She was a folk Han woman from Jiangnan, but she came to serve the Prince of the Qing Dynasty, she became the Imperial Princess of the Great Qing Dynasty at the age of 22, lived in the golden and brilliant Forbidden City, she gave birth to three children for Qianlong, but before she died, she failed to do so, and finally died with regrets. Qianlong did not hesitate to expand the mausoleum for her, and after her death, the tomb exploded with earth-shattering secrets...
In the early years of the Yongzheng Dynasty of the Qing Dynasty, a group of envoys came to Qianlong, who was still the crown prince, to serve at the behest of Yongzheng, including a Su woman, who was not from the Banner people, but a Han woman from the folk. Logically, it was impossible for Su Shi to serve the Prince of the Qing Dynasty, so how did she enter the palace? Originally, during the Kangqian period, some officials in the Jiangnan region had the custom of offering beautiful women to the imperial court, or the emperor aimed at purchasing virgins to enter the palace locally, and it was speculated that the Su clan entered the palace in this way.
Compared with the Manchu and Mongolian women, the Su clan had the beauty and talent of the Han women, which attracted the attention of Hongli (Qianlong) at the beginning, and it was not long before the Su clan became a favored concubine. Moreover, Su also gave birth to a third son to Hongli at the age of 22, named Yongzhang.
In the same year that Su gave birth to Yongzhang, Hongli inherited the throne of the Qing Dynasty, and then Su moved into the Forbidden City as a concubine of the Hidden Residence, and Qianlong gave her the title of concubine, called pure concubine. Although in Qianlong's heart, the favorite was the original Empress Xiaoxian, it was obvious that the Su clan also occupied a very important position in his heart.
In the first ten years of Qianlong's reign, the Su clan bore Qianlong two more sons and daughters, namely the sixth son of the emperor, YongYao, and the fourth daughter of the emperor, Princess Shuo and Jia. With these three children born, Su's status in the harem rose sharply, and she was successively named a pure concubine and a pure noble concubine, especially after Qianlong was awarded a noble concubine in the tenth year, she became the second only existence in the harem after Empress Xiaoxian.
However, at this time, the Su clan, which had been greatly glorified, suddenly suffered a major blow.
Thirteen years after Qianlong, Empress Xiaoxian died, and at the funeral, Yongzhang, the third son of the emperor born to Su, was reprimanded by Qianlong for not being sad enough, and thus lost his qualification to succeed to the throne. Subsequently, in the battle for the throne, the Su clan lost to the noble concubine Nara clan, which greatly affected her physical health.
According to the "Qing Palace Medical Case Study", Su's long-term liver depression and blood consumption, spleen and lung deficiency so that coughing and vomiting blood, shortness of breath, it is obvious that even if he is in a high position, Su's life is not satisfactory. In the autumn of the twenty-fourth year of Qianlong, Su accompanied Qianlong on his tour of Mulan, but his condition suddenly worsened, so Qianlong ordered the emperor's third son Yongzhang to escort his mother back to Beijing in advance.
Although the palace doctors tried their best to adjust, Su Shi was worse than a day. In this case, Qianlong married the sixth son of the emperor born to Su in advance and the fourth daughter of the emperor, Princess Heshuo and Jia, and crowned Su as an imperial concubine, perhaps through these measures to alleviate Su's condition. However, this was always in vain, and eventually Su Shi died in April of that year at the age of 48, with the title of Pure Hui Emperor's Noble Concubine.
Two years later, Qianlong buried su in the Yuling Concubine Garden Bed, and for this reason he did not hesitate to expand the Concubine Garden Bed. In the eighteenth year of the Republic of China (1929), someone discovered that the tomb of The Noble Concubine of the Chunhui Emperor had been stolen, and Puyi ordered the members of the clan to go to the aftermath.
In 1981, when archaeologists cleaned up the tomb of The Pure Hui Emperor's noble concubine, they found that there were two skulls in the coffin of the Pure Hui Emperor's noble concubine, which revealed a shocking secret, it turned out that after the death of the Nala clan, it was not buried in the Yuling Underground Palace, but was stuffed into the underground palace of the Pure Hui Emperor Guifei, and it was in the side position, and the Empress of the Tangtang Dynasty actually gave a concubine a burial, which has never been done in history.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Study of Medical Cases of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty