Wei Jia's , originally Han nationality , whose real surname is Wei, is the daughter of Qingtai, the internal governor. Later, because Wei was a concubine, she was carried into Manchuria with a yellow flag by Qianlong.
was selected into the palace as a palace maid, but later she stood out and was named a nobleman. She became the emperor's concubine and was later named the imperial concubine.
In the fourteenth year of Qianlong's reign, Wei Jia was promoted to your concubine . At this time, Wei Jia was ranked first among the concubines, ahead of Shu concubine Yehenala, who had advantages over her in family background and qualifications. This was unacceptable. Not to mention it is a great honor. In the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong's reign, Wei Jia was promoted to the title of royal concubine. Six years later, she became the imperial concubine. At this time, Queen Xiaoxian had passed away, and the successor Nala also fell out of favor and was relegated to the cold palace. In addition, Emperor Qianlong never established a queen, so Wei Jiashi ruled the Sixth Palace as an imperial concubine. On behalf of the queen, she became the unnamed but powerful master of the harem for ten years.
Wei Jia was the concubine who gave birth to the most children for Emperor Qianlong, and was also one of the concubines who gave birth to the most children in the Qing Dynasty. From the 21st to the 31st year of Qianlong's reign, Wei Jia gave birth to four sons and two daughters for the emperor, and the time intervals were short, which shows her great favor.
One year after Wei Jia was promoted to the imperial concubine, the imprisoned queen Uranala passed away. The imperial concubine Wei Jia had become the person with the highest status in the harem.
Qianlong really liked his concubine. After his concubine gave birth, he couldn't wait to let her sleep with him before the confinement period was completed, so that she could give birth to 6 children for Qianlong in 10 years.
In 1773, Qianlong secretly established Yongyan, the fifteenth son of the emperor, as the crown prince.
Although Qianlong was very satisfied with Wei Jia's ability to do things and his humble attitude towards others, Qianlong was very determined not to have a queen. On the one hand, it was because he missed his wife Fucha, and on the other hand, he also wanted not to reveal it. The intention of establishing a heirloom could only allow Yongyan's mother, Wei Jia, to continue to be the imperial concubine to avoid arousing suspicion among the princes.
Qianlong originally wanted to wait until he announced his abdication before canonizing Wei Jia as queen. Unexpectedly, Wei Jia died at the age of forty-eight only two years after secretly establishing the throne. In this way, Wei Jia took charge of the affairs of the Sixth Palace as the imperial concubine for eleven years, and she did not receive the title of queen she should have received until her death. Perhaps out of a kind of spiritual compensation, after Wei Jia's death, Qianlong buried the coffin of the imperial concubine Wei Jia in Yuling Underground Palace .
In Qianlong's view, this would not arouse all kinds of speculations against the emperor by his ministers. In the underground palace of Yuling, three imperial concubines have been buried - Emperor Huixian's Gaojia family, and Emperor Zhemin's imperial concubine Fucha family. , Imperial Concubine Shujia Jin Jia, and the three sons born to Jin Jia are still there.
The most fortunate thing for Wei Jia was that she gave birth to the emperor's fifteenth son, Yongyan.
This son was appointed as the heir by Qianlong, who was later the Jiaqing Emperor. She was so talented that her mother valued her son, and after her death, she was posthumously named Queen Xiaoyi.
