"Long live our Emperor, long live, long live my Emperor". No matter which emperor in China, he hopes that he can enjoy the love of the people forever and like the state of eternal authority in his hands. Under the influence of various selfish desires, the slogan of the courtiers slowly became a blessing to the emperor: Long live.
Since the establishment of the monopolistic imperial system in ancient China, the relationship between the monarchs has increasingly broken, and the guests have become courtiers, and the doormen have become attendants; the relationship that was originally sitting on the same side has become a relationship of sitting and kneeling, and eventually evolved into a relationship of sitting and prostrating.
Various kinds of selfish desires were intertwined, and eventually formed the intricate Qing Dynasty. Under the influence of selfish desires, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty consolidated their political power on the one hand, and on the other hand, they asked Buddhism for advice, so why should people live longer? Among the Qing emperors who believed in Buddhism, Shunzhi was one of them.
Many heirs and soon after
Why did the shunzhi emperor fall to the point of praying for eternal life and praying for a ferryman? Why did Shunzhi, who was only twenty-three years old, die young? There was a simple reason for this - the Shunzhi Emperor had lost too many relatives.
Among the many emperors of the Qing Dynasty, Shunzhi was the most mysterious. Under the influence of his ancestors, Shunzhi gradually believed in Buddhism, but in the end it was because of one person, empress Dowager Dong E, who asked Buddhism for help on how to live forever and how to cross people.
Before his death, the Shunzhi Emperor was only twenty-three years old, but he already had thirteen children. In the common sense of modern people, this is a huge number, but it is very easy to understand when placed next to the Shunzhi Emperor who is the emperor - feudal customs.
The emperors of successive dynasties have paid attention to the system of heirs inheriting the throne, and they will select the most talented and mainstream heirs to inherit the throne, so the emperors of each dynasty have selected concubines for the people to increase the possibility of excellent heirs.
In addition to the emperor's concubine system, there were also unwritten customs in ancient times that early marriage was good for the continuation of the family. Although at that time, people's average life expectancy was very short, early marriage would indeed strengthen the continuation of the family, but one of them could not be ignored is the harm of early marriage.
In the three hundred years of the history of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor who had the most children was the Kangxi Emperor, who had fifty-five children in his lifetime, including thirty-five sons and twenty daughters, but among the many children, many died early, which had a lot to do with early marriage.
The Qing royal family, who had the same concept of early marriage, consummated marriage to Borji when shunzhi was fourteen years old when he was officially pro-government. Shunzhi, who had the concept of early marriage, had thirteen children in his lifetime, but of the eight princes, four died prematurely.
The early death of the crown prince and the early marriage have a relationship that cannot be ignored, which is a blind spot for people at that time, and Shunzhi has experienced four major ups and downs in succession, one of the fundamentals of which is the error of feudal customs.
Medicine is lagging behind
In addition to the impact of early marriage, the reason for the early death of the crown prince was the reason for the backwardness of medicine at that time. Since the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, ancient Chinese medicine has often been in a state of ups and downs.
The fact that medicine did not develop this feature was one of the reasons for the short average life expectancy of people in ancient times. Poor sanitation and ignorant customs are serious problems caused by the failure of medicine to spread.
Although the environment and conditions of the royal family are countless times better than those of the people, the medical techniques and medicines are limited to a small space in the feudal world. If during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, there were modern excellent medical techniques, then the prince of the Shunzhi Emperor might have been able to avoid the occurrence of premature death.
Trapped in love and government affairs
The Shunzhi Emperor named Ai Xinjue Luo, Fu Lin. Under the sudden death of Emperor Taiji, Fu Lin was pushed to the throne by the people of Dolgun, and Fu Lin, who sat on the throne, was only six years old. Knowing that Fu Lin was still young, Dorgon interfered in the affairs of the Qing Dynasty as a regent.
In the face of the mighty Dorgon, Fu Lin has been waiting for the moment when he loses power. In the seventh year of Shunzhi (1650), Dorgon was killed after shooting a hunt on the outskirts of Dolgun, and the time had come for Fulin's consciousness after learning of this news.
Shunzhi officially took over after Dorgon's death. With Fu Lin fully becoming emperor, he began to take care of the purging of Dorgon's forces, and since the Shunzhi Emperor came to power, Dorgon's power has been greatly hit and severely damaged, and the Shunzhi Emperor is also supporting the development of Han officials.
In the Qing Dynasty hall with open guns and dark arrows, the Shunzhi Emperor gradually gained a foothold, and the Shunzhi Emperor, who had recently been pro-government, began to rectify the court and the people's livelihood, but as soon as he touched the government affairs, the Shunzhi Emperor panicked, because before he pro-government, the people had been in a hopeless and desperate situation.
The old man said that it was irritable and easy to get sick, and the Shunzhi Emperor was an example. The various things that came to him for a while made the Shunzhi Emperor more and more bored, and soon he developed a strange stubborn disease of impetuousness and irritability and indulgence of freedom.
In addition to the labors of government affairs in the DPRK, the Shunzhi Emperor also encountered a lifetime of good luck and bad luck soon after. When the Shunzhi Emperor was nineteen years old, he met Dong Eshi.
The Shunzhi Emperor regarded her as a lifelong confidant of the red face, and in the thirteenth year of Shunzhi (1656), Dong Eshi was selected as a concubine, and then in just one month she was crowned as an imperial concubine, and the concubine who rose at such a rate was the first of the Dong Eshi.
After being crowned imperial concubine, the Shunzhi Emperor decreed that the imperial concubines would be able to pardon the world and issue edicts. This move by the Shunzhi Emperor became a history that had not been seen in the three hundred years of the Qing Dynasty: because of a concubine, the world was pardoned.
The move that the Shunzhi Emperor made for Dong E's clan can be seen that the Shunzhi Emperor was very kind to Dong E's clan
Pampering, but this also does not reach the highest pampering. After Dong Eshi gave birth to a boy for Emperor Shunzhi, Emperor Shunzhi proved his love for Dong Eshi with one sentence: "This is the first son of Shunzhi".
If you want to analyze the Shunzhi Emperor's favor for Dong E's clan, you need to understand the system of imperial hereditary inheritance. Since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, all the mothers of the crown princes have been greatly respected.
"This is the first son of The Shunzhi Emperor", this remark is to directly designate Dong E's inner family as the future empress dowager, and already has the intention of making Dong E's child the crown prince, knowing that before this Dong E's child, Kangxi had already been born.
This move of the Shunzhi Emperor undoubtedly skipped the Kangxi and directly appointed the crown prince, all of which is not difficult to see the Shunzhi Emperor's favor for Dong E. However, this happiness lasted for a long time, and the son of Dong E's clan died three months after his birth.
Dong E's physique was already weak, coupled with the death of her parents, and finally let her body be heavily burdened and seriously ill. In the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (1660), a generation of famous concubines Dong Efei died, and with the death of Dong Eshi, the Shunzhi Emperor was also discouraged and turned to Buddhism for advice.
From September to October of the same year after Dong E's death, the Shunzhi Emperor decided to become a monk, and Mao Xisen shaved his hair and became a famous "bald-headed tianzi". Seeing that Shunji was still suspicious of common things, he persuaded him to return to the Qing Dynasty.
Under the advice of Mao Xisen, the Shunzhi Emperor soon returned to the court, but after losing dong E's clan, he no longer had the motivation of the past, although the Shunzhi Emperor was full of ambitions. In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (1661), the Shunzhi Emperor died at the age of twenty-four.
brief summary
The life of the Shunzhi Emperor can be described as a legend itself. The young DengDi, the reuse of Han officials, the deep love of Dong E's clan, and the ordination of the family, all of which explain the wonderful life of the Shunzhi Emperor, but unfortunately he died at the age of twenty-four.
Behind the untimely death of the Shunzhi Emperor, what is hidden is the helplessness in the face of the death of relatives, even though there are many children and grandchildren, but the most cherished people have left themselves, and the Shunzhi Emperor died under mental fatigue.