In folklore, ancient emperors had three palaces and six courtyards and seventy-two concubines. Of course, this is just an imagination of the court by ancient folk storytellers. In fact, in Chinese history, the emperor with the largest number of concubines was the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. According to the statistics of experts in Qing history, the number of concubines at all levels that the Kangxi Dynasty could determine was a total of fifty-five.
Of the more than fifty concubines, four were sisters. In the history of ancient China, this can be called an ancient person who has never been seen before and has never come after.
Herschel sisters
When the Shunzhi Emperor died, the Kangxi Emperor was only eight years old. And at this time, the remnants of the Southern Ming were still there. The Shunzhi Emperor then left four auxiliary ministers to assist the Kangxi Emperor. Among them, Ao Bai gradually grasped the power.
In order to regain power, the Kangxi Emperor married Empress Hesheri, the granddaughter of the auxiliary chancellor Zhongsoni. After gaining the support of the Sony family, Kangxi only then attacked Aobai. From this point of view, the marriage between the Kangxi Emperor and Empress Hesheli was of a political marriage nature.
Empress Hesheri bore the Kangxi Emperor a crown prince, and died because of the difficulty in childbirth. It was the thirteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1674 IN the Western Calendar). Later, the crown prince failed in the nine sons' conquest and was deposed.
Empress Herschel's sister was also married to the Kangxi Emperor. Empress Hesheri's sister was promoted by the Kangxi Emperor to the title of "Concubine Ping" after her death, and died in the thirty-fifth year of the Kangxi Dynasty. From this detail, it can be seen that there was not much contact between the Kangxi Emperor and the concubines.
Sisters of the Nyūrō clan
After the death of Empress Hesheri, the Kangxi Emperor made the Kangxi Emperor empress in the sixteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty. However, Empress Niu Cobalt Lu had only been empress for about a year and also died.
Empress Niu's sister was crowned a noble concubine by the Kangxi Emperor a few years later. Much higher in status than Empress Hersheri's sister, she died in the thirty-third year of the Kangxi Dynasty.
Tong Jia sisters
Empress Tong Jia's fate was even more tragic than that of Empress Niu Cobalt. Empress Tong Jia was crowned empress by the Kangxi Emperor in the 28th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, but perhaps because she did not have the blessing of being an empress, Empress Tong Jia died the day after she was crowned empress by the Kangxi Emperor.
Empress Tong Jia's sister was crowned a noble concubine by the Kangxi Emperor in the 39th year of the Kangxi Dynasty. And lived until the Qianlong Dynasty. It's a long lifespan.
The Guo Luo Luo sisters
The eldest of Guo Luo's sisters, "Yi Concubine". At the end of the last century - the beginning of this century, the major satellite TV hit "Kangxi Micro Service Private Interview", in this TV series, accompanied by the Kangxi Emperor Micro Service on the tour of YiFei, its prototype is Guo Luoluoshi.
Princess Yi did not die until the early years of Qianlong, and her sister was also married to the Kangxi Emperor. It is impossible to know when he died.