Everyone must have watched the Qiong Yao drama "Returning the Pearl and Gege". Now this drama has become a childhood memory of a generation. In the past two years, it has returned to the summer vacation and returned to people's attention. It’s a different experience to watch a TV series after many years. When I was a child, I didn’t see anything famous when I watched TV. It’s easy to believe in TV series for kids who don’t have accumulated knowledge, but now we are all I have studied history and have some historical common sense, and then I will see a lot of clues when I look back at this TV series. Although the TV department has been adapted and contains certain fictional content, it still needs to be corrected in order to prevent people from believing it is true.
Compared with "Huanzhugege", "The Story of Yanxi Palace" broadcast last year has a lot of similarities with the former in plot, and the two TV series can even be mutually exclusive. Convergence, so many people think "Strategy of Yanxi Palace" is the prequel to "Returning the Pearl". Such a mysterious character appeared in both TV series. She is Qianlong's concubine "Xiang Fei" (this is the name in Huanzhu, which is called Rongbi, Rongfei in the strategy of Yanxi Palace).
Although the name of this concubine is different in the two TV series, her life experience is basically similar: She is a concubine from a minority, because of the war, she was forced to separate from the person she loved and became The concubine of the Qing emperor. They all had hatred for the Qing emperor, and they were so beautiful that the emperor was obsessed with it. Speaking of which, the plot in the TV series should once again appear in everyone's mind. Such a story is full of legends. So has such a magical woman really appeared in history?
Today, let us combine historical facts together to reveal the "fragrant concubine" in history.
"Xiang Fei" was a concubine of Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. There have always been two sayings about her image in history. One view is that "Xiang Fei" is A violent woman, one way of saying that "Xiangfei" is actually Qianlong's favorite concubine, she is not called Xiangfei but Rongfei. If you want to understand the real Xiangfei, you must first understand these two statements briefly.
"烈女说" is also the term used in many film and television works, and many popular folk stories of "Xiangfei" are also based on this statement. In this statement, it is introduced that the concubine is the princess of a leader of the Hui tribe of Xinjiang, the country is beautiful and the fragrance is scented all over the body. In a war, the emperor killed her husband and took her back to the palace in order to forcibly occupy her.
And the concubine Xiangfei is loyal to the one she loves, vowing to protect her chastity to the death, and would rather die than submit to the emperor. Moreover, in order to avenge his country and her husband, she also carried a sharp blade with her. This incident reached the ears of the queen mother, and in order to protect the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, she gave the concubine to death. Later, the emperor was heartbroken when she learned about it. In order to comfort her dead soul and fulfill her wish during her lifetime, he sent her back to her hometown for burial.
"宠妃说" is closer to reality, and the ending is more satisfactory. According to this statement, Qianlong did have a concubine from Xinjiang, but she was not called "Xiang Fei" but "Rong Fei". The emperor loved her very much. In order to avoid her homesickness, she specially changed her residence. The decoration became the style of the Hui nationality, and she also respected her ethnic habits and religious beliefs, and built an Islamic church for it. She and Qianlong loved each other and stayed with Qianlong until her death.
So which of these two statements is correct? After a lot of research and investigation and archaeological discoveries, the authenticity of the latter statement is finally confirmed. "Xiang Fei" is a kind of legend spread among the people, with low credibility. Among the many concubines of Qianlong, there is indeed a concubine similar to "Xiang Fei", but she is not called Xiang Fei in historical records. It's Concubine Rong.
Therefore, later legends and fictional film and television works should be based on "Rong Fei" as the prototype, combined with folklore. Therefore, if there is indeed a concubine Xiangfei in history, then she should be Emperor Qianlong’s "Concubine Rong". This statement was further confirmed later..
So now that we know the truth of history, then we must also reveal for everyone about the "fragrant concubine story" spread by the people and the false claims in the film and television dramas. Everyone correctly understands the so-called "Xiangfei".
In most of the film and television works and folklore, it is mentioned that the concubine is a foreigner. Because the leader of the country was killed by the Qing army and captured into the palace, she carried a dagger with her and wanted to assassinate the emperor. Later, the Queen Mother learned of this and gave her to death. There are many doubts about this statement, and there is no definite basis. If you contact the history of the Qing Dynasty, you can know: If the Concubine Xiang was really a prisoner of the enemy, it would be a little weird for the emperor to bring her into the palace.
Under the condition of feudal society where imperial power is supreme, how strict the guards of the imperial palace are. Before serving the emperor in ancient times, the concubines had to bathe and change their clothes, and then they were carried naked by the eunuch and carried them into the emperor’s palace. How to carry sharp weapons and how to perform assassination in this situation? In addition, in ancient times, it was impossible for a woman to enter the palace if a woman was captured. Those who wanted to enter the palace as a errand had to go through layers of screening to investigate whether your family situation was innocent. Not everyone can enter the palace, let alone Here, "Xiangfei" entered the palace as the emperor's concubine. If she were a prisoner, how could she pass the inspection of the palace and how could she get into the palace.
So if you compare these statements with historical facts, you will find contradictory nonsense. After a final inspection of history, it is proved that only the “concubine Rong” who entered the palace in this period was officially recorded later. However, according to historical records, Concubine Rong was not an alien princess, and the empress dowager also liked her very much, to some extent. She can become a noble concubine because of the empress dowager's decree, so how can the empress dowager give her death?
There is also a false claim that Emperor Qianlong had two Hui concubines, one is "Rong Fei" and the other is "Xiang Fei". This is actually because people cannot identify the correct history and Fictional legends, "Xiang Fei" and "Rong Fei" are basically the same person, and most of the legends about Xiang Fei are also based on the real character "Rong Fei", but the legend is to gain eyeballs, to a certain extent The above was exaggerated.
Does the Xiangfei in "Huanzhugege" really exist in history? Exclamation from "The Qing Palace Archives"
From a large number of "The Qing Palace Archives" can break this false statement. Every concubine in the Qing Palace has its own file record, and even the humble maids have their own. The identity file is the emperor's concubine. Moreover, it is clearly recorded in the Qing palace archives that no matter the court ladies, eunuchs or masters have corresponding palace shares and food standards, in other words, they have their own wages, and each concubine is different.
So if there were really two Hui concubines in history, it would mean paying an extra salary, and the concubines have a lot of months, so this expenditure is huge. But after consulting all the files, there was no concubine with the same treatment as "Concubine Rong". Moreover, no relations between the Hui nobles stationed in Beijing and the so-called "Xiang Fei" have been found, which further proves that this claim does not exist.
To sum up, we can know that the so-called "Xiangfei" is just a fictional legend. There is no such person in the real history. Only "Concubine Rong" is clearly recorded. And because the historically recorded Concubine Rong has certain similarities with the legendary Concubine, some people think that "Concubine Rong" is the "Concubine". In short, regardless of whether the existence of "Concubine Concubine" is denied or the two are considered to be The same person needs a certain historical basis, and this basis is the "Rong Fei" of Emperor Qianlong who actually exists in history. Later various legends and movies and TV series are based on the experience of this concubine.
References:
"Emperor Qianlong's Fragrant Concubine" by Yu Shanpu
"The Mystery of Xiang Fei" Xu Xin
""Fang Fei": The Phantom of Qianlong Rongfei" by Ji Dachun
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