At the age of thirteen, we were still a junior high school student, and we were at a cute age, but in the early days of the Qing Dynasty, there was a girl who married early at the age of thirteen by her parents, and gave birth to a son in the second year of marriage.
Today, having children at the age of fourteen is actually a little unacceptable, but in fact, in ancient times, this phenomenon was not very common, and it was true that ancient women generally married early, but most of them were married at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and some late marriages would also drag on until the twenties.
And she was the biological mother of the famous Kangxi Emperor in history, Empress Xiaokangzhang. Her son and husband were both top leaders of the state, and Empress Xiaokangzhang should have been very happy to live in the palace, but this was not the case, and in 1653, Tong Jiashi was elected to the palace at the age of thirteen and became a concubine of the Shunzhi Emperor. She was full of hope, hoping to have a very beautiful love affair with the Shunzhi Emperor, but reality gave her a heavy blow.
In the emperor's heart, there was only Concubine Dong. In 1654, the fourteen-year-old Tong Jia gave birth to the third prince Xuan Ye, when the Qing Dynasty harem had a rule that the children born by the queen concubines would be directly taken away and raised by the nursing mother, which also made Tong Jia very sad, and her body was not as good as a day.
In the first month of the eighteenth year of Shunzhi, the Shunzhi Emperor died, Xuan Ye took the throne, and Tong Jia finally survived to the end. Later, she was honored as Empress Dowager Cihe. What everyone did not expect was that Tong Jiashi died of illness in the second year of Kangxi, when he was only 24 years old. It is a pity that I did not see with my own eyes the great achievements established by my son.