In ancient China, the power of the emperor was supreme, when the emperor ruled the world and the empress managed the harem, it can be said that the empress was the most powerful person in the harem. And we all know that in ancient times, if a woman had not entered the palace, it was almost impossible to be crowned empress, but there was a woman in the Qing Dynasty, she was Empress Xiaodexian. She had never set foot in the palace, but she was made empress, and even after her death, she could be buried with the emperor, which was simply incredible. She was a descendant of the Sakda family from Manchuria, and her father was an official in the imperial court, and her rank was Zhengsipin. We can see that this empress's origin is still good, but what is even more surprising is her bizarre life, she was selected to be the fourth son of the emperor, Fu Jin, and the fourth son of the emperor is the later Xianfeng Emperor.
Empress Xiaodexian was born in 1831, because of her good birth, so in the twenty-seventh year of Daoguang, the Sakda clan participated in the draft, and then because of her outstanding appearance and dignified demeanor, she was favored by the Daoguang Emperor, but the Daoguang Emperor saw that she was not looking for a concubine for herself, but to find a concubine for her own prince, so the Daoguang Emperor promised her to the fourth son of the emperor, YiXuan, after taking a fancy to the Sakda clan. In the twenty-eighth year of Daoguang, the Sakda clan and the fourth son of the emperor got married and lived a happy and happy life from then on, and at that time, the Daoguang Emperor was already planning to pass the throne to the fourth son of the emperor, so the Sakda clan was bound to become the empress after that.
However, something unexpected happened, in the second year after the marriage of the fourth son of the Emperor and Empress Xiaodexian, that is, in the twenty-ninth year of Daoguang, Empress Xiaoherui passed away, but only a day later, Empress Xiaodexian also died, and she was only nineteen years old when she had no time to be crowned empress, so she passed away. Within two days, the harem lost two main bones, and there was a lot of discussion inside and outside the imperial court, saying that this was a bad omen, and the Qing Dynasty would inevitably face a catastrophe. Sure enough, as expected, the Daoguang Emperor also died a month later. Because it coincided with the funerals of the empress dowager and the emperor, the funeral of the Sakda clan was very simple. After the death of the Daoguang Emperor, the fourth son of the Emperor Xianfeng took the throne, at this time only a month after the death of the Sakda clan, because the Sakda clan was a concubine Fujin, and had been accompanying the Xianfeng Emperor since he had not yet succeeded to the throne, so the Xianfeng Emperor posthumously called her Empress Xiaode. It can be seen that the Xianfeng Emperor was also a person who missed his old feelings, although Empress Xiaodexian only accompanied him for two years, but he did not forget her after he ascended the throne.
Unfortunately, it was just in time for the war years, under internal and external troubles, the funds that the imperial court could use at that time were not much, but for the sake of filial piety, the Xianfeng Emperor still handled the funerals of the empress dowager and the Daoguang Emperor, but after this matter, the imperial court had no funds to build an imperial mausoleum for him, and the matter was shelved. According to common sense, Empress Xiaodexian should be buried with Xianfeng, but because the imperial tomb was not built, Empress Xiaodexian had no place to bury, and her coffin could only be temporarily placed in Fengtian Village. In the fifth year of Tongzhi, the imperial tomb of the Xianfeng Emperor was completed, and at this time, the coffin of Empress Xiaodexian could finally be buried with the Xianfeng Emperor and entered the Dingling Underground Palace.
In fact, throughout the life of Empress Xiaodexian, because her father was a Sipin official, Empress Xiaodexian also lived a life of pampering and pampering from an early age, and later because of her prominent family lineage, she was fortunate to participate in the draft. Because the ancient draft is not only to see the appearance and conduct of women, to a certain extent, it also depends on the family background and parents' official position, with these two reasons, Empress XiaoDexian was favored by the Daoguang Emperor and was finally selected as the fourth son of the emperor. But unfortunately, although she became the concubine of the future emperor, she did not live to enter the palace, and did not give birth to a prince to the future emperor, plus she died after two years, so the history books record her very little. She may only be a short-lived figure around the Xianfeng Emperor, but her short life is also particularly legendary, although she only survived for nineteen Spring and Autumn Periods, and finally she was crowned empress, and she was also buried with the Xianfeng Emperor, which was also relatively lucky.