Regarding the emperor's mausoleum, what should be built, generally before his death, it will be carefully selected and designed, whether it is the sun, moon, stars or the surrounding mountains must be considered, in order to obtain the most perfect geographical location of the imperial tomb.
In addition, the emperors would choose who to bury with them.
When it comes to the tomb of the Yongzheng Emperor, it will be found that Concubine Xi guifei was not buried with the Yongzheng Emperor, why is this?
Xi Guifei, Empress Xiaoshengxian, Niu Hulu clan, Manchurian Yellow Banner people. At the age of thirteen, he entered the Yong Prince's Mansion and became a "Jinshi Gege". Although she is not the princess of the Eight Classics of Zheng'er, she is still the identity of the master.
During the Qing Dynasty, some gege were not specially served like those in film and television dramas. At that time, the concubines who served the emperor were also known as Gege, although the Nyūhulu clan was very famous in the ancestors and was one of the eight major surnames in Manchuria, but with the inheritance of generations, the surname Nyūhulu began to decline. Therefore, at that time, Concubine Xi could only serve as a concubine and marry Prince Yong, who had not yet become emperor.
After marrying prince Yong, niu hulu had always been a concubine. Ten years after this status lasted, the Niu Hulu clan gave birth to hongli, the future Qianlong Emperor. However, even after giving birth to a prince, the Niuhulu clan still maintained the status of a concubine. The world is unpredictable, and in the next event, Niu Hulu clan instantly walked to the peak of his life.
In the forty-ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the epidemic in the world was rampant, and prince Yong unfortunately suffered from the epidemic. At the time when his life was at stake, only the Niu Hulu clan disregarded his own safety and stayed by Prince Yong's side and took good care of him. After Prince Yong recovered, he deeply felt the cold and warm of the human world and knew who was really good to him, so he began to pay attention to the NiuHulu clan.
Time flies, and in the blink of an eye, Hongli, the son of the Niuhulu clan, is already ten years old. Because of Prince Yong's affection, he followed his father to see the Kangxi Emperor. The Kangxi Emperor was very happy to learn of the eight characters of Hongli's birthday, so he took it to the palace to raise him personally, and praised Hongli as "a blessing too much", and also claimed that the Niuhulu clan was a blessed person. Since then, the Nyūkulu clan has become even more favored.
At this time, the Niu Hulu clan was completely motherly and child-oriented.
After the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, he made The Hulu clan a concubine and held a canonization ceremony. In the eighth year of Yongzheng, Concubine Xi was given the title of Concubine Xi, but no canonization ceremony was held. In August of the first year of the Yongzheng Dynasty, the Yongzheng Emperor secretly established a reserve, regarded Hongli as his heir, and hid his name behind the "Zhengda Guangming" plaque for later reading.
In the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, the Yongzheng Emperor died, and the internal servant took out the edict and announced that Hongli would inherit the throne. According to the yongzheng Emperor's will, Xi Guifei was given the title of empress dowager with the honorific title of "Chongqing", but in this will there was no content for Xi Guifei to be buried together. After inheriting the throne, Hongli built Shoukang Palace for his mother, Empress Chongqing, as a place for empress dowagers to raise their children.
After that, Shoukang Palace became a palace dedicated to the qing dynasty emperor and empress. Qianlong greatly respected Empress Chongqing, and even did "obey what he said". Once, the empress dowager accidentally mentioned that there were abandoned temples in the east of Suncheon Province that needed to be rebuilt. The Qianlong Emperor immediately sent officials to carry out repairs and warned the people in the palace that in the future, if anything happened, we should first look at it, and we should not let the empress dowager be tired.
According to records, during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor, he made three southern tours, three eastern tours, three visits to Wutai, one tour to Zhongzhou, as well as Gurudwara Dongling and Mulan Hunting, all of whom accompanied the empress dowager. The sixtieth, seventy, and eightieth celebrations of the Empress dowager are more and more solemn at a time. In particular, the empress dowager's 80th birthday, the 60-year-old emperor still danced in colorful clothes, and undertook the knees of Joy, so that the empress dowager enjoyed the "blessings, lu and longevity" of the world.
In the first month of the 42nd year of Qianlong, the Qianlong Emperor moved to the Yuanmingyuan with the empress dowager. During this time in the Yuanmingyuan, the empress dowager always lived in the Changchun Xianguan, which was very close to the place where the Qianlong Emperor lived, so that the emperor could greet the empress dowager. That year, the empress dowager was 86 years old, the Qianlong Emperor was 67 years old, and Qianlong also wanted to celebrate the empress dowager on her 90th birthday.
At that time, it was the fourteenth day of the first month, and the Qianlong Emperor heard that the empress dowager was unwell, so he immediately rushed to the Changchun Immortal Hall to visit, and that night, Qianlong also accompanied the empress dowager to dinner. At that time, the empress dowager's illness was not very serious, and after the imperial doctor's conditioning, there was an improvement. However, within a few days, the empress dowager's condition had recurred, and it had become more serious than before.
The empress dowager did not want to affect the emperor's handling of government affairs because of her illness, so when the emperor greeted An, she pretended to talk and laugh freely. Until the twenty-second day of the first month, the empress dowager was already terminally ill, and on this day the Qianlong Emperor saw his mother twice. At night, the Qianlong Emperor always stayed by Qianlong's side, and on the twenty-third day, the empress dowager "sputum suddenly rose and died of an ugly illness", at the age of 86.
It can be said that the life span of the Niu Kulu clan ranks first among the emperors and empresses of the Qing Dynasty, and it is also extremely rare among the empresses of Chinese dynasties. However, after consulting the historical data, there was no record of the Nyulülu clan's reluctance to be buried with the Yongzheng Emperor.
Imagine how a woman who continued to stay by her husband's side during the epidemic and took good care of him without regard for her own safety would not be willing to be buried with her husband?
For the Yongzheng Emperor, this woman who accompanied him all his life took care of him regardless of his own safety, and this kind of affection was not something that anyone could do. Moreover, after the Yongzheng Emperor ascended the throne, he made Hongli, the son of the Niuhulu clan, the new heir, and even her position as empress dowager was the will of the Yongzheng Emperor.
Therefore, there was only one reason why the Niuhulu clan and the Yongzheng Emperor were not buried together, that is, Concubine Xi did not want to disturb her husband, who had been sleeping for 42 years. And this kind of not wanting to disturb is also the proof of Xi Guifei's deep feelings for the Yongzheng Emperor. In fact, there are still such examples in the Qing Dynasty, that is, Empress Xiaozhuang was not buried in the mausoleum of Emperor Taiji.
Therefore, this assumption still makes sense.
Resources:
["The Twelve Concubines of the Qing Dynasty", "Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Volume 15, Gaozong Benji", "Draft of the History of the Qing Dynasty"