What is a court ladies job in ancient china?

Outside the royal family, any women in the court were most likely to be servants.

This website provides good information on the role of women in the Tang Dynasty. It goes beyond the women of the court and into the roles of women in society. The following is the introduction:

"Women of the Tang Dynasty

"DURING China's feudal epoch, society was male-centered. There was consequently a pervasive belief in man's superiority over woman that continued as the ruling ideology throughout feudal society. Women were thus regarded as little more than bond servants in feudal China.

"At this time, male dominance was guaranteed and maintained by certain norms. The three cardinal guides (ruler guides subject, father guides son, and husband guides wife) and the five constant virtues (benevolence, righteousness, propriety, wisdom and sincerity) defined social behavior, and the three obediences (in ancient China a woman was required to obey her father before marriage, her husband during marriage, and her sons in widowhood) and four virtues (women's fidelity, physical charm, propriety in speech and proficiency at needle work) guided the family order.

"In feudal China, women had no say at all as regards their marriage partner, being expected to comply unconditionally with their parents or brothers' arrangements. Women had neither the right to divorce their husbands, nor to remarry. Whether or not a woman outlived her husband, she was permitted to marry only once in her lifetime. On the other hand, a husband could lawfully abandon his wife if she committed one of the seven sins: being unfilial, barren, lascivious, jealous, succumbed to a repellent disease, meddling, or stealing.

"Having such a low social and familial status, women could not even dream of filling a place within the political and economic realm.

"During the long, dark period of Chinese feudal history that lasted more than 2,000 years, however, there was a brief and sunny respite for ancient downtrodden Chinese women. This was during the 618 to 765 zenith of the Tang Dynasty. Scholars from later ages agree that, compared to the majority of ancient Chinese women, those of the Tang Dynasty were blessed to have lived at this propitious time."

The website goes on to give more details on the women of the Tang Dynasty.

Good luck!

http://www.chinavoc.com/history/tang/women.htm

to please the emperor

emperor and his creww

concubine...
:P

Back in those times, women were ranked lower than men, so court ladies did not get to serve the emperor. Eunuchs and concubines serve the emperor, court ladies serve the concubines. Court ladies were lower-ranked servants, they took care of the more hands-on stuff, ie. kitchen, cleaning, making clothes, etc. Some (generally the prettier/talented ones) got to entertain as dancers/musicians.