How did the emperor's day end? Qianlong got up at 4 o'clock and started the boring day at 7 o'clock
I remember going to school as a child, and the teacher's favorite topic in the composition class was "My Day". The teacher's surname is Li, black and thin, and the classmates behind his back call him "Old Man Li".
"What's there to write about in a day!" Someone muttered.
"Who says there's nothing to write about?" The teacher is not deaf, so it is a sermon that "a person's life is composed of several days" sermon.
At the end, a group of people were still indifferent.
"Write it." So, the teacher said helplessly.
So, I waited helplessly to write.
It has been a few years since I understood "what is there to write in a day". Man was born, but seventy or eighty years. There are 365 days a year, and there are few days of great joy and great sorrow, but more than one ordinary day. Yesterday and now, today is like tomorrow, day after day. Knowing a person's ordinary day, Shu Ji learned about his life. The same is true of the supreme, supreme, and noble emperor.
Although the emperor called himself the "Son of Heaven" and called himself "a man of giving", he also had to live day by day, and his head was still hung with ancestral precepts and rituals, and he had to act according to the rules. Therefore, his daily similarity is greater.
A day to understand the emperor is a shortcut to understand the emperor, the following will take the Qianlong Emperor as an example, talk about his life in a day.
At more than 4 o'clock in the morning, there was already movement in the sleeping palace behind the Yangxin Hall, and the Qianlong Emperor was about to get up. When the lights in the room came on, the eunuch palace ladies on duty had to raise their spirits and prepare to serve.
The name Yangxindian comes from Mencius's "Nourishing the Heart Is Nothing More Than Widowhood". Before the Yongzheng Emperor, the Qianqing Palace on the central axis of the Forbidden City was the emperor's residence, and it has been so since the Ming Dynasty. No one knows why Yongzheng moved the palace to the Yangxin Hall, but since he, the eight generations of emperors have lived and governed here.
The maid folded the quilt for the emperor, brought hot water with a silver basin to serve him to clean his face, and then combed his hair and the eunuch came in with a bag of yellow cloud dragon satin on his head, please, enter the house. The emperor had to comb his hair, braid, and shave every day.
Breakfast at 6:00 a.m
After listening to the government time, the emperor can eat breakfast and then go to the court. Unlike our current three meals a day, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty had two meals a day, breakfast at 6 a.m. and dinner at 2 p.m. The gap between two meals is too long, and a meal of tea and small snacks is added at noon. Refreshments are also available after dinner and before going to bed. In this way, the meal of the Qing Palace is actually divided into four times, more meals and less food, according to the current standard of health and fitness, it is still quite scientific.
The emperor eats alone, and no one can eat with the emperor without a will. Generally, it is eight main dishes, four small dishes, and then add hot pot, porridge, soup and so on. Staples include rice, pasta and pastries.
At seven o'clock in the morning, it was the official start of the emperor's day, and he had to act according to the schedule. When seven o'clock came, the first thing Qianlong had to do was to flip the card, so as to decide the concubines who would sleep at night.
After seven o'clock, Qianlong wanted to listen to the government and introduce officials.
From 10:00 to 13:00, the recital was read at the Hall of Diligence and Pro-Sage in the Yangxin Hall.
The folding system began with the Kangxi Emperor. In order to grasp the political situation at the grass-roots level first-hand, he asked some of his close officials to secretly play the major events of the provinces they had discovered in addition to their daily official documents, and attached them to the emperor's invitation to the emperor. After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, he knew that the information transmitted by the secret fold was fast and efficient, and the scope of use of the secret fold was expanded.
Outside the Qianqing Gate, the clerk did not leave after delivering the recital, because the recital that had been sent to the emperor for approval would be issued one after another from three o'clock in the morning. If the white gauze lamp on the stone railing of the Qianqing Gate were moved up the steps, Zhu Pi's recital would soon come out, and the clerks of various ministries and courtyards would be brought back to their units.
Zhu Ping, which was approved by the emperor himself, had legal and administrative utility. The content of the Zhu criticism may be a serious political directive, but more often it is simply "knowing", "gratifying", and "happy".
From 13:00 to 15:00, the minister was received in the front hall of the Yangxin Hall for dinner.
At 15:00, read the chapter on the ministries and departments into which the Cabinet has entered and the Governors and Governors.
At 16:00, he discussed political affairs with Fu Heng, a university scholar.
From 17:00 to 19:00, enjoy the ancient cultural relics hidden in the palace at the Sanxi Hall of the Yangxin Hall.
At 19:00, take a nap.
Usually, the emperor could not spend the night in the palace of the concubines, and if he wanted any of the concubines to sleep, he could only summon them to the emperor's palace. The queen concubines each had a green head card, and as early as the selection of women, the women should be selected to write their surnames and flags on the bamboo signs for the emperor to choose. The head of the bamboo sign is dyed with green paint, so it is called the green head card. The empress dowager, who was summoned, did not return to her own palace that night, but she could not accompany the emperor all night, but slept on another bed in the warm cabinet.
At 20 o'clock, the Yangxin Hall East Warm Pavilion went to bed. Going to bed early and getting up early is a family training for qingmu in order to "inhale the righteous qi of yin and yang in heaven and earth." At the beginning of the hour, a new day will begin. The emperor was already in a dream, and the six clerks who had sent the folds had arrived at the Donghua Gate to wait for the door to open.