A Study On The Empresses' Reproduction Of The Song Dynasty

The empresses system in the Song Dynasty,which is a continue of the Tang Dynasty,have constantly add its official rank in feudal times.In the time of Huizong,it has been a complete system,and the number of the empresses also achieve a sharply augment.In general,the empresses of the Song Dynasty have lower family background,especially in the time of Huizong,the empresses' family background start to go down obviously.In this respect,the Northern Song Dynasty is neither more than the Southern Song Dynasty.Due to the significant relation between the reproduction of the empresses and the throne inheritance and political stability,the royal household tend to bear more children,and pay more attention to the birth of princes.In the Song Dynasty,the medical level achieved a big progress,advanced medical philosophy and strict medical system offered well medical security for the reproduction of the empresses,which has a system rite,there are full-time staff in charge of the empresses' diet and daily life,and there also is a specific taboo of pharmacy.Usually they start to prepare for the production three month in advance.After childbirth,they will chose a suitable place according to a given figure to ensconce bed of the puerpera and the baby's maza.The empresses have totally given birth to 187 children,100 prince and 87 princess.among them,the number of the princess is more than prince.and the Northern Song Dynasty is also more than the Southern Song Dynasty.Because of the various physical fitness and relationship of the emperors and the empresses,the number of the empresses,as well as the social environment,the number of those children appears to be unbalanced.Although there are good medical condition,many of the offspring of the empresses in the Song Dynasty die early from various diseases,which also occur in adult children,and this is connect with the diet of the empresses and the foster-nurse system.The diseases are split into physiological maladies and psychological illness.The imperial physician can't cure the former one in many times,there are evenmedical errors which directly lead to the death of some children.The latter one usually appears to be anxious and scared,which result from shock and high pressure.For the empresses,when they breed,their children grown up,get married or succeed the throne,they will get the chance to receive award and improve their official rank,which will change their destiny.In the Song Dynasty,the empresses who breed children can get tolerance easily,although it will be effected by the fact whether the princes survive or not and the princes' status,they still got higher tolerance level than the empresses that don't have any children,who are easily abated or expelled from the palace,sometimes they are allowed to marry ordinary people or become a nun or Taoist priest.Generally speaking,there is a system run through the empresses' reproduction.The empresses' select and upgrade all have a traditon,the same as their children's birth and grow up and get married.when they are pregnant,the emperor will award them a lot of stuff,include gold and silver and delivery goods as well as food.In the same time,there are full-time stuffs in charge of nursing.