What is the difference between eunuchs and eunuchs?

As a special product of feudal society in China, eunuchs have long been familiar to people, but they are often confused with eunuchs and eunuchs. For example, Ci Yuan interprets "official" as eunuch and eunuch, and "eunuch" as an official in the palace, which is a misinterpretation. In fact, eunuchs, eunuchs and eunuchs are all eunuchs who were exterminated by the palace, but there are still strict differences between them. Eunuchs before the Eastern Han Dynasty were people who served in the Inner Palace, including eunuchs and scholars. The Eastern Han Dynasty equated eunuchs with eunuchs because "eunuchs learned to use eunuchs, and it was not complicated to transfer officials in the later Han Dynasty". It is correct to interpret "eunuch" as "an official who serves the emperor and his family in the palace". But there is another sentence behind, "From then on, eunuchs became proper names of eunuchs". Obviously, eunuchs are taken as one thing here. Thus formed an understanding: eunuch = eunuch = eunuch. However, according to the record (biography of Zheng He in Ming Dynasty): "Zheng He ... started as an official and hated holding eunuchs", it can be seen that eunuchs are not the same as eunuchs and eunuchs. Zheng He, a castrated man aged 12, participated in Judy in Rebecca. Because of his meritorious service in Jingnan, he was promoted to eunuch when he became a father, and "eunuch" was obviously above eunuch. Eunuch is eunuch, eunuch is eunuch, why "hold"?

As can be seen from the above analysis, it is not difficult for us to draw a conclusion that eunuch and eunuch were completely different concepts before the Eastern Han Dynasty, and only after the Eastern Han Dynasty did they merge. Eunuchs are eunuchs with higher status than ordinary eunuchs, or eunuchs' leaders. These three should not be confused.

In people's impression, eunuchs and eunuchs are the same thing, but there are differences. According to literature research, we know: first, the earliest eunuchs were not all eunuchs; Secondly, the concepts of eunuchs and supervisors in feudal society are different. Ancient eunuchs are the general names of officials serving the emperor and his close relatives in the palace. Before the Eastern Han Dynasty, not all eunuchs were eunuchs. "Learning to use eunuchs" was after the Eastern Han Dynasty. The word eunuch first appeared in Liao Dynasty, which was one of the titles of officials in Liao Dynasty. In Liao Dynasty, there were eunuchs in the prison of Taifu, Shaofu and Secretary. The Yuan Dynasty inherited the Liao system, and all the supervisors also had big supervisors. Not all the third-class officials in Yuan Dynasty eunuch Yao's prison were left behind by punishment.

In the Ming Dynasty, the relationship between prison and eunuch was relatively fixed. The eunuch must be the supervisor, but not all eunuchs are supervisors. Eunuch is the boss of eunuch, with a certain level of senior eunuch, naked. Eunuchs became eunuchs in the Qing Dynasty. Eunuchs and eunuchs were confused because eunuchs who served the emperor and the royal family in the Qing Dynasty were named as big prison countries. -Hong Shen "Eunuchs and Eunuchs are Different"

References:

Song Fuxiang-Analysis of Eunuch, Eunuch and Eunuch