In ancient society, girls generally married in their teens, and the age of the emperor's draft women was also in their teens, and it was difficult to imagine that a woman who was nearly thirty years old could still be favored by the emperor and included in the harem. However, this situation still appeared, for example, the Qianlong Emperor's harem had two elderly women, one was the famous Concubine Xiang, that is, Concubine Rong, and the other was the Yu Concubine that this article will talk about.
Princess Yu's surname was Borjigit, the daughter of a nobleman from the Dzungar Zat department, her father's name was Gendun, Qianlong twenty-one years, Gendun's Dzungar Zat department was plundered by wulianghai, so Gendun led more than ninety households to surrender to the Qing court, Qianlong heard about it, thinking that Gentun was very pitiful, he ordered the Gendun family to be organized as a leader, and gave land to allow them to graze their lives. Since Gendun had not yet developed a pox, Qianlong did not allow him to enter the Beijing Division.
The adoption of the imperial court greatly touched Gendun, so Gendun dedicated his daughter Borjigit to the Great Qing Tianzi, according to historical records, Gendun's daughter Borjigit was born in the seventh year of Yongzheng (1730), and by the time of qianlong twenty-second year (1757), she was already 28 years old (imaginary age), obviously past the age of marriage, so some people speculated that borzigit may have married before, as for which one her ex-husband was, we do not know.
On June 20, 2002, Yang Shuangquan, the leader of the Worship Service, ordered a newly recruited official woman to be named a nobleman, and this nobleman was borjigit, daughter of Gendun.
Although this Borjigit clan was nearly thirty years old, she seemed to be very pleased with Qianlong, and after entering the palace, Qianlong often summoned her and rewarded her with a large number of rare treasures, and soon the Borjigit clan became pregnant with a dragon fetus.
However, what is unexpected is that for some reason, this child of the Borjigit clan was not saved, and it was miscarried for unknown reasons, which made Qianlong very sorry, but Qianlong did not snub the Borjigit clan because of the miscarriage of the fetus, on the contrary, he also ordered him to be promoted to a concubine.
After that, although Qianlong recruited a new Huibu woman, that is, the later famous Xiangfei (Rongfei), in the harem ranking, Yu Concubine and Zhuo Shi were always in front of Xiangfei. In the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong, Qianlong once again ordered the promotion of borjigit to Concubine Yu, which shows that Qianlong was indeed very fond of this Mongolian woman.
Although Borzigit was very favored, the miscarriage caused great loss to her body, coupled with frequent tours with Qianlong, which made Borzigit's body worse than a day.
In September of the thirty-eighth year of Qianlong, the Borjigit clan came to Rehe with Qianlong again, but she did not expect that after arriving, she fell ill, qianlong did not dare to be careless, and immediately sent someone to send the Borjigit clan back to the palace, and told the seven princesses and seventeen brothers in the palace about this matter.
Originally thought that the superior conditions of the palace could make Borzigit's condition recover, but she did not expect that her body was extremely deteriorating, and by December of this year, she was already terminally ill, and finally, Borzigit died of illness in the palace on December 20 of this year, at the age of 45.
It is said that when borjigit was seriously ill, he left a last word to Qianlong: "The concubine mother told the slaves that the grace I had received was very heavy, and now that I am ill, I am afraid that I will not be cured, and my blessings have been exhausted, and I can no longer repay the grace of the master." Please Master Wan'an, I will not expect to stay for a long time, and if I go, I will be good. ”
Seeing Aifei's last words, Qianlong was very sad and ordered the resignation of the dynasty for three days, because Yufei Borjigit was the first concubine of the Qianlong Dynasty to officially die on the concubine's throne, so Qianlong ordered that the funeral between Yongzheng Chao's concubines be handled, and two years later, Yufei was buried in the sacred water Yufei Garden of the Qing Dynasty.
Qianlong Qianlong Thirty-ninth Year "Qianlong to Jiaqing Year Addition and Subtraction" recorded: "Inheritance of the Qian Palace has no masters living, according to the empty palace routine use three pounds of black charcoal, ten pounds of coal, to cook rice for eunuchs." From this, it can be seen that Princess Yu lived in the Chengqian Palace before her death.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Qianlong to Jiaqing Year Addition and Subtraction of Bottom Files