Kangxi was rated as the "Holy Ancestor with benevolence and filial piety" in history. From the time when the Qing Dynasty entered the Pass, until the final fall of the Qing Dynasty, no one could get the title of "Holy Ancestor". It can be seen how important what Emperor Kangxi di

Kangxi was rated as the "Holy Ancestor with benevolence and filial piety" in history. From the time the Qing Dynasty entered the customs until the final fall of the Qing Dynasty, no one could get the title of "Saint Ancestor". It can be seen how important what Emperor Kangxi did at that time was to the Qing Dynasty.

After Emperor Shunzhi entered the customs, it was only 18 years until Kangxi succeeded to the throne. What the young emperor Kangxi faced was that Oboi was becoming more and more powerful, and the anti-Qing forces in the country were still entrenched in San Francisco. Kangxi was great, and he solved these internal and external troubles with a clear head.

Kangxi in history also had the most concubines. From the time Kangxi was 12 years old to the last time he chose a concubine at the age of 65, Kangxi had more than 65 concubines for more than half a century. Which one did Kangxi love the most?

1. Draft system

Speaking of Kangxi’s many concubines, we have to mention the draft system of the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty is the closest to us, and we can also learn a lot of secrets about the imperial palace from it. Now it seems that the Qing Dynasty often selected beautiful women on a large scale, but it had a strict system.

1. Eight Banners Coated

Girls in the Qing Dynasty could not get married before participating in the selection of show girls. Regardless of whether you are a member of the Eight Banners or a Baoyi, you must participate in the general election every three years. When these young women reach the age of 14, they begin to prepare for the Show Girl election.

These girls don't have to vote anymore until they're 17, and they're all different. For women born in Eight Banners , this selection is usually presided over by the Ministry of Household Affairs. Women born in the Eight Banners are extremely noble. If they are not selected by the emperor, they can be prepared to marry the royal family and nobles.

Women born in the 1990s were not so lucky. The events they participated in were usually organized by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Even if there is a chance to enter the palace in the future, she will just start as a palace maid. She has to be responsible for the miscellaneous affairs of the harem. Even so, the job of a palace maid is something that many ordinary people long for.

And in this show girl selection, every girl of the right age cannot escape. Even if you get seriously ill when you are 14 years old, as long as you recover from the illness, you must participate in the show girl selection. Even if you are a descendant of the Eight Banners, you still have no privileges, and the selection of show girls is compulsory.

2. Selection of show girls

After receiving the notice, these show girls were uniformly sent on carriages to enter the Forbidden City . From here on, their fate will change. The beautiful ladies, six in a row, entered the palace to wait for the emperor and the empress dowager. The empress looked at them one by one and left a sign after looking gratified.

Even if the sign was retained in the first round of selection, a large number of people will still be kicked out in the second round. Those who leave the sign in the second round will either be rewarded as concubines by the emperor, or given to the princes and nobles.

The Qing Dynasty's concubine system was basically derived from the Ming Dynasty . At first, when Emperor Shunzhi entered the country, there was no such thing as selecting a concubine. However, because Emperor Shunzhi's unfortunate arranged marriage made him very painful, he announced to the world that he would start selecting concubines, which set the precedent for selecting concubines in the Qing Dynasty.

If you are chosen by the emperor to be a concubine, it will be the glory of the entire mother clan. It is no wonder that a large number of people sent their daughters to the palace to gain a status and gain glory for themselves. Even for maids who serve people in the palace, when they leave the palace at a certain age, many people are rushing to marry them.

2. Kangxi Concubines

Kangxi recorded 65 concubines, of which 4 were queens alone, and one of these 4 was posthumously granted the title. In addition, Kangxi also had many high-ranking concubines. There were three imperial concubines alone, not to mention the concubines below.

Kangxi's married wife Hesheli was carried into the Forbidden City by Kangxi Zhenger's eight classics eight carriages . She was born in the Zhenghuang Banner of Manchuria, which has the highest status among the Eight Banners of Manchuria. It was not even carried up by Kangxi. This also made Queen Xiaochengren leave a big place in Kangxi's heart.

The eldest son of Queen Xiaochengren died in the fourth year of Kangxi and left early. When she gave birth to her second son Yinreng , she unfortunately passed away due to hemorrhage and dystocia.Two years later, Kangxi broke the Qing Dynasty for her and made Yinreng the crown prince by default without setting a precedent for the crown prince. Unfortunately, the prince was imprisoned until his death.

Kangxi's second queen was Niu Hulu. She was born in Manchuria with a yellow flag, and she was also extremely noble. This was also the first queen of the Niu Hulu family in the Qing Dynasty, and the last queen to live in Kunning Palace in the Qing Dynasty. It is a pity that Queen Xiao Zhaoren died early and died only one year after being named queen.

The third empress of Kangxi Empress Xiao Yiren was the first imperial concubine during the Kangxi period and the only imperial concubine to be personally named. Although there was no queen in Kangxi's harem at that time, Tong Jia was personally authorized by Kangxi to act as queen, which can be said to be the existence of one person below ten thousand people.

But it is a pity that although the author said that she was a queen, she actually did not wait until the day when she was personally named queen. After she died of illness, Kangxi posthumously named her Empress Xiao Yiren, announced her death the next day, and buried her in the imperial mausoleum.

The last emperor of Kangxi was the biological mother of Emperor Yongzheng, Queen Xiaogongren. This queen is extraordinary. She is the only Wuya queen in the Qing Dynasty. She gave birth to a total of three sons and three daughters for Emperor Kangxi. Every time she gave birth to a son, her rank moved up a step.

After Emperor Yongzheng came to the throne, he revered his biological mother Wu Ya as the Empress Dowager Renshou. After finally surviving until his son became the emperor, Wu Yashi felt relieved and could no longer get sick. He died in the first year of Yongzheng's reign and was buried in the imperial mausoleum.

So who was Emperor Kangxi’s favorite person? Historians have been arguing about this issue endlessly. Some people think that it was the Hesheli who accompanied Kangxi from his wife to a poor wife, while others think it was the imperial concubine , a concubine.

3. The love of his life

But there was only one true love of Kangxi, and she was the only one worthy of Kangxi's lifelong memory and love. This person was neither Empress Xiao Gongren, who gave birth to many children for Kangxi, nor the imperial concubine who doted on the Sixth Palace. This person only stayed with Kangxi for two years.

1. The position of the Queen

Empress Xiao Zhaoren has no clear record in history of when she entered the palace. From the first time she appeared in the history books, she was recorded as a concubine. It is unknown whether she became a concubine upon entering the palace or was named a concubine, but after all, Queen Xiao Zhaoren's prominent family background is there.

Three years after the death of Kangxi's first queen, Hesheli, ministers continued to urge Kangxi to find a new queen. Kangxi, who was 21 years old at the time, had two concubines and seven concubines. In addition to Empress Xiao Zhaoren herself, the one above her was her cousin, the imperial concubine Tong Jia.

In addition to these people, there are four elders of Emperor Kangxi. How did she stand out from these people? Apart from Xiaozhao's own beauty and intelligence, her prominent family background probably only added points to her. Although her cousin Tong Jia was a noble concubine, her family was far inferior to hers.

There are eight nobles in the Manchu . Each of these eight nobles is a noble among the nobles. Naturally, their family status cannot be compared with ordinary nobles. Niu Hulu is one of them. It can be said that Queen Xiao Zhaoren was the highest-ranking concubine of Emperor Kangxi for more than 50 years, second only to Concubine Xuan.

Although Empress Xiao Zhaoren’s father, Yi Bilong, has been dead for many years, the Niu Hulu family’s family background is there. How can a child of an aristocratic family be overthrown so easily? Looking at it this way, Tong Jia is indeed not qualified to be the queen. After all, she has already lost a lot in the family.

2. Deep love for Xiao Zhao

Emperor Kangxi deeply loved Empress Xiao Zhaoren, how could it be seen? The first point is that Queen Xiao Zhaoren did not go through such troublesome matters as the draft. She entered the palace directly as a successor.

Generally speaking, beautiful girls almost have to go through a draft before they can be favored by the emperor. However, some daughters are appointed by the emperor and enter the palace directly. This also eliminated the cumbersome etiquette and draft system, and at the same time ensured that the emperor's harem was full.

Generally speaking, the person who can be selected as a queen is either the emperor's wife who accompanied him all the way to sympathize with her hard work and is crowned the queen, or the mother is more valuable than the child. Having a child will naturally establish a stable position in the palace. , however the Niu Hulu family did not have any heirs.

There is a theory that the reason why Niu Hulu died six months after being crowned queen was because she had a miscarriage and was in poor health at the time. In ancient times, there was a lack of disinfection tools, so she got infected, and it took several months before she left.

How could a woman with no heirs be favored by Kangxi based on her prominent family background? That's naturally because Kangxi loved her very deeply and liked her from the bottom of his heart. It was only during Kangxi's reign that Niu Hulu was promoted to the position of queen, which also gave Niu Hulu, who was not a queen, a brief moment of glory.

Although Empress Xiao Zhaoren did not have time to do anything for her family, she asked Emperor Kangxi to build a family temple for her father. Who is Queen Xiao Zhaoren? She was the adopted daughter of Obai who made Kangxi extremely afraid and wanted to get rid of him.

It was Kangxi's kindness that allowed her to become the queen. He actually made such a request. You must know that Empress Xiao Zhaoren's father, Bilong, was a sinner. He sided with Aobai's party members and became a sinner after Aobai's fall. .

Just when everyone was worried about Queen Xiao Zhaoren, Kangxi actually agreed. This surprised everyone, but Emperor Kangxi finally fulfilled Empress Xiao Zhaoren's filial piety.

summary

Queen Xiao Zhaoren was not the wife who accompanied Kangxi through the difficult times when he was in the most crisis. The Niu Hulu family had just experienced a blow from Emperor Kangxi, and there was no need for him to win over them at all. Only then could he confidently and boldly lead Queen Xiaozhao through her short life.

When it comes to the love of Kangxi's life, I don't think anyone can compare with the status of Queen Xiaozhao in Kangxi's heart. All his sincere and passionate feelings were poured out to this gentle and generous woman, although they did not get along for a long time. , but gave Kangxi a lifelong miss.