>Most popular TV genre in China was "harem palace dramas">Mostly focused around a girl entering an imperial harem, then needing to scheme, murder or disgrace rivals, murder or disgrace their children, murder or disgrace friends, basically destroy anyone in the path of MC's kid becoming the Crown Prince so MC can be the Empress dowager (arguably the most powerful position in Imperial China)>Most satisfying way to take someone down in CDramas is to eventually get them punished with "human pig" where their nose is cut off, along with their hands and feet and they are forced to crawl around on stumps making pig sounds for the rest of their lives.>Shows became so sadistic and started to impact how women were acting in the workplace and public, that they got banned by the Government.How accurate are Harem C-Dramas to how Harems actually operated IRL? were bitches literally just scheming, seething and slaughting their way through all their friends and cometition?
Back in the day, if the Emperor died, all concubines get buried alive.
>>17988792Pretty accurate. Empress Lu of the founding Han Emperor Gaozu tortured her rival alive.>One exception was Concubine Qi, whom Lü Zhi greatly resented because of the dispute over the succession between Liu Ruyi (Qi's son) and Liu Ying. Liu Ruyi, the Prince of Zhao, was away in his principality, so Lü Zhi targeted Concubine Qi. She had Qi stripped of her position, treated like a convict (head shaved, in stocks, dressed in prison garb), and forced to do hard labour in the form of milling rice. >One morning in the winter of 195–194 BC, Emperor Hui went for a hunting trip and did not bring Liu Ruyi with him because the latter refused to get out of bed. Lü Zhi's chance arrived, so she sent an assassin to force poisoned wine down Liu Ruyi's throat. The young prince was dead by the time Emperor Hui returned. Lü Zhi then had Concubine Qi killed in an inhumane manner: she had Qi's hands and feet chopped off, eyes gouged out, ears burned, nose sliced off, tongue cut out, forced her to drink a potion that made her mute, and had her thrown into a latrine. She called Qi a "human swine"I know Eastern Wu from the 3 Kingdoms had a succession crisis because Sun Quan started favoring his youngest son by his newest and youngest concubine over his eldest son, which lead to problems but I don't remember the exact nuance of it. Eastern Wu had the most fucked up succession crisis, most of it avoidable.
>>17988845I have no words.
>>17988847You also want to keep in mind this was the shit public enough that officials had to record and document it. Imagine the even more petty under the table shit that wasn't public or notable enough to get recorded.The Koreans have the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty where they record everything, where even the Korean King wasn't allowed to edit it. They have a lot of interesting mundane shit.
>>17988845>Eastern Wu
Why are asians so cruel?
>>17988792Name a single show that portrayed that singular event? Since you’re an expert on Chinese housewife dramas. Surely you can name us one show that depicts “ most satisfying way to take someone down in cdrama”.
>>17989702You act like this wasn't also the MO in turkish harems and roman noble houses. The reason this wasn't as common in the christian west is monogamy.
