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What cruel decision did Qing make for the harem, and the concubines who gave birth to children were miserable?
The decision to give the harem is to take the born child away, alienating the biological mother and blocking the feelings between mother and child.

Because in ancient feudal society, princes and princesses were considered to have golden spoons all their lives. They enjoyed the splendor and glory of the royal family. However, in the Qing Dynasty, Aggege enjoyed high treatment, but she could not be raised by her own biological mother and could only be reunited in a specific time. This special situation is related to the tradition of Manchu people. They are not an authentic feudal society. They were sinicized after entering the Central Plains, but they still maintained their own characteristics.

In fact, the Qing Dynasty existed for more than 200 years. During this period, eighty princesses married Mongols. Princess Rong Xian, one of the eighty princesses, won the favor of her father Kangxi. The royal family has a set of strict rules on the award of Gege and Mei, but Kangxi made an exception for her daughter and made her a "husband" before she got married. She had to face the fate of her in-laws and marry in the desert in the south. In fifty-eight years of Kangxi, she went to war with her father and died in the army two years later.

Because the consorts who can generally rule are the family of the emperor's mother, when the emperor is still young or in poor health, as the emperor's biological mother, she will go to court and take charge of politics, and the empress dowager will develop power in the future. Therefore, the solution of the Qing rulers was to alienate the prince from his biological mother when he was born and give him to other concubines or maids to raise. Sometimes the emperor will ask trusted ministers to raise the prince, so that the prince and his biological mother will not have too deep feelings, and there will be no problem of letting the queen mother intervene in politics in the future. For example, Wu Yashi, the biological mother of Yongzheng, was taken away as soon as the child was born, which led to the lack of deep feelings between mother and child in the future, and Yongzheng was very close to his adoptive mother Tong Jiashi and was very grateful to her. ?

This is for the peace of the harem, but it is a bit cruel.