In China's feudal era, 494 emperors were born, of which the longest reign was Aixin Jueluo Xuanye, which is also known as the Kangxi Emperor, who reigned for 61 years.
The second was the Kangxi Emperor's grandson, the Qianlong Emperor, who reigned for 60 years, and after abdicating the throne for another 3 years, he remained in charge of power.
As one of the founders of the "prosperous era of Kangqian", Qianlong's life can be said to be very legendary.
In the third year of Jiaqing (1798), Qianlong, who was already the Emperor Taishang at the time, was holding a celebration of his 88th birthday. At the same time, Qianlong also held a wedding ceremony for Zaixi, who was only 14 years old at the time and was also his first grandson.
It is worth mentioning that Qianlong also personally presided over the wedding. It can be said that Qianlong attaches great importance to the wedding of Xuansun Zaixi, why is this?
All along, Qianlong has had such a wish, that is, to realize the "six generations in the same hall", or "the sixth generation to the grandson". He very much hoped that his grandson Jae-seok could get married and have children as soon as possible to help him realize this wish.
Unfortunately, Qianlong did not realize this wish in the end, because he died the year after Zaixi's marriage. Qianlong's sixth grandson, Puqing, was born four years after his death.
1. The sacrifice is rebuked and the depression ends
Even so, Qianlong still achieved the "five generations in the same hall" that is difficult for ordinary people to achieve.
The fifth grandson of his was able to meet himself thanks to his eldest son, Yong Huang. However, although Yong Huang allowed Qianlong to achieve the fifth generation of the same church, his own life was very tragic, because of his misconduct in the empress's ceremony, he was severely reprimanded by Qianlong, and he died of depression at the age of 23.
Yong Juan was born to the Fucha clan. However, this Fucha clan was not the Fucha Empress that Qianlong loved the most, she was just a low-status Eight Flags, which also doomed Yong Huang's status not to be very noble.
The ancient distinction between concubines is very obvious. Two years after Yong Huang was born, Empress Fucha gave birth to Qianlong's second son, Yong Lian. Since Yonglian was Qianlong's concubine, the Yongzheng Emperor at that time was also very happy and gave Empress Fucha a lot of rewards.
And when Yong Huang was born, Yong Zheng didn't even ask. After Yongzheng's death, Qianlong, who succeeded to the throne, directly ignored his eldest son Yong Huang and made his own concubine Yong Lian the crown prince, which basically announced Qianlong's intention to pass the throne to Yong Lian in the future.
However, YongLian really had no fate with the throne, and when he was 9 years old, he died of illness, and Qianlong was very sad about it.
Soon after, Empress Fucha gave birth to the emperor's seventh son, Yong Chun. However, perhaps there was providence in the darkness, and Yong Chun was only two years old and died prematurely. With the death of Yong Lian and Yong Chun one after another, Empress Fucha's psychology was devastated, and her depression became ill, and she died in her thirties.
Qianlong loved this Fucha Empress very much, and her death made Qianlong very sad, and he wrote "Shu Sorrowful Endowment" to mourn her.
At this time, Qianlong's eldest son, Yong Huang, angered Qianlong. The reason is that Yong Huang did not shed tears during the empress's funeral and did not act sad enough.
Qianlong severely rebuked Yong Huang, believing that he did not understand etiquette, was not in a system, was unfaithful and filial piety, and implied that Yong Huang's qualifications for the establishment of the reserve should be revoked forever.
At that time, Yong Huang was only twenty years old and already had two sons. However, he did not expect that his father Qianlong would blame himself so much for not crying bitterly at the funeral of Empress Fucha, and hinted that he would never have the opportunity to inherit the throne again.
This incident hit Yong Huang very hard, as a Shuzi, Yong Huang was basically cold-eyed from childhood to adulthood, and this incident gave him a heavy psychological blow, depressed and worried all the time.
2. With guilt in his heart, he was crowned Prince Sun
In the fifteenth year of Qianlong (1750), Yong Huang was already too ill to get out of bed.
At this time, Qianlong regretted it, but unfortunately it was too late. It is said that tiger poison does not eat children, lying on the bed, after all, it is also his own son, Qianlong is still very sad. Finally, Yong Huang left a sentence "Can't send (serve) the Emperor Father!" ", and died.
Perhaps Yong Huang's death rekindled Qianlong's father-son relationship, and he was very sad and posthumously honored Yong Huang as the Prince of Ding'an.
Although Yong Huang was only 23 years old, his descendants multiplied very well, and the branches and leaves were very vigorous, and eventually, they helped Qianlong achieve the "five generations together".
After Yong Huang's death, he left two sons, namely the eldest son Miande and the second son Mian'en, and the eldest son Miande inherited the title of Prince of Yonghuang Ding'an. Perhaps feeling guilty about Yong Huang's death, Qianlong was very fond of Yong Huang's son and his own grandson Miande.
However, this Miande fought with Qianlong's love, and his ambitions continued to expand, and he began to covet the throne.
So he began to form gangs and factions and secretly cultivate forces. This was something that Qianlong could not tolerate, and in the end, Qianlong painfully stripped Miande of his title and let his younger brother Mian'en inherit the title. And Miande eventually died at the age of 40 because of his worries.
Mian En is sensitive and respectful, quite good
Qianlong Emperor
like. Unlike his father Yong Huang and his elder brother Miande, Mian En was cheerful and informal. At the same time, he was tall and martial arts, and Qianlong also made him the leader of the Janissaries, responsible for the burden of guarding the capital.
Although Qianlong was very generous, he really did not think of passing the throne to his grandson.
Because Qianlong was very disgusted by Zhu Yuanzhang's practice of passing the throne to his grandson Zhu Yunjiao, he believed that this would lead to civil unrest. However, Mian En was open-minded and did not pay so much attention to the throne, and finally lived to be 76 years old and got a good death.
Third, the year of the ancient rarity, the fifth generation is in the same hall
However, it was not his grandson Mian'en who made Qianlong realize the fifth generation of the same church, but another grandson, Miande. When Miande was 20 years old, he gave birth to his eldest son, Yi Chun. This also made Qianlong become a great-grandfather at the age of 55.
Later, in the forty-ninth year of Qianlong (1784), the 17-year-old Yi Chun gave birth to his eldest son Zaixi. In this way, the then 73-year-old Qianlong successfully realized the "five generations in the same hall".
So when we go back to the beginning, we can understand why Qianlong attaches so much importance to Zaixi's wedding. It is because Qianlong hopes that in his lifetime, he can meet the sixth grandson of the Puzi generation and truly realize the "sixth generation of the same church", although he was already 88 years old at that time.
Unfortunately, Zaixi's eldest son Puqing was born four years after Qianlong's death, only four years before and after. From this point of view, does it feel that Qianlong is very close to the Puzi generation? After all, the last emperor of the Qing Dynasty, also of the Puzi generation, was named Puyi.
In retrospect, although Qianlong did not like his eldest son Yong Huang, and indirectly caused Yong Huang's untimely death, Yong Huang almost helped him achieve the "sixth generation of the same church", Yong Huang was born of Miande, Miande was born of Yi Chun, Yi Chun was born of Zai Xi, and finally Qianlong personally presided over the wedding of Zai Xi, is it like a century of reincarnation?