Why were some concubines slapped or slapped once a month after they were put into limbo in ancient times?

Because all those who enter the cold palace are guilty princesses, the treatment is not even as good as that of a slave, and some slaves will be ordered to hit their mouths and boards. Anyway, no one will care about them.

Lenggong is the place where ancient kings placed abandoned concubines. Once concubines fall out of favor, they will die in the forbidden room in the palace. Generally speaking, for the dignity of the royal family, empresses are unlikely to be directly executed for crimes, so they need a place to settle down, so there is a cold palace, where concubines will suffer a lot.

In ancient times, concubines who were put in limbo were not necessarily punished every month, nor were they necessarily slapped or slapped, but there may be other punishments, such as kneeling, copying, flogging, flogging and so on.

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In the ancient imperial palace, the emperor had the saying "seventy-two concubines in three palaces and six courtyards". Once a woman who is elected to the palace falls out of favor, she will die in the forbidden room of the palace, which is very tragic. The forbidden room where women live in the harem that is out of favor in the palace is the so-called "cold palace". So, where is the "cold palace" of the Forbidden City?

To say that the palace is cold, we need to talk about the "three palaces and six hospitals" in the palace first. Among the palaces in Ming and Qing Dynasties, Gan Qing Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Kunning Palace were called "Three Palaces" together.

"Six Courtyards" refer to Zhai Palace, Ren Jing Palace, Chenggan Palace, Zhongcui Palace, Jingyang Palace and Yonghe Palace on the East Road respectively. The emperor has many wives and concubines, saying that there are "72 concubines" or "3,000 ladies and gentlemen are good". According to the Book of Rites, the system of the Zhou Dynasty was "the emperor has six palaces, three wives, nine concubines, twenty-seven concubines and eighty-one emperors".

Regarding where the cold palace of the Forbidden City is, some scholars think that there is no fixed place for it. Any place where the princess and the prince are forbidden to go in and out is commonly known as the "cold palace". Looking through the historical materials of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, we can see that there is no clear "Cold Palace" plaque in the Forbidden City, which shows that the Cold Palace is not the official name of a palace in the palace. According to historical records, several places were regarded as cold palaces in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li, the wife of the Apocalypse Emperor, offended Wei Zhongxian, the powerful eunuch, and was driven from Changchun Palace to Ganxi Palace in the west of the Imperial Garden, where she lived for four years. Besides, Ding Fei and Ke Kun have been living in the Nishinomiya. This dry west palace was the "cold palace" at that time.

During the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, before Emperor Guangxu's consort was thrown into the well by Cixi, some eunuchs later said that consort Zhen was placed under house arrest by Cixi in the north of Qi Jing Pavilion (now collapsed). This place is in the mountain gate to the west of today's town flying well. If what the eunuch said later is true, then the North Third Hospital will be regarded as the "cold palace" of the Qing Dynasty.

Reference: People's Network? After the palace woman fell out of favor, she lived in the "cold palace".