The Qing Dynasty was the rule of the Manchus, and it was also the last feudal dynasty in China, and the Manchu Qing imperial family at that time attached great importance to the so-called bloodline issue, so most of the harem concubines were Manchu noble women. However, although the royal family was reluctant to let manchus marry each other, there were still many emperors who married Han women, and some even became noble concubines, of course, this number is still a minority in terms of proportion, an emperor marries a Han woman, whether it is a courtier or a harem, the pressure from all sides is very large.
The Qianlong Emperor Hongli once married a Han woman, according to the role in the film and television drama, it should be Qiong Yao's Xia Yuhe, but her real life is not surnamed Xia, but surnamed Su. Su Shi was a pure Han Chinese woman, not unlike some Han Chinese who were awarded flags, so it was still very difficult for her to enter the palace at that time. Unexpectedly, after Su Shi entered the palace, he also ascended all the way to the throne of the imperial concubine, and after his death, he also enjoyed the treatment of sharing the cave with the empress, which can also be regarded as the peak of Han Concubine's life.
When Hongli was still the crown prince, his father Yongzheng gave him a woman, and this woman was the Han Su clan. There is no clear record of the origin of the Su clan, only that he was born a commoner, probably from the Jiangnan region. As soon as the Su clan entered the palace, they were loved by Hongli, after all, the intermarriage with the royal family at that time was either Manchu or Mongolian, most of them from the north. As a Han woman, Su Shi is most likely to guess that she is more gentle than the northern woman, coupled with the unique reserved and reserved nature of Jiangnan people, it is a more unique one.
Before Hongli ascended the throne, Su Gave birth to a son Yongzhang for him, and later after entering the palace, she rose all the way and soon became a pure concubine. After entering the palace, even if there are three thousand beauties in the harem, the pure concubine is still a special existence in the eyes of the emperor. Within a few years, the Pure Concubine family was also granted the flag position by the emperor and became the flag people, which was the first in the Qing Dynasty, which shows Qianlong's attention and love for this concubine.
Later, pure concubines successively bore two children for the emperor and were successfully promoted to noble concubines, and their status was second only to that of the empress. Although she lost in the competition for the throne because of her Han origins, she sat on the throne of the imperial concubine. At that time, Su Shi was seriously ill, and the emperor, out of love for her, crowned her as an imperial concubine and held a canonization ceremony. Although this seat only sat for a short period of eight days before being separated from the world, this treatment was also unique at that time.
After Su's death, the emperor gave her a title and expanded the mausoleum for her, which can be said to be a thick burial. And a few years later, another person was buried in her mausoleum, that is, the queen who had won her in the battle for the throne. A Han Chinese woman, who entered the palace as an imperial concubine, and finally buried with the empress, can be regarded as a very high treatment.