How did the eunuch come?

Then talk nonsense. These brave men with knives become quick success and instant benefit. In fact, the word eunuch has three meanings, and it is not the brave who completely destroys the curse. Moreover, the word appeared later than many people thought. If we see someone scolding the eunuchs of the Han Dynasty in historical TV dramas, you can blame the writers for being stupid.

The eunuch's original intention

After Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself emperor with Nanjing as his capital, the emperor with the worst birth in history began to design his own monarchy. Regarding the internal affairs of the royal family, he designed twelve divisions in the seventeenth year of Hongwu, collectively referred to as twelve prisons, followed by four divisions and eight bureaus, collectively referred to as twenty-four yamen.

The head of the twelve prisons is called eunuch, who is a four-grade officer. There are also junior and intermediate supervisors, who are mainly responsible for various services of the royal family. Generally, you can understand it as a property management company. It should be pointed out that the Ming dynasty did not stipulate that the twelve wardens must be cut before they can be appointed. During Hongwu and Yongle, eunuchs who went to yamen didn't cut them.

In addition, the word eunuch did not originate in the Ming Dynasty, but probably existed in the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. At first, it was a female official named Dajian, who may often be written as a eunuch. In the Tang dynasty, the viceroy was a foreign official position, which had nothing to do with the imperial palace. In the Song Dynasty, the position of female officials was restored. So the eunuch's original intention is just an official name.

Eunuch's broad sense

Later, in the Ming dynasty, the royal family was probably greedy for convenience, and the leaders of the 12 prisons habitually appointed the laid-off people. After a long time, people habitually call themselves senior chicken-cutting eunuchs. Especially Ming Chengzu, he got the help of many chicken cutters, seized the throne and gave them many rights. The three masters of Silijian are eunuchs.

After a long time, especially under the leadership of Wang Zhen, Liu Jin, Wei Zhongxian and other super chicken cutters, this kind of self-mutilation movement has developed by leaps and bounds and has a special social status. People began to call all chicken cutters eunuchs again, but this is wrong. How dare you call them eunuchs without four officials? This is an insult to a senior chicken cutter.

In addition, it gave a rumor to the Ming Dynasty. Many unofficial history said that eunuchs were rampant in the Ming Dynasty, and there were 100,000 butchers since Hongwu. This is actually a misunderstanding. Twenty-four yamen have not all been laid off, but there are a large number of craftsmen recruited from all over the country. These people did not enter the palace, so they were not cut at all. Zhu Yuanzhang is not crazy. He gathered a small population and cut off100000 people. Do you want the imperial population to be prosperous?

The origin of chicken-cutting molecules

Generally speaking, chicken cutting in China has a long history. There was a special word "castration" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions in Shang Dynasty, but there was no evidence that eunuchs in that era were engaged in royal property services. Tucao machine estimated that cutting chicken at that time should be a punishment, with the purpose of depriving reproductive rights.

By the Western Zhou Dynasty, people had clearly discovered the property service function of eunuchs, and there was a record in "Rites of Rites" that "the palace was kept inside and absolutely humane". It's just that they were not public servants at that time, but servants or slaves with low status in aristocratic families.

The formal participation of gangs in politics should be in the Warring States period when the kingship was strengthened. If I remember correctly, Lin Xiangru was recommended by eunuch Miao Xian in Zhao. Being able to recommend talents for the country shows that eunuchs mastered certain political rights at that time, which is probably the name of eunuchs since then.

Generally speaking, the origin of eunuchs is like this. Chicken-cutting culture has a long history in the west, which can be traced back to the 5th century BC. And they started property services earlier than we did, which originally meant "bedroom attendant". Only in the Middle Ages, because of the loss of technology, the mortality rate of chicken cutting was too high. Bullshit. Over.