The Eight Flags of the Qing Dynasty had to participate in the draft after reaching the right age, and through the heavy barriers and the approval of the emperor, they could enter the palace as concubines, in other words, the daughters of ordinary people basically had no chance to contact the emperor. Of course, in addition to passing the formal draft, there are some concubines who enter the palace through other special channels, and they are arranged in the emperor's harem at the age of young children, waiting to serve the emperor when they grow up, just like the child brides of large private families, and the Qing Dynasty royal family called this "waiting in the palace". For example, in the Kangxi Dynasty, there was a concubine named Pingfei who stayed in the palace, and today we will tell her story.
Princess Ping's name is Herschel, I don't know if everyone has an inexplicable sense of familiarity with this surname? The Qing Dynasty produced many famous people of the Hesheli clan, including Kangxi's original wife, Empress Xiaochengren of the Hesheli clan. So did Concubine Ping have any other relationship with Empress Xiaochengren? Yes, and very close to each other, Princess Ping and Empress Xiaochengren were sisters.
According to historical records, Princess Hei's father was the Minister of the Interior of the Imperial Guard, and her grandfather was Sony, and she was a sister-in-law to Empress Xiaochengren of the Herschel clan. In the fourth year of Kangxi, Princess Ping married Kangxi with her sister as empress dowager. After entering the palace, the 11-year-old sister Herschel became the original empress, because Concubine Ping was a younger sister, so she was younger and could only enter the harem of the Kangxi Emperor as a "young man in the palace".
There was an empress sister as a shelter, her life was carefree, who had thought that Empress Xiaochengren would die in childbirth after a smooth birth, and from then on, only a pair of sisters in the palace were left with sisters. And since the death of the original empress, Kangxi has always been silent in the sad atmosphere of remembering her, almost treating the other women in the harem as nothing.
Moreover, the sister of the Kangxi Empress did not seem to have much affection, and never promoted the position of her sister Hesheli, who had always been a concubine of the Kangxi harem, nameless and unworthy. It was not until the thirty years of Kangxi that her sister Heschel had a chance to turn over, and she gave birth to a small prince for Kangxi, named Yin Yu, as long as the little prince pleased Kangxi, then the second half of her life would be different, but fate did not seem to care for her, and Yin Yu died two months after she gave birth.
After Yin Yu's death, Concubine Ping was immersed in the pain of losing her son and had no intention of competing for favors, and Kangxi became more and more cold to her. Only five years after Yin Yu's death, Concubine Ping died of depression. And until The death of Concubine Ping, her position was all concubines, Kangxi did not promote her position because she was the sister of the empress or for the birth of a son of the imperial family, she was posthumously honored by Kangxi as a concubine, but for herself, everyone has died, what is the use of posthumous posthumous posthumous posthumous titles?