In recent years, with the popularity of Qing Palace dramas, the Internet has praised the Qing Dynasty's love for the Xinjue Luo family, and Qianlong cannot avoid becoming a generation of love, and the object of his obsession has been chosen by netizens as his wife Empress Xiaoxian. However, Qianlong was a feudal monarch with a strong desire to control, and during his lifetime, he had always had a lukewarm attitude towards her during the lifetime of empress Xiaoxian. Although the empresses of the Qing Dynasty did not have the power to preside over and oversee the affairs of the harem, the affairs of the harem were all handled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and they were more likely to carry the etiquette and moral standards of model, virtue and responsibility. Qianlong treated the concubines kindly, reduced the influence of Empress Xiaoxian close to zero as much as possible, narrowed the gap between the empress and the concubines, and reflected the sense of superiority of solipsism, which also cultivated the spirit of burning dedication and the beautiful quality of not being jealous of the empress Dowager Xiaoxian and not being jealous of the virtuous.
In that year, Yongzheng li originally issued thirteen graces to honor the empress, and when Qianlong lied to empress xiaoxian, the number of graces was reduced to five. At the ceremony of Empress Xiaoxian's canonization, the link of foreign women entering the form to the empress was cancelled, and at the same time, the noble concubine Gao Shi and Empress Xiaoxian accepted the foreign women's ceremony together, and Empress Xiaoxian became the only empress in the Qing Dynasty to accept the foreign women's ceremony with the noble concubines. According to the custom of the Qing Dynasty, the empress enjoyed the treatment of entering the banquet table of the Ministry of Internal Affairs on the day of the Thousand Autumn Festival, and when Empress Xiaoxian had her first official birthday, Qianlong instructed the Ministry of Internal Affairs to permanently cancel this treatment. According to the general rules of the meeting at that time, except for the empress, the concubines were not eligible to wear yellow or autumn-scented clothing, but in the first year of Qianlong, Qianlong lifted up the concubines he liked, and made an exception for them to wear golden yellow costumes, and the noble concubine Gao Shi wore the bright yellow costume of the queen's specifications, and their portraits were collected together in the "Heart Writing Zhiping" and passed down to this day.
On the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve of the twelfth year of Qianlong, Empress Xiaoxian's only concubine, The Seventh Brother, died prematurely due to the failure of the pox, and Empress Xiaoxian was very virtuous and feared that the atmosphere of the New Year in the palace would make Qianlong's mother and son disgusted, and they could not bear the grief and did not dare to cry, and forced themselves to smile and maintain a cheerful state to serve the Empress Dowager for the New Year. The accident of the death of the Seventh Brother did not affect Qianlong's plan to visit Mount Taishan in the east on the birthday of Empress Qianlong in the twelfth year. At this time, Qin Tianjian calculated that the empress's trip would be difficult, and Qianlong also wrote this matter into the imperial poem: In March, the stars of the guests saw the palace, and the palace of the subordinate was hidden, and it began to disappear in more than ten days. However, Qianlong and the empress dowager obviously did not take it seriously, maintaining the original plan to let Empress Xiaoxian serve the empress dowager to go out to climb Mount Taishan, and finally the empress fell ill in Daiding because of the cold weather in the early spring, and did not dare to rest more to affect Qianlong's itinerary, which disgusted him, and insisted on asking Qianlong to return to the normal journey, resulting in an aggravated illness and dying in Dezhou, she only lived for thirty-seven years, which also fulfilled the prophecy of Qin Tianjian.
The empress died outside the palace, which had never happened since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and Qianlong also knew that the influence was not good, and he loved face very much, and quickly issued a decree to announce the cause of the empress's death, and emphasized that the empress could serve the empress dowager and die happily. According to the "Archives of the Lama Temple", a month after the death of Empress Xiaoxian, Qianlong not only promoted the favored concubines in the harem, but even the imperial concubines were already sealed. Empress Xiaoxian died on March 11, 13th year of Qianlong, and on April 20 of the archives, Concubine Xian was already an imperial concubine, and for the new empress dowager, she also promoted the nephew of the imperial concubine, Nesuken, to the rank of third-class bodyguard. On the first day of July, xian guifei was officially crowned as the imperial concubine of the Sixth Palace, and a set of official rooms was given to Nasuken, and the imperial concubine family was carried into Manchuria under the yellow banner. Therefore, after the death of Empress Xiaoxian, the harem concubines all got benefits, which was the rhythm of laughing in dreams, Qianlong did not do this kindly, his grandfather Kangxi died the empress, and they all waited for three years to officially crown the empress and the harem.
Many netizens misunderstand that Qianlong's feelings for Empress Xiaoxian exceeded that of Empress Xiaoxian, in fact, the treatment before the succession was not broken was better than that of Empress Xiaoxian, according to the "Archives of Lama Temple", when encountering Empress Xiaoxian Qianqiu, Qianlong ordered 54 lamas to chant the sutra for her for three days, and then followed the throne of the Middle Palace, met Qianqiu, Qianlong greatly improved her treatment, let 108 lamas chant for her for nine days, and sent 500 lamas to chant the sutra for her on the day of Qianqiu. When Empress Xiaoxian was alive, she often lived with the empress dowager to facilitate day and night, such as in the Yuanmingyuan she and the empress dowager lived together in the Changchun Xianguan, at the summer resort and the empress dowager lived together in the Yanxun Mountain Pavilion, while the other concubines arranged accommodation in the area where Qianlong lived. However, after becoming empress, Qianlong did not let her continue the virtues of Empress Xiaoxian's industriousness to serve the empress dowager closely, and built another empress hall for her in the Qingyan district of Jiuzhou in the Yuanmingyuan, and built another Songhezhai for the empress dowager in the summer resort. Therefore, Qianlong used actions to show that Empress Xiaoxian did not get his lifting when she was alive.
Although Qianlong was very satisfied with Empress Xiaoxian's stoic obedience and diligence, she was indeed a good wife and a good empress. According to the customs of successive dynasties and the old Manchurian system, only the empress was eligible to be buried together in the imperial tomb, but Qianlong was not willing to only accompany Empress Xiaoxian for a thousand years. After Empress Xiaoxian's death, she stopped in the main hall of Jing'an Zhuang with Huixian and Zhe mercy, and then buried with them in the imperial tomb and buried together in the same cave, and then the shujia imperial concubine and the lingyi emperor's concubine were also buried in the imperial tomb after their deaths. Qianlong brought four concubines to be buried together, refreshing the history of China, and although Kangxi and Yongzheng had also taken concubines to be buried together, they both brought only one concubine. Empress Xiaoxian fell ill at Mount Taishan and died in Dezhou, but after Empress Xiaoxian's death, Qianlong recognized Jinan as a place of sadness, and then toured Mount Taishan ten times, wrote 132 poems for Mount Tai, and left more than 80 inscriptions on Mount Tai, and Dezhou was the place where Qianlong had to pass through the waterways every time he went out on tour. It can only be said that the love between Qianlong and Empress Xiaoxian is indeed very "abusive".