The Yangxin Hall is located to the left of the Harem in the Forbidden City and to the west of the Qianqing Palace. Before Yongzheng, it was nothing more than the office of the Harem Construction Office. A group of eunuchs listened to the emperor's orders here and created some royal items for the emperor.
In the hundreds of years since this palace was built, it has only been visited by eunuchs and maids, and even the emperor has only visited a few times. There are not many records about this palace in history books.
I know that during the Yongzheng dynasty, the rules changed a lot. The Yangxin Palace became the residence of the emperor's daily life and office. The ministers of the military aircraft department were on call day and night. The beacon fire and military sentiments from the distant frontier of the empire had to knock on the door of this palace in the middle of the night. The palace gate, the so-called high wall between the harem and the former dynasty, has been broken since the Yongzheng period.
The Forbidden City built during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty is actually not only the culmination of ancient Chinese architectural techniques, but also the culmination of ancient Chinese Feng Shui.
The emperor's harem is also very particular in terms of layout. After the three main halls from south to north is Tianjie. On the north side of Tianjie Road, occupying the central axis is Qianqing Gate. Draw an east-west straight line with Qianqing Gate, that is, The inner court and the outer court were clearly separated.
To the south of Qianqing Gate is the emperor's country, and to the north of Qianqing Gate is the emperor's home!
The state has national laws, and every family has its own rules! The biggest rule of the emperor's inner court is that the world must not be messed up, and the palace must not be defiled! Therefore, the harem has always been a forbidden place for men. No one can even take a step inside, unless you are specially summoned by the emperor, or you have to be a eunuch.
In Xiao Letian's previous life, he heard such a feng shui rumor that the root cause of the heroine's chaos in the late Qing Dynasty was that Yongzheng broke the strict harem rules of the Ming Dynasty. Although outside men were not allowed to enter the harem, he wanted to let those The military ministers came in, and the final retribution was that in the court where women were not supposed to enter, there were two women listening behind the curtain at the same time.
Is it destiny to drink and peck? Could eating and drinking be retribution?
This is of course a feng shui anecdote and cannot be trusted. However, the ancients were still very convinced of these theories. If we can fly up to the sky of the Forbidden City in a hot air balloon like Xiao Letian, we can clearly see that the six east and west palaces surrounding the central axis of the harem are actually the six palaces in the I Ching. The shape of Kun Gua.
Qian represents the strongest Yang, and Kun represents the softest Yin! Kun hexagram represents women in the I Ching.
There are three main halls in the harem. Qianqing Palace is yang and is the emperor's bedroom. Kunning Palace is yin and is naturally the residence of the queen. There is also a small hall between Qianqing Palace and Kunning Palace, which is Jiaotai Hall. Hearing this name, people can think of the palace's meaning as the harmony of yin and yang.
Some scholars in later generations even analyzed that the Jiaotai Palace was the only palace in London where the emperor and queen slept... This is really a bit nonsense!
The three main halls of the harem occupy the central axis, and then the six east and west palaces are divided to the left and right.
The East Sixth Palace refers to Jingren Palace, Zhongcui Palace, Chengqian Palace, Jingyang Palace, Yonghe Palace and Yanxi Palace.
The Sixth Palace in the West refers to Chuxiu Palace, Yikun Palace, Changchun Palace, Yongshou Palace, Qixiang Palace and Xianfu Palace.
Seen from mid-air, the six palaces are just like the six short horizontal lines in the Kun hexagram, evenly distributed on both sides of the emperor and the queen. This shows the superb skills of the Ming Dynasty's prophecy masters.
In fact, many of the complex rules specified by the ancients have deep ideological origins behind them. The inner and outer courts are so tightly guarded, on the one hand, to prevent the emperor from being cuckolded, and on the other hand, it is also the Chinese patriarchal society's response to A disguised blockade of women’s rights.
Women were not allowed to interfere in politics, especially the emperor's women, who were not even allowed to meet directly with the courtiers unless it was a special etiquette. This was a kind of insurance to prevent women from usurping power.
It is a pity that this kind of fuse, which the people of the Ming Dynasty attached great importance to, has become less important in the eyes of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties. Now Yongzheng has made an exception first, and then there are the empress dowagers of the East and West palaces behind them. A Feng Shui drama staged in the Forbidden City , it is really worthy of a lifetime of study by future generations of scholars!
Xiao Letian had been to the Forbidden City more than once in his previous life and was very familiar with the Yangxin Hall. Of course, he also knew the history of the Yangxin Hall.
In real history, the curtain in the East Nuan Pavilion of Yangxin Hall was open only once in history, and only once in history was the woman behind the curtain facing the man outside the curtain.
And that time, it was the time when Queen Mother Longyu issued the edict of abdication. The panicked eunuchs and officials failed to notice that the bright yellow curtain that blocked the face of the Queen Mother had not been lowered at all.
Empress Dowager Longyu's horrified expression was deeply fixed in the memory of that empire. The beacon fire of armed revolution outside the palace wall burned across half of the southern country. In the north, Yuan Shikai and other Beiyang faction warlords came to court with their swords like Cao Cao, ruthlessly tearing them apart. The last fig leaf of the Qing Dynasty.
A yellow curtain, with him there is imperial power. Whenever he is around, a woman is just a woman!
There are always many inexplicable connections in history. Even if Xiao Letian's past life and this life are just two completely unrelated parallel worlds, there are always some forces implicating each other.
Just like the yellow curtain that has seen a ghost today, if you forget to put it down, you will forget it forever!
"Old man...Old man...The Queen Mother is asking you something!" Weng Tonghe's thoughts that were resting on the curtain were suddenly awakened by Yixuan.
"Ah? Ah! The Queen Mother atones for her sins... Weichen just thought of the delegation from Ryukyu, Japan and North Korea years ago. He was a little distracted and asked the Queen Mother to atone for his sins!"
"Not guilty! That's what I'm asking...Old man, you just went to Ryukyu a year ago. You should be very familiar with the situation there. Tell it to the Aijia. You can analyze it for the Aijia. What does Xiao Letian want? What to do?"
Note: The Feng Shui of the Forbidden City harem discussed in this chapter is not meaningless! For modern people, Feng Shui has long become a curiosity story and a superstition in the hearts of some people. Most readers will think that using Feng Shui to explain the change of dynasties is pure nonsense.
But in real history, Feng Shui actually has a very great influence on the family, country and world. The reason is simple... As a modern person, you don't believe in Feng Shui, but don't forget that hundreds of millions of people in the Qing Dynasty believed in it at that time!
Belief is sometimes a kind of power. This mysterious Feng Shui rumor is actually the information war and public opinion war in ancient times, and the so-called ideological war in modern society. It is essentially the same.
If Cixi wants to seize power, she will take the initiative to find some factors that are beneficial to herself from Feng Shui, and the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty will sometimes succumb to this illusory superstitious power.
Politics is definitely not a binary opposition of black and white. In fact, most of the essence of politics is hidden in the gray area like fog, which is mysterious and thought-provoking!
Note: I really can’t stay up late anymore. I only slept for four hours last night... I can’t stand it anymore. I really can’t stand it anymore!
