Empress Chen, a person whose full name is not recorded in historical materials, was finally seen in a Ming Dynasty book that Empress Chen's full name was Chen Lian. Her father was a talented and ambitious poet, but in the end he only got a talent, and there was no way to make money in the family, so he lived a poor life. Empress Chen's birth was not good, but her appearance was very good-looking, and she inherited the good character of her father's poetry book, and became a bridesmaid of the local male baby family.
At that time, there was a special rule - the concubines of the wang and grandson nobles should be selected from ordinary families, which greatly avoided the interference of their mother's relatives in politics, so this gave many ordinary women the opportunity to enter the palace. At that time, the 14-year-old Chen clan was recommended to go to the draft, and the emperor at this time was only 15 years old, facing countless girls, he actually took a fancy to the Chen clan at a glance, and then quickly crowned the Chen clan as the queen, and promoted the identity of the Chen family's father. When Empress Chen first entered the palace, she was very much liked by Jiajing, and the relationship between the two was very good. After the two were married, the emperor wanted Empress Chen to be by his side every time he held a banquet or whatever. The emperor, for reasons of loving Wu and Wu, also gave preferential treatment to the Chen family, not only giving them honorable status and money, but also repeatedly tolerating the mistakes committed by his wife's mother's family. At that time, the subordinates of Empress Chen's family actually beat others to death with their special status, but the emperor did not punish them after learning about this matter. It can be said that everything in the Chen family is now thanks to Empress Chen, and whether Empress Chen can always hold this position depends on whether Jiajing will always like her.
She knew in her heart that if she wanted to stabilize this position, she would have to have a son. Although she had been favored by the emperor after entering the palace, she had not conceived for many years, until the 7th year after marriage, when she finally had it. After becoming pregnant, her temper became a little bad, but she didn't expect that she would die because of it! On one occasion, Jiajing held a banquet at the imperial palace and invited many concubines to attend. During the banquet, two concubines stood up to toast the emperor with tea, and the emperor was very happy. At this time, Empress Chen stood up with a big belly, and when she saw this scene, she was suddenly very angry, so she threw the cup in her hand to the ground. Jiajing saw that Empress Chen dared to be angry with him, and immediately reprimanded her for why she was like this? Empress Chen knew that she had angered the emperor and immediately knelt down to beg for forgiveness, but she did not expect that the emperor would actually raise his foot and kick the empress. The empress unfortunately had a miscarriage, and at the same time as the miscarriage, the queen also died for various reasons.
After Empress Chen left, the emperor was still not angry, so he took "mourning spirit" as her nickname, and did not allow her to be buried in the imperial tomb as an empress. After some years, the emperor gradually regretted what he had done at that time, so he changed Empress Chen's nickname to "Filial Piety" and let her be buried with him in yongling.