Kangxi's biological mother
Xuan Ye was one of the greatest rulers in the history of the Chinese Empire, and his reign was not only the longest, but also the most dynamic, and the most complex in the history of the Chinese Empire. Perhaps at the same time he is cold and careless, making mistakes in judgment, but he has a keen self-analysis ability and a sense of mission for the empire, which marks that he is one of the few people who can change the course of human history at will!
And what has been noted by many historians (including Chinese, Japanese, and Western historians) is that Kangxi's rule was comparable to that of Peter the Great of Russia and Louis XIV of France, and the common features of all three marked the highest stage of traditional monarchical monarchy in the pre-industrial era. Moreover, Kangxi acted decisively in many things, doing many beneficial things to rule and culture, and his character and character became the entry point for understanding the many factors that led to the consolidation of the Qing dynasty's order.
Tong Jiashi
Kangxi was the longest-reigning emperor in Chinese history. He won the war against San Francisco and Tsarist Russia, eliminated the Ming Zheng regime in Taiwan, and demonstrated Kangxi's military command ability. On the other hand, Kangxi defeated his political rival Ao Bai as a teenager and used the "literal prison" to crack down on Han dissidents in his old age. Kangxi held the "Duolun Alliance" to replace the war, Huairou Mongol ministries; the intention was to ensure the Qing government's territorial control in Heilongjiang by treaty. He created the situation of Kangqian's prosperity, a wise monarch, a great politician, and some people even called him "an emperor through the ages".
Ancient times are different from modern times, whether they are married or have children, they are very young. Especially in the Qing Dynasty, the emperors ascended the throne at a young age, the age of their marriage was also young, and the age of having children was also young. Among so many women, among so many empresses, the youngest empress was the kangxi emperor's birth mother, Empress Xiaokangzhang.
Empress Xiaokangzhang was an empress with a very low sense of existence. Her husband, the Shunzhi Emperor, did not like her, and when her son became emperor, she also had a very high sense of existence above her, Empress Xiaozhuang. Tong Jiashi (佟佳氏), imperial concubine of the Shunzhi Emperor, was the biological mother of the Kangxi Emperor. In 1662, she was honored as empress dowager Of Cihe, just as the so-called mother is noble to the son, in feudal society, the fate of a woman, especially the fate of a court woman, may always be like this.
In 1652, Tong's daughter was crowned a concubine, and in 1654, when Tong Was 15 years old, she gave birth to Ai Xin Jue Luo Xuan Ye, who was later the Qing Dynasty Ancestor Kangxi. Tong Jia entered the palace at an early age and became a concubine of the Shunzhi Emperor, originally an ordinary concubine, whose name is unknown. In 1654, he gave birth to the third son of the Emperor, Xuan Ye. Because the Shunzhi Emperor was in love with Concubine Dong at that time, and the emperor favored Dong Efei instead of Tong Jia, she was only 17 years old and was left out in the cold until the death of the Shunzhi Emperor, and the situation did not change.
According to the rules of the imperial palace, the queen concubine was taken away and raised by her grandmother when she gave birth to a prince, and as a biological mother, she could not see her own flesh and bones. Even if you occasionally see a child, you can only meet the mother and son in a hurry, like a thief, and you are not in a hurry to hold your child for a while, and you are carried away by the nurse.
It was not until Xuan Ye ascended the throne that her status rose to the top, and she was called the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces together with Empress Xiaohuizhang. However, before her children could repay the favor of parenting, she died in 1663 at the age of 24. It was only four months before she was officially honored as Empress Dowager Cihe in October 1662. For her part, from Xuan Ye's ascension to the throne to her death, it was the period when she had the most contact with her son, and during her illness, Xuan Ye served around her day and night, personally tasting medicine for her, and even forgot to eat and sleep. Fate was indeed so unfair to Tong Jia, and perhaps this was the epitome of the misfortune of most concubines in the harem of the Shunzhi Dynasty.
Kangxi
In June 1663, Tong Jia and Shizu Fulin were buried together in the Qing Xiaoling Tomb, with the following titles: Xiao Kangci and Zhuang Yi Gonghui Wen Mu Duanjing Chongtianyu Shengzhang Empress.