Studying the Kangxi harem, I found a phenomenon that the empresses of Kangxi who were high above had a short life expectancy, but those concubines with low births were relatively long-lived, including some Han concubines. In his later years, Kangxi especially favored Han Concubines, representative of which were Shunyi Concubine and Concubine Chunyu Qin, and of course, there were some women of unknown origin, and this article is going to talk about one of them, she is Jing Concubine.
During the Qing Dynasty, there were three concubines with the title of "Jing", the first was the deposed Borjigit clan of the Shunzhi Dynasty, the second was the Jing Emperor's noble concubine of the Daoguang Dynasty, that is, Empress Xiaojingcheng, and the third was the Jing concubine that this article will talk about. So, what is the origin of this concubine?
The official historical records of the Qing Dynasty do not record the family lineage of Jing Concubine, and we can be sure that Jing Concubine was a woman surnamed Shi, and her father's name was Shi Huaiyu. In fact, in the case of Jing Concubine, it is generally not through the draft to enter the harem of the Qing Dynasty, but through some other channels, such as local officials to the imperial court to offer beautiful women, and, obviously, Jing Concubine is still a Han woman who is not in the flag, such a woman is not eligible to participate in the draft.
Therefore, the author speculates that Jing Concubine was a Han woman brought back to the palace by the Kangxi Southern Tour, or a gift from a local official to the imperial court.
There is no record of the year in which Concubine Jing entered the palace, which may be precisely to cover up her origins, presumably after forty years of the Kangxi Dynasty.
In his later years, Kangxi was more fond of Han Concubines, and Jing Concubine was thus able to get the favor of the emperor, and the favor was favored, and what was important was to be able to give birth to a prince, and it was obvious that Jing Concubine was a very lucky woman.
In the fifty-second year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the 24-year-old Concubine Jing gave birth to a young prince for the 60-year-old Kangxi, that is, the twenty-third son of the emperor, Yin Qi. What is more interesting is that two years before Yin Qi's birth (the fifty years of Kangxi), the Yong Prince Yin Chan's mansion gave birth to a son named Hongli (Qianlong), that is, Qianlong was two years older than this uncle, but this was a common phenomenon in ancient times, and it is not surprising at all.
Moreover, Yin Qi, as the youngest son of Kangxi, did not participate in the battle for the concubine, so he received a good death. It is worth mentioning that although Concubine Jing gave birth to Crown Princess Yinqi, due to her birth, she was always a concubine in the Kangxi Dynasty.
After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, he honored the concubines who bore young sons for Kangxi, and Jing Concubine was honored as an imperial nobleman, while at the same time, Yongzheng also made his younger brother Yin Qi the Duke of Zhenguo. After Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he once again enfeoffed Yin Qi's mother and son, jing concubine was honored as the emperor's ancestor Jing concubine, and Yin Qi was given the title of belle by jin.
Although Yin Qi had been demoted for making some minor mistakes, Qianlong did not embarrass the little emperor and eventually gave him the title of county king. Although Jing Concubine did not live in her son's mansion like Concubine Yi and Concubine Rong, she could also see her son Yin Qi during the New Year's Festival, which was already very satisfying for Jing Concubine.
On the sixth day of the first month of June in the 23rd year of Qianlong, Jing Concubine died of illness in the palace at the age of 70, which is a relatively long-lived among the Kangxi concubines. Moreover, Concubine Jing's son Yin Qi lived to qianlong for fifty years, at the age of 73, and also belonged to a long-lived person, and at the same time, Yin Qi was the last prince of Kangxi to die.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, Four Genealogies of the Qing Imperial Family