The number of people in the Kangxi harem is very large, according to historical records, in the kangxi harem, there are a total of 55 women, today to tell you is a legendary woman, she is not an empress, nor has she given birth to children for Kangxi, but she as the imperial concubine of Kangxi, childless and childless but raised the Qing Tianzi, after death Qianlong also broke the convention for her. This legendary woman was The Noble Concubine Tong Jia of the Emperor Huihui.
Tong Jia was born in 1668 and was a very honorable Manchurian yellow flag bearer, her father was named Tong Guowei, who was the minister of the imperial guard, and her sister was the empress of Kangxi, which can be seen that Tong Jia's birth status is very high. It is not uncommon for the sisters to serve the emperor together, but in the historical data, there is no record of Tong Jia's entry into the palace, and it is not known when she entered the harem.
The main record in the data is her first canonization, in the thirty-ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Tong Jiashi received the first canonization and was directly named a noble concubine, at the age of 32. After Tong Jia was crowned as a noble concubine, in fact, it was equivalent to the most powerful woman in the harem, because there was no empress in the palace at that time, there was no imperial concubine, and the position of the noble concubine was naturally the highest, and Tong Jia controlled the harem as a noble concubine and handled the affairs of the harem for Kangxi, although he conscientiously managed the harem, he was not crowned empress by Kangxi, and she was not named empress for another reason, and there was no direct relationship with the fact that she was not favored.
Tong Jia's failure to be crowned empress is related to the early death of the three empresses of Kangxi, especially the first empress, Hersheli, who had a deep affection for Kangxi's youth and paid a lot of effort for Kangxi to stabilize the government. Kangxi can be said to have treated the first empress with sincerity, but unfortunately she died of difficult childbirth when she gave birth to the second son of the Emperor Kangxi. The early death of the three empresses made Kangxi feel that he was the order of his wife and was unwilling to make an empress again, so Tong Jia could only exercise the power of empress as a noble concubine.
Fortunately, Tong Jia's life in the harem was relatively good, not only had the right, but also got the opportunity to raise Qianlong. At that time, Hongli was very young, and Kangxi loved him so much that he took him into the palace and gave it to the women of his harem to raise. Tong Jia did not have children himself, so he took care of Hongli as his own child, and formed a very deep relationship with Hongli.
After Kangxi's death, Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, and Tong Jia was most honored as an imperial concubine, and then Qianlong succeeded to the throne, and Tong Jia was honored by Qianlong as emperor Shouqi's noble concubine. Tong Jiashi did not die until the eighth year of Qianlong, living to the age of 76, and Qianlong also gave her the title of Emperor Hui's noble concubine, and also broke the convention and built a garden for her to sleep in the Jingling Emperor's Noble Concubine Garden. In fact, the establishment of a concubine bed for Tong Jia was a special case of the Qing Dynasty, but the Qianlong Emperor established it for her in gratitude for Tong Jia's kindness to her.