Emperor concubine is one of the ancient Chinese emperor concubine ranks. It was founded in the Ming Dynasty and used in the Qing Dynasty. The first imperial concubine in history was the descendant of Emperor Xu Zhanji of the Ming Dynasty, and the first imperial concubine in the Qing Dynasty was Concubine Dong E, Emperor Shunzhi, was the queen of filial piety.
Emperor and imperial concubine is second only to the queen in the harem concubine hierarchy, and is the same as the vice queen, and enjoys the right to associate the sixth house, which can be described as a high authority. Under normal circumstances, when the queen is in power, there is no imperial concubine in the harem, and only when the concubine is about to die, it is used as a kind of "comfort" before death.
It is said that there were 21 imperial concubines in the history of the Qing Dynasty, but only one person was a veritable imperial concubine, and she was the imperial concubine Chunhui.
First, explain what is a veritable imperial concubine.
First, it must be the canonization of the emperor of the current dynasty, not the emperor of the descendants. The imperial concubines of the Emperor Yongzheng, especially the imperial concubines in the middle and late Qing dynasties (like the four imperial concubines), were honored by the descendants of the emperor, and none of them belonged to the veritable imperial concubines.
Second, he received the canonization ceremony of the imperial concubine during his lifetime. Generally speaking, there are two procedures for the canonization of concubines and concubines in the Qing Dynasty. First, the emperor’s edict is equivalent to an oral agreement, and then the canonization ceremony is held. Only after the canonization ceremony is completed, the name is determined. The Emperor Dunsu of the Yongzheng Dynasty and the Emperor Huixian of the Qianlong Dynasty were only edicts and did not receive the canonization ceremony, so they are not worthy of the name.
Third, not a post-mortem seal. The royal concubines of Emperor Jingmin of the Kangxi Dynasty and the royal concubines of Emperor Shujia and Emperor Qinggong of the Qianlong Dynasty were named after their deaths.
Fourth, the final name is the imperial concubine. Concubine Dong E of the Shunzhi Dynasty, Empress Xiao Yiren of the Kangxi Dynasty, and Emperor Lingyi of the Qianlong Dynasty, although they were all the most imperial concubines during their lifetime, they all won the title of queen eventually, so they were no longer among the imperial concubines.
After talking about these, you can find that the only one who meets these four conditions is the imperial concubine Chunhui.
Chunhuihuang imperial concubine Su Clan, originally a concubine bestowed by Emperor Yongzheng to Hongli (Qianlong), she is a Chinese Han female from Jiangnan, very It may be the beauties offered to the court by officials from Jiangnan area. After Qianlong succeeded to the throne, the Su family became a more favored concubine. As early as the second year of Qianlong, the Su family was awarded the position of pure concubine. In the harem, it is second only to the empress Fucha family, the noble concubine Gao family, and the Xian concubine Nala family. Ranked fourth.
Moreover, in the fourth year of Emperor Qianlong, Qianlong transferred Su's family to the House of Internal Affairs and Zhengbai Qi as a collar. As a result, the Su family became the first Han concubine in the Qing Dynasty. Before becoming the imperial concubine, Su gave birth to the third son Yongzhang of Qianlong. After becoming the imperial concubine, he gave birth to the sixth son of the emperor Yong Rong and the fourth daughter of the emperor Heshuo Hejia.
It is worth mentioning that Princess Hejia was born with webs between her fingers. She is called the bergamot princess by the people. From the perspective of modern medicine, this is just a deformity and a kind of disability. . However, Qianlong still loved this daughter very much, and later married her to Fu Longan, the second son of Fu Heng.
In March of the twenty-fifth year of Qianlong, Su, who was a pure imperial concubine, became seriously ill. Qianlong immediately decreed that his imperial imperial concubine was made, and within a few days, The canonization ceremony of the imperial concubine was immediately held, and as a result, the Su family became the only imperial concubine in Qianlong who had received the canonization ceremony during his lifetime.
However, according to the medical records of the Qing palace, Su Shi, the imperial concubine of Pure Hui, had symptoms of liver depression and vomiting of blood, spleen and lung deficiency, which may have a lot to do with multiple births. In addition, although the Su family was favored by Qianlong, she also had many unsatisfactory things. For example, her son Yongzhang (the third son of the emperor) angered Qianlong for being impolite at the funeral of Empress Xiaoxian because she was not destined for her post. , So that he was deprived of his succession qualification. If so, it caused Su's liver depression to vomit blood, and it is not surprising that the life span is not long (only 48 years old).
However, after the death of the imperial concubine Chunhui, Qianlong wrote a poem to miss:
Thousands of eight dynasties are eager to pass, and there is nothing left of the old couple in Chonghua. (Note: There is also the case of the imperial concubine of Chunhui in the near future, and the old people in the Huagong Palace are also repaid. Most of them are paid at 50 and 100, and there are more worryings. Xin Yi temporarily overcomes the melancholic drama, Xu Qi sent back to Huailao. Ding Ding Ge kept leaking the sundial, and at the end of the day, he was free to participate in Siduo.
Reference materials: "Manuscripts of Qing History", "Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty", "Compilation of Medical Records of the Qing Palace", "Qianlong Imperial Poetry Collection"
