Empress Xiaozhuang can be called a female heroine in ancient Chinese politics, but after her death, she stopped for 37 years and never entered the ground for safety.
Empress Xiaozhuang played many roles in the early Qing Dynasty and was the protagonist on the historical stage of the early Qing Dynasty.
During her husband's Imperial Taiji period, she was not outstanding, only a sub-Western Palace's Yongxi side Fujin, but this did not affect her position in the heart of The Emperor Taiji, even if her own sister Hai Lanzhu favored the harem, she still stood firm.
Without any explanation from the connecting class, the Emperor Taiji died suddenly, and the struggle for the throne was inevitable. At this time, Xiaozhuang began to show his outstanding ability, helping his ninth-ranked son, who was only 6 years old, Fu Linchong Ling, to sit on the throne.
But the son did not thank her, and in the eyes of the Shunzhi Emperor, the mother became a vicious, cruel, and unsympathetic enemy.
The mother and uncle held the imperial power, and even their own love was destroyed. For the sake of political gain, Xiaozhuang forced him to marry women he did not like; Concubine Dong E, whom he loved, could never get into his mother's eyes.
In the midst of resentment, the Shunzhi Emperor was only 24 years old and walked ahead of his mother. At this time, his third son Xiao Xuanye was only 8 years old, and he became the Kangxi Emperor because of his immunity to smallpox. In the eyes of the young emperor, Xiaozhuang was not only a grandmother, but also a leader, but also a "mother" who depended on each other.
Kangxi was a bitter emperor, his father was gone, and his mother Tong Jiashi also died of illness in the second year of his ascension to the throne, and his parents died before the age of 10. The white-haired man sends the black-haired man, and Xiaozhuang's situation is not much better. With the same disease and loneliness, she put all her thoughts on her grandson and the country.
Xiaozhuang poured all his love into this grandson. She married the Hersheli clan to Kangxi, turned Sony, an auxiliary minister, into a state abbot, became a staunch ruling ally of Sun Tzu, and successfully won over the invincible Lord Aobai, making the 14-year-old Kangxi the real family of the Qing Dynasty.
Annihilating the San Francisco Rebellion, unifying Taiwan, and resisting Tsarist Russia, this excellent grandmother spared no effort to support her grandson and took out the silver and silver saved by the court to aid the war ahead.
Kangxi was also filial and respectful to his grandmother. Xiaozhuang wanted to go to Mount Wutai, and he personally supported the guards; Xiaozhuang was critically ill, and he did not leave his left and right, personally served soup medicine, and led the prince and minister to walk to the Temple of Heaven, praying that the heavens would damage his life and let Grandma live for a few more years.
But the Mandate of Heaven numbered, and in 1688, the 75-year-old Empress Xiaozhuang died. She was the honored relative of the third emperor of the unification of the two dynasties, and she wrote in ancient Chinese history as the name of "Empress Xian" and "Outstanding Female Politician".
The grandson has grown up, Daqing is thriving and vigorous, and Xiaozhuang has no regrets. Before dying, she said to the 34-year-old Kangxi Emperor, who loved her grandson: "Your grandfather (Emperor Taiji) has been buried for many years, don't disturb him because I go to break the ground again." Your father blames me for hating me, but I am all for him, for the sake of Daqing. I don't want your father and son, and when I die, bury me next to your father!" ”
This request was nothing to ordinary people, but for the Empress Dowager of the Qing Dynasty, it made Kangxi really embarrassed. As the right concubine of Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty, the birth mother of the Shunzhi Emperor, and the grandmother of the Kangxi Emperor, according to the ancestral precepts and regulations, it was the right way for Xiaozhuang to be buried with her husband Emperor Taiji after his death.
Besides, if you really bury your grandmother in the Qing Dongling Tomb where your father is located, it will be quite troublesome. Because the Qing Tombs were built centered on the father Shunzhi Emperor, if grandma was buried in it, how to determine this specification? Higher than the father, it lowers the status of the father; lower than the father, but the grandmother is placed there.
Xiaozhuang's will made Kangxi very embarrassed, he did not dare to do something that was not in accordance with the law, nor could he directly violate his grandmother's will, so he had to temporarily settle the east side of the Qing Tombs in Xiaozhuang, and move the East King Hall of the Cining Palace where his grandmother lived before he died, and stop there.
After that, Kangxi thought a lot of thoughts, wanted to find the most suitable place for his grandmother to "settle down", but in the end it was not implemented, there are many reasons here, until death, Kangxi did not get this thing done.
It was not until his son, the Yongzheng Emperor, came up, quickly cut the chaos, buried Xiaozhuang on the spot, named Zhaoxi Mausoleum, and after 37 years, empress Xiaozhuang fell to the ground and had her own home.
Yongzheng's move can be described as a high move. For Xiaozhuang, the Zhaoxi Tombs belong to the qing dongling in terms of geography, which is considered to be obedient to the wishes of her old family, and the Zhaoxi tombs have the highest specifications and status among all the empress tombs in the Qing Dynasty, which is also worthy of her old man's home.
For the ritual law, although the Zhaoxi Mausoleum is within the area of the Qing Dongling Tombs, it is located on the east side of the Great Red Gate and does not enter the Qing Dongling Tombs; at the same time, the name Zhaoxi Mausoleum means that it is located on the west side of the Qing Zhao Mausoleum, the mausoleum of the Emperor Taiji, and the couple is considered to be together.
Yong zheng greeted each other left and right between Xiaozhuang's will and etiquette, and skillfully handled this historical suspense case, mastering the tricks!
Why did Xiaozhuang have to love Sun Kangxi for the sake of embarrassment? Why don't you want to be buried with your husband according to the etiquette? Many people have participated in this historical conjecture, basically forming two statements.
First, the relationship between Xiaozhuang and Huang Taiji was not deep. Huang Taiji likes to pamper her sister Hai Lanzhu, in her husband's place, Xiaozhuang did not get much love, on the contrary, she gave all her feelings and energy to her son Shunzhi and grandson Kangxi, and after death, she chose to be with the person she really loved, which is also justified.
The second statement is not recorded in the history books and is a bit lace. It is said that after the death of Emperor Taiji, in order to stabilize his son's throne, Xiaozhuang sacrificed his life to marry his younger uncle Dorgon, and of course did not have a face buried next to her husband after death.
I think it is Still Xiaozhuang's own statement that is the most reliable. Because, since ancient times, there has been a rule of "humble and undetermined", the empress dies first, the emperor can open the mausoleum for burial; the emperor dies first, and the empress can only make a funerary tomb to stay after death.
After Wu Zetian died, he wanted to be buried with Li Zhi, and at that time, the ministers took out this rule and objected, or Li Xian showed his heart as a son, and tried to let the old father and the wife reunite in another world.
Therefore, in Empress Xiaozhuang's last words, the two reasons for being humble and respectable and cherishing her children and grandchildren should be from her sincerity, and there is no such thing as her giving her grandson a problem or being ashamed of her husband.
