How did the Han Dynasty choose beautiful women to serve the emperor in the palace?

In the first year of Zhong Ping (A.D. 184), the Yellow turban insurrectionary broke out, the world was in chaos, and wars were raging. Wuyuan County, where the story of Diusim was located, was not peaceful. In order to escape the war, Diusim's parents sent eight-year-old Diusim to participate in the selection. Selection is the selection of maids in the palace from among the people. Although diusim's story is only eight years old, she is graceful, and her parents chose this road to escape the war. The selection of maids in the Eastern Han Dynasty is quite complicated and rigorous. The first step in the selection is the county audition. People from all over the country can sign up, and people under the age of ten can also sign up. Then officially verify the applicant's family background. In ancient times, it was unacceptable to emphasize agriculture over commerce, businessmen and self-employed people, and it was also unacceptable to have a criminal background within three generations. In short, it must be rooted in Hong Miao. There is no problem in determining the candidate's family background. Each county will pay the travel expenses, and all the candidates will be concentrated in the county government and selected by eunuchs sent by the court. The focus of the audition is the family background, and Diusim's story comes from the landlord's family background. Of course, he passed the audition smoothly. The second step in the selection is the primary election. The beautiful women who passed the county audition were taken to Luoyang, the capital, and the eunuch conducted the primary election. There are generally tens of thousands of beautiful women participating in the primary election, so many people, of course, should be selected in an orderly manner. Beauty candidates are called several teams, each team has 100 people. Teams were walking in the palace compound at the same time, and bureaucrats observed whether his walking posture was indecent, overweight and particularly short, and immediately picked him out and sent him back to his hometown. There is no challenge in the story of diusim in the primary election. The third step of choice is body selection. Physical fitness selection, that is, physical examination. First, eunuchs should check the facial features of beautiful women running for election, and don't have crooked eyebrows, especially those with small eyes, flat nose, big ears and exposed front teeth. Besides, eunuchs have to look, not big feet, thick waist and thin hair. The second step of the physical examination is completed by the imperial secretary, who is the fourth level of the palace maid. They are allowed to check because this step is physical contact. Although the eunuch was castrated, he was once a man after all. Maid-in-waiting is untouchable by other men except the son of heaven.