How to deal with wives and concubines in the harem after the death of the Qing emperor

After the death of the emperor, the new emperor ascended the throne, and many concubines of the old emperor (called "toffee" and "toffee" to the new emperor) lived in the Cining Palace in the Forbidden City and were not allowed to leave the palace.

Many queens end up burning incense and worshiping Buddha in this palace. The nickname of Cining Palace is "Widows' House", which is how it came about. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, some new emperors ascended the throne at a very young age. At that time, Tai Fei and Tai Ai were not old enough to meet the new emperor.

In the late Qing Dynasty, the imperial court spent a lot of money, so the empresses of Cining Palace did some needlework for the eunuchs to take outside the palace in exchange for some money.

There are many Buddhist temples and statues in Cining Palace, and there is also a garden in Cining Palace. The road is relatively flat. This is because toffee is older and it is easier to walk.

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Outside the Longzong Gate of the Forbidden City, there is a group of buildings with Cining Palace as the main body. Some people call it the home of widows in the Forbidden City.

Because the original owners here were the empress, concubines and concubines of the first emperor. Among them, women entered the palace mainly through the draft. Although the Ming and Qing emperors were not like the "three thousand harem beauties" in the Tang Dynasty, the number was not small.

Empress, imperial concubine, concubines, nobles, Chang Chang, Yan Xu, etc. They all live in the East-West Sixth Palace on both sides of Gan Qing Palace. Once the emperor died, they all moved to Cining Palace, Shoukang Palace, Ningshou Palace and Shouan Palace according to the ancestral system.

Life here can be said that there is no chance to laugh, only in the lonely and monotonous life of "beauty is old and white." Occasionally, there will be joy in Cining Palace, such as giving the Empress Dowager Cixi the emblem and conferring the empresses. Grand celebrations are held here on New Year's Day, winter solstice and Empress Dowager Cixi's Wanshou Festival.

So that the widows of the Qing dynasty could get together to drink and have fun. But such activities are only a few days a year after all. There are many Buddhist temples in the complex of Cining Palace. During their bored widowhood, the Empress Dowager, Tai Ai and Tai Fei burned incense and worshipped Buddha, trying to seek spiritual comfort and sustenance from the illusory Buddhist world.

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