In ancient times, the highest status woman should be the empress of the dynasty, and many women were very envious of the queen and wanted to become the empress. However, the empress carried many responsibilities, not only with the responsibility of the motherly world, but also to deal with the affairs of the harem, and also to give birth to concubines and concubines for the emperor. Their pressure is very great, and today we are going to talk about an empress who was exhausted to death, and Xiao Xianduan respected Empress Dong Efei.
There are also many theories about her origins, some people say that she is a Manchurian Zhengbaiqi person, and some people say that she is the concubine of a famous scholar in Jiangnan, but this claim has been overturned. Some people also say that she is the Fujin of Shunzhi's younger brother, although there are more people who believe in this statement, but this statement has also been overturned. The last account is that she was the wife of an officer, and that this was recorded by a missionary, as he recorded that Shunzhi fell in love with the wife of an officer. This statement is more objective and more reliable. Although Princess Dong's life was not good, it did not affect the emperor's love for her, and it can be said that after she entered the palace, the other concubines appeared to be dim.
Concubine Dong soon became pregnant and gave birth to a prince, whom Shunzhi even wanted to inherit Jiangshan, and even called her "the first son of Yuan". Even Shunzhi held a grand banquet to celebrate the birth of this son. But no one would have thought that the child would die less than three months after birth. Shunzhi was very sad and posthumously named this son a prince, which was very rare. It can be seen that Dong Efei was important to the emperor, but the heavens did not go according to people's wishes, and three years after the death of the crown prince, Dong Efei also died of illness. Although many people believe that he died because of the loss of her son, it is not only the cause of her death.
It is said that less than a month after the birth of the crown prince, the empress dowager also fell ill, and she was an imperial concubine. She had to take care of both the child and the empress dowager at the same time, and she wanted to improve the empress's opinion of her, so she put more energy into the empress. As a result, she has not yet recovered after giving birth to a child, and she is even weaker. At the same time, the concubines of the harem were also dissatisfied with her because of Shunzhi's favor for her, and they embarrassed her everywhere, and many things needed her to experience and do it herself. Over time, after a long period of fatigue and the death of the child, Dong Efei did not persist and died early.