When it comes to Kangxi's sons, it can be said that they are outstanding and have outstanding abilities, which is also one of the important reasons for the dispute between Kangxi and his wife in his later years. Among the elderly princes of Kangxi, two did not participate in the struggle for concubines, one was Yin Qi, the Prince of Constant Temperature, the Fifth Brother, and the other was Yin You, the Prince of Chundu, the Seventh Brother, who was personally brought up by Empress Renxian (Empress Xiaohuizhang), who was kind and did not like to fight, so he did not participate in the conquest. The Seventh Brother Yinyou is a disabled child, and the one who gave birth to this disabled prince is the concubine we are going to talk about today.
According to the "General Genealogy of the Eight Banners Clan", the ancestor of the Concubine Dai Jia was named Se He, who was incorporated into the yellow flag in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, and had made military achievements in the war against Chahar and defeated Li Zicheng, thus obtaining the title of Knight Lieutenant, Se He's nephew Garu served as the governor of the internal affairs department from the seventh year of Kangxi to the twenty-seventh year of Kangxi, and it is said that the eldest son of the Kangxi Emperor Yin Zhen was raised in the Garu family at an early age, which shows that Kangxi has great trust and importance to the Dai Jia family.
According to the "Eight Flags Tongzhi", the Dai Jia clan was pulled out of the coat around the eighteenth year of Kangxi, if Concubine Cheng had entered the palace before this, she entered the palace as a palace maid, if the time of Concubine Cheng's entry into the palace was eighteen years after Kangxi, then the way she entered the palace was the Eight Flags Draft. However, no matter which way it is, the age of entering the palace as a concubine will not be too large, it should be around 13 years old.
In the nineteenth year of Kangxi, Concubine Cheng gave birth to a seventh son for Kangxi, named Yinyou, perhaps because of Yinyou's birth, which caused Kangxi to pull out the Daijia clan and carry them into the Shangsan Banner. At that time, the status of Concubine Cheng in the harem was relatively low, and she had always been a concubine. What is even more unexpected is that Yin You had a leg disease after he was born, and it is not yet certain whether it was born or acquired, but Yin You's disease should have little impact on life, because historical records show that this prince had accompanied his father Kangxi on an expedition to Dzungar in the thirty-fifth year of Kangxi.
It is said that when Kangxi was young, he considered passing it on to Longxi the Prince of Chunjing as his heir, so the annual monthly worship of the gods in the imperial palace did not have Yinyou's name. Moreover, according to the kangxi dynasty's royal court raising practice, It is speculated that Yin You should not have been raised by his birth mother Chengfei, and it is likely that he was raised outside the palace like the emperor's eldest son Yin Yu. However, Yin You's succession did not come to fruition, and I don't know if it was related to Yin You's leg disease.
Facts have proved that Concubine Cheng did not receive the favor of Kangxi like the fourth concubine of Huiyi Derong, not only did not get the canonization in time, but also did not even live in the East and West Six Palaces, historical records show that Cheng Concubine once lived in the West Head Office and the West Second House of the Five Houses in Qianxi, it is worth mentioning that the later Qianlong Emperor also lived in the West Second House before succeeding to the throne, and later renamed it Chonghua Palace.
However, in the fifty-seventh year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Concubine Cheng still took the last train of the canonized concubine and was crowned as a concubine, and her son Yin You did not participate in the struggle for concubines with a leg disability, but unexpectedly this became the key to Yin You's later good death. After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, many of the princes who participated in the conquest were all attacked, and Yin You became one of the few princes who were not rectified, on the contrary, as soon as Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, he was immediately promoted to yinyou as the Prince of Chun, which shows that Yongzheng's relationship with this younger brother should still be very good.
Moreover, Yongzheng also followed Kangxi's will and allowed Concubine Cheng to leave the palace and move to live in her son Yinyou's mansion, and after The death of Yinyou in the eighth year of Yongzheng, Concubine Cheng returned to live in the palace, and she lived until five years in Qianlong, at the age of more than 70, which was also a person with a high lifespan at that time.