Although there was a strict hierarchy in the ancient royal family, but the example of changing from a person below to a superior person is not nothing, such as the well-known Empress Xiaoyi, who was born in han ethnicity and was also a slave family, which was not qualified to enter the ranks of upper-class concubines, but with Qianlong's favor for her, she became an imperial concubine before she died, and was posthumously crowned empress.
So in addition to her, did the Qing Dynasty have a woman who transformed from a slave to an imperial concubine? The answer is undoubtedly yes, and the person I want to introduce to you next has such an experience of counterattack, she is a concubine.
Speaking of Duan Concubine, everyone will always involuntarily think of the master Duan Concubine in the TV series "The Biography of Zhen Huan", who does not ask about the world but can always see everything in the palace, are these two people the same character? No, they were not even in the same dynasty, Duan Concubine was Yongzheng's concubine, and Duan Concubine was the concubine of the Kangxi Emperor.
Duan Concubine's original surname was Dong, and lingfei's background was roughly the same, and she belonged to the Han wrapping banner. Wrapping is also a slave, the wrapped woman will participate in the palace women's draft when she is old, through the palace to serve concubines, obviously Dong shi was acquainted with Kangxi during the palace girl period, when Kangxi was still young, there were few favored women around him, only two more in line with his wishes, respectively, Concubine Zhang and Rongfei Ma Jiashi, these two people gave birth to Kangxi's first daughter, the other gave birth to Kangxi's first son.
Dong Shi is actually not inferior, in the Kangxi decade for Kangxi gave birth to the second daughter of the Emperor, if this daughter did not die prematurely, then perhaps the future many years of Dong's life will not be too sad, but unfortunately this daughter died early. However, Kangxi's freshness to the Dong clan continued for some years, and the Dong clan was promoted to concubine with a total of six women, and she ranked third among the seven concubines, not relying on her family lineage, not giving birth to a prince, and being able to achieve such results shows that Kangxi is full of affection for her.
But the strange thing is that when we want to continue to understand her life, the historical description of her suddenly stops, and Dong Shi mysteriously disappears without any records. The Kangxi Emperor liked her so much, if she died suddenly, the historian should also record her death year, why would the information about the second half of her life be blank?
We speculate that perhaps Dong shi later faced a situation of falling out of favor. A female historian who no longer cares about the emperor will naturally pay more attention to her, so we have no way of knowing in which year she died. She used to be enviable, from a soft-spoken palace maid to a high-ranking imperial concubine, but the emperor's love became very fast, but in a few years, she was forgotten, and what was even more frightening was that she was by no means the only person in the palace who "disappeared" due to falling out of favor.