In "Harem? In the Biography of Ruyi, Ruyi's biggest enemy is Concubine Wei Wanwan, and it is Wei Yiwan's series of operations on the southern tour that breaks the emperor's feelings, and Ruyi eventually dies miserably in the Cold Palace. However, the person who really caused Ruyi (who was based on Qianlong) to fall out of favor in history is Han Xiangmi in the play, that is, the historical Rong Concubine and Zhuo Shi.
In the twenty-fifth year of Qianlong, the Huibu Taiji Turdu, who had made military achievements in quelling the Zhuo rebellion, led his clan to the bustling city of Beijing, and was received by Qianlong, the son of the Qing Dynasty, who gave a series of rewards to the Turdu people, and also gave the palace maid Barang to Turdu as his wife, and in order to repay the favor of heaven, Turdu gave his sister and the Zhuo clan to the Qianlong Emperor.
What is surprising is that at that time, he Zhuo was already a 26-year-old elderly woman, and in ancient times, she had already passed the age of marriage, so why was qianlong included in the harem? Originally, this and Zhuo were the wives of huo jizhan, the hui chieftain, who was later abandoned by Huo Jizhan to become a widow, and this Huo Jizhan was Xiaohe Zhuo of the big and small Zhuo brothers.
After entering the palace with Zhuo, he was very unfamiliar with court etiquette, so Qianlong assigned him to the side of Empress Nala (Qianlong's successor) to learn the rules, and from the later plot development, it was obvious that the experience of learning the rules was not very pleasant.
In February of the 25th year of Qianlong, Qianlong decreed that the empress dowager and Zhuo shi were honored as nobles, and only one year later, he Zhuo shi was promoted to Rong concubine. "Rong" means "Rong" in Manchu for temperament and temperament, but from the latter situation, it is obvious that He Zhuo shi is a person who must be rewarded.
At that time, the Empress Nala clan was no longer young, Qianlong's favorite was Ling Guifei, and the arrival of the Zhuo clan also brought a different style to Qianlong, and the Zhuo clan not only represented her personal, she was also the link that maintained the relationship between the Qing Dynasty and the Hui, which was of great significance to the maintenance of the northwest frontier, so Qianlong was very fond of the Zhuo clan.
At the beginning of the thirtieth year of Qianlong, there was a famous case of the empress losing Dongzhu in the Qing Palace, and the specific situation was that Rong Concubine and Zhuo Shi accused Empress Nala of stealing Dongzhu, and what was surprising was that a letter of contact with the empress was really found in the home of a bodyguard, and the results of the handling of this matter were not recorded in the historical records, but this incident still played a certain catalytic role in the rupture of Qianlong's relationship with the empress.
At this time, the last straw that overwhelmed the camel arrived, and it was the famous follow-up haircut incident.
Probably everyone knows something about the matter, during Qianlong's thirty-year southern tour, the Empress Nala clan actually cut off her own hair, which in Manchuria's view was a violation of the national taboo, which was a great disrespect, and Qianlong could not tolerate it, so he sent the Empress Nala clan back to the Beijing division in advance, and then entered the cold palace.
Only a year later, the Nara clan, which was not abolished, died tragically in the Cold Palace.
Subsequently, he and Zhuo Shi were promoted, were given the title of Concubine Rong, and began to enter the upper echelons of the Qianlong harem, and the favor they received continued.
On the fifteenth day of the first month of the forty-sixth year of Qianlong, Qianlong set up a banquet in the Fengsan Selfless Hall in the Yuanmingyuan, at this time, Concubine Rong and Zhuo had already sat at the first-class table in the west, and the Qianqing Palace banquet held at the end of the same year, and the Zhuo clan sat in the second place on the east table, and at this time, the glory and favor of the Zhuo clan could be said to have reached its peak.
On April 19, 1953, Concubine Rong and Zhuo died of illness in the Yuanmingyuan at the age of 55, and were subsequently buried in the Qianlong Yuling Concubine Garden.
It is worth mentioning that Qianlong also rewarded her with ten oranges before his death, from the twenty-fifth year of Qianlong and Zhuo's entry into the palace, to the death of Qianlong in fifty-three years, and zhuo's favor for 28 years, which can be said to be a veritable Qianlong pet concubine.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Li Dynasty