太监“和”宦官“在清朝以前不是相同的概念。宦官早在战国时期就有,不过那时的宦官并非全是阉人,”悉用庵人“是东汉以后的事情。”太监“一词,辽代才出现,明代,太监和宦官才发生联系:太监是宦官的上司,是高级宦官:充任太监的必须是宦官,而宦官却不 Eunuchs ”and“ eunuchs ”were not the same concepts before the Qing Dynasty. The eunuchs existed as early as during the Warring States Period, but the eunuchs at that time were not all eunuchs.“ The use of anamma ”was something after the Eastern Han Dynasty. The term “eunuch” appeared only in the Liao Dynasty. The Ming Dynasty, the eunuch and the eunuch came into contact: the eunuch was the supervisor of the eunuch and the senior eunuch: the eunuch who had served as the eunuch had to be a eunuch, and the eunuch did not