What was the name of the official position responsible for collecting beautiful women for the emperor in ancient times?

All women aged 65,438+04 to 65,438+06 in the families of the Eight Banners officials,

Everyone must take part in the beauty selection once every three years.

The harem of the Qing dynasty, from the queen to the maid-in-waiting.

Are all selected from the flag-bearer women.

From Shunzhi to Guangxu Nine Dynasties, there were more than 80 women in the draft.

The Eight Banners Women's School is selected once every three years. The purpose of choosing female practitioners is not only to enrich the emperor's harem, but also for the marriage of royal descendants, or the marriage of princes, county kings and their sons. The importance is self-evident. To enter the high palace walls of the Forbidden City, female practitioners must pass a series of inspections.

First of all, we must strictly examine the flag genus and age. Those who are not in the flag want to participate in the draft, and the potential is higher than the sky; Those who want to escape from the draft in the flag are asking for it. According to the Shunzhi Dynasty, all women aged 14 to 16 in the families of officials of the Eight Banners must participate in the triennial selection, and women over 17 will no longer participate. The fifth year of Qianlong (1740) further stipulates that flag-bearer women who fail to participate in the reading and selection for various reasons within the specified time will still participate in the reading and selection next time. Women who have not been selected for study are not allowed to get married privately even at the age of 20. Emperor Qianlong ordered that "the household department should pass the Eight Banners, and all girls who were not selected were not allowed to marry privately." According to the archives of the Qing Dynasty, the youngest was 1 1 year, and the oldest was 20 years old.

Each time, a female student should be selected and reported to the emperor by the Ministry of Housing. Immediately after the order was issued, a letter was written to the Eight Banners to command the yamen. Grassroots officers at all levels of the Eight Banners reported the roster of women of school age step by step, and summarized it in the Eight Banners to command the yamen. Finally, the Ministry of Housing reported it to the emperor, and the emperor decided the date of reading.

Female practitioners selected by each flag should be sent to Beijing by mule cart in advance. After the girls arrived in Beijing, the day before they entered the palace, they sat on mule cars, and the order was arranged by the participation and urging of this flag, which was called "queuing cars" and arranged in the order of Manchu, Mongolian and Han. The first one is the relative of the concubines in the palace, the second one is the woman who was selected to leave the card and was re-selected this time, and the last one is the newly selected woman, arranged according to age. Set out at sunset, enter the Di 'anmen at night, wait for the palace gate to open outside the Shenwu Gate, get off the bus, and enter Shunzhen Gate in turn under the guidance of the eunuch in the palace.

The imperial garden, sports palace, Beijing and other places in the palace were once places for reading and draft. Generally, only two flags are read every day, according to the number of girls participating in the program. Usually there are five or six people in a row for the emperor or queen mother to choose from, but sometimes there are three or four people in a row, or even one person in a row. If you have a fancy, leave her a famous brand, which is called leaving a brand; If you don't select it, you will discard the flag. Then, women who leave the brand will be re-examined regularly, and those who don't stay after re-examination are also called abandoned cards. There are two fates for female practitioners who are re-elected after re-election: one is to give them to the prince or the royal family; One is to stay in the palace, accompany the emperor and become a candidate for empresses. If you become a candidate for empresses, the procedure will be more complicated. After the first "reading", you will repeatedly "review" and have a "registered name", which is selected to leave a brand; There is a "registered name", which is a brand left by the emperor himself. Finally, we have to go through the inspection of staying in the palace, select a certain number of female practitioners who stay in the palace for accommodation, and brand all the rest.

After the death of the emperor, young empresses will move out of the original zodiac and live in a "widow's home" specially arranged for the emperor's widow.

When the word "female xiu" comes into people's sight, people's intuition is that female xiu should look like a fish in soup and a wild goose. However, there are not many beautiful women practitioners. Judging from the photos of female candidates in the late Qing Dynasty, it seems difficult to associate these faces with any words that express beauty. The recruitment standards announced by the royal family in the Qing Dynasty are character and family status. Words such as forgiveness, filial piety, gentleness, caution, noble family, and Zhongxiang Fahua often appear in the titles of the Empresses, Concubines and Concubines in the Qing Dynasty. Among them, family status plays a more important role. Emperor Guangxu's Yulong was ugly, but she was the niece of Empress Dowager Cixi, so she finally became the queen.

In the Qing Dynasty, when the emperor died, concubines who were still in their prime would move out of the original zodiac and live in courtyards specially arranged for the emperor's widows-Cining Palace, Shoukang Palace and Shouan Palace, which are often called widows' courtyards in the Forbidden City. Since then, Buddhist temples and light smoke here are the main contents of their later days.