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All other noblewomen/wives and daughters of officials wear the pearl-and-emerald crown (Chinese: 珍珠翡翠冠; pinyin: zhēnzhūfěicuìguān), where the crown is just adorned with pearls and gemstones (in various ornamental shapes). [10] Phoenix crowns worn with diyi have no strings of pearls by the sides of the head. Noblewomen cannot have ...
The concubine in a concubinage tended to have a lower social status than the married party or home owner, [33] and this was often the reason why concubinage was preferred to marriage. [4] A concubine could be an "alien" in a society that did not recognize marriages between foreigners and citizens.
Although a concubine could produce heirs, her children would be inferior in social status to a wife's children, although they were of higher status than illegitimate children. The child of a concubine had to show filial duty to two women, their biological mother and their legal mother—the wife of their father. [7]
An imperial woman who had attained the rank of concubine and above would be given a residence in the main section of one of the palace in the inner court of the Forbidden City and become its mistress (主位, zhǔwèi), and when being addressed by lower ranked imperial concubines and servants, she would have to be called your imperial highness ...
Although usage of the word concubina during the Roman Empire poses ambiguities of role and status, the difference between the Imperial-era concubine as a subject of legal interest and a paelex or extralegal concubine during the Republic is fairly straightforward: the paelex was a woman "installed" by a married man as a sexual rival to his wife, [8] whereas the concubina was a wife-like ...
Gungnyeo consisted of the ladies-in-waiting—both high-ranking court ladies and the ordinary maids (known as nain) responsible for most of the labour work—who were divided into ranks from 9 to 5 (the ranks from 4 to 1 were the official concubines of the king), with two levels each (senior and junior), the highest attainable rank being ...
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Owning many concubines was perhaps more common than having several wives. [94] The child of a slave was born in to slavery unless an enslaver chose to awknowledge the child of a slave as his. A male enslaver could choose to officially awknowledge his son with his concubine if he wished to do so.