In many ancient TV dramas, once the concubines of the palace angered the emperor, the emperor would loudly say: "Pull down, enter the cold palace." Then there is the frightened weeping concubines kneeling and begging for forgiveness, a place that everyone in the palace does not want to go to is the cold palace, whether it is the emperor's concubines or the palace women who serve the concubines, as long as they are beaten into the cold palace, it is almost on the verge of death, entering the cold palace is actually abolished (no longer the emperor's concubines), and the concubines in the TV series are beaten into the cold palace, most of them live in a fixed cold place. In the beautiful houses of the royal palace, in fact, most of the concubines in real history would be secluded in some remote palace rooms, and there was no fixed place. In the three palaces and six courtyards, there is a cold palace in your understanding.
The three palaces are the Qianqing Palace, Jiaotai Palace, and Kunning Palace on the middle road, also known as the "Later Three Palaces". The six houses refer to the six palaces of the East Road: Zhai Palace, Jingren Palace, Chengqian Palace, Zhong Pu Palace, Jingyang Palace and Yonghe Palace, and the six palaces of the West Road: Chuxiu Palace, Yikun Palace, Yongshou Palace, Changchun Palace, Xianfu Palace and Chonghua Palace. Because each palace is a courtyard pattern building, it is called "six courtyards". This is what people often call "three palaces and six courtyards". At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Emperor Tianqi was emperor, Concubine Li offended the powerful eunuch Wei Zhongxian and was driven from Changchun Palace to Qianxi, west of the Imperial Garden, where she lived for four years. Those who were successively reclusively lived in Qianxi were three concubines, concubines, and concubines. Before the Guangxu Emperor's concubine was dropped by Cixi, it is said that she was imprisoned in the north of Jingqi Pavilion (now destroyed). Both of these are cold palaces.
It is difficult to think of it again after entering the Cold Palace, because the harem beauty is three thousand, and in the case of not being able to see and hear for a long time, the emperor basically can't remember this person, of course, a very small number of people who have high merit in the family or the emperor's ten minutes of love.
According to the "Overview of the Forbidden City", after Zhenfei was beaten into the Cold Palace, she was taken into custody by a eunuch. Every New Year's Day, festival, or the first or fifteenth day of the first year, the eunuchs guarding her would give a lecture on behalf of Cixi, and Zhenfei had to kneel to listen to the training, and the eunuch would scold her if she was slightly dissatisfied, and after each training, Zhenfei also needed to prostrate herself and thank her. In order to make her work easier, the eunuch also stipulated that Zhenfei could only go to the toilet once a day.
The food in the cold palace can be said to be unbearable, because it is only given to them that even the palace eunuchs are unwilling to eat. Can you eat unaccustomed, you can exchange money for ah, this is not cheaper for those eunuchs.
Eunuchs liked to go to the Cold Palace because they could get a lot of money. When the concubine misses his family, he will find a way to bring something home. At this time, he could only find the help of a eunuch in the Cold Palace, and he could help the concubines run errands and make profits. Those women in the harem, in order to compete for the emperor's favor, fought every day in the open and in the dark, and it was inevitable that they would make enemies. After a concubine was beaten into the cold palace, her enemies were naturally happy. At the same time, this enemy will also buy off the eunuch of the Cold Palace and abuse her vigorously. Therefore, the eunuchs of the Cold Palace could not only get the silver, but also beg this master as the basis for future advancement.
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