The tradition of the concubine may be the subject of many a male fantasy, but for the young girls, it means living in seclusion, waiting on and for the man, in a state of total dependence. For a man, a concubine is a sign of success. The deal is simple: money in exchange for sexual favors, but with exclusive rights. Their leader has become a private detective and travels across China in search of concubines.
In fact, the revival of the practice has brought about an increase in the number of private detectives. The phenomenon of concubines can be found in all social classes. Many of the girls have come from rural areas to escape poverty, and first started as sex workers, before being chosen as concubines. Others are approached at private parties, or even universities. These young women go from extreme poverty to a life of great loneliness and boredom in strange cities where they know no one.
And they wait. In exchange, they have an apartment and a car, but they must be available for their partner who is often a married man, with his family somewhere else.
With the exception of drinks and a snack in the evening, the emperor often consumed nothing else. The royal physician was forbidden from touching the emperor directly. To check the emperor's pulse at a respectful distance, a member of the court attached a thread to emperor's wrist and the physician grasped the thread.
In the 16th century Matteo Ricci wrote: "The kings When they did leave the royal enclosure, they would never dare to do so without a thousand preliminary precautions. On such occasions the whole court was placed under military guard. Secret servicemen were placed along the route over which the King was to travel and on all roads leading into it. He was not only hidden from view, but the public never knew in which of the palanquins of the cortege he was actually riding.
One would think he was making a journey through enemy country rather than among multitudes of his own subjects. Emperors weren't the only ones who received this kind of treatment. Commoners had to kowtow lay down forward on all fours and touch one's head to the ground in the presence of high officials. Some Emperors and high officials sometimes disguised themselves as ordinary people so the could learn what the masses were thinking. Palace concert.
In the struggle the Emperor lost an eye but survived with the help of his Empress. The concubines were punished nu having their limbs pulled off thier bodies and their heads were displayed on poles.
Emperors also had male consorts. According to legend the Han Dynasty Emperor Ai said he would rather cut off the sleeve of his robe than disturb his male lover who had fallen asleep on it. The Emperors had many women to keep them occupied. One emperor in the 11th century had women the nearest round number of one third of , the number of days in a year at his immediate disposal, including one empress, three consorts, nine spouses, twenty-seven concubines, and eighty-one assistant concubines.
See Sui Dynasty. Some emperors believed they could gain immortality form having sex with as many women as possible but never ejaculating. See Yellow Emperor. Emperor Wu Of Jin reigned to B. This, for Emperor Wu, was important work—so much so that he made it a crime to get married until he was finished picking his concubines.
By the end, Emperor Wu had more than 10, women in his harem. To choose his partner for the night, he would ride around in a cart drawn by goats. Listverse, January 12, ]. Emperor Xuanzong reigned A. Since it often only took a couple of years for someone to get fed up and assassinate the king, that meant that being a concubine was only a temporary position.
Xuanzong, however, stubbornly refused to die. His reign went on for 44 years, and his harem just kept getting bigger. By the end, he had over 40, women. When he was 60 years old, Xuanzong made his own son divorce his wife so that he could make his daughter-in-law one of his concubines. She had her own harem of men. It was believed that organizing the Emperor's sex life into a regimented order was essential to maintaining the well-being of the entire Chinese empire.
The great Chinese calendar clocks of the 10th century were not used to keep track of time but rather to decide the schedule, rotation and time for the women who slept with the Emperor. Secretaries kept record of the Emperor's sex life with brushes dipped in imperial vermillion. In China and some other Asian countries age is determined from the moment of conception not from the moment of birth. The Imperial Chinese believed that women were most likely to conceive on the nights nearest the full moon, when the Yin, or female influence, was strong enough to match the potent Yang, or male force, of the Emperor.
It was believed that on these nights children with strong virtues would be produced. As a result the empress and spouses slept with Emperor around the full moon and the lower ranking women, whose main function was to nourish the Emperor's Yang with their Yin, slept with him around the time of the new moon. A rotation described in the Record of the Rites of the Chou dynasty B. Bargarh Ranapratap High School students support plastic free Odisha.
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