Since ancient times, childbirth has been a hurdle for women, especially in ancient societies with limited medical standards, women's fertility is like going to the ghost door, and the survival rate of infants in ancient society is generally low. The author of this article is going to talk about a concubine in the Qianlong harem who died of childbirth: Xin Guifei.
Princess Xin Guifei was a woman from Manchuria with yellow flags, surnamed Dai Jia, and her father was the governor Nasutu. In fact, The ancestor of Concubine Xin Guifei was originally a baoyi, during the Kangxi Dynasty, the Dai Jia family produced a concubine, she was the birth mother of Yin You, the Prince of Chun, who was named a concubine because of the birth of a princess, and the family was also raised to the Shangsan Banner.
According to historical records, Xin Guifei had three sisters, one married to the Jiangsu envoy You Anning, one married to the attendant Shilang Period as the successor, and the other married to the cabinet Zhongshu Fulong'a, judging from the marriage of Xin Guifei's three sisters, The Xin Guifei family has long been among the ranks of the first-class families, and the marriages with them are some Eight Banners. Moreover, Princess Xin Guifei had an older sister who was thirty years older than her, and it was speculated that Princess Xin Guifei was most likely the youngest daughter of Nasutu, and her birth mother was the niece of Emperor Jingmin's concubine, that is, the cousin of Yin Xiang, the Prince of Yi.
Xin Guifei's father Nasutu served as a blue-winged bodyguard in the palace in his early years, and after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, Nasutu became the general of Heilongjiang and began to transfer, after which Nasutu served as the governor of many provinces, and by the fourteenth year of Qianlong, he had already become the governor of Hedao, however, unexpectedly, nasutu then died in office, was given a funeral, and the tablet was placed in the Xianliang Ancestral Hall.
At that time, Xin Guifei seemed to have reached the age of drafting, but because her father had just passed away, she needed to keep filial piety for three years, and it was not until the eighteenth year of Qianlong that Xin Guifei participated in the Eight Flags Draft. When he saw the show girl's volleyball list, Qianlong immediately noticed this hero, so he did not hesitate to choose him into the harem, and the first title was Xin Concubine.
From the moment Concubine Xin Guifei entered the palace, she was deeply favored by Qianlong, and from the twentieth year of Qianlong to the twenty-second year of Qianlong, two princesses were born in a row, namely the sixth princess and the eighth princess, at the same time, another woman in the Qianlong harem also entered the peak period of fertility, she was Concubine Ling.
In the twenty-eighth year of Qianlong, Qianlong decided to give praise to this woman who had given birth to two daughters for herself, and promoted her to the title of Concubine Xin. However, the canonization ceremony needed to be held in the second year, and at the end of the year when Qianlong decided to crown Xin Guifei as a Concubine Xin, Xin Guifei was diagnosed with a dragon fetus again, and Qianlong was also very cautious about this, and in February of the second year (Qianlong twenty-ninth year), he sent Xin Guifei to guard the moon.
However, what is unexpected is that in April of this year, the news of Xin Guifei's death came out of the palace, roughly judging that Xin Guifei died of reproductive diseases, that is, difficult childbirth or miscarriage, and it was the death of mother and son, which was undoubtedly the biggest disaster for a woman. For the death of Concubine Xin Guifei, Qianlong was also very distressed, personally went to her spirit to pay tribute, announced the resignation of the dynasty for five days, and posthumously crowned her as a Concubine Xin Guifei.
Just a few days after The Death of Concubine Xin Guifei, it was the annual Dragon Boat Festival, and Qianlong missed his newly deceased concubine and wrote a poem for her: "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. ”
What is even more heartbreaking is that the two princesses born to Concubine Xin, namely the sixth princess and the eighth princess, did not live to adulthood, the sixth princess lived to be four years old, and the eighth princess lived to be ten years old.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Collected Poems of the Imperial System