In addition to the emperor and the empress can be buried together, other concubines rarely accompany the emperor, but in history there is an emperor, after his death, his imperial tomb actually buried 53 people, including 52 women, and a prince. Of the 52 women, 4 were queens and 48 were concubines. Such an emperor's mausoleum is the only one in history. This emperor was the Kangxi Emperor.
Imperial Tomb Summary
The Kangxi Emperor can be called "the Great Emperor" in history. The Kangxi Emperor can be said to be the most powerful martial artist of Wenzhi after the Qing Dynasty entered the Customs. He reigned for 61 years, during which time he chose and built a mausoleum for himself. After his death, the Kangxi Emperor was buried in the Qing Tombs of Zunhua, Hebei. This royal mausoleum includes the Xiaoling Tomb of the Shunzhi Emperor, the Zhaoxi Mausoleum of Empress Xiaozhuang, as well as the Yuling Tomb of the Qianlong Emperor, the Dingling Tomb of the Xianfeng Emperor, and the Huiling Tomb of the Tongzhi Emperor. The Kangxi Emperor's mausoleum was called Jingling.
The Kangxi Mausoleum is quite distinctive, and the entire Jingling Tomb is a semicircular shape from the air. In terms of the staggered architecture of the Jingling Tomb, the imperial tombs with high status are in the center, while the concubines with low status are behind the Kangxi Mausoleum. In the underground palace of Jingling, in addition to kangxi's coffin, there were also Empress Xiaochengren, Emperor Xiaozhaoren, Empress Xiaoyiren, Empress Xiaogongren and Imperial Concubine Jingmin. There were also 48 concubines in Jingling, plus The Kangxi Emperor's 18th son, Yin Yuan.
The concubines who accompanied the Kangxi Emperor were mainly Concubine Wen and 11 concubines, namely Huifei, Huifei, Yifei, Rongfei, Pingfei, Liangfei, Xuanfei, Chengfei, Shunyi, Chunyuqin, and Dingfei; there were also 8 concubines, 10 nobles, 9 Changzai, and 9 promised. Most of Kangxi's concubines buried him. So why was Princess Jingmin with the Empress? Concubine Jingmin was later buried in the Jingling Underground Palace, so the concubine became a concubine in the middle of the garden. In addition, Jingling also has a double concubine garden, where the noble concubines of emperor Hui Hui and the noble concubines of Emperor Huan Yi are buried.
Buried by love
Most of the royal marriages in the Qing Dynasty were political marriages, and in order to consolidate the rule of the Qing emperors, most of the empresses came from Mongolian women. However, after Kangxi came to power, the situation in the Qing Dynasty changed at that time, Aobai bullied Kangxi at a young age, and Sony was experienced and did not deal with Aobai. In order to balance the power of Aobai, Empress Xiaozhuang decided to change the situation by means of marriage, and the Mongolian Horqin Borjigit clan no longer became empress, but chose the Hesheli clan, the granddaughter of the Soni family, and became the Kangxi Empress, which was the first political marriage of the Kangxi Emperor.
In 1665, the 12-year-old Kangxi Emperor married the 13-year-old Herschel. Although it was a political marriage, the Kangxi Emperor had a good relationship with the Hersheli clan. This feeling also came mainly from Ao bai's pressure on Kangxi. After the marriage, the Hersheli clan bore the Kangxi Emperor a son, but only lived to be 4 years old before dying.
Kangxi borrowed sonny's power and his long-term design, and finally took advantage of the opportunity to defeat Aobai and achieve pro-government. After achieving pro-government, the Kangxi Emperor did not need anyone to interfere with his power, including from the Sony family. The Kangxi Emperor was in a position of power and relaxed, because no one in the court dared to despise his power, and after that, the Kangxi Emperor continued to enrich the harem, and the Herschel clan was left out in the cold.
The concubines who could enter the Kangxi harem were all personally selected by Kangxi, such as the concubines of the Niuhulu clan, the Tong Jia clan, and the Wu ya clan, who had both noble lineages and women with cultural knowledge, which was a criterion that Kangxi liked. Like niuhulu, she was not only from a family, but also had a high cultural attainment, and most importantly, she was good at handling harem relations, which was deeply liked by Kangxi. Tong Jia was a cousin of the Kangxi Emperor, and the Kangxi Emperor was also very kind to her, so Kangxi eventually chose Yongzheng to succeed him, which is also related to the Tong Jia clan.
Although the Kangxi Emperor was surrounded by countless beautiful women, he was an emperor who talked about feelings. With the increase in the number of women around him, Kangxi had deep feelings for his first wife. When Kangxi quelled the Rebellion of San Francisco, the Herschel clan gave birth to a son, Yin Rong, but died after giving birth to a son, and the Kangxi Emperor was very sad and ran from the front to preside over a solemn funeral for the empress. Moreover, the Herschel clan made an exception and stopped in Kangxi's Zi Palace for 25 days, and the Kangxi Emperor passed almost every day. Enough to see his feelings for his first wife.
Kangxi's affection for the Herschel clan was also poured into the Yin Rong she gave birth to, and she was crowned prince at the age of less than two years old. However, due to his inability to become angry and was deposed by the Kangxi Emperor when he grew up, Kangxi scolded him for "being born to be a mother", and his feelings for the Hescheli clan can also be seen.
In addition to having feelings for the Herschel clan, Kangxi also had feelings for other concubines. Some concubines married Kangxi and died of illness in their twenties. The Kangxi Emperor had true feelings for his concubines, and when the Kangxi Emperor went out, he would write letters or send people to send local specialties to the concubines, which was a comfort for those women who lived in the palace and were rarely blessed by Kangxi. It was precisely because of their feelings that the Kangxi Emperor allowed them to accompany them to the funeral.
Special Testament
How many concubines the Kangxi Emperor had, even Qing historians did not count. However, in the "Complete Biography of Kangxi", it is recorded that there were 49 nobles of the Kangxi Emperor, 67 of whom were made empresses, and some of whom promised and were always present, and it is said that there were more than 200 women.
The Kangxi empresses were of varying ages and large numbers, until the death of the last noble concubine in the twenty-third year of Qianlong, which lasted for nearly a hundred years. Among the concubines of the Kangxi Emperor, four pairs were sisters, among them Empress Xiaoyiren of the Tong clan, and her sister was the concubine of the Tong clan, who was also the cousin of the Kangxi Emperor. Such kinship marriages are also rare in history.
Kangxi so many women, why did they bury 52 people? Not all women are eligible for burial. In the face of so many concubines, Kangxi also arranged for their posthumous lives, allowing them to live in the palace of the prince they gave birth to in old age and spend their old age in peace. Before his death, Kangxi made a special confession: all the concubines who had given birth to the crown prince could enter jingling, so there were 52 concubines. Other concubines, permanent beings, and nobles who give birth to princesses or do not have children do not have this special treatment.