When it comes to the empress of the Xianfeng Emperor, everyone is more familiar with Ci'an and Cixi, in fact, whether it is Ci'an or Cixi, it is not the original empress of Xianfeng, the original empress of Xianfeng has another person, she has a unique surname: Sakda, that is, Empress Xiaodexian.
One of the Sakda clan was a banner girl from Manchuria with a blue flag, and her ancestors were not a big family, but in the last years of Qianlong, Sakda's great-grandfather Ming Shan entered the shi by pen paste, and later became one of the famous ministers of the Jiaqing Daoguang and Guang dynasties, so this Sakda clan joined the ranks of the family.
The father of the Sakda clan was named Futai ( Futai ) , and although the official position was not high , the mother of the Sakda clan was a member of the clan , and she was the daughter of Ur Gong'a , the Prince of Zheng , the daughter of the Iron Hat King. This origin became the key to Sakda's being accused of giving Xianfeng the title of Concubine Fujin.
Let's talk about Xianfeng, xianfeng was named Yixuan, the fourth son of the Daoguang Emperor, and his biological mother was Empress Xiaoquan. Although Xianfeng was not the most outstanding of Daoguang's sons, he was the eldest (Note: The first three sons of the Daoguang Emperor died prematurely), and Moreover, Emperor Xianfeng's mother, Empress Xiaoquan, was daoguang's favorite woman, so the Daoguang Emperor finally chose Xianfeng in the selection of the throne, which lasted for the twenty-sixth year of Daoguang.
After Xianfeng was selected as crown prince, the Daoguang Emperor ordered an Eight Flags Draft, in which the blue-flagd Sakda clan finally stood out and became the Concubine Fujin of the Xianfeng Emperor. In February of the twenty-eighth year of Daoguang, Xianfeng married Sakda into the palace, and there is little mention in the historical records about Sakda's life experience in the palace, but from the relevant medical records, the woman's body seems to be not very good, and soon after entering the palace, she was infected with wind and cold, and soon added wetness, which made Sakda's body more and more weak.
Although Sakda's condition was stabilized for a period of time after careful conditioning by the Tai doctor, at the end of the 29th year in Daoguang, Sakda's condition worsened and he died on December 12 of that year, estimated to be less than twenty years old. However, at that time, the focus of attention in the palace was not on the Sakda clan, but on the funeral of Empress Xiaoherui, who died one day before the Sakda clan.
However, what people did not expect was that only one month later, the Daoguang Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty died. Subsequently, Xianfeng inherited the throne of the Qing Dynasty, and after Xianfeng succeeded to the throne, he did not forget his wife Sakda, and ordered her to be posthumously honored as Empress Xiaode:
Empress Sakda, Menji Qingling, Jia Chongli Sect. Yingyuan is different, Zhan Fengji and Xiangren. The emperor came to the concubine, and the emperor was humble and cunning. Catching the Emperor's ancestor XiaoXiao and Empress Rui, Shan Chengse smiled and encouraged Wanxin. The Orchid Hall springed, and the hand entered with a hammer. Pepper is open in summer, clean and boiling to kiss. Only emperor Xuanzong became emperor, scrupulously and diligently, and practiced the sincerity and respect of Shangyi. Cultivate into a husband, but bow down to benevolence.
Judging from the edict, although the Sakda clan did not marry Xianfeng for a long time, she was affirmed by her husband, and the Sakda family also received the honor of raising the flag, from the blue flag to the yellow flag, becoming the three flag people.
According to the ancestral system, the Sakda clan needed to be buried with her husband Emperor Xianfeng, but the Xianfeng Emperor had just succeeded to the throne, and was busy handling the funeral of his grandmother Empress Xiaoherui and his father, the Daoguang Emperor, and did not build a mausoleum for himself, and the golden coffin of the Sakda clan was temporarily stored in the funeral palace. It was not until after the Tongzhi Emperor succeeded to the throne that the Sakda clan was buried in the Dingling Underground Palace with her husband Xianfeng, thus becoming the only empress in the Qing Dynasty to be buried through three dynasties (Daoguang, Xianfeng, and Tongzhi).
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Eight Banners, Records of Emperor Wenzong of the Qing Dynasty