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In 1688, the 75-year-old Empress Xiaozhuang passed away. Before she died, she made three wills about her posthumous affairs:
First, after death, everything is simple, and there is no need to work hard and hurt the people' wealth, and there is no need to travel a long distance to transport the body to Shengjing; second, Emperor Taizong (Emperor Taiji) has been buried under the Zhaoling Tomb for a long time, and it is inconvenient for him to disturb the sleep of his ancestors, so there is no need to bury himself with the Emperor Taiji; finally, the place where he is buried should be close to the Shunzhi Emperor and the future Kangxi Emperor's mausoleum.
This is said to be three things, in fact, in summary, the key point is one: Xiaozhuang should be buried near the tombs of the Shunzhi and Kangxi Emperors, rather than with the Emperor Taiji.
Although such a request is a little strange, ancient China has always advocated filial piety and advocated filial piety first, not to mention that Kangxi and the imperial grandmother have extremely close feelings, and naturally there should be no disobedience to her dying words
But at this moment, Kangxi felt extremely embarrassed, because the imperial grandmother's request not to be buried with the imperial grandfather violated the ancestral system. As a result, in this entanglement and contradiction, the body of Empress Xiaozhuang was shelved in the East of the Great Red Gate of the Qing Dynasty, and it was 37 years.
Why, then, were both Kangxi and Xiaozhuang so obsessed with the burial? This is actually related to the mystery of the Qing court in which Xiaozhuang married his younger uncle Dolgun.
More than ten years ago, the "Secret History of Xiaozhuang" starring Ma Jingtao and Tranquility was once popular all over the country, and in this emotional drama that was mostly drama, Xiaozhuang and Dolgun became a pair of resentful couples who could not get together due to various coincidences.
Coincidentally, the Kangxi Dynasty, which is more rigorous in research and plot, also has similar passages, except that Xiaozhuang and Dorgon do not have a lot of emotional drama, and Xiaozhuang's marriage to Dorgon is interpreted as a sacrifice she made to protect her son Fulin.
It can be seen that regardless of the direction and content of the plot, the screenwriters of these two TV series have adopted the record that Xiaozhuang married Dorgon. It may be hard for us to imagine that in a feudal dynasty, a concubine would marry her own uncle after the emperor's death!
But in fact, this may not have been so shocking at the time. Because, before the Manchu Qing Entering the Customs, the Jurchens who made a living from fishing and hunting did have this custom.
Outside the snowy sky and harsh conditions, the survival of women and children is already facing great challenges, and the material security of the family is extremely fragile. When an adult man in the family dies unexpectedly due to hunting or weather, it is difficult for his wife and children to survive. In this case, it is a natural thing for other men (and may even be the brothers of the deceased) to inherit the deceased's property, wife and children.
For this successor, what he inherited was the property of the "predecessor", and it was his responsibility. It can be said that in the case of extreme scarcity of material conditions, this choice and custom has nothing to do with morality, let alone good and evil, but only for the sake of survival and the continuation of the race.
For example, Emperor Taiji once took two concubines of the latter into the palace after the death of Lin Dan Khan of Mongolia, and even Hai lanzhu, the love of Emperor Taiji's life, was also a widow. This shows that at that time, marrying a remarried woman was not controversial. This more relaxed and open-mindedness created the possibility for the marriage of Xiaozhuang and Dorgon.
In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the concept of chastity such as "one daughter does not marry two husbands" began to become popular within the Manchus, so that the matter of Empress Xiaozhuang marrying Dolgun gradually began to become taboo and taboo.
Judging from the surviving Qing history manuscripts, we actually do not see many records related to this matter. It was precisely because of this that this well-known event at the time gradually became blurred. However, judging from the book "Donghualu", Dorgon did have a record of frequently entering and leaving the inner courtyard of the palace, and the Shunzhi Emperor also called Dolgun "the regent of the emperor's father", which shows that the remarriage is not out of thin air.
It is worth mentioning that although the "Secret History of Xiaozhuang" vigorously interprets the emotional line between Dorgon and Xiaozhuang, in the history of Xiaozhuang, it is "not loved in a lifetime".
She herself was not the wife of Huang Taiji, and it could even be said that even if she did not count her sister Hai Lanzhu, she had always been the least favored of the five women of Huang Taiji.
Her marriage to Dorgon was more like a complete political game, and she married Dorgon in order to stabilize the most prominent regent in the history of the Qing Dynasty. But Shunzhi did not fully understand his mother's sacrifice. On the contrary, after receiving an orthodox Confucian education, he paid more attention to the constraints of traditional Confucian morality.
Shortly after Dorgon's death, in order to seize power and to sweep away the depression of Dorgon's regency, Shunzhi chose the most drastic means to counterattack Dorgon. Customizing charges, chasing after the seals, destroying the tomb and exhuming the corpse, in just a few dozen days, Dorgon, who was originally awarded the title of "Enjoying the Taimiao Temple", became a cursed thief of the country who was criticized.
At this point, we understand the reason why Kangxi hesitated.
As emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he knew that in terms of ancestral system, Xiaozhuang should accompany Zhaoling, but unlike Shunzhi, Kangxi, who was brought up by Xiaozhuang himself, had fierce and sincere feelings for his grandmother. The two were both blood-linked grandchildren and politically close comrades-in-arms.
Therefore, although he was reluctant to violate the ancestral system, he also understood the pain of Xiaozhuang, because of the existence of Dolgun, she was not willing to face her husband Emperor Taiji after death, but instead preferred to be buried in the Qing Tomb where the Shunzhi Emperor was located, and it was also the resting place of Kangxi after a hundred years.
Happily, at the end of the story, Kangxi took a compromise approach, instead of directly violating the ancestral system, he temporarily placed his grandmother's coffin in the Qing Tombs. It was not until the third year of Yongzheng that Empress Xiaozhuang was buried in the underground palace, which is now the Zhaoxi Mausoleum in Beijing.
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