Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
There were limits placed on how many imperial consorts could hold the ranks of concubine and above. An emperor could have 1 empress, 1 imperial noble consort, 2 noble consorts, 4 consorts and 6 concubines at a time. The ranks of noble lady, first class attendant and second class attendant were unlimited.
She joins the Imperial Harem alongside her childhood friend Shen Meizhuang, and the low-born An Lingrong. Zhen Huan attempts to avoid the Imperial Harem's politics but ultimately falls in love with the Emperor, resulting the other consorts in plotting various schemes against her and Shen Meizhuang as retaliation.
All consorts were palace maids known as Four Spring Ladies. The name of the clique was derived from their personal names and a poem line "When four springs follow upwards the wind, the copper fish swims in the water every five nights". 《袅袅四春随风撵，沈沈五夜递铜鱼》 [11] The consorts were promoted together within one year.
Raven of the Inner Palace (Japanese: 後宮の烏, Hepburn: Kōkyū no Karasu) is a Japanese light novel series written by Kōko Shirakawa and illustrated by Ayuko. Shueisha have published seven volumes from April 2018 to April 2022 under their Shueisha Orange Bunko imprint.
The system of palace women continued mostly unchanged during the Qing dynasty (1644–1912), when a class of imperial women acting as consorts or concubines, who had not previously held other roles, existed. However, female court attendants were also all available for promotion to concubinage or the position of consort by the emperor.
The Imperial Noble Consort will help the Empress as assistant in managing the inner court. If the Empress was incapable of ruling the Imperial Harem or she died, the Imperial Noble Consort will take over her duty as chief of the Imperial Harem. [1] [2] The title was also adopted in the Empire of Dainam (Vietnam) and the Empire of Korea. [3]
As she was the only woman in the imperial harem holding said rank at the time, she did not receive any special title to distinguish her from the emperor's other consorts. On 23 February 1745, when Noble Consort Gao became critically ill, she was elevated to "Imperial Noble Consort Gao" by the Qianlong Emperor.
Female harem as a central element [ edit ] This list shows a series in which interpersonal attraction between Female -centric harems and the gynephilic protagonist(s) – regardless of cited sex, gender, orientation, etc. – play a central role in their genre or storylines.