Doctoral Dissertation Study On Empresses In Han Dynasties

Empress concubine is a special group of women in ancient China.The concubines of the Han Dynasty have distinctive characteristics and important historical influence.This paper attempts to jump out of the traditional perspective of "empress subordinate to the emperor" and as a political accessory.Instead,the group of concubines in the Han Dynasty is the center,and the whole study of the empresses themselves is carried out by using the research method of combining the female history,political history and social history,in order to reveal the characteristics of the two empresses different from other dynasties’later concubines,and try to reproduce the real life of the later concubines in Han Dynasty.The paper expounds its influence and contribution to Han Dynasty.From the perspective of female history,this paper analyzes the concubines of Han Dynasty comprehensively and explores the related political problems according to the characteristics of women,their subjective initiative and subjective consciousness.Meanwhile,the author focuses on the whole society,and studies the later concubines of Han Dynasty with the relevant theories and methods of social history,focusing on their families,marriage and daily life.In other aspects,the Empresses of the Han Dynasty were put into the background of the society at that time,and discussed with the social and political characteristics of that time.The group of concubines in the Han Dynasty consists of empresses and concubines.This paper divides the concubines of the Western Han Dynasty and the Eastern Han Dynasty into different categories,according to their respective characteristics,such as their own character,the degree of being favored,whether they have children,and the situation of their mother’s family.Through a comprehensive and systematic study of the empresses and concubines of the two Han Dynasties,this paper analyzes the respective characteristics of the empresses and concubines of the two Han Dynasties,as well as the similarities and differences of the empresses and concubines of the two Han Dynasties,which is conducive to a macro grasp of the overall appearance of the empresses and concubines of the Han Dynasties.This paper makes a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between empress and monarch.The empress and the monarch are first of the husband and wife,and the most direct relationship between them is the emotional relationship.The quality of the feelings is not only related to the empress’s own happiness index,but also related to everything in the palace.Concubines live in a large royal family.,they serve their mother-in-law and empress dowager,raise their children,get along with concubines,and so on.These are family affairs between concubines and the monarch.Their behavior in family affairs would affect their fate.The real determinant of the relationship between the imperial concubine and the monarch is politics.The society with the same family and country makes the imperial concubine closely related to politics.The political connection between the empress and the monarch determines the direction of their ownership relationship and the fate of the empress and her mother’s family.This paper discusses the relationship between the concubine and her mother’s family in detail.When the empresses enter the palace,they are often accompanied by the ardent expectation of their mother’s family.If their daughter enters the palace and becomes the queen,the mother’s family will become the wife Party of the monarch.At this time,the empresses can improve their mother’s family.When the imperial power declined,the mother’s family took the absolute advantage to control the power.At this time,their daughter became the queen,which was the icing on the cake for the mother’s family.It helped the mother’s family to further extend its power to the harem.The former dynasty’s harem was full of the strength of the mother’s family,giving the empress a strong protection.Generally,the empresses in the palace,even as queens,should always be careful and not be careless.The empresses who have their mother’s family as their backers don’t have to do so.They don’t have any worries,doing the queen.In most cases,the empress and her mother’s family shared weal and woe,which is a whole.The empress may be involved in her mother’s family,and the mother’s family may also be involved in the empress.The political characteristics of concubines in Han Dynasty are distinct.In the Han Dynasty,many empresses took part in politics,especially in the Eastern Han Dynasty,when the six empresses were called the imperial court,which was closely related to the social background at that time.In the Han Dynasty,Huang Lao’s thought,social concept and social atmosphere all attached importance to women.Especially after her husband died,as a mother,she was in the highest position in her life.This is also the reason why most of the empresses in the Han Dynasty were in power as monarchs.In the Han Dynasty,seven female leaders were appointed to the imperial court,and many empresses were in power.Most of them were not in power because of their lack of political ability,or because their mother’s family depended on the situation and acted recklessly,which interfered with the normal development of the imperial government.Of course,there were other complex social and political factors.Women in the Han Dynasty had a higher status than those in the later dynasties,when their thoughts were more and more tightly bound.The concubines of the Han Dynasty lived in the royal family and were at the top of the society,especially with political status and social status.The political status of concubines is distinguished by their different ranks.The political status of concubines in the period of motherhood is much higher than that in the period of wife.No matter what kind of family they came from,their social status would be generally improved after they enter the Imperial Palace,and their social status would change with various factors.The imperial concubines group of the Han Dynasty is the first group of imperial concubines since the unification of China,which has had an important influence on the present and future generations.Its various related systems have also been relatively complete,and had a profound impact on the imperial concubine system of later dynasties.