A Little-Known History of the Imperial Harem: Court Officials and Eunuchs

Name: A Little-Known History of the Imperial Harem: Court Officials and Eunuchs
Author: Shi Hanlei

鲜为人知的后宫史：宦官与太监

by Shi Hanlei (师含蕾)

Status: Completed
Length: 161k Words
Genre: Historical
Updated: 4y ago
Source: Fanqie

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Eunuchs originally referred broadly to officials who served in the palace. It was only after the Qin and Han dynasties that the term gradually came to mean men who had been castrated and served emperors and their consorts in the imperial palace. As castrated men, they had physical traits unlike those of ordinary people; as eunuchs, they held a special status unlike that of ordinary officials. They also spent their lives within the palace's high walls, serving an emperor who ruled all under heaven and remained shrouded in mystery, while living to some extent apart from the ordinary world beyond the palace gates. All of this made eunuchs the most mysterious and unusual group in the courts of ancient China.

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