Part IV: How an army of eunuchs ran China’s Forbidden City

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  • @Nachtmusiks
    @Nachtmusiks 5 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    I'm a girl and I'm already experiencing second hand pain looking at this. I can't imagine how the guys feel and the eunuchs felt.

    • @NightcorEDM
      @NightcorEDM 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      It's dreadful when you think about ur part cut off but it's the same pain as getting kicked in your part

    • @mk-py3zf
      @mk-py3zf 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      和文字有毛线关系,是满族人太骄傲拒绝外来先进的技术,和想维护自己的政权把精力都花费在压迫汉人了。

    • @NangongReng1973
      @NangongReng1973 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      People living in the past suffer a lot.Probably. these men who were willing to castrate themselves belong to such categories.They may think that once they became eunuchs, they do not have to worry about making a living.The more ambitious one may want to rise up the hierarchy ranks to gain power.

    • @seferino
      @seferino 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Well. Circumcision was very very painful as an adult. I can't imagine the pain those boys went through.

    • @user-wu6xl4wq5q
      @user-wu6xl4wq5q 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@NangongReng1973 Zheng He.

  • @seferino
    @seferino 5 ปีที่แล้ว +162

    I can't imagine the pain for those boys.

    • @Eunuchs
      @Eunuchs 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      We are ok now!

    • @radubradu
      @radubradu ปีที่แล้ว

      trans people do kind of the same thing nowadays

    • @gay_putin_
      @gay_putin_ ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@radubradu they even do it to young kids

    • @riza-2396
      @riza-2396 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@radubradu Ancient Chinese do actually treated them like Trans people

    • @aerosdacillo1227
      @aerosdacillo1227 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@riza-2396 but unlike today those times eunuchs are forbidden to wear womens clothes

  • @orangutato
    @orangutato 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Oooh I can feel the pain

  • @merlindabourne
    @merlindabourne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    I am here after watching the first episode of Love in the Moonlight kdrama. Its horrifying, its insane that they do those things to those guys. Ughhh I just can't believe this kind of thing existed before.

  • @leiliu83
    @leiliu83 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

    Amazingly animated. Beautiful.

  • @moonrisehowler1842
    @moonrisehowler1842 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Dang, I feel so bad for the eunuchs!

  • @shemuelgallardovivarsjourn8814
    @shemuelgallardovivarsjourn8814 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    this is done to ensured that no illegitimate emperor will succeed the throne.

  • @mikawa1314
    @mikawa1314 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    If they did this in Westeros, then we could be 100% sure that Joffrey is a Baratheon (and yes, that’s the reason why this tradition existed)

    • @ranksblex336
      @ranksblex336 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hehe I get it

    • @Ealsante
      @Ealsante 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Eh, it still wouldn't have worked. The Palace Guards are not eunuchs, so the Kingsguard wouldn't have been eunuchs.

  • @xirb-4007
    @xirb-4007 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Those empires should have acted faster and sooner.

  • @ruuoxi
    @ruuoxi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    so only the one served the royals got castration? the kitchen staff, washing staff, or cleaning staff are not castrated? or all of the male staff regardless job desk as long as they're in the palace will have castration?

    • @azlirazli7500
      @azlirazli7500 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Yes..all men who work in inner palace are eunuchs, including kitchen staff, washing staff and all jobs you mentioned.

    • @livewellwitheds6885
      @livewellwitheds6885 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yes it was a common practice in many countries with a monarch/emporer/king where having children was a way to pass on your "royal bloodline"

    • @riza-2396
      @riza-2396 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The kitchen staff is composed of normal people and castrated people, normal people work as chefs while castrated people do transportation jobs, for example bring raw material in, or bring cooked food to dining hall.
      Washing staff is actually women working in the harem.
      Cleaning staff is castrated.

    • @SinginTheDream
      @SinginTheDream ปีที่แล้ว

      Basically anyone who was granted access to where the Empress and imperial concubines were, had to be eunuchs.

  • @murtithinker7660
    @murtithinker7660 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I think that the emperors had low self-esteem. They felt proud for destroying another man's son, and felt more MANLY to see that they have turned fellow men into women. Shame on humans.

    • @selmahare
      @selmahare 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      The reason is more practical than that, even tho just as trivial and the act just as evil. It was done to ensure that no illegitimate heirs would take the throne. The less the empress and the concubines were around non emasculated men the more that was avoidable.

  • @e701
    @e701 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    how did they urinate afterward? were they able to control the flow?

    • @murtithinker7660
      @murtithinker7660 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      |Some could not urinate, so they died in pain. Those who survived wet their clothes and beds for ages, possibly doing that for the rest of their lives.

  • @apriliahussna4561
    @apriliahussna4561 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The question of the video remains unaswered

  • @bm2r819
    @bm2r819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Now my question is (when they let the service of the emperor how can they live a normal life they can't get married or have children what do they do?)
    Peace

    • @keizelharf5393
      @keizelharf5393 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      They can married to maid servant. Of course they can't had biological children.

    • @o_o5813
      @o_o5813 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      There testicles were removed, so they become asexual, don't love or get attracted to girls anymore
      They're FREE 😐

    • @Ealsante
      @Ealsante 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      They don't ever get let out. Eunuchs generally don't leave imperial service until their deaths.

  • @angelabby2379
    @angelabby2379 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1500 is MING DYNASTY LOL, they didn't wear the manchu pigtail hair

  • @shaunharn1998
    @shaunharn1998 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    All males felt pain watching this.

  • @leanhnguyet71
    @leanhnguyet71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    A huge number of problems used to come from there ......,

  • @charlesagsabay6982
    @charlesagsabay6982 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's so scard

  • @RyanGannon-z7m
    @RyanGannon-z7m หลายเดือนก่อน

    That's one way to stop corruption I suppose.

  • @Splexsychiick
    @Splexsychiick 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    What if urin did not flow out....would they randomly have accidental urin leakage....so many questions. Did they suffer from depression? I feel like a high portion of them turned evil afterwards.

    • @tempestmars123
      @tempestmars123 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Splexsychiick if the operation was not successful, the died in one or two weeks.

    • @silver4831
      @silver4831 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Tuned evil ?

  • @Rose-hx9vk
    @Rose-hx9vk 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So many horrible things have been perpetrated on man-kind over the years. Sickening.

  • @LinkIsOurChampion
    @LinkIsOurChampion 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So sad. I would rather died than giving my child for such thing.... and I hate children, but I would never give up on him only for me to eat.

    • @peytonguo8639
      @peytonguo8639 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      It is either starving to death or having your children go through this---at least he has a chance to survive. It is just sad.

  • @thangvuong9196
    @thangvuong9196 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No anesthesia or tranquilizer either

  • @Rebecca-mj1ot
    @Rebecca-mj1ot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Wait is that actually how you pronounce eunuchs....I lived a lie.

  • @kentot2position
    @kentot2position 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    ouch

  • @thomasshaftoe461
    @thomasshaftoe461 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its Game of thrones in real life.

  • @Poemi10304
    @Poemi10304 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Savage. 😱

    • @Theo-bk6qj
      @Theo-bk6qj 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Poemi10304 they must cut it because a lot of them will serve princess and Queen.

    • @yang5616
      @yang5616 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I just get a glimpse of my dog...

    • @Calligraphy-dilipaweeratunga13
      @Calligraphy-dilipaweeratunga13 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Also europeans did it .ever heard about castrati?
      (Im not chinese )

  • @karlbahena1733
    @karlbahena1733 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It said there been castrated.

  • @johnvonshepard9373
    @johnvonshepard9373 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    YAMEROOOOOOOO

  • @calminqsscalminqss3136
    @calminqsscalminqss3136 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    sounds a bit like varys from got

  • @i99suk54
    @i99suk54 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Menkes???

  • @Jhonnycomelate
    @Jhonnycomelate 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Interesting to know.

  • @jeojackson534
    @jeojackson534 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    What a great and ancient culture!

  • @irememberla6460
    @irememberla6460 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    That is barbaric

  • @langlangat21
    @langlangat21 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Unsullied of China.

    • @longyu9336
      @longyu9336 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      They were however near useless as frontline warriors, their meat became soft and "flaccid", they were deemed to weak to perform hard physical labor usually expected from male farmers etc. As warriors, they'd quickly get slain even by mere peasant mobs.

  • @solidcypher7713
    @solidcypher7713 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Yeah that's freaky...but not as worse as doing that to little girls out of hate in Islam

    • @Poemi10304
      @Poemi10304 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      SoLiD CyPhEr I believe they do that in some African countries.

    • @fkmui03
      @fkmui03 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Here comes the comment from _mr. Know it all_

    • @nkyoung1265
      @nkyoung1265 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh, High born Chinese girls bound their feet. Almost as cruel as castration.

    • @Spanishdog17
      @Spanishdog17 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Both are bad.

    • @Aa-fg6jf
      @Aa-fg6jf 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ignorant Islamophobic

  • @kaifermorgansusulan5366
    @kaifermorgansusulan5366 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    ouch
    why so brutal?

    • @mikawa1314
      @mikawa1314 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Kaifer Morgan Dalipe Susulan To be sure that any child born inside the palace belongs to the Emperor

    • @htin08
      @htin08 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      To be sure of absolute loyalty. Penises can create Problems in Politic.
      The same reason that the Catholics church required their service men and women to become practice celibacy.

  • @buddyman8474
    @buddyman8474 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is prove boys love already exits long time ago

  • @anjiexox2711
    @anjiexox2711 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    So many inaccuracies

    • @linewalker
      @linewalker 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lacking information e.g., why did they have to be castrated?

    • @Jhonnycomelate
      @Jhonnycomelate 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      And what were theinaccuracies ?

    • @SuccessforLifester
      @SuccessforLifester 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Can you elaborate which parts are incorrect?

    • @user-wu6xl4wq5q
      @user-wu6xl4wq5q 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      As we know random TH-cam keyboard warriors are clearly more informed than the Official News Network of China

    • @anjiexox2711
      @anjiexox2711 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@user-wu6xl4wq5q
      This is a British run Chinese newspaper, nowhere near the official news network of China

  • @CoachMichaelLin
    @CoachMichaelLin 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's real "non-binary"

  • @coytheboy
    @coytheboy 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Second