In the list of Qianlong's concubines, there were five concubines who were finally divided into concubines, namely Xin Guifei, Yu Guifei, Wan Guifei, Xun Guifei and Ying Guifei, of these five noble concubines, only one of them was personally canonized by Qianlong, she was Ying Guifei, why?
Concubine Xin Guifei once gave birth to two daughters to Qianlong, but unfortunately died when she gave birth to her third child, and she was only a concubine before she died, and Qianlong saw that she was pitiful, so she gave a noble concubine the title. Princess Yu Guifei was an old man of Qianlong's hidden residence and gave birth to the fifth brother Yongqi, but she stayed on the concubine throne for nearly half a century before being arranged to be buried with the noble concubine system after her death. Xun Guifei was a concubine in Qianlong's later years, 47 years younger than Qianlong, she was only crowned to the concubine position before her death, and there is no posthumous record after her death, but some historical materials call her a noble concubine, somehow. Wan Guifei was also an old person of Qianlong's hidden residence, and she could not be favored in her life, but she lived long enough, and after Jiaqing pro-government, she was honored as a princess of The Noble Concubine, which gave her the title of noble concubine.
Since then, only Ying Guifei has been left with the noble concubines who were personally canonized by Qianlong.
Concubine Ling was the most favored concubine in the middle of Qianlong, and she had two very good sisters, one was Qing Guifei (庆恭皇贵妃) and the other was Ying Guifei. However, both of them have problems.
Qing Guifei was confirmed to be a Han chinese woman from Jiangnan (Changshu, Jiangsu), so she did not enter the palace through a draft. Moreover, the first time Qing guifei appeared in the archives was in the thirteenth year of Qianlong, and was named a nobleman, this year Qing guifei was already 25 years old, so the time when Qing guifei entered the palace should be in the early years of Qianlong, as for the way to enter the palace, it was probably a beauty who was offered to the imperial court by officials.
The problem with Ying Guifei was that her origin did not match the initial seal.
According to historical records, Ying Guifei Balinshi is a flag bearer from Mongolia with a red flag, the way to enter the palace should be the Eight Flags Draft, then, the problem arises, generally speaking, the flag girl who participated in the Eight Flags Draft, if selected, the initial title is also noble, but Ying Guifei's initial name is always in (that is always there), and later she was named that noble. Why? Is there also a problem with the origin of Ying Guifei? We don't know.
However, judging from Ying Guifei's resume, she, like Qing Guifei, although she did not have a birth record, she was promoted in an orderly manner, and Qianlong was crowned Ying Concubine in the sixteenth year, Qianlong was crowned Ying Concubine in the twenty-fourth year, and Jiaqing was crowned Ying Guifei in three years.
In the thirty-first year of Qianlong, The Imperial Concubine gave birth to the youngest son for Qianlong, the Seventeenth Brother Yongxuan, and nine years later, the Imperial Concubine died, and Qianlong gave Yongxuan to Concubine Ying to raise.
In the forty-second year of Qianlong, Shufei died of illness, and at that time, Yingfei was ranked second only to Concubine Yu in the harem, but Princess Yufei was old and had been living in simplicity, so it should be Ying guifei who presided over the affairs of the harem in the late Qianlong period. In the fifty-ninth year of Qianlong, Princess Yinggui moved from Jingren Palace to Yongshou Palace, ceding Jingren Palace to crown princess Xi Tara (Empress XiaoShurui), indicating the transfer of power in the harem.
However, what people did not expect was that Ying Guifei died very badly.
It was the first month of the fifth year of Jiaqing, and Ying guifei was going to celebrate her seventieth birthday, and Yongxuan entered the harem without the permission of his brother Emperor Jiaqing and gave a gift to his adoptive mother, Princess Yinggui, which made Jiaqing very unhappy, so he severely reprimanded this ignorant brother and dismissed him from his post. Ying Guifei was frightened in this incident, and within a few years she actually hung up, and I have to say that it was really dramatic.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty