汉代后宫中的女人最多时有6000人,传说最多时达18000人。这么多女人是完全被当成生育工具圈养起来的,带来了严重的不良影响,如致使“圣嗣不昌”、皇帝早亡、破坏生产等。在当时天人感应思想极为盛行的情况,人们普遍相信“霸占”大量女人使其“幽愁怨旷”会使阴阳严重失调,并招致天灾。不过,在当时热切追求富贵的社会意识的主导下,人们的行为几近疯狂,很多人争着把自己的女儿往后宫这个大火坑中推。 There are 6,000 women in the Han Dynasty harem up to 18,000 at most. So many women are completely enslaved as fertility tools, bringing serious adverse effects, such as “sanctifying”, imperial death, destroying production and so on. At that time, there was a widespread prevalence of the celestial sensation, and it was generally believed that a large number of women who “dominated” their “unpleasant grunts” would cause a serious imbalance of yin and yang and lead to natural disasters. However, under the eager pursuit of a wealthy social consciousness at the time, people were acting almost crazy and many were trying to push their daughters back to the firehouse in the back halls.