According to the custom, after the death of the Qing emperor, the new emperor would honor the concubines of the former emperor to show respect for these concubines. However, after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, The Concubines Hui, Concubine Yi, and Concubine Rong, who were more favored by Kangxi, did not honor concubines, but on the contrary, they honored a large number of concubines of relatively low rank, but Yongzheng also honored the two more favored concubines of Kangxi in his later years, one was the Concubine of emperor Huihui, and the other was the concubine of Emperor Yiyi that we are going to talk about.
Emperor Hui's concubines came from the Yellow Banner Tong Jia clan, and were the daughters of Tong Guowei, the minister of the Imperial Guard, and the sister of Empress Xiaoyiren of Kangxi, that is, Emperor Hui's concubines were Kangxi's cousins. In the 39th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, The Noble Concubine of emperor Huihui was crowned as a noble concubine and became the highest-ranking concubine in the harem, and this situation continued until Kangxi's death.
At that time, the Tong Jia clan was quite influential in the dynasty, coupled with her special relationship with Yongzheng, Yongzheng was justified in her canonization, so why could the noble concubine of emperor Yiyi also get the honorific title of Yongzheng?
Emperor Huanyi Guifei is a woman from the Yellow Banner of Manchuria, in the thirty-ninth year of Kangxi, at the age of 18 was selected by Kangxi to enter the harem, the father is the Three Pins Xie Leader Hu Man, from the point of view of birth, although the Imperial Concubine of The Yiyi Emperor is from the Shangsan Banner, but she is not a noble old family or a rich family, can be favored by Kangxi and canonized as a concubine, presumably has a lot to do with her outstanding appearance and personal cultivation, Kangxi Dynasty's newly entered the palace of the show girls are rarely directly crowned as concubines, Emperor Huanyi Can do this, It shows that Kangxi attaches great importance to her.
At that time, Emperor Huanyi's concubine was only an 18-year-old girl, and Kangxi was already nearly half a hundred years old, and she was naturally very fond of such a young and beautiful woman as Emperor Yi's concubine, and in the second year of Emperor Yi's concubine's entry into the palace, she gave birth to a daughter, that is, the eighteenth daughter of the emperor, but unfortunately, this imperial girl died not long after she came down, and after that, Emperor Yi's concubine never had any children again.
However, Kangxi did not despise Her because Imperial Concubine Yi could not have children, but on the contrary paid more attention to her, mainly in two manifestations:
First, in the fifty-seventh year of Kangxi, Kangxi's last large-scale canonization of concubines, the imperial concubines were promoted to he concubines, and they were already on the same level as the old predecessor Hui Yi Derong's fourth concubine.
Second, in the sixty-first year of Kangxi, Kangxi took the fourth son of Prince Yong, Hongli (Qianlong), to the palace for training, and the people responsible for taking care of Hongli at that time were Emperor Huihui's concubines (then concubines) and Emperor Huanyi's concubines (then hefei), which showed that Kangxi was very important and trusting of Emperor Huiyi's concubines.
After The death of Kangxi, Emperor Yi's concubine was only forty years old, still had a bit of a posture, and Yongzheng naturally remembered the kindness of cultivating the Hongli calendar, so he ordered her to be honored as an imperial concubine. After Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he also had great respect for this old concubine who had raised him, and honored her as Emperor Wen Huigui's concubine, and later as Emperor Wenhui's imperial concubine.
According to the regulations, after the death of Emperor Huanyi, she should be buried in the Kangxi Jingling Concubine Garden, but Qianlong, in order to repay the grandmother's favor, specially built a luxurious garden bed for the imperial concubines and the imperial concubines.
In the thirty-third year of Qianlong, Emperor Huanyi's noble concubine, who had lived in the harem for nearly seventy years, died of illness in the palace at the age of 86, which was definitely a high life expectancy at that time, and then Emperor Huanyi's noble concubine was buried in the Jingling Emperor's noble concubine's garden.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, Manuscript of the Concubines of the Qing Dynasty