What is the difference between the empress dowager's handmaid and the empress dowager's handmaid prevailing in ancient China?

In costume dramas, the eldest girls of well-known families usually bring a maid, but these maids also have different types. Have a plenty of ladies-in-waiting, have a plenty of dowry girl. People often confuse these two kinds of maids, but there is a difference between them.

The difference between a maid and a dowry maid is that a maid wants to sleep with her. The maid means that her bedroom is connected with the master's bedroom, and she should be on call and wait on her at all times. Even if the master has sex, he should be served, and sometimes the master will let him have sex together. If the hostess is unwell or pregnant, she will arrange for the maid to share the room with her master.

Most of those maids followed their young ladies from their own homes, and they had a good relationship with them since childhood. When a young lady gets married, she will follow her to the man's house, just like a young lady's dowry. But after you marry into your husband's family, you should take care of your husband like a young lady.

The maid in the room has been with this man since childhood. They are personal maids who have been serving the young master. When the young master grows up, they will enlighten him physically. Their existence is more like concubines, but they are different from concubines, because these maids have no birthright and are just ordinary servants around the young master. Only with the consent of the principal can she become a young master's concubine, but her low status cannot be changed.

The reason why some people can't tell a maid-in-waiting from a maid-in-waiting is that when these maid-in-waiting follow a young lady into a man's house, she will gradually complete the transformation into a maid-in-waiting status. Will also start to serve the young lady's husband, and then the difference between her and the maid may not be so obvious.

Although these things can't be understood at all in modern times, in ancient times, women were really in a low position in the social environment at that time, which can be called the cultural evolution of the times.

And there is no such thing as a girl now. Although many people have nannies at home, these nannies take care of food and clothing at most, which is very different from the ancient maids.