In the old social period, there was a group of people called child brides, that is, before they were married, they were brought to live in their husbands' families, and then married when they grew up. In fact, the Qing Dynasty royal family also had concubines similar to "child brides-in-law", they were raised in the imperial palace at an early age, and today I want to talk about one of the harems of the Kangxi Dynasty, she is Huifei.
Princess Hui came from a very unusual family, her surname was Borjigit, yes, Princess Hui was from Empress Xiaozhuang's mother's family, the Mongolian Korqin Department, and she was also related to Empress Xiaozhuang. Princess Hui's father was named Ah Yuxi, and she was a cousin and brother to Empress Xiaozhuang, that is to say, this Concubine Hui was empress Dowager Xiaozhuang's niece, and from this level of relationship, Princess Hui should be Kangxi's cousin.
At the time of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial family was in urgent need of support from various Mongolian ministries, and frequently married with the Mongols, and the two empresses of Shunzhi (Deposed Empress dowager and Empress Xiaohuizhang) were both from the Mongolian Horqin Department. However, after Kangxi succeeded to the throne, the Qing Dynasty gradually established its rule over the whole country, and internal contradictions were highlighted, so Empress Xiaozhuang broke the tradition that all the empresses were from Mongolia since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, and made the granddaughter of the first sony, Hesheli, the empress, the empress, that is, Empress Xiaochengren.
However, Empress Xiaozhuang still had to safeguard the interests of the Mongols in the Manchu Qing Imperial Family, so Empress Xiaozhuang selected a woman from her mother's Horqin department to join the palace in the eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, and she was Princess Hui of the Borjigit clan. At that time, Princess Hui was only about ten years old, and she had not yet reached the age of bedchamber and canonization, so she had to temporarily raise her in the palace, a phenomenon called "staying in the palace".
In fact, for a woman with a strong background like Princess Hui, even if she can't be an empress, she will at least be a noble concubine. However, the sky is unpredictable, and people have bad luck. On April 12, 1999, Princess Hui, who had been in the palace for less than a year, died of illness, estimated to be eleven or twelve years old, and before she reached the most beautiful years, she passed away in a hurry, which had to be regretted!
After Princess Hui's death, Kangxi gave this "cousin" and daughter-in-law who had not yet passed through the door a fairly high courtesy, and ordered her to be posthumously given as Concubine Hui, and not to go to the court for three days. However, at that time, the Kangxi Mausoleum had not yet been built, so the golden coffin of Concubine Hui had to be temporarily stored in the funeral palace.
In the twentieth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the construction of the Kangxi Jingling Tomb was completed, and in this year, Huifei, who had been dead for eleven years, was buried in the Jingling Concubine Garden, and Huifei was the first concubine to be buried in the Kangxi Jingfei Garden.
Note: In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, there were also two concubines who were "waiting in the palace".
The first was the mourning concubine of the Shunzhi Dynasty. Also from the Mongolian Horqin clan, princess Mo was also from the Mongolian Horqin clan, surnamed Borjigit, she was the niece of Empress Xiaozhuang's mother-in-law's family, and was related to Consort Kangxi hui as a cousin. Concubine Mourning was raised in the Imperial Palace in the Shunzhi Dynasty, but the ending was the same as That of Concubine Hui, who died before she was canonized, and was posthumously honored by Concubine Mourning after her death.
The second was the concubine of the Kangxi Dynasty. Rongfei Ma Jiashi was one of the earliest concubines of the Kangxi Dynasty, and also the earliest favored woman of Kangxi, she gave birth to six children for Kangxi in the ten years from the sixth year of Kangxi to the sixteenth year of Kangxi, and was one of the concubines with the most children in the Qing Palace.
However, the survival rate of the children born to Concubine Rong was low, only the third son of the Emperor Yin Zhi and the third daughter of the Emperor, Princess Gulun Rongxian, survived, and the third son of the Emperor, Yin Zhi, did not get a good death, and Yu Yongzheng was imprisoned to death.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty, Four Genealogies of the Qing Imperial Family