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November 4, 2005 at 1:04 am
· Filed under Fun, Yuna
As stated in a recent study conducted by a British geneticist,
… an unusually high prevalence of a particular set of genes in China has suggested that 1.5 million Chinese men are direct descendants of Giocangga, the grandfather of the founder of the Qing dynasty.
I am well aware of that part of the history so I wasn’t really shocked when I saw that number. Based on my knowledge acquired by watching TV shows with my parents in the earlier years, I know each emperor in the Qing dynasty was entitled to 72 official wives classified by different titles. You’d think.. “Gee, weren’t they gonna kill each other? How was the King ever going to remember every wife’s name?”
Well, he couldn’t. Again, based on my TV knowledge and a couple of trips to the Forbidden City in BeiJing, China, the Emperor never knew all of his wives. Some wives never even met their husband until the day they die. Except a handful of Queens, these wives were restricted in a section of the Palace. The higher the wife’s title was, the larger the living quarter she got. Every night, the Emperor was presented with a book of the drawings of all the wives (photos hadn’t been invented yet) so the Emperor could pick one or more wives for the bedroom fun. Every day, these wives would wait for their names to be called. The lucky ones would take bath. The servants then wrapped the naked wives in the blankets and carried them to the Emperor’s bedroom. Of course, if the Emperor was craving for some women outside of the Palace, there was never any problem to make that happen. Being said, with all of these women bearing his children, having 1.5 million descendants after hundreds of years is quite possible.
In today’s society, a guy probably gets headache when dealing with just one woman, let along trying to have 72 wives. So, if any guy wants to spread the seeds and have more than 50 people carrying his Y chromosome in 500 years, dream on!
Here is the full text of the study.
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ME Strauss said,
November 4, 2005 @ 12:43 pm
I don’t know about the guys. But I could see some definite advantages for me.
Yuna said,
November 4, 2005 @ 3:36 pm
umm? having 72 husbands? now you got me all confused..
Shumin said,
November 6, 2005 @ 9:29 pm
I thought the saying was: “三宫六院七十二妃”(in unicode). That would make it 81, wouldn’t it? Of course, then there is the additional “佳丽三千人”. I’m sure modern men’s only hope is the sperm bank, heh… unless you were the late Wilt Chamberlain
Yuna said,
November 7, 2005 @ 12:21 am
Hey Shumin! Cool, you can type Chinese! I can’t figure out how to get that software yet.
Anyway, what Shumin was saying is that there were actually 81 wives and then plus another 3000 beauties available for the Emperor… I thought a man can only have 5245 times of sex in his entire life…
Cyco Miko said,
November 9, 2005 @ 10:44 am
Well, no wonder they only have eunuch as personal servernts, and technically, he’s only got 1 wife, rest are concubines, but there’s no differences besides the power status. Although, sometimes a favored concubine will have more power than the queen….and you can get chinese installed from the control panel, in the regional/language settings.
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