Maids in the late Qing Dynasty recalled: How lucky were Emperor Guangxu and Princess Zhen? (figure)

Memories of palace ladies in the late Qing Dynasty: How can Guangxu have a blessing and a precious princess?

During the ten years when she got along with the old maid-in-waiting, she talked a lot about Guangxu, but only a few words. For example, Guangxu is timid and most afraid of thunder in summer. When it rains heavily, you should close the doors and windows and let the eunuch stand on both sides covering his ears, but he also likes to listen to the sound of heavy rain draining through the sewer in the harem. He often comes to a pavilion in the northeast corner of the imperial garden in the rain. There is a stone faucet hanging high in the pool below. The rain from the harem gushed out from this faucet and fell into the deep pool, rumbling like a waterfall and flowing into the Royal River for a long time. This is what he likes to listen to and watch best. Moreover, he is grumpy and moody, and eunuchs are afraid to approach him. He often stays up at night, gets up in the middle of the night to watch the paper, and when something goes wrong, he beats the table and scolds the bastard himself. I don't know whether to scold the throne or the eunuch, which scares the eunuch. Like these fragmented things, she said a lot, just a few words, it is not easy to describe. Come to think of it, it is also in line with Guangxu's character. "Born in a palace, longer than a woman's hand" (Song Taizu said Li Houzhu's words), he is timid and willful.

Some can be described, but not exactly. For example, "carry the palace and go to the palace."

The old maid-in-waiting humorously said to us, "Maybe everyone wants to hear about calling a lucky princess in the palace. According to legend, when the emperor summoned his concubine at night, in order to ensure the safety of the emperor, he surrounded her clothes with a cloak and let the eunuch carry them back to the emperor's bedroom. This is called' harem'.

In detail, this is not entirely the case. When the emperor slept. The eunuch presented the book to the court. Of course, the emperor was chosen at will, except those concubines who were sick or out of kindness. Then the eunuch summoned them with lanterns. The princess has been waiting for her. Decorated a little, the eunuch led the way in front, and the maid was escorted behind, so she entered the slant hall of the emperor's bedroom. It was already ready here, so I washed and dressed, took off my clothes and shouted for orders. The eunuch carried it back to the bedroom, just a few steps away. It's not from the East Palace to the West Palace, carrying concubines everywhere. -It's all at leisure. Our ladies-in-waiting knock their teeth and listen to my menstruation. When we were working in the palace, such jokes were still circulating. For example, if one of our maids is handsome and well dressed, everyone will make fun of her and say,' Oh, her head and feet are so beautiful! Moisturize like a flower, be careful, the old man (eunuch) will come and take you away at night!' It provoked a series of scolding from the other side:' rotten tongue, I hope you will marry a man with thick, big, hemp, black, strong and sideburns in the future, and lick your face like a black blind man (Northeast dialect, referring to a bear) to avoid your embarrassment!' This is also the beautiful words of ladies-in-waiting! It can be seen that there is a harem in the palace, and it is not clear when it happened.

Zhen Fei's "entering the palace" is very different from going to the harem. Entering the palace is to treat concubines as relatives and caring people, and announce their love for them in the room where the emperor handles political affairs. In the imperial court system, concubines are generally forbidden to enter the palace where political affairs are handled. At this time, concubine disguised as a man, wearing a robe and mandarin jacket, big braid hung behind her and put on a round hat. Jasper's hat is straight, with a red pimple on his head and a pair of foundation boots on his feet. She is a young boy. You can send the emperor an inkstone, or you can talk with the emperor about ancient and modern times, but you can't talk about state affairs, you can talk about poetry, calligraphy and painting, or you can play chess with the emperor. This is the most favored treatment, and others envy it. Besides, this is different from going back to the palace, mainly because of different identities. Before the Reform Movement of 1898, Guangxu's favorite imperial concubine was always like this. She often wears men's clothes and waits for the call. Therefore, people who are jealous of Zhen Fei say that Zhen Fei has interfered in state affairs, that Zhen Fei's dress is out of line with the imperial system, that she likes to dress up as a woman and does not respect people, and so on. After the old lady, she wrote a letter for this and reprimanded Zhen Fei. In fact, this is why Yulong is jealous, including Jin Fei. "

Old ladies-in-waiting only tell these things through hearsay, but they can't refer to the facts, and even fewer people remember Guangxu.

When it comes to Zhen Fei, she is not a piece of beautiful jade, let alone a person who doesn't touch mud. She also got the power and sold the title, but under the strict authority of the old lady, how can she be presumptuous? Guangxu is very sympathetic. Let's not talk about his achievements here, just his life, especially his love. We say he is the infatuated emperor. There are many court dramas now, but unfortunately there are no love dramas about Guangxu. Compared with Emperor Yang Guifei and Liang Shanbo Zhu Yingtai of the Tang Dynasty, his love affair is lingering many times.

According to the old maid-in-waiting, "After Liu came to Shanxi, she was sent to Guangxu as a page because she was Ouchibito, reliable, well-behaved and an apprentice of Li. Seeing Guangxu sitting all day, he was indifferent to anyone, and he was even more critical and indifferent to his diet. He eats six dishes and one soup every meal. No matter what others eat, he will always do this until Xi 'an. The happiest time is when Guangxu plays chess with eunuchs. He is very approachable. After playing chess, he is still like a piece of wood, his eyes are motionless, and his impatience and temper are gone. It seems that he has made up his mind to be cruel. No matter what the outside world is like, he just plays dumb. It is also very painful for people with soft blood to converge to this extent.

"All he can remember is the only intimate person, Zhen Fei."

"Guangxu fell in love with Zhen Fei at first sight. How can he know the sinister political life of the imperial court? "

"'The emperor is so kind to me that he is not afraid that others will hate me?' On a sweet day, Princess Zhen whispered to Guangxu. "

"'I am the emperor, what can others do to me!'" "Guangxu thinks he is the son of heaven. What can others do to me? This is their secret conversation from the court. So the excessive luck caused the dissatisfaction of the court, and the most important thing was of course the old lady. With the arrogant temper of the old lady, no one in the world dares to give face to those who don't accept it, only Guangxu. You just don't love the queen you married and hurt the dignity of the old lady in front of the whole world. There is no reason not to report this resentment. Guangxu only knew that the infatuated and innocent princess did not know how to converge early, so that she fell to the point of death and imprisonment. It' s not time', and the cruelty of the old lady is famous. "

Jin Fei "is in Xi 'an, and we live in Beiya (Nanya is the Governor's Office, and Beiya is the Governor's Office). When the old lady first lived in Nanya and then moved to Beiya, because the place was narrow, the queen and the emperor lived in a big house, separated by a partition, and the two houses were connected together. This may be the clever arrangement of the old lady, but Guangxu never ignored the queen, and what about the queen? Never convinced! "

"Some people say that since the death of Zhen Fei, Guangxu has moved the feelings of loving Zhen Fei to Princess Jin, which is also out of thin air. There is no such thing. Guangxu was a withdrawn and suspicious person. If he is single-minded, Jiuniu can't pull it back. He has decided that Jin Fei is unfaithful to him, and Zhen Fei is put in limbo and defeated by Yulong. He clearly knew that Jin Fei had said some unreasonable things, but he came to a logical conclusion. So Guangxu is indifferent to Jin Fei, and I can't see any goodwill towards her in Xi 'an. "