People often say that "the most ruthless imperial family", the imperial family because of the intertwining of power, wealth and other factors, it is easy to make people forget a lot of feelings, so since ancient times, the palace coups have been endless, the imperial home compared with the ordinary people's home, is less of a warm pulse, but more of an undercurrent of sword and light sword shadow, which also makes the sincere feelings of the imperial family more and more precious, such as the Qianlong Emperor's love for Empress Xiaoxian.
Friends who have watched last year's popular Qing Palace drama "Ruyi Zhuan" may remember that there is an important role in the play called "Fucha Langmi", and the prototype of this character is the original wife of the Qianlong Emperor and the later Lady of the Middle Palace - Empress Xiaoxianchun Fuchashi. In the fifth year of Yongzheng (1727), the sixteen-year-old Hongli was ruled by his father, the Yongzheng Emperor, married the fifteen-year-old Fucha clan, and began to live as a husband and wife.
In later folklore, Qianlong is portrayed as the image of the emperor who went everywhere looking for flowers and asking for willows, but in fact, Hongli was at least in the life with his wife Fu chashi, which was worthy of deep affection. After Hongli succeeded to the throne as emperor, the Fucha clan was made empress of the Middle Palace and became The Sage of Hongli. The two were affectionate and loved, and spent twenty-one years together.
With the passage of time, Hongli became emperor, for the Qianlong Emperor, and the first thing he did on the day of the death of the Yongzheng Emperor was to immediately establish fucha as the empress of the middle palace, the mother of the world. Since Fucha married Qianlong, she had four children (two sons and two daughters), but unfortunately the two sons died one after another, which dealt a fatal blow to the empress, and soon she fell ill, and in the night of the thirteenth year of Qianlong, Empress Xiaoxian died of illness on the ship returning to Beijing at the age of 37
Qianlong was very stingy with harem concubines if he did not love them. Like the empress of the Uranara clan, that is, the concubine in the "Yanxi Raiders", that is, the successor in history, Qianlong buried the east side of the imperial concubine's underground palace of the Pure Hui Emperor after her death, and there was no sacred card and no sacrifice. An empress, after her death, did not even enter the emperor's Yuling Tomb, and was only buried in the underground palace with the etiquette of a noble concubine, with no divine tablets and no tribute. As one of the four women who married Fujin before Qianlong ascended the throne, Uranara was the only one who did not enter Yuling. This contrast is obvious, Qianlong's favorite in life is still his Fucha Empress, the historical Empress Xiaoxianchun.
Later, the Qianlong Emperor personally fixed the empress's title and personally raised the queen's funeral, and did not hesitate to spend huge sums of money and build a large number of construction. And recreate the queen's place of worship. It costs more than 91,300 silver. Moreover, Qianlong did not hide that his favor was because of the empress, and the empress's brother became the almost most favored brother-in-law of the Qianlong Dynasty. Because the empress's poems made the Qianlong Emperor extremely sad and in a bad mood, in the midst of anxiety, the funeral of Empress Xiaoxian caused a series of derogatory dethronements and even death of the big bureaucrats, and in Qianlong's poems began his long lifelong nostalgia.