People often say that blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, sometimes it seems to be a good thing, but it is likely to turn into a bad thing, sometimes it seems to be a bad thing, but it is very likely to have good luck, in the long river of history, Dong Efei and other people are blessed by luck, but Empress Xiaohuizhang is blessed by misfortune.
Speaking of Empress Xiaohuizhang, many people may be very dazed and do not know who this is. In fact, this is not surprising, because although she has existed for a long time, she has not experienced any great turmoil, and all she has is a long, somewhat silent life, and her natural popularity is relatively small.
She was the second empress of Shunzhi, and before her, Shunzhi had married an empress, the daughter of Xiaozhuang's brother Wu Keshan, from Korqin, and was also Shunzhi's cousin. It is reasonable to say that kissing and kissing should be a happy event. However, after Shunzhi and his cousin got married, the two had incompatible personalities and did not get along smoothly, and in the end Shunzhi still found a reason to depose the empress.
But one empress from Horqin and a second empress from Horqin were deposed, because in the early Qing Dynasty, the marriage between Manchu and Mongolia was always indestructible, and the empresses were all from Horqin. Therefore, after Shunzhi deposed his cousin, he ushered in a second empress, and she was Empress Xiaohuizhang.
Empress Xiaohuizhang was the niece of the first empress, and her personality was much more docile than her aunt,But Shunzhi still did not like her, perhaps, Shunzhi hated from the heart, it was this kind of marriage that was arranged and involuntary, and even did not like them. And the worse thing is that not long after Empress Xiaohuizhang entered the palace, Concubine Dong E'e entered the palace.
Shunzhi's fascination with Concubine Dong E, to everyone's surprise, he named her a concubine, and then named her an imperial concubine, but it was still not enough, and he wanted to depose his empress again and make Concubine Dong Efei empress. However, this time, Xiaozhuang was no longer subordinate to Shunzhi's nature, and after she resolutely opposed Shunzhi's abolition, under the strong efforts of Xiaozhuang, in the end, Empress Xiaohuizhang finally retained her position.
At that time, for Empress Xiaohuizhang, it should also be very difficult. In this palace, she had no emperor's favor, no heirs, almost no chips to lean on, and what she relied on was the support of Xiaozhuang. And this support is the greatest guarantee for her survival in the palace. Therefore, it is conceivable that Empress Xiaohuizhang is very grateful to Xiaozhuang.
And the desperate love between Shunzhi and Dong Efei, after all, still did not have a good ending, Dong Efei died because of the death of her son, depressed, and within two years Shunzhi also went away. The young Empress Xiaohuizhang also became the empress dowager.
However, in the beginning, Empress Xiaohuizhang was still very passive, because although she was the empress, the new emperor was not her son, and Kangxi's birth mother, Concubine Tong, was still alive at the time. When the mother-in-law and the birth mother were alive at the same time, it was obvious that Empress Xiaohuizhang's situation would not be very flattering.
However, it is not known whether Kangxi was destined to suffer more on the way to becoming a Ming Jun, not long after he ascended the throne, his birth mother Concubine Tong also died, and kangxi had already lost his father and mother when he was young. In his world, the elders were actually only Empress Xiaozhuang and Empress Xiaohuizhang.
This mother-in-law suddenly became his only living mother.
But even so, at the beginning, the relationship between Kangxi and Empress Xiaohuizhang was not very close, and he respected her, but it was only respected and lacked affection. Until later, when Xiaozhuang died, these two people who were deeply favored by Xiaozhuang were in pain. And the same sadness has brought them closer.
From then on, Kangxi really treated Empress Xiaohuizhang as her own birth mother to respect and love, and Empress Xiaohuizhang really took care of Kangxi as her own son, they once had only the name of mother and son, but in the years that followed, they were not biological mother and son, but even better than biological mother and son.
In the fifty-sixth year of Kangxi, Empress Xiaohuizhang was seriously ill, and although Kangxi was also ill at that time, she still insisted on personally giving medicine to Empress Renxian, which shows the depth of Kangxi Emperor's feelings for this concubine. Later, empress Xiaohuizhang died, and the Kangxi Emperor was so saddened that he performed the ceremony of cutting braids (originally used for the death of the emperor) to express his mourning. It can be seen that this empress of the Shunzhi Emperor, although not favored by the Shunzhi Emperor, was an empress respected by the Kangxi Emperor in the second half of his life.
Empress Xiaohuizhang is the longest reigning empress dowager in Chinese history, reigning for a total of 57 years, but also the longest person in Chinese history, the empress plus the empress dowager, she served for a total of 64 years, although she did not get the favor of Shunzhi, but her life was also good, no one else's vigorous, but it is still very ordinary, in history is also a rare figure.