Speaking of Ling Yi Emperor's concubine, everyone should be familiar with her, she is the Ling Concubine who is often played in film and television dramas. Concubine Ling's origin is not very high, she is the interior of the Ministry of Internal Affairs ZhengHuangqi wrapped woman, the wrapping is the Xinzhiku people in the palace that we are familiar with, that is, responsible for washing clothes. In this way, her origin is very low, but in fact, at that time, her grandfather had served as the minister in charge of the Ministry of internal affairs, and he also had an official position. Therefore, compared with other palace women, her family lineage is relatively better.
She first appeared in historical sources during the Qianlong Decade, the year in which she was canonized as a concubine. Through historical calculations, we know that she was born in the fifth year of Yongzheng, according to her age and the regulations of the palace women's candidacy at that time, she could participate in the draft in the fourth year of Qianlong, but according to her identity, after entering the palace, she could only be a palace girl, so when Qianlong was four years old, she entered the palace as a palace maid, but only in the tenth year of Qianlong did she have the opportunity to become the emperor's concubine.
According to historical records, we can know that when she was a palace girl, she was once disciplined by Empress Xiaoxian, that is to say, she should be a palace maid around the empress, but this view is not necessarily correct, and it can be said that there is a one-sided problem. After all, Empress Xiaoxian is the head of the six palaces, not to mention a mere palace girl, even all the women in the palace may be disciplined by her, but Ling Yi Emperor's concubine, her family lineage is relatively good compared with other palace women, and her position of serving concubines should also be relatively high, so it is also possible to persuade the empress.
According to the historical records of the Qing Dynasty, from the twenty-first year of Qianlong to the thirty-first year of Qianlong, in the past ten years, she gave birth to a total of six children. Among them, there were two princesses and four brothers, but in the past ten years, she also experienced a small birth, that is, in the 24th year of Qianlong, this time her child could not be saved. In order to appease her of the loss of her child, Qianlong also specially promoted her to Ling Guifei. Of the six children she was born, two of her brothers died prematurely, and the other four grew up safely.
But according to the rules of the time, she could not raise these children to grow up, so several of her brothers were raised by other concubines. Among the next heirs, her fifteenth brother Yongyan was also secretly crowned, and later she was posthumously honored as Empress Xiaoyi. Many people believe that it was because her son became emperor that she was posthumously crowned empress, but this is not the case. As early as the sixty-ninth year of Qianlong, when the fifteenth brother Yongyan was proclaimed crown prince, Emperor Lingyi's concubine was named Empress Xiaoyi, that is to say, her empress position was not posthumously given to her by her son, but given to her by her husband Qianlong.
It is not an exaggeration to say that she was the third empress of the Qianlong Emperor, Empress Xiaoyi. After her death, that is, in the 40th year of Qianlong, she was buried in the Shengshuiyu Underground Palace, which was built by the Qing Dynasty for the Qianlong Emperor, that is, the underground palace that Qianlong was going to enter after his death, and she also became a woman buried with Qianlong. It was truly a blessing and honor for her to go from being a palace maid to becoming an empress, becoming the emperor's mother, and even being able to be buried with the emperor.