Harem System And Empresses Overview Of The Qin And Han Dynasties

This article after the Qin and Han Dynasty palace system and empresses and imperial concubines as research main content, empress palace system source to remote ages ancient, because the national scales are smaller, the emperor right also receives the certain limit, therefore has not formed has custom-made. After the the Qin and Han universal dynasty establishment, the empress palace system also gradually develops is mature, has formed the system which set of broad in scale, organic is complete, has a strict hierarchy. This developing process has experienced four stages, Qin and the Xi Han Dynasty initial period, the Martial emperor of Han dynasty time, the Yuan emperor time, at the beginning of the Dong Han Dynasty the time ,each stage respectively has the different characteristic.The quantity multitudinous empresses and imperial concubines come from differently channel, namely selects from the folk; County country or individual give to; Emperor optional; The prisoner of war and confiscates criminal family member four kinds. Because the social environment relatively loose and the feminine social position is higher, these empresses and imperial concubines mostly have a higher culture, the artistic quality and obtain the significant literary arts achievement. The empress palace organic is huge, the thousands of empresses and imperial concubines altogether have emperor a husband, this kind of extreme unreasonable polygamy creates the empresses and imperial concubines sex life not to be balanced. Minority being in good graces acts without authorization the sexual intercourse, the most empresses and imperial concubines long-term desolate house arrest, cannot obtain the normal sex life. The empresses and imperial concubines are emperor's natural servant and puppet, attached under imperial authority, does not have the personal rights and the freedom, the majority destiny erroneous, the fate is pitiful.The empresses and imperial concubines are in a woman's special social stratum, is the feudal imperial authority sacrificial victim. This article makes every effort through above several questions discussion, after clearly demonstrated the Qin and Han Dynasty under the palace system fetter empresses and imperial concubines survive the condition and the destiny home to return to.