Were there really 3,000 harem beauties in ancient times? What is the basis?

Three thousand harem beauties are fake. In fact, the word "Jiali 3,000" does not refer to a specific data, but an adjective, which means that there are many concubines in the harem, and they are all beautiful.

In the film and television dramas we have seen, we often hear the lines of the harem beauty 3,000, because we know that there are many concubines of the emperor, including the mother of a country, the imperial concubine, all kinds of beautiful wives, talented people and so on. Even the place to sleep at night depends on turning over a brand. In addition, the word "Jiali 3 thousand" makes people feel that there are really 3 thousand concubines in the harem. Are there three thousand harem beauties? In fact, ancient emperors had their own exclusive residence, the Forbidden City. Living there, dealing with military affairs.

Anyone who knows about the Forbidden City will know that it was called the Forbidden City in ancient times, and it was also the imperial palace in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it was the essence of ancient palace architecture in China. At present, it is a very large and well-preserved building. Now the Forbidden City in Beijing is also called the first of the five largest palaces in the world. It is a national 5A-level tourist attraction and one of chinese heritage. Its overall area, housing and other statistical data are the most basic evaluation criteria.

According to statistics, the Forbidden City covers an area of about 725,000 square meters, with a building area of 6,543,800 square meters, more than 90 courtyards and 980 houses. In the past, people always said that there were 9,999 and a half houses in the Forbidden City. In fact, one of them is not the same concept as ours now. This means that the area surrounded by four pillars is a whole. The real data is only more than 8 thousand. According to this information, we all know that concubines have their own residences, and some of these houses are occupied, such as meeting places, cooking places, cold rooms, marking places, reception places, classes, imperial gardens and other places for other purposes.

So real concubines don't live much. Some people live in a palace, and some two or three people live in a palace. If you figure out that there are three thousand concubines, that's impossible.