Promoted from the palace maid to the imperial concubine, the concubine has been favored by Qianlong for many years, why hasn't it been sealed?

Among all the emperors of the Qing Dynasty, there is a very inexistent emperor. Perhaps the previous emperors Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong were too strong. As a result, in his generation, everyone felt that the Qing Dynasty was suddenly weaker.

Actually, the overall strength of this emperor is not as bad as everyone thought, but slightly inferior to his father, his grandfather and great-grandfather. He is Emperor Jiaqing-Yongyan.

Picture: Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong three emperors portrait stills

Many historians or history enthusiasts want to find something about Jiaqing’s "non-doing business" incident in the official history, after all His father Qianlong likes beautiful women so much and loves romance, and as a son, he must have some genetic genes.

But the strange thing is that deeds like this are not found at all. There is no such thing as a woman recalling a woman outside the palace. This is enough to prove that as an emperor, his character is fair Decorous.

Picture: Jiaqing Emperor—Yongyan's name stills

In addition, due to the frequent visits and construction of the Yuanmingyuan in the Qianlong period, Emperor Jiaqing wanted to do everything. The way to save money, but he did not deduct like the later Emperor Daoguang, his queen only invited the minister to eat a bowl of noodles on her birthday, so Jiaqing is still a more pragmatic, thrifty and diligent emperor.

In addition, he himself is more kind and does not lose his temper easily, so overall he is a good emperor.

However, his biggest weakness is that he has no ability to govern the country and does not know how to manage the country well. This is a big gap with the other emperors. Therefore, later generations usually think that Jiaqing is A very mediocre emperor with no personal characteristics, he is a good person, but not a good emperor .

The picture comes from the Internet: the portrait of Emperor Jiaqing

However, today our main purpose is not to analyze Emperor Jiaqing, but to talk about his biological mother- filial piety. Yichun queen .

Among so many queens and concubines in the Qing Dynasty, I think everyone must be familiar with this one. After all, many friends have liked her since childhood. In the late 90s, Tiantianshou followed the TV to sing "Dang" for The love and hatred between Xiao Yanzi and Wu Ge, Ziwei and Er Kang grabbed a heart.

also has a great affection for a key figure in it, the concubine Ling, which makes the concubine look beautiful, heart-hearted and kind. When the little swallow is in trouble, she will always help out.

Actually, when the masses of friends grew up, they discovered something terrifying. It is definitely not that simple for the concubine to help the little Yanzi, because the water in the palace is too deep, so she might The swallow is used as a pawn against the queen to strengthen his power, but many people are afraid to continue thinking about it for fear of ruining their childhood.

Picture: Stills of Lingfei from "Huanzhugege"

There are also two recent popular costume dramas, one is "The Legend of Ruyi" and the other is "The Story of Yanxi Palace" ", both of the two dramas portray Ling Fei’s family history and promotion notes very detailed and specific, but the two dramas portray Ling Fei’s image completely different. The former is sinister and vicious and has no bottom line, while the latter is just Full of air, smart and inspirational.

However, there are so many listed, they are only characters in TV dramas. TV dramas often adapt historical figures in four different ways. Today, mainly takes everyone to fully understand a real concubine in history , which is convenient For the sake of this, I will call it Lingfei from now on, after all, she has been in this position for the longest time.

Picture: "Ruyi's Biography" Lingfei and "Yanxi Palace Strategy" Lingfei stills

令妃, her mother's name is Wei, Later due to her position and power It was very high. Qianlong raised the flag for her, called Wei Jiashi . The name is unknown, because Qing history hardly records the names of concubines.

She was born in a coat. Her father worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. When she reached the age of drafting, she entered the palace draft like other women. At that time, she was 13 years old. There is no record of making a concubine in the palace. It was mentioned that Lingfei should have been in the palace for several years and worked in the palace of Queen Xiaoxianchun.

Ling Fei's heart is quite high. She enters the palace for a purpose. She is not willing to be a palace lady forever, but a woman who wants to be an emperor. She holds the supreme power in her hands. She expresses herself like other palace ladies. It is not the same. When Qianlong saw her for the first time, he felt that she was extraordinary and was very impressed with her.

Then, she tried to catch Qianlong, so she was so fascinated by Qianlong that she couldn't get her at once. In short, she gave Qianlong a completely different experience. She knows that the women of the harem are all a tune, no style, so she knows how to handle size, strong when it should be strong, weak when it is weak, and finally Qianlong can't control her being strong and lucky. Picture: When Wei Jia first entered the palace, she was a court lady

Soon, in the tenth year of Qianlong, , that is, when the concubine was 19 years old, she was canonized as a nobleman , And then he was canonized as a concubine in the same year. This promotion speed is simply a rocket. Some people think Qianlong is too tolerant and generous to the concubine? In fact, it is not, the longest-lived concubine in the Qianlong harem, Wan concubine, is in the concubine. It lasted for more than forty years.

In short, in the harem of the Qing Dynasty, there were not many things to be promoted to two levels in the same year. It can be seen how difficult the concubine Ling was and how much Qianlong loved him. About 3 years later, she was promoted to concubine by Qianlong.

Let’s talk about the title of Concubine Ling-the word "Ling". No concubine in the past dynasties has used this title. This is Qianlong's first honor to Concubine Ling. "令" means beautiful meaning , perhaps only this word can represent the image of Concubine Ling in Qianlong's heart.

Picture: Canonized as a still photo

Immediately afterwards, the concubine ushered in a huge change. In the 30th year of Qianlong, Qianlong originally and his queen, Lafayette, The concubines happily went on a southern tour, but the queen Ulanala broke her hair. What the wild history said was that the queen was so angry that she saw Qianlong's all-day indulging in folk fireworks women, and made this move.

Everyone knows that Manchus regard their own hair as their life. If a woman loses her hair, it means her husband is dead. , Qianlong thought, so courageous that he would curse me to death, so he sent her back in anger. Palace, post-disposal.

Later, I thought that there was no one in the palace who could take care of affairs, so carried the royal concubine to the imperial concubine, the position is the same as the deputy queen , Since then, the concubine is equivalent to the invisibility in the palace.皇后,Because Qianlong did not establish a queen until his death, Lingfei's Xiaoyi pure queen was later named by his son Jiaqing.

Picture: Queen Ulanara’s haircut stills

It can be seen that the promotion of the concubine is relatively smooth, and many obstacles along the way have been removed inexplicably. However, historical circles have always questioned whether Qianlong loved Lingfei deeply, and there are different opinions.

Some say that it must be love, why not love will pull her from a little palace maid to the imperial concubine, But some say they do not love, then let’s take a look at the reasons why these people say "not love" . Picture: Stills of Ling Fei being crowned Royal Concubine

First of all, although the concubine was promoted two levels in a row in the first period, it was indeed quite good, but the promotion rate in the later period was average, and she finally sat on the Royal Concubine. At that time, the harem did not have a concubine with the same power, but Lingfei can only be regarded as Qianlong's more important and favorite woman, but she definitely did not rise to the level of love .

Secondly, Ling Fei gave birth to four sons and two daughters for Qianlong in total, and they were born in 10 years, with an average of one a year and a half, and she was pregnant for the first time.Nearly 30 years old, this is definitely an elderly woman in the palace.

Among them, Ling Fei had several times when she was pregnant and accompanied Qianlong South on a tour of mountains and rivers. I would like to ask, if a man really loves a woman, would he be willing to let his beloved woman have six children in ten years? The last child was Ling Fei about 40 years old, this age is extremely risky.

Ling concubine has the largest number of children among all the concubines of Qianlong. This may be one of the reasons why Qianlong valued her. If Qianlong did not love Ling concubine, he would not have so many children with her.

Picture: Ling Fei's pregnancy stills

Finally, there is still a doubt that has not been confirmed now, that is, the concubine's body was not decayed after death, and the flesh was still intact. , it is impossible to look like a person 153 years after death, and Qianlong's body has not been embalmed after death, making it even more impossible for the concubine.

Then there is only one explanation. Ling Fei was poisoned and died, and the toxin kept Ling Fei's body from decay. But when Concubine Ling was already in the same position at the time, who would have such courage?

Later generations have speculated that it might be Qianlong, because he had already preferred Jiaqing to be the emperor at that time, and he was old and feared that his concubine's relatives would do the political work in the later period, so he chose to act first.

The picture comes from the Internet: No decayed female corpse

In short, whether Qianlong has loved Ling concubine, or whether he really loved Ling concubine, they have already extended the trajectory of history. After leaving, it has nothing to do with us, but after a meal, it is very interesting to talk about the history and consider the characters and deeds in it.

Author: sub-Hao Jun

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