In China's feudal society, the most important woman is probably the emperor, the harem beauty three thousand, can be said to be full of happiness, such as the Kangxi Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, there are countless concubines in the harem, there are as many as 55 in the record alone, today the author wants to talk about the end of the Kangxi career, a very favored concubine, she is still a Han concubine, that is, Mu Concubine.
Mu Concubine is a Chen woman, from the picturesque Jiangnan famous city of Suzhou, her father's name is Chen Qishan, Chen Qishan is a Han Chinese who is not in the flag, according to the theory, with Mu Concubine's origin, she is not eligible to participate in the draft, therefore, Mu Concubine did not enter the palace through the draft, but was directly sent into the harem.
It is said that during the Shunzhi to Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, officials in the Jiangnan region had the custom of offering beautiful women to the imperial court, and Mu Concubine was most likely one of the beauties who were offered. Regarding the time of Mu Concubine's entry into the palace, there is no record in the historical records, and it is speculated that it must be fifty years after the Kangxi Dynasty.
At that time, Kangxi was already an old man who was nearly sixty years old, and those favored concubines in the early days, such as Yifei, Rongfei, Huifei, Andefei, had already become old women, so Kangxi turned his attention to those young and beautiful newcomers, especially Han women like Mu Concubine, who were obviously different from Manchu concubines, not only the national color was fragrant, beautiful, but also a little talented.
Soon after Mu Concubine entered the palace, she gradually had the opportunity to serve in bed, and under her "efforts", Kangxi fifty-five years and Kangxi fifty-seven years, successively gave birth to two princes, one named YinMi, the other named Yin Yu. In particular, Crown Prince Yin, he was the thirty-fifth son of Kangxi, that is, the youngest son, but unfortunately, Yin Yu died on the day of birth, so Yin Qi became Kangxi's youngest son.
In the last year of Kangxi, he had begun to play in the summer resort, and in the memoir "Thirteen Years of Jingting", he recorded a deed of Kangxi to go to Rehe to escape the summer, and this time there was Mu Concubine, who had not yet been canonized, but only a concubine. According to records, there was a foreign court painter named Ma Guoxian who hoped to see the Kangxi side of Tianzi. A eunuch told him that when he looked through the distance in the house, he did not expect to see a noblewoman and a child of about five years old, and according to Ma Guoxian's description, what she saw was most likely Mu Concubine and the crown prince Yinmi she gave birth to.
After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, he honored a number of concubines of the Kangxi Dynasty, including Mu Concubine, who was given the title of Emperor Kaobai Nobleman. However, Mu Concubine's health had always been not very good, and within two or three years, she died of illness in the palace. However, she also had a son, Yinmi, who was kangxi's youngest son and had no chance to participate in the party struggle, so Yongzheng treated this younger brother very well and made him the Prince of Heshuo.
After Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he also gave Yin Bi, the little emperor's uncle, face, and posthumously named his mother Chen Shi as the emperor's concubine, thus chen shi got a very decent name.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, Thirteen Years of the Jingting