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A eunuch (/ ˈ juː n ə k / ⓘ YOO-nək) is a male who has been castrated. [1] Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. [2] The earliest records for intentional castration to produce eunuchs are from the Sumerian city of Lagash in the 2nd millennium BCE.
The Ming eunuch hats were similar to the Korean royal hats, indicating the foreign origins of the Ming eunuchs, many of whom came from Southeast Asia and Korea. [83] Yishiha was a Jurchen eunuch in the Ming dynasty during the Yongle emperor's period and Jurchen women were also concubines of the Ming Yongle emperor. [84] [85]
Her chief eunuch, Sadi, becomes a principal character in The Malloreon, and is referred to in The Prophecy as "The Man who is no Man." For the greater part of Iain Banks' novel The Wasp Factory (1984), the 16-year-old narrator Frank Cauldhame claims to be a eunuch, the result of being savaged by a dog when he was an infant. At the novel's ...
Zhang Yong (1465–1529) was a Chinese eunuch who held a position of influence in the government of the Zhengde Emperor, emperor of the Ming dynasty, from 1506 to 1521.He was part of a group of eunuchs known as the "Eight Tigers" who had served the Zhengde Emperor since his childhood.
Empress Theodora and her court (mid 6th century). Theodora's chief eunuch holds the door hinge. [11]The Byzantine eunuchs formed a powerful and well-organized entity (in Ancient Greek — ἡ τῶν εὐνοῦχων τάξις), and in the structure of the Byzantine bureaucracy a special category of titles and ranks was reserved for them.
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During the reign of Emperor Wenzong of Yuan (1328-1332), Bak Bulhwa was sent to the court of the Yuan dynasty to become a junior eunuch at the age of seven. In 1333, one of Bul-hwa's close friend, Lady Ki of the Haengju Ki clan , was among the concubines sent to Yuan by the Goryeo kings, who had to provide a certain number of beautiful teenage ...
Five of these ten eunuchs were not among the historical Ten Attendants: Cheng Kuang is a fictional character (there was a eunuch by the name Cheng Huang [fl. 126–189] in the reign of Emperor Ling of Han, his given name 璜 written and pronounced slightly similar to the fictional character 曠); Feng Xu and Jian Shuo existed historically, but ...