Pictured: Zhang Yuchun, a palace girl in the late Qing Dynasty, swinging. Zhang Yuchun was a very important palace maid in the imperial palace of the late Qing Dynasty, because she had served many masters with different identities. And this first master was Empress Dowager Cixi in the late Qing Dynasty, who fled with Cixi to Xi'an during the Gengzi Rebellion; after Cixi's death, Zhang Yuchun went to serve Empress Dowager Longyu and finally to Serve Consort Duankang.
Pictured: Yi Zhen with Yehenara Wanzhen. Ai Xin Jueluo Yizhen was the seventh son of the Daoguang Emperor, the half-brother of the Xianfeng Emperor, and the biological father of the Guangxu Emperor, and his great blessing was Empress Dowager Cixi's younger sister Yehenara Wanzhen.
Pictured: Cixi and Princess Deling enjoying the snow. Yu Deling, pen name Princess Deling. As a teenager, he lived with his father in Japan and France for six years, gaining insight, broadening his horizons, and mastering Chinese. When he returned to Beijing with his father at the age of 17, because he was familiar with foreign languages and Western etiquette, he was recruited into the palace by Cixi with his sister Yu Rongling and became one of the eight female officials of the Forbidden City.
Pictured: The portrait of Empress Wanrong's imperial dress at her wedding. At 16 o'clock in Puyi, the three concubines of Jingyi, Ronghui, and Duankang in the palace, together with the old princes and ministers, as well as Puyi's biological father Zaifeng, decided to choose an empress for Puyi and hold a big wedding. After many controversies between the princess and the magnates of the clan, Wanrong was elected to the palace because of her dignified and beautiful appearance, freshness and vulgarity, and her omniscience in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and became the last empress in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
Pictured: Erdet Wen embroidery. At the beginning of September 1916, the 8-year-old Wenxiu was sent to the private Dunben Elementary School in Huashi to study, and after going to school, Wenxiu changed his name to Fu Yufang. When Puyi was choosing a concubine, Fu Yufang's fifth uncle took matters into his own hands, taking Fu Yufang's photo, and then using the name of Erdet Wenxiu, along with many photos of the girls to be selected for the imperial concubine, to the Qing Dynasty Office, waiting for the emperor to be selected, and finally after Puyi personally read the photo, the 14-year-old Erdet Wen embroidery was selected as the imperial concubine.
Pictured: Princess Rongshou, born in 1854, was adopted as an adopted daughter by Cixi. At the age of 12, Cixi took the initiative to choose a husband for her. Of the three teenagers that Cixi had prepared in advance, she chose Fucha Zhiduan. On the day of the wedding, after the ceremony, the princess and Shibata went back to their respective mansions. After that, the horse went to the Princess Mansion every morning and evening to ask for peace, and when he was finished, he returned to his mansion. About five years after marriage, Zhiduan died of illness, and Princess Rongshou began to be widowed at the age of 17, still a "young girl", and did not have children for life. Princess Rongshou died in 1924 at the age of 71.