Ancient women entered the palace for wealth and glory, and being selected by the emperor to enter the palace is like winning the jackpot for ordinary people, at least in the palace without worrying about food and clothing; if they are lucky enough to be favored by the emperor, they are more likely to be promoted. Seal the high position. As for managing the harem, becoming a queen is the ultimate dream of every concubine. The person I want to talk about today is the longest empress dowager in the Qing Dynasty. She is Empress Xiaohuizhang. At the age of thirteen, he entered the palace and became a queen. He died at the age of seventy-seven and became the queen mother for fifty-seven years.
Empress Xiaohuizhang is Kangxi’s aunt and grand-niece of the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, her status is very noble. She was born in 1641. In 1654, the 13-year-old Empress Xiaohuizhang entered the palace to marry Shunzhi, and she became a queen one month later. The other concubines squeezed their heads and failed to sit on the position of the queen, Xiaohui Queen Zhang easily got it. She was able to become a queen so quickly, in fact, because Empress Xiaozhuang wanted to protect her family's position in the palace, she chose a woman from the Borzigit clan as her queen.
Shunzhi’s first queen was also arranged by Xiaozhuang. Although Shunzhi had no affection for the first queen, she had no choice but to accept this as her mother’s arrangement. Although the political marriage stabilized the power of the two parties, Shunzhi never went to the queen's palace. In the end, Xiaozhuang had to agree to the abolition of Shunzhi, but a new one had to be established. Only then did Empress Xiaohuizhang become the successor of Shunzhi. However, Empress Xiaohuizhang still cannot be liked by Shunzhi, but compared with the shortcomings of the first queen, Shunzhi does not hate Queen Xiaohuizhang.
At that time, Shunzhi fell in love with Concubine Dong E. After she tried to abolish Concubine Dong E again, she made Concubine Dong E the queen, but Queen Mother Xiaozhuang knew that Shunzhi was almost stopped in time, so Queen Xiaohuizhang escaped the catastrophe and sat down. The position of the queen. However, without the favor of the emperor, even sitting in the position of the queen would be unhappy. Instead, he had to deal with the affairs of the harem and solve various intrigue tricks.
In 1661, Shunzhi died and Empress Xiaohuizhang became a widow, when she had just turned 20. However, Kangxi succeeded to the throne. Because Empress Xiaohuizhang was the aunt, Empress Xiaohuizhang was also honored as Empress Dowager, and Empress Xiaohuizhang was also called Empress Dowager Renxian. After the death of her husband, Shunzhi, the life of Empress Dowager Renxian did not turn out to be miserable, but began her own truly happy life. After being named the empress dowager, her position became more stable. Not only did the empress dowager Xiaozhuang support her, but also Kangxi was filial to her. Compared with the days when she was not favored by the emperor, the life of empress dowager Renxian in her later years was more nourishing.
Soon after Kangxi’s biological mother passed away, Empress Renxian took the initiative to take up the responsibility of raising Kangxi. Although she had no children, she always took Kangxi as her own child to raise and take care of and gave Kangxi enough. Dear. It was the Empress Dowager Renxian who treated herself as selfless as her biological mother, and Kangxi was full of respect for her. Kangxi even built a summer palace for the Empress Dowager Renxian, and handed over her children to her care.
Although the Empress Dowager Renxian was in a high position, she did not go smoothly. She entered the palace for the empress Dowager Xiaozhuang to consolidate the family power. Although entering the palace is the queen, she always wins Without the love of Shunzhi, she will have no children. Fortunately, she was honored by Emperor Kangxi, and her life in her later years was guaranteed.
Empress Dowager Renxian died in 1718 at the age of 77. She started as a queen mother at the age of 13, and became the empress dowager at the age of 20. She died at the age of 77. She was the empress dowager for 57 years and became the longest woman in Chinese history. From this perspective, Empress Dowager Renxian is very lucky. After all, excluding her emotional life, her status has always been very high.
References:
"The Biography of the Queen of the Qing History"
