The Emperor of gynécée brought together hundreds of women. Employees were responsible for record in detail the sex life of the emperor, to identify women who may bear children. The sex life of the Emperor of China was an affair of state because of his good health depended on the throne.
The woman who was chosen by the emperor to spend the night with her, was carefully washed and prepared, but also searched to verify that it was hiding weapons or poison.
The more a woman was regularly called by the emperor, it was more likely to bear a child. The rivalries and hatreds were terrible in the gynécée and there existed cases of murder were empresses concubines. One story is that of the Empress Wu in the Han Dynasty (200 BC), who had murdered one of his rival and her child.
All of these women focused their efforts to seduce the emperor and have an heir. In this game refined, subtle and sometimes deadly plots were daily and sometimes terrible consequences for the losers.
It was very bad that the emperor falls in love with a concubine who was there to make a child. Thus an emperor of the Tang dynasty in the eighth century made the mistake of falling in love with the famous and beautiful Yang Guifei杨贵妃, one of his concubines. This provoked a very serious crisis that threatened the dynastic imperial power.
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