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A group of eunuchs in a mural from the tomb of the prince Zhanghuai, 706 AD. A eunuch (/ ˈ juː n ə k / YOO-nək) [1] is a man who has been castrated. [2] Throughout history, castration often served a specific social function. [3] In China, castration included removal of the penis as well as the testicles (see emasculation). Both organs were ...
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.
Being the last surviving eunuch of Imperial China Sun Yaoting ( Traditional Chinese : 孫耀庭, Simplified Chinese : 孙耀庭, Hanyu Pinyin : Sūn Yàotíng, Wade-Giles : Sun Yao-t'ing; 29 September 1902 – 17 December 1996) was the last surviving imperial eunuch of Chinese history .
Additionally, the imperial censors, who sometimes criticized powerful eunuchs directly to the emperor, viewed the defeat of Liu Jin as a victory for the strength of China's empire. In 1624, censor Yang Lien implored the emperor to impeach eunuch Wei Zhongxian in a letter which said that eunuchs must be kept from interfering in anything outside ...
By 184 CE, the Han Dynasty's central government was weakened by court eunuchs abusing their power over the emperor to enrich themselves. Twelve of the most powerful eunuchs were referred to as the Ten Attendants with Emperor Ling once claiming that "Regular Attendant Zhang Rang is my father and Regular Attendant Zhao Zhong is my mother". [5]
The Ten Attendants, also known as the Ten Eunuchs, were a group of influential eunuch-officials in the imperial court of Emperor Ling (r. 168–189) in Eastern Han China. Although they are often referred to as a group of 10, there were actually 12 of them, and all held the position of zhong changshi (中常侍; "Central Regular Attendant") in ...
An emasculated Chinese eunuch from the Qing dynasty. Emasculation was performed in China on men to create palace eunuchs for the imperial court. [19] The practice dates back to the Shang dynasty (1600–1046 BC) [20] and continued up until 1924, [21] when the eunuch system was abolished by the last emperor of China, Puyi. [22]
An Dehai (Chinese: 安 德 海; pinyin: Ān Déhǎi; Wade–Giles: An Te-hai, 1844 – 12 September 1869) was a palace eunuch at the imperial court of the Qing dynasty.In the 1860s, he became the confidant and favourite of Empress Dowager Cixi and was subsequently executed as part of a power struggle between the empress dowager and Prince Chun.