"Er gui Ilgen Jue Luoshi, Yu self-famous family." Zhao Zi Purge. Broadcast the sound of fang in the pepper hall. Teaching between the two. 迓蕃祉于萱闱。 Mercy and harmony. The reputation of the co-ming. Declare the grace of the engraving. I hereby follow the will of the Empress Dowager. Feng Er was a concubine. Erqi served as a pious man. He Hongyu and Yanqing. Be cautious. Costumes for brilliance. Thanks. ”
In Qianlong's huge contingent of concubines, two of them died more stubbornly, and they were all scared to death, one was Ying Guifei and the other was Xun Guifei. When Ying Guifei celebrated her seventieth birthday, her adopted son Yong Xuan did not ask the Jiaqing Emperor to send gifts to the palace privately, and was reprimanded, Ying Guifei was frightened and died, and the death of this article is also related to the birthday.
Xun Guifei was a concubine with a high rank in Qianlong's later years, her surname was Ilgen Jue Luoshi, a Manchurian blue flag person, and it was recorded in the book of the concubines that she was "Yu Zi Famous Family", which shows that the origin of this Xun Guifei is quite good. Moreover, this Xun Guifei was also relatively young, born in Qianlong twenty-three years, she was more than 47 years younger than Qianlong, that is to say, when Xun Guifei fell to the ground, Qianlong was already a middle-aged man.
However, the harem of this ancient emperor is nothing at all, Qianlong forty-one years, 18-year-old Xun Guifei was selected into the harem as a woman with a blue flag, at the beginning of the initial name was noble, at that time, hearing that her daughter was named a nobleman, Xun Guifei's father Guilin immediately went to Xie En fold, did not expect Qianlong to be happy, and then promoted Xun Guifei to a higher level, and will be directly crowned as a concubine.
It is worth mentioning that Xun Guifei is likely to be the last concubine accepted by the Qianlong Emperor during the Qianlong period, compared with other concubines, Xun Guifei can be said to have an advantage in terms of age, plus she is really beautiful, so she is favored by Qianlong, and Qianlong often flips her brand. However, perhaps because of Qianlong's older age, Concubine Xun guifei has not been able to give birth to children. Therefore, her position has always remained in the concubine position.
According to the Qing Palace medical case, Xun Guifei can be said to be a completely sick seedling, which may be one of the reasons why she has not had children. The cause of her illness was liver depression, which showed that Concubine Xun Guifei, who was favored for a period of time and then snubbed by Qianlong, did not live well in the harem, which affected her physical health to a certain extent.
In the fifty-ninth year of Qianlong, Qianlong, who was about to reach the end of 60 years of rule, ordered the promotion of concubines who had been with him for a long time, and as a result, Concubine Xun guifei was given the opportunity to be promoted and was given the title of Concubine Xun. At this time, Concubine Xun guifei was only 37 years old, and it was reasonable to say that the good days had just begun.
However, what people did not expect was that three years later, an oversight by the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs caused Concubine Xun to lose her life.
It is said that September 17 of the second year of Jiaqing is the fortieth birthday of Concubine Xun, and the officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent the birthday gifts in advance in May of this year, and Qianlong was very angry when he found out, and severely punished a number of officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for this. In this incident, Xun Guifei was frightened and unexpectedly died two months after her birthday, at the age of 40.
It seems that Qianlong was also very guilty of this, and ordered that the concubines should be buried with the guifei ceremony system, which is equivalent to posthumously honoring her as a noble concubine, which is also a slight compensation for the dead concubine.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Research on Medical Cases in the Qing Palace