During the Qing Dynasty, if the son born of a concubine inherited the throne, she would be honored as the empress dowager by virtue of her mother's son, but there were two emperors in the Qing Dynasty who did not receive the title of empress dowager, the first was the Guangxu Emperor's birth mother Yehenara, and the second was the Guarjia clan mentioned in this article, who was the birth mother of the last emperor Puyi.
Guarjia was a woman from Manchuria, born in the 10th year of Guangxu, and her father was Rong Lu, a university scholar and military minister.
Ronglu belonged to a family of high-ranking military officers, his grandfather, uncle and father all died in the battlefield against the Taiping Army, thus being given the "Shi Du Zhongzhen" by the Xianfeng Emperor, Ronglu entered the official field by virtue of the shadow of his ancestors, but Ronglu really developed, thanks to the favor of Empress Dowager Cixi, and Ronglu's daughter Guarjia was also adopted as an adopted daughter by Empress Dowager Cixi, and for a time, Ronglu became the hottest figure in the dynasty.
Empress Dowager Cixi planned a family affair for her adopted daughter Guarjia very early on, and she chose a good family, that is, Zaifeng, the fifth son of Prince Yizhen of Alcohol. In fact, Zaifeng's mother Liu Jiashi had booked two family affairs for her son, the first family affair, because it coincided with the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Alliance, the woman's family was martyred, after this, Liu Jiashi also booked a family affair for her son Zaifeng, and Zaifeng was also very satisfied with the woman.
Who knows, at this very moment, Empress Dowager Cixi made a holy decree to refer her adopted daughter Guar Jiashi to Zaifeng as Concubine Fujin, for this reason, although Liu Jiashi and Zaifeng were extremely dissatisfied, they had no choice but to withdraw from the previous marriage contract and marry Guarjia into the door.
After marrying Zaifeng, guarjia gave birth to five children in succession, namely the eldest son Puyi, the second son Pujie, the eldest daughter Yun, the second daughter Yun, and the third daughter Yunying.
What the Guarjia clan did not expect was that in the third year after he gave birth to his eldest son Puyi, the Guangxu Emperor and Empress Dowager Cixi died one after another, and Empress Dowager Cixi designated Puyi as the heir to the imperial throne before her death, and thus Puyi dramatically became the new Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and the Guarjia clan also became the birth mother of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty. However, this also means that the Guarjia clan will lose this son forever, and from then on, a palace wall will isolate the mother and son, and even meeting each other will become a luxury.
In fact, even if you can't have your son Puyi, if you continue like this, the Guarjia clan will be rich for life. Unexpectedly, however, an accidental incident caused her to lose her life.
In the tenth year of the Republic of China (1921), Puyi quarreled with Princess Jin because of the dismissal of the doctor Fan Yimei, and Princess Jin, in a fit of anger, summoned Puyi's grandmother Liu Jiashi and her mother Guarjia into the palace, reprimanded them in person, and asked Puyi to apologize. Unexpectedly, Guarjiashi, who has a strong personality, could not stand this stimulation and returned home to swallow opium and commit suicide, only 37 years old.
After hearing this news, Princess Jin was also very shocked, and after that, puyi was no longer so harsh and harsh, and the relationship between the two improved a lot. Pity the birth mother of the Emperor of the Great Qing Dynasty, not only did not have the title of empress dowager, but ended up with such a tragic ending, which is really lamentable!
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Qing Dynasty