However, TV plays are TV plays after all. In history, Qianlong was an "emperor". In most cases, it can be said that it is step by step, even a little boring. He gets up at four in the morning and goes to bed at nine in the evening, day after day, repeating.
A day's plan lies in the morning?
1765, this is thirty years since Qianlong ascended the throne. At about four o'clock in the morning, the "human flesh alarm clock" in the palace has arrived in hall of mental cultivation. This means that Gan Long's routine is to get up at four o'clock in the morning, and all the ladies-in-waiting, eunuchs and even courtiers around him should cheer up and start serving.
It is not difficult to find that the hall of mental cultivation used to sleep in the Palace Museum is not located on the central axis of the Palace Museum, and it cannot be compared with the Palace Museum in terms of scale and style. As the master and supreme ruler of the Forbidden City, why did Qianlong leave the main courtyard and live in the side courtyard? This is the tradition left by Yongzheng, the last emperor and known as "workaholic".
At that time, in order to improve efficiency and ensure confidentiality, Yongzheng built a new row of houses near Longzongmen to handle military emergency reports, which later became the famous military department. The reason why Yongzheng must sleep in Yangxintang is very simple. Yangxintang is only 50 meters away from the military department. Shortening the distance means improving efficiency and is more conducive to centralized control of power.
After the servant of Yangxintang served him to change clothes and wash, the first stop of Ganlong was Kunning Palace. He needs to carry out daily sacrificial activities, and the ceremony must be more grand on special days, which requires both the emperor and the queen to go into battle.
After the sacrifice, it was the emperor's breakfast time. The location of this meal is more flexible. In principle, where the emperor is, the imperial meal is spread out. For example, on the eighth day of the first month, Qianlong was probably in a good mood and went to Xiyuan (now Zhongnanhai) and Yuxuan for breakfast.
After breakfast, there is still a lot of time before I officially go to work (handling the memorial service). Qianlong finally thought of going back to his own place, Gan Qing Palace, to read the sermon of Emperor Sejong-hyun.
Sejong in the Qing Dynasty was Yongzheng, and the imperial edict of Sejong was the imperial edict and oral edict issued when he was in office. Qianlong read this early in the morning, which seems a bit like reporting to Dad and the former emperor. After this thing is finished, it's almost seven o'clock, and the next time belongs to Aisingiorro Hongli himself.
Nostalgia.
In the building of the Forbidden City, the location and regulations of the China Palace are not very high, but for Qianlong, it is a place with a lot of loads and great significance. Because Zhonghua Palace is a "secluded house", that is, the place where he lived as a prince before he ascended the throne.
When I lived in the Chinese Palace, I was not even a prince, but my title was "Prince Bao", so the control of the Chinese Palace was inevitably not high. But this is the place where he spent his boyhood, and he also lived in this place after he married the original Fu Cha. Later, Fu Cha's family died young, and Qianlong kept the Chinese Palace according to the original appearance where they lived.
This is a relatively private space he left for himself. He often returned to China Palace to mourn the untimely death of the Queen, and hosted banquets for close courtiers and attendants. The souvenirs given to him by his grandfather and father are also arranged here.
Gan Long later wrote an article "The Story of the Chinese Palace", saying that he "lived in a small place, grew up in Chicago, and was in politics for more than 40 years, all because of this ... he built a place to stay in school, and he could not forget his old sword. Therefore, in forty-eight years, on New Year's Eve, he sat less. "
The so-called "old sword" is to compare his feelings with the filial piety queen with the memory of Xu Pingjun, the wife of Emperor Gaozu Xuan Di. Judging from various details, Gan Long really seems to be a very nostalgic person.
Many people (such as Jin Yong) have written 40 thousand poems in their lifetime, and few of them can impress readers; But his mourning poems for the filial piety queen are very good in all his works. Perhaps, Ganlong still has nostalgia and affection for his childhood when he was not so high up.
Emperor Qianlong's "Works"
While the emperor was killing time in the Chinese Palace, the ministers outside the Palace were not idle at all. Before Emperor Qianlong arrived at Qinxian Hall and officially started his day's work, the memorial that needed to be submitted to the emperor for review that day had been sent to the desk. When the emperor arrives at about 10, you can start reading the newspaper at once.
Unlike the emperors in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, the emperors in the Qing Dynasty did not discuss their abilities, but were basically diligent, and few of them were absent without leave for a long time and did not care about politics. Gan Long is also the successor of Yongzheng, a famous work madman, and his work attitude is of course no problem.
But from a realistic point of view, the Qing emperor was also forced to be diligent: the system of "eunuch approving red" in the Ming Dynasty could easily lead to eunuch monopolization and abolition! In the early Qing dynasty, the four Baylor system brought about the separation of imperial clan powers, and it was abolished! The Regent is a powerful minister. Kill him! San Francisco is a buffer zone, destroy it! The cabinet is in charge of too much, so let the military department take all the power back into its own hands!
Generation after generation of combination boxing, centralization is centralized, and big and small things are in the hands of the emperor. If you are not diligent, you are in danger of stopping.
Up to now, the Forbidden City still holds a number of memorials approved by the Qing emperor. Of course, there are also many memorials with substantial content in words, and there are also many memorials that make the emperor feel a waste of time. Just read some replies from Gan Long: "You are not human" and "Why are you so confused?" And "You are more confused than before. In short, you are irrelevant and impatient with instructions. " ...
Every day, the approved memorial randomly switches between "something to do" and "boring". When the memorial of the desk was approved, Emperor Qianlong would also meet some officials and solve some problems face to face. So it was not until about two o'clock in the afternoon that dinner was served.
Yes, you're right. It's "dinner" The emperors of the Qing Dynasty did not eat three meals a day like modern people, but inherited the living habits of their ancestors and ate two meals a day. Of course, snacks and the like are not included in the dinner. After dinner, I took a short break, and started to work around 3 pm. I continued to read out the memorials of local officials presented by the cabinet and met with officials.
Beijing is located in the east, so it gets dark earlier. By 5: 00 pm, Ganlong usually finished his afternoon work. The next time may be in Sanxitang and Yangxintang, enjoying my rare paintings and calligraphy. Sanxi Hall's name comes from Wang Xizhi's "Quick Snow and Clear Sticks", Wang Xianzhi's "Mid-Autumn Sticks" and Wang Xun's "Yuan Bo Sticks", which are the three most cherished paintings and calligraphy works of Qianlong.
Does relaxing in Sanxi Hall really mean the end of the day's work? The proof of "record" is not necessarily. Sometimes, it is not until 7 o'clock in the evening that the memorials are sent in. These memorials can only be seen in the bedroom. Of course, under normal circumstances, there are not so many memorials to be approved in the evening, so at 9 o'clock at the latest, Gan Long can get ready for bed.
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As an ancient man two or three hundred years ago, there was no camera to record his every move. How did Emperor Qianlong spend his day? This needs to thank the "filing" system of the ancient dynasty. "Shi Lu" is a special style centered on the emperor, and a special person is responsible for recording the relevant events of the emperor's life.
Because in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, the preserved records were relatively complete. "Notes on the Palace of Qianlong" shows us a perfect day: on the eighth day of the first month in the 30th year of Qianlong, Emperor Qianlong got up at four in the morning and went to bed at nine in the evening, which seems to be in line with the regimen of "going to bed early and getting up early".
His day is also quite full, with working hours, private emotional space, and room for developing personal hobbies, which is also a combination of work and rest.