In the late Kangxi Dynasty, there were some Han concubines in the harem of the Qing Dynasty, represented by Shunyi Concubine, and these Han concubines also gave birth to sons for the elderly Kangxi, and their life expectancy was not short, which can be said to be a blessed person in the harem. Today I want to talk about the concubine who gave birth to the crown prince for the 60-year-old Kangxi.
According to historical records, The Jing Concubine Shi clan was born in the twenty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, and her father's name was Shi Huaiyu. In fact, the relevant information about Jing Concubine's father is already telling us that Jing Concubine is a Han woman, and she is not in the flag and is not eligible to participate in the Qing Palace Draft. So, how did this Han girl enter the palace?
In fact, since the Shunzhi Dynasty, han concubines have appeared in the Qing Palace, such as the Concubine Ke of the Shunzhi Harem, who was the first Han woman to be named a concubine. Moreover, the emperor often secretly ordered officials to purchase virgins into the palace in the Jiangnan region, train them, and serve as palace women, and the lucky ones of them may be favored by the emperor and accepted as concubines, and Jing Concubine is most likely this kind, judging from Jing Concubine's birth year, her entry into the palace should be forty years after Kangxi.
However, Jing Concubine's real favor was fifty years after Kangxi, when Kangxi was already old, and he was especially fond of Jing Concubine's young and beautiful Han women, and often let them sleep. In the fifty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Concubine Jing was fortunate to give birth to a young prince for the 60-year-old Kangxi, who ranked twenty-third among Kangxi's many sons and was named Yin Qi.
Many of the top princes of Kangxi were involved in the struggle for concubines in Kangxi's later years, they were not only older, but also had a fairly strong background in their birth mothers, and compared with these older princes, the princes born to these Han concubines in the late Kangxi period did not have any advantages, coupled with their young age, so they did not participate in the struggle to seize concubines, but they did not expect that this laid the foundation for the safety of their mother and son.
After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, Shi Shi, the mother of The Twenty-third Son of emperor Yin Qi, was made an imperial nobleman, and Yin Qi was also made the Duke of Zhenguo. After Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he also honored Yin Qi's mother and son, and Shi Shi was honored as the concubine of Emperor Jing, and Yin Qi eventually received the title of King of the County. Moreover, the mother and son are still very long-lived.
Concubine Jing died in the twenty-third year of Qianlong at the age of 70, while Yin Qi lived to qianlong for fifty years at the age of 73.
Note: In addition to Jing concubines, there were two concubines with the title of "Jing" in the Qing Dynasty.
The first was the first empress of Shunzhi, Borjigit, who, although of noble birth and outstanding appearance, was at odds with Shunzhi and eventually ended up with a deposed fate, and her title was demoted to Concubine Jing and she was relegated to a side room. Moreover, the only ending of the Qing Dynasty is also confusing, at least she did not die in the Qing Palace, and it is possible to return to her mother's home in Mongolia.
The second was Empress Xiaojingcheng of the Daoguang Dynasty. Empress Xiao Jingcheng was a concubine selected by Daoguang in the second year of the draft, and she was very favored, and gave birth to four children for Daoguang, including the famous Prince Gong Yishi. However, Empress Xiao Jingcheng only achieved the title of imperial concubine before her death, and she was honored as the empress dowager after the Xianfeng Emperor succeeded to the throne because she had raised Xianfeng, but compared with the Jing concubine of the Shunzhi Dynasty, the end of Empress Xiao Jingcheng was very good.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, Imperial Classics