Before the Qing Dynasty, only the empress could be buried with the emperor, but after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, he posthumously named a woman as an imperial concubine and buried her in the Jingling Tomb of Kangxi. Can Yongzheng break the ancestral system?
At the beginning of the twenty-fifth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, in the palace women's draft, a woman dressed with a yellow flag stood out, her surname was Zhang Jiashi, and she was the daughter of the second-class bodyguard Haikuan.
Originally, Zhang Jia's great-grandfather was named Sunzaqi, who led the family to submit during the reign of Emperor Taiji, and was immediately awarded the title of Zuo and wrapped in a yellow flag. Since then, the Sunzaqi family has been serving in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and has even been awarded such hereditary positions as Knight Lieutenant and Yun Riding Lieutenant, and Sunzaqi's great-grandson is named Haikuan, who is The father of Zhang Jia. In fact, this Haikuan is not the biological father of Zhang Jia's clan, he is The uncle of Zhang Jia's clan, and Zhang Jia's biological father is a man named Shuo Se.
However, Zhang Jiashi participated in the palace women's draft as the daughter of Haikuan, and then was selected into the palace.
At that time, Zhang Jia was still a thirteen-year-old girl, looking very beautiful, or out of the recommendation of Empress Xiaoyiren, Zhang Jia was favored by Kangxi and immediately incorporated into the harem and became a concubine. From the twenty-fifth year of The Kangxi Dynasty to the thirty-year of the Kangxi Dynasty, it was the most favored period of the Zhang Jia clan, and during these five years she gave birth to three children in succession to Kangxi, including the thirteenth brother Yinxiang, the thirteenth daughter of the Emperor, and the fifteenth daughter of the Emperor and the fifteenth daughter of the Emperor and the princess of Shuo Dunke.
Of the three children, the first two were not raised by Zhang Jia, the thirteenth brother Yinxiang was sent to Yonghe Palace shortly after his birth, handed over to Princess De to raise, and the thirteenth daughter of the Emperor and Princess Shuo Wenke were sent to Yikun Palace after birth and raised by Concubine Yi. At present, it is not known whether the fifteenth daughter of the Emperor was raised by Zhang Jiashi, and it is estimated that the possibility is relatively small.
Although Zhang Jia gave birth to three children and made great contributions to the royal family, she did not get the treatment she deserved, and she was always a concubine in the palace. Mental depression, coupled with the damage caused to the body by childbirth, made Zhang Jia's body worse than a day, and finally died of illness in the thirty-eighth year of Kangxi.
At this time, Kangxi suddenly found that he had been ignoring Zhang Jiashi, but it was too late, so he had to posthumously honor him as Concubine Min, which was also a little comfort to this former favorite concubine. However, the story of Zhang Jiashi is not over, kangxi thirty-eight years, Zhang Jiashi died of illness and was buried in Kangxi's Jingling Concubine Garden. However, more than twenty years later, Zhang Jia was relocated to the Kangxi Emperor's mausoleum, the Jingling Underground Palace, why is this?
All this is also due to the thirteenth brother YinXiang born to Zhang Jia, who although Yinxiang was very popular with Kangxi in his early years, he was implicated in the incident of the abolition of the prince, and he never received any weight since then, and even Kangxi did not give him a knighthood. However, Yin Xiang was a supporter of the fourth brother Yin Chan, and after Yin Chan succeeded to the throne, Yin Xiang came and went from an ordinary prince to the iron hat king of the Qing Dynasty, and was named the Prince of Heshuoyi, which can be described as one person under ten thousand people.
In order to win over this capable younger brother, Yongzheng posthumously honored his mother Zhang Jiashi as The Noble Concubine of the Jingmin Emperor, and moved Zhang Jiashi from the Concubine Garden to the Kangxi Jingling Underground Palace, setting a precedent for the imperial concubine to be buried in the Imperial Tomb.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, Easy to Know tombs