History of eunuchs in Yujin

Eunuchs have been married for a long time.

As early as the Tang Dynasty, the eunuch Gao Lishi, who was famous for flirting with Yang Yuhuan in The Drunk Imperial Lady, was not only a real person, but also possessed very prominent power. During the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty, he was a general in the Bohai Sea. Li, Yang, An Lushan, An, Gao Xianzhi and others. The powerful ministers of the Tang Dynasty, though gifted, were all rich in knowledge, so they could play a leading role. The minister called it "Weng" and the emperor called it "General" without a name, which shows how great his momentum is!

Hejian has a knife and pen officer, Lu Yanhu who works in Beijing, and a female ethnic girl. Lux saw her beauty and wisdom and married her. Later, Lux used his power to talk to officials, and all his children were handed down by Wang. When his wife died, he was given a funeral at home and abroad. From the first to the grave, the car rides endlessly. This is the story of the first famous eunuch who married a wife.

Li, the eunuch at that time, was also a hot dignitary. Because the emperor doted on him, he married a young lady. This lady is the daughter of Zhuo Yuan, so Zhuo Yuan is the secretariat of Liangzhou. Yuan Zai, assistant minister of the Ministry of Finance, is a kindred of Zhuo Yuan. Because of such a close relationship with the auxiliary country, the two became close friends. Because of the promotion of the auxiliary country, Yuan Zai soared, from the affair under the same book to Marshal Sima marching all over the world.

Wang Yan, the son of Wang Jian, the owner of Shu five dynasties ago, had an affair with a eunuch's wife after inheriting the throne. The name of this romantic eunuch is Wang Chengxiu. With his wisdom, he is lucky. His wife Yan is stunning, and Rebecca is also shocked. Thank you for getting a glimpse of the emperor's intentions, even though the Yanshi family communicated with the emperor. Later, Wang Yan was appointed as the special envoy of our Tianxiong Army. The couple went to Qin Zhou to take office, but Wang Yan missed them day and night. In October (969), in the seventh year of Gande, I was lucky enough to divorce Yan. Unexpectedly, years later, Emperor Tangzhuang sent Guo Chongtao to attack Shu, and Wang Yan's chariot drove to Miangu and entered its territory, and a few countries died.

The facts in the above sections are all from official history or in the notes of various scholars. Ye Sheng's Water Cave Diary in the Ming Dynasty said: In the Ming Dynasty, eunuch Chen Wu married two wives. At the beginning of Tianshun, Wu Cheng, the late eunuch, gave his wife Zhuang Tian and lived in Beijing for the first time. Zhu Zhu's Zhu Yu said that the eunuch Liang Shicheng's wife died, and Su Shu, his party and Fan Wen went to pay their respects in person. From this perspective, it can be said that it is not a miracle for eunuchs to get married. Huang Yu, a scholar of the Ming Dynasty, wrote in "Copy of the Year of Shuanghuai": "This Cao Man is still there, and he will be close to his daughter." This is also a one-sided reason. In all fairness, in addition to instinct, in the ancient patriarchal society, it was also the unanimous requirement of eunuchs and their clans to get married and have children, so it was natural for them to get married and have children. Because all previous dynasties did not pay much attention to a woman's worth, at the same time, a woman's family was willing to climb a powerful relative for wealth; Therefore, even eunuchs are willing to send their daughters home. As far as Weng Xu's two families are concerned, each has its own reasons, but the girls who are eunuchs' wives are bitter!

This is not surprising. There is another ridiculous record in Sun Chengze's Dream in the Spring of the Ming Dynasty. The main idea in the book is that eunuchs and ladies-in-waiting in the court of the Han Dynasty are often married. When Emperor Wu had no children, Empress Chen ordered the maids to wear the emperor's clothes and sleep with the Empress. Emperor Wudi played it and blamed it on adultery between men and women. Therefore, all the ladies-in-waiting later married eunuchs, and their intimacy exceeded that of real couples. From this point of view, there are too many such things, which shows the absurdity of fornication between emperors and eunuchs and the tendency of officials under authoritarian regimes.

As for Li at the end of the Qing Dynasty, he was made a eunuch, which is said to be out of humanity. He also had four wives, children and grandchildren. Later, I had a special article to introduce it in detail, all of which were quite researched.

The eunuch lost power and got a wife.

Chen Lue said that the eunuch went to the penis. There is a cloud in the chapter of "Five Tones and Five Flavors" in Huangdi Neijing Lingshu: "The official will lose muscle and hurt the pulse, the blood will stop bleeding, the skin will scar, the lips will not camp, and they will not be born." Of course, Zong Jin refers to the penis, but no one has ever witnessed whether it is to remove the root or just the tail. If there is disability, there must be affection; What's more, thought is in people, don't you care about Yan Hao's privacy? Or castrating a chicken only removes the testicles, and the situation has not been lifted, which is even more ridiculous. Because the tendon is there, the feeling of the ganglion is there, and the testis is just an organ that transmits semen. At most, they can't have children. It doesn't matter if you go, even if you don't lift it, the meaning and form are still there. How can such a person fit in the palace? It is said that there is a special pool in the bathroom of Beijing officials, and no one can peek inside, so few people know it. However, if the eunuch has a wife, many people know about it. I wonder what's the use of this nominal "wife"?

According to this record, eunuchs have wives, both in Tang, Song and Ming Dynasties. It's hard to know what to marry. Or the eunuch should tidy up the house, sew, wash things, and hire a maid. Why do they have to clear their names and get married? And thanks to the emperor, one wife is missing, and it is strange to increase it to two or three.

Originally, the emperor in the palace was a man who lived with many women, but he needed someone to serve him. The most suitable way is to be filled by a person who has the same service ability as a man, but has no ambition and desire of ordinary men. In order to meet this demand, the wise man came up with a way to castrate men. Once they lose power, they can't get their hands on women, that is, they can be cold-hearted because they have no heirs. It's really a good way to get out of trouble and kill two birds with one stone. So castrated people became the most suitable people around the rulers, and the eunuch system was greatly developed. In fact, the palace is filthy and disorderly, and eunuchs do the most evil, so the result is counterproductive to the idea of using eunuchs at the beginning.

Eunuchs love animal whips the most.

Chen Lue also said that eunuchs like to eat "indecent things" such as bullwhip and donkey whip, which seems to make up for their own shortcomings with shapes, almost like today's embryos or hormone preparations. See Action in Chronicles, written by Liu Ruoyu, the eunuch of the Ming Dynasty. According to the cloud:

My wife is also good at eating atypical things of cows and donkeys. People who say "shut up" will have tools. Everyone who says "hand in hand" has tools. If a sheep has a white waist, the outer kidney eggs are also. As for the white horse's egg, it is particularly rare, called "dragon egg".

Only the cloud is delicious, but it doesn't say the effect after eating. It is also like a modern tonic. The so-called form is supplemented by form, and meaning is just that.

Roman women kept eunuchs.

I didn't find much information about the records of foreign eunuchs. According to Roman records, there are four kinds of castration:

One is to remove all the penis and testicles, the other is to remove only the testicles, the third is to crush the testicles without removal, and the fourth is to remove the vas deferens.

However, some people think that cutting or crushing the testicles or cutting off the vas deferens, if applied to undeveloped boys, can completely cut off sexual desire; If applied to a man who has developed, his sexual desire still exists, which can last for at least ten years before it declines. And because of this operation, sexual endurance is excellent, there is no danger of pregnancy, and the ability of fornication is increased. It is said that the ladies in Roman times loved such men very much, so they even kept them.

Egyptian monks used to sell castrated slaves as one of their businesses, and their castration method was terrible. Most of the castrated children are children aged six to ten, and they are bought by monks at low prices. During castration, the penis and renal capsule are forcibly pulled out, and then suddenly cut with a sharp knife. The way to stop bleeding is to tie a sponge on a wooden stick and dip it in hot oil to cover the wound. After the bleeding stops, wrap it with a cloth coated with ointment; And dig a hole in the ground, tie the hands of the hacked person behind his back, bury them in the hole, only show his head, and take them out after a while. But on average, only one of the four people will not die, so it is also expensive to sell.

Eunuchs talk about the past, and spring scenery is boundless.

I wrote about the period of friendship and puppet government in the life history of Yinyuan. I made a special trip to Beiping (then called Beijing) to buy medical books and visit everywhere in my spare time. One day, I came to Beijing Central Park (now Zhongshan Park) for tea, and found that the tea drinkers there liked to pull a talking old eunuch nearby and ask them to talk about the old things in the palace. Fortunately, these old eunuchs are so poor that they can come at once, just like the white-headed ladies talking about Tianbao, waiting for the tea drinkers to give alms.

Although this Yuxuan is a place for drinking tea, in fact, the so-called tea ceremony is not only for drinking tea, but also for ordering food at will, which is rich and frugal. Once, I chatted with an old friend who is a doctor in this teahouse. He pointed to several old people in the distance and said that those were eunuchs left over from the Qing Dynasty. I asked him if he could bring a eunuch to chat. The doctor's friend said, "This eunuch is smelly and ugly, and he is not on the table." But he talked to them several times, and he remembered some of them. What is recorded below is what the doctor said to the eunuch.

The eunuch who served in the palace was in charge of the emperor's sexual affairs. Every day before and after the emperor had dinner, he knelt in front of the emperor with a tray. The tray is full of signs made of ivory. On the head of each sign, some are yellow, some are red and some are blue. These colors represent the ranks of queens, princesses and nobles, and there are many names on them. The emperor picked a sign and the eunuch resigned. The woman that the emperor wanted to dote on that night was the one written on this brand.

The emperor's seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courtyards are still general legends. In fact, it is not enough, because the emperor chooses beautiful women to enter the palace every year, and there is no specified number, especially in several emperors in the late Qing Dynasty, and the number of concubines in the harem has not reached a sufficient number.

The emperor doesn't understand these beautiful women in the palace at all. The eunuch arranged toothpicks for the emperor to choose. Of course, the queen's logo is placed in the first row of the disk every day, but the emperor sometimes chooses a familiar name or deliberately chooses an unfamiliar name to try a new one.

A year passed quickly, and there were many concubines and many concubines, so the eunuchs in the respectful room were respected by such women all the year round. Anyone who gets help from the eunuch has a chance to put her brand on the plate. Because of this relationship, eunuchs in the worship room can "collude" with these women. Some of these four words are about matter, while others are about action. Only virgins can't mess around. Once the emperor is in favor, his wisdom will expand and his interest may increase.

Eunuchs do everything, but some people say, "The lame don't forget his deeds, the dumb don't forget his words, the deaf would rather listen to his voice, and the blind would rather peep at his light." Therefore, the eunuch's desire for women in the palace is still very strong. When the women in the palace are hungry, they have to let the eunuchs do whatever they want. The so-called casual, readers can get the message, I don't need to put it into words.

Besides, except for the queen, other women have to take off their clothes and wrap them in the quilt before they are favored. The eunuch will send them to the dragon bed, uncover the bottom of the quilt, and then let the favored concubines climb into the quilt. When having sex, there is a eunuch outside. At a certain time, the eunuch knelt down and shouted four words "time is up", which is the rule. Some emperors may clap their hands and call for the eunuch to wrap it up and resign; Some emperors may be too happy to care when. Although they shouted "It's time" outside, they turned a deaf ear. Some people prefer to spend the night. In the movie, a eunuch shouted "Be careful of the dragon body", which is quite funny.

Favored women may be selected again the next night, or they may not be selected again after the spring breeze. The deep palace is full of spring resentment, and almost every woman will taste this taste. A virgin who has not been pampered may be silent, but once she is humane, she will miss her, so there is a substitute, and young antlers are the most suitable. Because velvet antler is soft and hard, the medicinal materials can be sliced as thin as paper, which shows that its soft and hard are just right. It is a misunderstanding that people everywhere call antlers Mr. Jiao, that is, people in the south call them "Mr. Guo".

Of course, the dissatisfied women in the palace like young eunuchs best. They think that eunuchs are finally men, so little eunuchs often get close opportunities, which is called "sleeping eunuchs". This is an open secret in the palace, and everyone knows it. Eunuchs were bold enough to set up "black sedan chairs" and "black cars" instead of palace women. As long as they have money, they even put beautiful men outside the palace in the palace. This has also been seen in the notes of various families, and it is also a special action of eunuchs to mess up the palace. As for the eunuchs reborn with jade stems, he can get the favor of this dissatisfied wife because he can give them practical needs.

Pilose antler dry horns are actually sold.

In Taoism, there is a technique of collecting yin and nourishing yang, that is, eating "yin jujube", that is, ordinary black dates, and putting them in a certain place to absorb the most yin in yin is actually something containing human hormones, which has little effect, but some people are superstitious about this food and regard it as a treasure for nourishing the body.

Taoism was originally the state religion of China, while others such as Buddhism, Catholicism and Christianity were introduced from abroad. However, in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, the so-called people who knew Taoism first smoked opium, which weakened them to the point that even Zhang Tianshi in the late Qing Dynasty smoked opium, which was the first factor in the decline of Taoism.

The second is the betrayal spell, which is thought to drive away ghosts. Amulets made by ordinary Taoist priests are already very expensive. If they were made by Zhang Tianshi, the value would be even higher. But times have changed, people have broken superstition and don't believe in this kind of witchcraft. This is the second factor in the decline of Taoism.

The third is alchemy, which converts cinnabar into mercuric chloride, and then converts mercuric chloride into mercuric chloride and Huang Dan. Originally, it was a chemical method invented by Ge Hong (Tao Hao Bao Pu Zi) in the Three Kingdoms period and advocated by Tao Hongjing (Tao Hao Hua Xiang) in the Jin Dynasty. They are all pioneers in making chemicals all over the world. But later, it was changed to Jin Shiding and burning chicken, which killed Han, a famous writer in history, and later generations were involved in the lawsuit. Cao Xueqin also wrote that Jia Jing died after serving an alchemist (see the sixty-third chapter of A Dream of Red Mansions), which is the third factor in the decline of Taoism.

Fourth, there are many secret words in Taoist books, which are nothing more than yin jujube, Yin angle, three whips and other things, thinking that they can strengthen the body and replenish essence. This is the fourth factor in the decline of Taoism.

However, I have to point out that Taoism has changed recently. Explaining the doctrine is mainly about self-cultivation, which can be seen in Hongkong, Taiwan Province Province and Singapore. Moreover, there are translations of western Taoist documents in all countries. Recently, a Taoist priest went to Europe to preach, and his popularity was unprecedented.

It was only in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China that some famous pharmacies in Beijing still sold "silver glue". It is said that this horn is the dry horn of velvet antler, but this internal horn has been eliminated, and the horn is dry and strong, indicating that there were many women in the palace at that time and eunuchs helped it to do evil. Of course not now.

The so-called black car eunuch

In the last article, the old eunuch talked about the old things in the palace and mentioned the "black car", which was not detailed and accurate enough. I found a detailed record in Tsui Hark's Notes on the Qing Dynasty, and now I copy the original text as follows:

There are places in the capital where black cars stop to entertain guests. People who drive black cars have no lights at night, and the windows are tightly covered, so that passengers don't know the way, so they are called black. There is a tea shop somewhere. If you want to take this bus, go to have tea, preview its code word and tell it to Dr. Tea. Dr. Tea uses argot to get a car, regardless of the price. Tourists can get on the bus without saying a word to the driver. The driver took it to a house and pushed the guests out of the car. The coachman told the people in the room in argot again and left in a hurry. That is, a maid with a lamp leads a guest into a place, such as an embroidery worker of a large family. Everything is vivid, and no special Liu Ruan walks into the rooftop. Early in the morning, the coachman called the door and hurried back to his original place, without asking the value of the car.

Zhang, a doctor in bei chu, and Mei Fengyi, an official in Beijing, want to invite friends to a restaurant for a drink. If you get drunk at night, the car won't get home. Wandering alone, passing through a Committee driveway, the car came unsteadily. Zhang thought his family sent him, so he invited him. Crossing the car, twists and turns, not distinguishing things. Long to the Zhumen, ten stone steps, several dangerous walls. As soon as Zhang Fu came down, an imperial envoy dragged the object as a curtain. Zhang is terrible, but he can't support it. I feel that there are many people around me, pushing or pulling, and there are also many people who turn over the door. When Russia arrived in a place, many people solved the curtain. From left to right, there are two or three beautiful ladies-in-waiting, with bright eyes and white teeth, blowing like orchids. Depending on the place, the drawing room is lit with candles, the bead curtain is half-hidden, the ground is covered with flowers, and the shoes are soft. There is a beast stove in the hall, which is full of fragrance. Zhang was at a loss and asked the maid in a hurry. The maid smiled and said, "Since you are willing to come here, why do you ask?" Suddenly, a beautiful woman walked behind the screen, walked to the front and saw Zhang Yue: "Hey, isn't this A Lang?" Gu Chang's handmaid said, "You don't judge?" "It's all wrong," said the maid. "It's like this now!" Zhang Muli did not dare to move, and whispered to the beauty for a long time. The beauty's face was slightly shy. After entering the screen, several ladies-in-waiting pushed Zhang into their rooms. At this moment, Zhang Cai gradually realized that he was still timid and just listened to the maid. It is easy for a maid to get dressed and take a bath, and it takes some time to finish the work. At that time, the beautiful woman stood in front of the hall with a smile. The maid brought wine and food, and Zhang sat with the beauty. Zhang Can didn't drink much, and the maid advised him with a pot. Zhang Mian drank a few cups, and the beauty was slightly drunk. The maid removed the dishes and sent them back to bed, and the mattress was clean. Woke up in the middle of the night, thirsty for tea, I thought the beauty was asleep. There were some fruits on the bed, and I reached out and took them away. When the lamp was about to burn out, my hand accidentally touched something, which was very strong and square. If I suspected it was a seal, I would just grab the fruit. Halfway through the food, the beauty woke up when she heard the knock on the door, and urged Zhang to put on clothes together, just to prove that she hid the seal in her bag. Compared with going out, the maid is still the same as before. Get in the car and go home. It's not clear yet. Printed out, it looks like a small ivory square with a notice engraved on it and a big sweat. Guy is an assistant minister in a certain department, and Zhang is also a doctor in his department. The more years, so-and-so dare not tell anyone.

The "black car" recorded in Qing Ren Lei Chao was well known to the people at that time. The eunuch in the palace not only knows that he is incompetent, but also tries to find a beautiful man to solve the problem for the palace concubines and other girls in order to compete for favor. After finding them, they entered the palace by black car and were sent out of the palace by black car before dawn. Moreover, there are a group of aristocratic families with wives and concubines, and this kind of black car often goes in and out of the small door in the back garden. As the saying goes, what is good in the world will be effective in the next life.

Being a eunuch can be divided into rich and poor.

Every few years, dozens of people enter the palace and voluntarily castrate themselves as eunuchs, which is a stepping stone to get money and power. But it's not that simple. There was only one eunuch in the Qing Dynasty who had four titles, five titles, six titles and nine titles. However, the eunuchs who were awarded this title were not among the hundred. In the imperial palace of the Qing Dynasty, the total number of eunuchs was 3,000, much less than that of the Ming Dynasty. According to this system, the rest are eunuchs without rank. Eunuchs will gradually get old, and when they are idle, they will move to the eunuch hall outside the palace, which is called "the hall of protecting the country and loyalty" in Beijing. There were eunuchs in the Eight Banners Government of Guangzhou in Qing Dynasty, so there were eunuch temples in Guangzhou and eunuch temples in Fuzhou. During the Japanese puppet regime, I went to Beijing to visit the Forbidden City for three days, because I could only visit one line and three lines in one day, which was only an important tourist spot. If I can't see the whole picture in ten days after a comprehensive tour, then there is a historical basis for the Forbidden City to accommodate 3,000 eunuchs. According to Pu Yi's self-report "My First Half Life", when he was emperor behind closed doors, there were still eunuchs in the palace, but the number was very small. These eunuchs steal national treasures, but they are very skilled. They want to check them and burn them immediately. Even firemen can't enter the palace.

As for the number of retired eunuchs in the eunuch palace, it is beyond reproach and the details are unknown. In my collection, there is a door view of Gong 'e Temple, which is a retirement home for the elderly.

Eunuch was founded by General Gang Tie.

Once upon a time, there were halls or temples in all walks of life, such as the Wang Yao Temple in the medical field, which dedicated Shennong or Sun Simiao as the founder; Three carpenters are the ancestors of Luban, and there are Luban temples everywhere; People who go fishing and sailing at sea all worship the queen or Mazu as the guardian god, and all stipulate that a certain day of the month is a worship period every year.

Eunuchs also have ancestors. If you want to check history, you should choose Sima Qian, the Taishi Gong of the Han Dynasty, as the founder, but although he was also punished by corruption, after he was released from prison, he traveled around the world, studied prehistoric books and wrote historical records. He has never entered the palace or been a eunuch, so most eunuchs don't regard him as the founder. Near Balizhuang, outside Beijing, there is a "Hall of Protecting the Country and Loyalty", commonly known as the eunuch ancestral hall, which was founded by General Gang Tie. I found out that this general Gangtie was a real person, a great eunuch of Emperor Yongle of the Ming Dynasty, and other historical sites are unknown.

As for this treasure hall, it occupied a large area and later became a sanatorium for eunuchs. The eunuch's tomb is also nearby, and eunuchs in Ming and Qing dynasties are concentrated here. In the early years of the Republic of China, there were still many old eunuchs living in the "Hall of Defending the Country and Loyalty" and living a bleak life in Baishou Palace. I think they are all dead now.

Another record is that in the Qing Dynasty, Xinglong Temple was built to accommodate some eunuchs because of the large number of eunuchs. No one can explain the name of this temple. According to my humorous explanation, it may be that I hope their descendants can "prosper" and "develop".

Behind the "Hall of Protecting the Country and Protecting Loyalty" outside Balizhuang, there are dozens of acres of vacant land, which is the burial place of eunuchs after their death. However, although this open space is very large, it has already been buried in layers. I don't know which emperor "circled" dozens of acres of land and opened up a "Four Seasons Village" to bury them.

The so-called enclosure is a regulation of the Qing Dynasty. As soon as the emperor issued an imperial decree, someone rode a horse. In the south corner of the discovered clearing, there is a bamboo pole with a rope tied to it. This rope is very long. The officials of the enclosure rode to the west, inserted another bamboo pole, then to the north, inserted another bamboo pole, and then to the east and south.

Originally, eunuchs also had considerable influence outside the palace, so enclosure was also to please eunuchs. The bigger the enclosure, the better. (Press: I want to tell another story. In the past, the racetrack hall in Shanghai was enclosed by the concession authorities in accordance with the laws and regulations of the Qing Dynasty, covering an area of more than 500 mu. At that time, the landlord had to submit to humiliation and collected some money. There is only one strict ancestral grave, a family of Chinese medicine practitioners, who refuses to dig a grave to collect money. At that time, the British also respected the theory of Feng Shui, so they allowed graves to exist, refused to move graves, and allowed their descendants to worship at Qingming. This is my one-sided talk about enclosure. Harbin Garden is also an enclosure, and the ancestral grave of the famous doctor Zhang Longpeng has also been circled, but silver trading is not implemented. Therefore, a small door was specially opened on Fuxi Road [now Yan 'an Middle Road] for Zhang's descendants to go in and worship. )

The eunuch abdicated and was buried with the land.

After the eunuch retired from the palace, a "guild" organization appeared, which was slightly similar in nature to the later guilds. Because eunuchs have a lot of wealth, this guild has also saved a large amount of provident fund for eunuchs to support each other and bury each other. There is also a "eunuch cemetery" near Haidian in the western suburbs of Beiping (Haidian is called "Haidian" in historical documents). There are not only eunuchs of the Qing Dynasty but also eunuchs of the Ming Dynasty in this cemetery. This cemetery was guarded by special personnel in 1967.

Those big eunuchs naturally don't need the care of the guild. Take Zhang Xiaode as an example. After the death of Queen Mother Yulong, he retired from the palace. First, he lived in a luxurious mansion built by himself in Yongkang Houhutong, Beiping, and there was a building that imitated the health-preserving den in the imperial garden of the Forbidden City, which was far more exquisite than ordinary princes and ministers. Zhang Xiaode later moved to the British Concession in Tianjin and married several wives. On one occasion, one of his concubines couldn't stand his destruction, so she went to the patrol room in the British Concession and cried, complaining that she was often beaten and tortured in her small home. This made Xiao angry and thought there was a noise at home, so he bribed the police officer in the patrol room with money and sent the little woman crying for help back to Xiao's home. Of course, she returned to the jaws of death.