In Zunhua City, Hebei Province, changrui Mountain, southeast of Xiaodong mausoleum, there is an imposing imperial tomb building called Jingling, where the Kangxi Emperor and his five concubines, known as the "First Emperor of the Ages", are buried. However, one of these five concubines was "stuffed" by Yongzheng, and she was The Noble Concubine of Emperor Jingmin.
1. Woman dressed in yellow flag
Emperor Jingmin's noble concubine Zhang Jiashi was a clothed woman from the yellow flag, and the ancestor of the family into the flag was named Sunzaqi, who led the clan to the court during the Tiancong period, that is, during the reign of Emperor Taiji, and was awarded the collar and woven into the yellow flag wrapped collar.
As a royal coat, although his status was not high, many of Zhang Jia's clan members were on duty in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, such as Sunzazi's eldest son Sultai, who had served as the minister of the Shangsi Yuan, and the second son, Dartai, who was given the title of Lieutenant of yun by the imperial court for his meritorious work in supervising the construction of the palace.
However, in the generation of Zhang Jia's father, the official position held was relatively small, for example, Zhang Jia's father Shuo Se was originally just an armored man, that is, an ordinary soldier, and later selected by the armored person into the Riding School.
Perhaps for the sake of his daughter's future, or to completely change the fate of the family, Shuo Se gave his daughter Zhang Jia to his brother Hai Kuan, because Shuo Se's brother had a higher position, serving as a second-class bodyguard, counselor and collar.
However, no matter what, it can't change the identity of Zhang Jia's wrapping, she wants to enter the palace to get the emperor's favor, there is only one way, that is, to enter the palace to run for the palace.
2. From palace maid to concubine
Around the twentieth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Zhang Jiashi, the daughter of Haikuan, was selected into the palace through the Ministry of Internal Affairs and became a palace maid.
During the Kangxi Dynasty, many palace ladies like Zhang Jia were favored by the emperor. For example, the birth mother of the fourth son of the emperor, Yin Chan (Yongzheng), Wu Yashi, was originally a palace girl, and because of the birth of Yin Chan, she was named a separate concubine the following year, and the fate of the family also changed.
Zhang Jiashi is a palace girl with dreams, she dreams of one day being able to get the emperor's favor, but the truth is so, just like Zhou Xingchi said, if a person does not have a dream, what is the difference with salted fish? Zhang Jiashi had a dream and began her career as a palace maid.
Perhaps everyone is not very clear, in fact, the palace women of the Qing Dynasty would not meet with the emperor privately, such as Kangxi, who served Kangxi as some eunuchs.
So, how were these palace ladies favored by Kangxi? At this time, there is a need for a referrer, and the person who acts as a referrer is generally the lord of the six palaces, or the empress, and without an empress, it is the imperial concubine.
For example, when Kangxi honored the third empress Xiaoyiren, there was a sentence "Aiming to enter the xian, the flies are uneven and must be picked", that is, Empress Xiaoyiren once introduced palace women to Kangxi during her presidency of the harem.
Combined with Zhang Jia's harem history, it is very likely that she was also introduced to Kangxi by Empress Xiaoyiren. Due to the low birth of the Zhang Jia clan, after being favored, he was only a concubine, but the Zhang Jia clan still had the opportunity to change their fate, that is, to bear children for the emperor, and it just so happened that the Zhang Jia clan did it.
3. Three children in five years
On the first day of October in the 25th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Zhang Jia gave birth to the twenty-second son of Kangxi, and the thirteenth son of the Emperor was named Yinxiang.
On November 27, 26, The Zhang Jia clan gave birth to another daughter for Kangxi, the thirteenth daughter of the Emperor and Princess Wenke of Shuo.
On the sixth day of the first month of the 30th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Zhang Jia gave birth to her third child and gave birth to a daughter again, namely the fifteenth daughter of the Emperor and Princess Shuo Dunke.
Within five years, three children were born to Kangxi, which shows that during this time Zhang Jia was very favored, but even so, Kangxi still did not show any expression.
Compared with the previous Concubine De, they were all born in the palace, Princess De gave birth to the crown prince Yin Chan and was named a Concubine, Zhang Jia gave birth to three children, but always a concubine, for this, Zhang Jia's heart was full of grievances, plus three births, greatly depleted her body, so that she fell ill.
On July 25, 38, the Kangxi Dynasty, Zhang Jia left three young sons and daughters and passed away, estimated to be around thirty years old. At this point, Kangxi seemed to realize that the woman who had long neglected to give birth to three children for herself finally gave her a name seven days after Zhang Jia's death: Concubine Min.
"Concubine Zhangjia's temperament is gentle, Ke Xian Neize, Jiu Shi Gong Min, Jing Shen Su, and now with his death, he is deeply mourned, and he is a concubine. Etiquette should be observed, erbucha routine. ”
4. From the burial of the emperor's mausoleum
In the book "Tomb Easy to Know", there is a description like this: "Kangxi Thirty-eighth Year in October Feng'an, thirteen queen mothers." "The Thirteenth Queen Mother here refers to Yin Xiang's birth mother, Princess Min, Zhang Jia, and "Feng'an" means to be buried, that is, Zhang Jia was buried three months after the death of Kangxi in the thirty-eighth year.
So where was she buried? Obviously, it could not be the Jingling Underground Palace, because the only people who were eligible to enter the Jingling Underground Palace were Kangxi himself and his empress, or the birth mother of the future emperor.
Judging from Kangxi's attitude towards his son Yinxiang in the late Kangxi period, it is obvious that Kangxi could not pass the throne to Yinxiang, so the burial place of Zhang Jia's clan would not be the Jingling Underground Palace, then it must be the Jingling Concubine Garden.
However, after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, everything changed.
Although Yin Xiang was snubbed in the late Kangxi Dynasty, yongzheng became red and purple after succeeding to the throne, and was appointed as the prime minister of affairs, the prince of Fenghe Shuoyi, and this prince was also an iron hat king, Yin Xiang can be said to be one person below ten thousand people.
The mother was noble, and Yin Xiang's favor also changed the name of Zhang Jia's clan, and Yongzheng ordered that Zhang Jia be posthumously awarded as the noble concubine of The Jingmin Emperor, and even promoted to two levels, which was rare in Qing history. Moreover, not only that, Yongzheng also ordered that Zhang Jia be moved out of the Jingling Concubine Garden and then buried in the Kangxi Jingling Underground Palace.
According to the ancestral system, even if the imperial concubine was posthumously awarded, Zhang Jia was not eligible to enter the Jingling Underground Palace, but it had to be said that Yongzheng had worked hard to "stuff" his mother Zhang Jia into the Jingling Underground Palace in order to win over his younger brother Yin Xiang.
Zichen said:
Although The Jingmin Emperor's noble concubine Zhang Jiashi had been favored by Kangxi and gave birth to three children, compared with the fourth concubine of Kangxi, she was treated much lower, and until her death, she was only a nameless concubine.
But sometimes, having a good son is still very important, with the favor of his son Yin Xiang, Zhang Jia not only won the title of imperial concubine, but also was buried in the Kangxi Jingling Underground Palace, and the whole clan was also carried from the yellow flag wrapping into the yellow flag Manchuria, Izumi has knowledge, And Zhang Jia can also get comfort: There are sons like this, and the husband wants it!
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, General Genealogy of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, Easy to Know at the Tomb, Records of the Ancestors of the Qing Dynasty