Before or after marriage, qing princes would be given an unequal number of handmaidens by the emperor, who were actually servants who served the prince, and most of them would be accepted by the prince as concubines. For example, during the Yongzheng period, Yongzheng had given Qianlong, who was still the crown prince, an unequal number of handmaidens, including a woman of the Gao clan.
This Gao woman is a yellow flag from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the ancestors lived in Liaoyang, although they are wrapped, but the Gao family is a famous family of internal affairs, Gao's father Gao Bin is a famous Yongzheng Dynasty's river governor, official to the governor of the river, which is also the main reason why the Gao family can come to Qianlong's side.
In the early years of Yongzheng, Qianlong, who was still the crown prince at the time, was not yet married, and Yongzheng gave him eight or nine handmaidens, and Gao Shi was one of them. In fact, according to Yongzheng's importance to Gao Bin's father, Qianlong could understand his father's intention of giving Gao to him, plus Gao's original gentleness and kindness, Qianlong was very fond of her.
Regarding the living conditions of the Gao clan in the Qianlong Qiandi, we can no longer know, but many archives show that when Qianlong was a prince, there were official women around him who gave birth to children for him, but the children could not be saved, and now it is not certain whether the few official women who gave birth to Qianlong in the Qianlong Qiandi actually have gao, and we can only say that the possibility is relatively large, which can be seen from the physical condition of the Gao clan after Qianlong succeeded to the throne.
According to the custom of the Qing Dynasty, if the official woman around the prince gave birth to a son and successfully survived, there was a chance that the emperor would give her the title of Prince's Side Fujin. However, since Yongzheng came to Qianlong in the early years, gao had not been able to have children, so Yongzheng deliberately issued an edict in the twelfth year of Yongzheng, naming Gao Chao as a Hongli (Qianlong) side Fujin, which was very rare in the Qing Dynasty.
After Qianlong succeeded to the throne, Gao Shi jumped into the Dragon Court as a submerged concubine and was given the title of noble concubine, and, according to the example of Emperor Dunsu's noble concubine, Qianlong also deliberately let Gao enjoy the treatment of princess Wang Fujin and three or more women to kneel in his palace to pay homage to the concubines, while the concubines who were later promoted by concubines did not have this treatment, which shows that in Qianlong's heart, Gao's weight is still quite heavy.
However, this Gao Clan's health was not very good, it was simply a court version of Lin Daiyu, which was one of the reasons why she had not given birth to Qianlong. In the first month of the tenth year of Qianlong, Gao's old illness recurred, and Qianlong immediately ordered him to be promoted to imperial concubine, which made Gao the first imperial concubine of the Qianlong Dynasty.
But this still failed to save Aifei's life, and only two years later, Gao Shixiang died. Qianlong gave the title of Huixian Emperor's noble concubine, "Hui" means to be enlightened and intelligent, and "Xian" means to have moral integrity, which shows that in Qianlong's heart, Gao Shi is a woman who is both intelligent and virtuous.
On October 17, the seventeenth year of Qianlong, Gao was buried in the Yuling Underground Palace along with Empress Xiaoxian and The Noble Concubine of Emperor Zhe mercy.
Although after Gao's death, her father entered the imperial court and became a university scholar, a few years later, Gao Bin was dismissed by Qianlong for protecting his subordinates, and was assigned to the construction site to atone for his sins, and eventually died on the construction site. After Gao Bin, his son Gao Heng and grandson Gao Pu (Gao Heng's son) were also beheaded by Qianlong for corruption, and I don't know how Gao Quanxia would feel if he knew about it.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, History of the Palace of the State Dynasty