Ancient society, limited by the level of medical treatment, women giving birth to children is a very dangerous thing, not only the survival rate of babies is low, even the women who give birth are very dangerous, even in the harem where the doctors gather, concubines lose their lives due to childbirth, not a few, for example, Kangxi originally matched Empress Xiaochengren, who died in childbirth when giving birth to the crown prince Yinrong. Today I want to talk about the Qianlong Harem, a concubine who died in childbirth, she is Xin Guifei.
Xin Guifei Dai Jia clan is a woman from Manchuria with a yellow flag, her grandfather is Changshi Daochan, during the Kangxi period, the Xin Guifei family originally belonged to the slaves, because there was a woman in the family who was included in the harem by Kangxi and gave birth to a prince, the whole family received the glory of raising the flag, this Dai Jia woman who was included in the harem by Kangxi was Chengfei, and the concubine was born to the seventh son of the emperor, Yin You, and Chengfei was the great-great-aunt of Xin Guifei.
In the generation of Princess Xin Guifei's father, Nasutu, the Dai Jia family's door was further and higher, and Nasutu successively served as the governor of many provinces, the official to the bingbu Shangshu, qianlong fourteen years, Nasutu acting governor of the river, and died soon after in office.
At that time, Xin Guifei had actually reached the age of the draft, because of the death of her father Nasutu, she had to postpone it until the eighteenth year of Qianlong, the 18-year-old Xin Guifei ushered in the opportunity to enter the palace, she was unsurprisingly selected by Qianlong, qianlong saw that she was a hero, he named her Xin Concubine and gave her residence in Zhong Pu Palace.
After Entering the palace, Princess Xin Guifei quickly gained qianlong's favor, and in just three years, she gave birth to two princesses, namely the sixth daughter of the emperor and the eighth daughter of the emperor, but for some reason, the two daughters born to Concubine Xin Guifei did not survive.
The twenty-eighth year of Qianlong was a very lucky year for Concubine Xin Guifei.
In August of that year, Qianlong first ordered Xin Guifei to be crowned a concubine, and then in December, the Tai Doctor diagnosed that Xin Guifei was pregnant with a dragon fetus again, which really surprised Xin Guifei. Qianlong was also very happy, and sent his grandmother and grandmother to serve him early, but just in April of the new year, the news of Xin Guifei's death suddenly came out of the palace, which made Qianlong very sad, and Xin Guifei even had time to accept the treasure and seal of the concubine's throne, and she passed away in a hurry.
Qianlong ordered that Xin Guifei quit the dynasty for five days, which is a very high ceremonial system, in addition, he also ordered that the guifei ceremony system be used to prepare for the funeral, and Qianlong personally came to the coffin of Xin Guifei to pay tribute, and gave a poem: "It is better to be absent at noon than to be absent, and the new relatives of the Western Palace should only be forgotten." (Note: When there is a period of five days after the death of Concubine Xin Guixian) No worries are inevitable, lazy to see the pepper coated into the wormwood sac. ”
Speculation on the cause of death: Regarding the cause of Death of Xin Guifei, there is no record in the historical records, but from the time of Xin Guifei's death, it basically coincides with the time of her birth, so it is speculated that Xin Guifei probably died of difficult childbirth, or miscarriage.
In any case, Princess Xin Guifei was a concubine who occupied an important seat in the Qianlong harem, she was not only born into a famous family, but also got the favor of Qianlong, and was pregnant with a dragon fetus three times, but unfortunately, this woman's name was not very good, and she lost her life due to childbirth, which was really a pity.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty