He would certainly not feel honoured at the thought of having his daughter enter the Imperial Palace as a secondarywife.
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The Secondarywife of the Emperor had a deep yellow chair.
3
The Secondarywife of the Emperor Kwang Hsu presented about the same to Her Majesty.
4
On this day, as on the Emperor's birthday, the Emperor, Young Empress and Secondarywife dined together.
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All the Court ladies went to the lunch, except Her Majesty, the Young Empress and the Secondarywife.
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She ordered us all, including the Young Empress, to wear pale blue, also the Secondarywife of the Emperor.
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In the strongly patriarchal and patrilinear system of the Chou and the developing primogeniture, children of secondarywives had a lower social status.
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No preference was shown to the son of the oldest brother, and no preference between sons of main or of secondarywives is recognizable.
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She gave the Court ladies each a beautiful embroidered gown and a few hundred taels, the same to the Young Empress and the Secondarywife.
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It had two buildings flanking it on each side and the eunuch told us that the one on the left was the SecondaryWife's bedroom.
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The court comprised the usual extensive harem of an Oriental prince, consisting of a single recognized queen, and a multitude of secondarywives or concubines.