were poisoned, and even miscarriage.
Wan Zhen'er in the harem was the most powerful, and Zhu Jianshen was blindsided again, and he thought that the heavens were unfair to him, and no son was born, in fact, it was a conspiracy of Wan Guifei alone, so the palace did not dare to drink well water.
Although there is no historical record of this, the story of Wan Zhen'er's cruelty and fierceness has been recorded in many wild histories, so it is not known whether it is true or false. However, one thing that can be determined in the Qing Dynasty is that many people once committed suicide by jumping into a well.
In the "Biography of Zhen Huan", there is such a plot, Princess Hua let the eunuchs under her hands push the maid sent by the empress into the well, and frightened Zhen Huan not lightly, in fact, many palace eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty had no hope for the lonely life of the harem, and they chose to jump into the well to understand their lives.
There is still a Zhenfei well in the Forbidden City, which is located in the Zhenshun Gate at the northern end of Ningshou Palace, which was originally an ordinary crystal, named after Guangxu's wife Zhenfei, who was the most favored concubine of the Guangxu Emperor, but he and Cixi disagreed, and in the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900), the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, and Cixi used the excuse of taking away Zhenfei inconveniently, and feared leaving a disgrace to the royal reputation, and then pushed her down the well and killed her.
There are many secrets of this kind of thing in the Qing Dynasty, and the water veins of the wells are the same, and everyone naturally does not dare to drink the water in these wells. So the truth is very frightening. Later, the water from these wells was at most washing clothes to save the fire.