Chinese women fate as we all know women in 18th century does not have many choices. Their fate are depend on men they marry to .Divorce is rarely happen in that era.

Her fate is also different from common women. Every 3 or 6 years the emperor will recruit royal consorts from daughter of official or scholar. They cannot deny or postpone .It is the emperor verdict. Cixi is one of 1,000 girl who is selected by euunch to enter the inner palace.



You may rise questions how can emperor has 1,000 consorts? Did he sleep with all of them? Those questions are legit .Not everyone can be emperor's favorite. most women slept with emperor once or twice and never see him again. Some women do not even have a chance to meet emperor.Their life in place is just a golden jail.You can get in but you cannot get out!!



There were also many competition among the consorts. In china history, The empresses do not have long live.Some were plotted by other consorts to bring her down.some were poisoned or passed away with strange disease. If you don't compete , you will be stepped down by other consorts or loses favor of the emperor and that means you will be no one in the palace .The consort are allowed to live in inner place only. Your body and soul belong to the only one man which is Emperor. You cannot interact with any man even your father and brother. Inner palace only allow one man to enter which is Emperor. Actually that statement is kind of wrong. many men are working in inner palace but there is the price to pay - they need to leave their manhood behind. We called those men Eunuch.Picture below show Eunuch with different rank.