The Little-Known Female Eunuchs of Ancient China: The Pain of Castration and Their Tragic Fate

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  • @KittymoreJoy
    @KittymoreJoy День тому +99

    The girl would go into premature menopause with all the issues that brought along with heath problems if they survived the torture. Premature aging and being barren meant it was unlikely they would find a husband when they left the palace. The family would see them as a burden and cast them out could be what they faced. Their lives and health were destroyed, by such evil. The palace was a Hell hole in so many ways.

    • @audreyandlinCompany
      @audreyandlinCompany 22 години тому +7

      The Arabs & Persians, too.

    • @transitionshotline
      @transitionshotline 22 години тому +8

      I know, but then I look into my own ancestral history way back on the Viking Ships, Norman conquests, and medieval Europe. It's no less horrifying. The propensity for heinous torture and execution seems to be present in the roots of all known civilizations. Anyone of European descent has this in their ancestral DNA as well.

    • @MathildaFlow
      @MathildaFlow 20 годин тому +3

      @@transitionshotlineDo you have a source so site or are you just slandering Scandinavians casually because you’re jealous of our beauty and fairness?

    • @transitionshotline
      @transitionshotline 20 годин тому +8

      @@MathildaFlow I am talking about my own ancestry and making clear references to actual history. Look it up. Google is your friend.

    • @diasmemorylane5827
      @diasmemorylane5827 18 годин тому +5

      ​@MathildaFlow I'm rolling my eyes at you. How self absorbed can a person get?

  • @elizabethannegrey6285
    @elizabethannegrey6285 12 годин тому +30

    What a mercy for those girls who were eliminated due to perceived imperfections

    • @SimonCU
      @SimonCU 8 годин тому

      3:40 I dont know if this is fake or not but for the speaker to say they smell their armpits on Asian teenage girls is really not true. Asians dont have the genes for smelly armpits in China especially for girls in the age of 13-16. Any Chinese girl of that age can tell you this is not true. Im sure the AI speaker made that up ... if they make that up what else in the video is made up?

  • @John_Pace
    @John_Pace День тому +91

    The cruelty inflicted by powerful women on women of lesser status is horrific.

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 День тому +14

      They simply imitated men, or do you believe that women have had the same power as men have throughout history, and even to the present day?? Let’s be honest, please.

    • @alex52043
      @alex52043 23 години тому

      @@voraciousreader3341 This comment is more sexist toward women than 99% of modern misogyny. Women are capable of free will which means women are capable of evil.

    • @JaneAustenAteMyCat
      @JaneAustenAteMyCat 22 години тому +1

      The whole thing is a product of patriarchy

    • @realmofthesenses
      @realmofthesenses 14 годин тому

      Forced sterilization of women and men (boys) was done in 20th century United States to native Americans, AfricanAmericans, and so called white trash. It happened in Western Europe too. Supposedly the basis for this was a modern version of socalled eugenetics that was born in the UK (scientst Francis Galton). But the idea is as old as the world I guess. Wether it´s forced steriliztion, forced abortion, killing of babies (often girls), etc. etc.

    • @robertarisz8464
      @robertarisz8464 11 годин тому +4

      Why not simplify your statement so that it is more universally true? How about "the cruelty inflicted by the powerful on the lesser status is horrific"?

  • @xkirax2997
    @xkirax2997 День тому +70

    I watched an old Chinese movie, "Raise the Red Lantern," and the fate of female maids and concubines didn't change much in the 1920s either.

    • @Fiddling_while_Rome_burns
      @Fiddling_while_Rome_burns День тому +14

      I saw the movie when it came out. The same directer made many other great movies. Raise the Red Lantern was made as a properganda movie to promote the Chinese communist party, showing how communism had made the lives of Chinese women's better.

    • @ayeshajacobs4374
      @ayeshajacobs4374 День тому +10

      One of my all time favourite Asian movies.

    • @fvrrljr
      @fvrrljr День тому +6

      *love that movie*

    • @geegeelast7597
      @geegeelast7597 21 годину тому +5

      One of my favorite films.

    • @jandrews6254
      @jandrews6254 21 годину тому

      @@Fiddling_while_Rome_burnsa pity the CCP didn’t elevate the status of females to counterbalance the preference for males. So instead of millions of female infants being murdered to get around the one child policy with the CCP turning a blind eye to the practice, there would have been a proper balance between the sexes instead of the unbalanced mess it is now.

  • @audreyandlinCompany
    @audreyandlinCompany 22 години тому +26

    If the women who were taking drugs to prevent pregnancy, became pregnant and the child survived to birth -- they were usually deformed or "special needs" children -- and seen as a curse.

    • @briseboy
      @briseboy 18 годин тому +1

      I wasone of those Special Needs children. My Special Need was Surf.

    • @nonino1644
      @nonino1644 12 годин тому +1

      Same in USA in 1940s

  • @tufsoft1
    @tufsoft1 День тому +41

    Fate of male eunuchs wasn't particularly tragic, most of them volunteered for the chop because it meant a lucrative career in the palace.

    • @lisalarouge6309
      @lisalarouge6309 17 годин тому +4

      I think you’re wrong about that.

    • @CreativeArtandEnergy
      @CreativeArtandEnergy 15 годин тому +5

      Other videos say that their families were offered money and status in return for their service.

    • @sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287
      @sonniepronounceds-au-ni9287 6 годин тому

      It was tragic. Most eunuchs were castrated as young boys without much say in the matter. It's easier to do when they are younger, and that's how they get their more feminine qualities. It's done in early puberty.

    •  3 години тому +1

      Their FAMILIES did this to them in children in almost all cases. There were few exceptions. And imagine the kind of horrible desperation that would drive an adult to have this done to themselves just to financially survive. It was tragic indeed.

    • @eh1702
      @eh1702 52 хвилини тому

      Don’t be naive. They were mostly castrated as children. Many had no clue what was in store for them. Generally they were younger “extra” sons of poor families, who got volunteered by their fathers.

  • @scallopohare9431
    @scallopohare9431 18 годин тому +16

    That would have been a screening one would hope to fail.

    • @jacqueboyce3176
      @jacqueboyce3176 4 години тому

      similar to present day north korea. The girls "chosen" are picked out at schools - the parents see it as a great honour.

  • @alex52043
    @alex52043 22 години тому +30

    So what I'm hearing is that chinese politics provided an evolutionary pressure to be ugly. If you were too beautiful you would not pass on your genes.

    • @eh1702
      @eh1702 51 хвилина тому

      I think you're underestimating the size of the population. Five thousand was a drop in the bucket even then.

  • @ivorybow
    @ivorybow 16 годин тому +15

    This is so vile, it makes me loathe the emperors and the whole sick system. Sick!

    • @zyxw2000
      @zyxw2000 15 годин тому +1

      You're still so angry about something hundreds of years ago? Do you think European cultures were any better?

    • @Souchi-ito
      @Souchi-ito 11 годин тому

      ​@@zyxw2000we hate them too.

    • @judithbatke3169
      @judithbatke3169 Годину тому

      @@zyxw2000 But Europe was actually way better in regards to this topic because in the Christian culture only one wife was allowed. And anything else was called adultery and was condemned by the powerful church and the public. Made such horrific actions obsolete. A king with several wife was unthinkable. He could have mistresses and bastards in secret but his heir had to be born from his legal wife. Henry VIII of England for example struggled hard with these conditions.

  • @razellrudman1381
    @razellrudman1381 12 годин тому +8

    It's fitting these repulsive customs were relegated to the trash heap of history because they only served the egos of a select few.

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl Годину тому

      good god you didn't*believe* that guff did you?
      Somebody has clearly won some bet.

  • @jenniferbreaux7385
    @jenniferbreaux7385 День тому +43

    The more I see, the more pity I feel for women in China.

    • @voraciousreader3341
      @voraciousreader3341 День тому +16

      What about elsewhere around the world, such as genital mutilation in Africa?? Or how women are treated in Muslim hardcore cultures? Among others.

    • @mxiivx7610
      @mxiivx7610 19 годин тому +8

      Well this video is about china so that's what her comment is referring to. In what way did the OP suggest that non Chinese women don't matter

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl Годину тому

      Hs it not crossed your mind that you have had your leg well and truly pulled?
      Female eunuchs- oh come on

  • @DaybreakSystem-x8q
    @DaybreakSystem-x8q 17 годин тому +12

    horror after horror after horror

  • @mindarshi
    @mindarshi День тому +14

    in qing dynasty there might be Guān nǚzǐ (serving maids) who served the emperor in bed but also worked as maid

  • @illuminatusdeus3051
    @illuminatusdeus3051 19 годин тому +17

    Eunuchs of the forbidden city were powerful... like they held real power outside the court, sometimes in the court.
    But what women did to their feet, mutilating them for aesthetic appearance is quite horrendous.

    • @Nyctophora
      @Nyctophora 51 хвилина тому

      Their own mothers did it to them as children, and yes, I agree! Evil.

  • @winstonmiller9649
    @winstonmiller9649 13 годин тому +4

    Their fate was worse than death.
    The common people were always undergoing some horrible fate.
    You just know the contraception medicine was something terrible.
    Forget being chosen for a palace maid.

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl Годину тому

      Hs it not crossed your mind that you have had your leg well and truly pulled?
      Female eunuchs- oh come on.

  • @michaellarson938
    @michaellarson938 16 годин тому +8

    So the narrator said they did not use contraceptives, and then said they use contraceptives. The narrator also keeps repeating himself. Just divulge the information.

    • @Lilaeth
      @Lilaeth 13 годин тому +1

      He said they had no 'modern contraceptives'. Most, if not all, ancient cultures still attempted to avoid conception. With varying success.

    • @isabelrodriguezsjolund9701
      @isabelrodriguezsjolund9701 2 години тому

      I'm wondering if it's AI written

    • @eh1702
      @eh1702 40 хвилин тому +1

      There were contraceptives known all over the ancient world, including hunter-forager tribal cultures. (This is apart from maintaining breastfeeding, which can help hormonally to keep fertility low.). Many cultures used some variety of ointment/lubricant which they hoped was a spermicide. Barrier methods like moss and sponges were common. Then there were douches - eg wine-vinegar. And abortifacients were known everywhere. Yarrow was commonly used in western Europe,

  • @jenniferbreaux7385
    @jenniferbreaux7385 День тому +7

    I had no idea.

  • @TaintedGenre
    @TaintedGenre День тому +17

    Where can I find more information about the 'palace punishment' and how they removed the uterus? Just interested in medically how that worked.

    • @wildsquirrelswildsquirrel7286
      @wildsquirrelswildsquirrel7286 День тому

      Just the external part of the genitalia was mutilated or the female breasts. There wasn't any removal of the uterus done.

    • @elianafreeman9891
      @elianafreeman9891 17 годин тому

      me too

    • @zyxw2000
      @zyxw2000 15 годин тому +1

      Have you tried a book or info on the web?

    • @realmofthesenses
      @realmofthesenses 13 годин тому

      @@zyxw2000 nothing found yet, besides an april fools day post on reddit. And you, did you find information?

    • @johnking6252
      @johnking6252 7 годин тому

      I don't think you do !

  • @brim89
    @brim89 20 годин тому +5

    I don’t know why the consorts not keep the baby. Claim that they were pregnant. Cause some of those women don’t carry a baby or get pregnant.

    • @nonino1644
      @nonino1644 12 годин тому

      They did.

    • @nonino1644
      @nonino1644 12 годин тому +1

      They did

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl 54 хвилини тому

      Tee hee, the bet was probably, that there is no limit to the passive credulity of the kinderlander -mercans.
      I wonder how much they bet- the usual $1 presumably Do you not know what the word" eunuch " *means*?
      Then there was the story of the poor father of five who became pregnant by an invisible Antarctican water-buffalo even after* .... *His* hysterectomy; I forget how many fell for that.

  • @g-mas8735
    @g-mas8735 5 хвилин тому

    and it's going on today only being told it's "HEALTH CARE" It's very evil

  • @JJW77
    @JJW77 2 години тому

    Interesting story of female eunuchs...

  • @yvetteworrall8909
    @yvetteworrall8909 15 годин тому +3

    And the title is ... history and ... cultury...
    Classic lack of quality research. Or should we say ... qualtury.

  • @caragarcia2307
    @caragarcia2307 31 хвилина тому

    I don't quite understand why the maids had to look perfect. I don't know what their duties were though. It seems most people just want someone who can clean and maybe cook.

    • @ivetgeorgieva8888
      @ivetgeorgieva8888 2 хвилини тому

      I don't know if this is historically accurate, but in historical chinese dramas the Emperor can sleep with any woman in the Forbidden City, that includes the maids. That could explain the beauty requirement.

  • @jeannecastellano7181
    @jeannecastellano7181 Годину тому

    Yikes! Those poor Chinese women! It's such a radical juxtaposition---an elegant society, but yet so barbaric.

  • @Ms.Laterholmes5253
    @Ms.Laterholmes5253 18 годин тому +1

    Funk that… my brain cannot comprehend some of that

  • @catsupchutney
    @catsupchutney 12 годин тому +1

    9:35 gets to the topic

  • @PunkDogCreations
    @PunkDogCreations 11 годин тому +1

    Google Mao's and the Kim's harems. It is tragic.

    • @vhawk1951kl
      @vhawk1951kl 50 хвилин тому

      It has not crossed your mind that you might..... just might, have had your leg well and truly puled?
      I have heard the some peoples are credulous but surely*No-One* could be *that* credulous!

  • @vhawk1951kl
    @vhawk1951kl Годину тому

    I a almost fell for it

  • @timefoolery
    @timefoolery 17 годин тому

    Chenhua!!

  • @elizabethannegrey6285
    @elizabethannegrey6285 12 годин тому +1

    Utterly barbaric.

  • @pincheguarito591
    @pincheguarito591 20 годин тому +2

    TLDR: Ancient Chinese Plan B

  • @anamariecameron7874
    @anamariecameron7874 День тому

    🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

  • @briseboy
    @briseboy 18 годин тому

    Did they cut the basketballs off the wnba?