In the harem of ancient emperors, there were often some favored concubines, who could not only get the favor of the emperor, but also give birth to a prince and enjoy the dignity of the empress. However, after all, the pet concubines are only a minority, most of them are just some unloved concubines, they sit in the palace for many years, and even the emperor's face cannot be seen, it is really a group of lonely poor people, today the author wants to talk about an unloved concubine of the Qianlong harem, she is a noble person.
In fact, from the perspective of birth, there is no problem with the Egui people, on the contrary, the family lineage is very prominent. The Egui people's surname is Xilin Jue Luoshi, belonging to the Manchurian Blue Banner, is the great-granddaughter of the Guozi Supervisor Ebai, the Egui people have an uncle who is very famous, he is the Great Red Man ortai of the Yongzheng Dynasty, the father of the Egui people is named Ele Shun, Ele Shun is a jinshi of the eighth year of Yongzheng, taught to edit, and later became an official in Gansu.
It can be seen that the Egui people not only come from the family of officials and eunuchs, but also have a certain excellent performance in the imperial examination.
In the third year of Qianlong, qianlong held the outer eight banners draft for the first time since he succeeded to the throne, and in this draft, Eguiren was the only showgirl who was selected, and the reason for this was nothing more than that it had a lot to do with Ortai, a heavy minister of the imperial court at that time. However, the party struggle between Ortai and Zhang Tingyu caused Qianlong a great headache, and after Qianlong's death in the tenth year of Ortai's death, Qianlong began to rectify ortai's party.
The family was suppressed by the emperor, and the life of the Egui people in the harem was not good, and in the thirteen years of Qianlong, the Egui people were even demoted to Echangzai, and from then on they began a decades-long lonely life. Historical materials such as "Miscellaneous Pieces in the Palace" show that Qianlong's examples and rewards for the concubines were always in the last place, and after the death of his birth mother, Qianlong pointed out fifty taels of silver, and Echang's living conditions in the harem were evident.
Since then, Echang has been alone in the palace, the flowers in front of the court have blossomed and failed, defeated and opened, the only constant is her own position, she has never waited for the patronage of the amorous Tianzi. However, Echang zai was not mentally depressed by the snub of the Son of Heaven, but on the contrary, she had already looked down on everything, because she knew that life was more expensive than love.
In the fifty-ninth year of Qianlong, when Qianlong was about to pass the throne to his son Jiaqing, he unified the harem concubines for the last time, and Echang finally ushered in the opportunity for promotion, and was promoted to the title of Eguiren, after 46 years of waiting, the Egui finally returned to the starting point, but did not know that at this time she had become an old woman of about sixty.
After Jiaqing succeeded to the throne, the Egui people were honored as the Egui people, according to the "Feeding Horse File", in the twelfth year of Jiaqing, the Egui people personally came to the Jing'an Zhuang Funeral Palace to bid farewell to the Wan Gui Concubine who would be buried in the Yuling Concubine Garden, the Wan Gui Concubine, also a pampered person, sat on the concubine seat for 46 years, and the E Gui people were really sick and pitiful, perhaps it was for this reason that the E Gui people and the Wan Gui Concubine had a special sisterly feeling.
Moreover, in the second year of Wan Guifei's death (the thirteenth year of Jiaqing), the Egui people who had lived in the harem of the Qing Dynasty for 70 years died and left the sad place that had withered her for a lifetime, and were subsequently buried in the Yuling Concubine Garden.
References: Miscellaneous Items in the Palace, Feeding Horses, Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty