She came to Qianlong, who was still a prince at the age of 13, to serve, became a concubine beside Qianlong, she jumped into the Forbidden City at the age of 19 and became the imperial concubine of the Qing Dynasty, but she did not get qianlong's favor for a long time, for 46 years she did not get promoted, she went through four dynasties, became a concubine of the Jiaqing Emperor, and she became a legend of the Qing Palace when she was not favored...
In the fifth year of Yongzheng, the 16-year-old Qianlong was ordered by his father Yongzheng to marry the yellow flag-draped Fucha clan as a concubine Fujin, but according to the data, before Qianlong got married, there were already eight or nine concubines (Gege) around him, including a Chen woman. Chen Shi was the daughter of the commoner Chen Yanzhang, not a bannerman, so she should not have entered the palace through the draft, and it is estimated that the civil Han women who were presented to the imperial court by officials in the Jiangnan region were similar to the situation of the Pure Hui Emperor's noble concubines in the Qianlong harem.
The Chen clan from the Jiangnan region had the beauty of a Han family woman, which made Qianlong feel refreshed, so he put it in the house. However, this Chen family was really not very good, so the status among the Qianlong concubines was not high, almost the lowest grade, and even some rough work such as embroidery and cleaning, but with the Chen family lineage, it was already an honor to be able to serve the Prince of the Qing Dynasty, and it was also the prince that Yongzheng valued most.
In the year when Chen was 19 years old, Yongzheng, the son of the Qing Dynasty, died in the Yuanmingyuan, and subsequently, Prince Hongli of Bao succeeded to the throne as the Qianlong Emperor. After Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he gave a position to his wives and concubines, and The Chen clan received a promise that was always present, only higher than the lowest level. However, when Qianlong was officially canonized in the second year, the Chen clan was promoted to a nobleman, and the treatment was improved to a certain extent.
Although the Chen clan was at the time of the flower and moon appearance, Qianlong was not interested in the Chen clan, compared with the pure concubines and jia concubines, the Chen clan was really much worse, let alone compared with Empress Xiaoxian. However, after the death of Empress Xiaoxian in the thirteenth year of Qianlong, Qianlong made an adjustment to the personnel of the harem, and the Chen clan, who was an old man of the qiandi, was crowned as a concubine and finally became the lord of the first palace.
However, what people did not expect was that for the next 46 years, Chen Shi stayed on the concubine position without any changes, and Qianlong rarely summoned her. What is even more pitiful is that according to the data, although Chen Shi is a concubine, she is treated with the rank of a nobleman. On December 20, the twentieth year of Qianlong, it was the forty-year-old of the Chen clan, and the Chen clan did not receive any rewards, which showed that Qianlong seemed to have forgotten her long ago.
Until the fifty-ninth year of Qianlong, Qianlong, who was about to give up the throne, decided to give the concubine who had been with him for a long time, and suddenly found that Chen Shi was still alive, so he promoted her to the title of 78-year-old concubine. However, Qianlong did not seem to expect that this woman he had ignored for a long time would actually kill herself.
In the sixth year of Jiaqing, after the death of Princess Yinggui, Chen became the highest-ranking concubine in Qianlong, so Jiaqing honored her as Princess Wangui. Six years later (the twelfth year of Jiaqing), Chen died in the Qing Palace at the age of 92, and this woman who was ignored by Qianlong for half a life turned out to be the concubine with the highest life expectancy, perhaps because she was not favored, she could be calm, look down on everything, and be relieved, thus becoming a legend in the history of the Qing Palace.
In November of the twelfth year of Jiaqing, The Noble Concubine Chen was buried in the Yuling Concubine Garden.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Renzong of the Qing Dynasty