Inside the Zhenshun Gate at the northern end of the Ningshou Palace in the Forbidden City in Beijing, there is a well called "Zhenfei Well". Before Cixi fled west, she ordered Guangxu's favorite concubine, Zhenfei, to drown in the well, and the name of the well was derived from it. The well couldn't even plug people's heads, how was Zhenfei pushed down? Why did Cixi kill her?
ZhenFei, he Tara clan, Manchurian red flag man, father is the right attendant of Hubu Changshu. She has been lively and cheerful since she was a child, active, and has a strong hunting spirit. She was very disgusted by the dull way of life of the palace, especially the intrigues and deceptions in the palace, which made her very disgusted. She loves new things, and a carefree life.
She and her sister grew up in Guangzhou with her uncle Changshan, who also hired celebrities to teach them knowledge. Guangzhou is the most important city for trade and commerce between the five ports, the earliest to open up, the earliest and the most contacts with the Western capitalist world, the idea is that the interior is much more open, and Zhenfei is also deeply influenced. At the age of 10, she returned to Beijing with her sister.
In the fourteenth year of Guangxu, the two sisters were elected to the palace, and she was given the title of Zhen Concubine. They were also joined by Cixi's niece Yehenara, who was made empress. Guangxu was very fond of The Princess Zhen, who was lively and lovely, advocated Western learning, and had a unique view of political affairs, according to the "National News Preparation": "Only The Zhen Concubine was well-behaved and pleasing, worked in Hanmo, was good at chess, served the emperor around the day, ate and drank with the emperor, and Washu taught by Emperor Dezong in particular. The following year, he was promoted to Princess Jane.
Unexpectedly, Guangxu's favor brought her the disaster of killing herself. The empress was not favored, and often complained to Cixi and put small shoes on Concubine Zhen, causing Cixi to dislike her very much. In addition, Zhenfei belongs to the reform faction, which is far from the conservative Cixi, and Cixi hates her even more.
On October 29, 2000, Princess Zhen was demoted from a noblewoman to a noblewoman because of her rebellion against the Empress Dowager and her conviction that Xi Shang was flashy and disrespectful to the family law. It is said that the day before she was punished, when the Guangxu Emperor came to ask Cixi for peace, Cixi Wase was blue in the face and ignored him. Guangxu had been kneeling for more than two hours before Cixi said, "You don't care about The affairs of Concubine Zhen and Concubine Jin, the Wai family will take care of it." They cannot be allowed to break the family law and dare to go to the government! As a result, On this day, Princess Zhenfei suffered a "cloaked court staff" (stripping off her clothes and publicly beating her with a bamboo whip in front of the palace people), and the imperial concubine was punished by this punishment, which was rare in the Qing Dynasty.
In the "Penghu Reform Law", Zhenfei is a strong supporter of Guangxu, and after the failure of the change, Guangxu is imprisoned, and Zhenfei is also beaten into the cold palace. In the twenty-eighth year of Guangxu, the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, and Cixi used the inconvenience of taking away Zhenfei as an excuse, leaving behind and worrying that her youth would cause trouble and damage the royal face. Therefore, Cixi ordered the eunuch Cui Yugui and others to bring The Zhenfei who was imprisoned in the northern courtyard of jingqi Pavilion to the Zhenshun Gate and then push her into the well. In order not to let Concubine Zhen take revenge on her after her death, Cixi also ordered someone to change the size of the wellhead to a smaller size so that she could never turn over. Princess Jane was only 24 years old when she was killed.
In the spring of 1901, the Eight-Nation Alliance made peace with the Qing government, and Cixi and his party returned to the capital. Cixi was weak-hearted, and ordered someone to salvage the body of Zhenfei, who had been soaking in the well for more than a year, and then bury it in the palace maid cemetery. In the second year of the Republic of China, Princess Jin became a concubine, and only then did she move Zhenfei back to Chongling Concubine Garden to sleep and bury.