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Princess Changping was the second daughter of the Chongzhen Emperor and the only one of the six princesses to grow into adulthood. Her life is full of mysteries.
The mystery of his life
Who Princess Changping's biological mother really is, it is now impossible to investigate. According to the History of Ming, Princess Changping was the biological daughter of Empress Zhou, who was 16 years old by the Chongzhen Jiashen year (1644). According to this calculation, Princess Changping was born in the first year of Chongzhen (1628) or the second year of Chongzhen (1629), if strictly from the perspective of time, when Princess Changping was born, Empress Zhou was pregnant and gave birth to a prince at the beginning of the second year of Chongzhen (1629), so Empress Zhou could not be the biological mother of Princess Changping, or the birth year of Princess Changping recorded in the Ming history is wrong.
Later commentary
When Li Zicheng attacked the city of Beijing in a big way, the Chongzhen Emperor personally hacked and killed his wife and concubine, and although Princess Changping fell under her biological father's sword, Princess Changping did not die.
After the Qing army introduced troops into the customs, Princess Changping became a special guest of the Qing Dynasty, and in order to win the hearts of the people, Dolgon ordered that from the sixth to the eighth day of the first month of May, he would weep for the Chongzhen Emperor for three days, and he would be called Emperor Huaizongduan, and later renamed Emperor Zhuanglieshu.
At this time, Princess Changping hoped that she could become a monk and cut off the sorrow and grief of this earthly world. However, she was the eldest princess of the former dynasty, and in order to return the Han people to their hearts, the Qing court would not agree to her request. Moreover, the Qing court also arranged for her to marry Zhou Xian, the horse chosen for her by Chongzhen, and at the same time gave her a mansion, gold and silver, carriages, horses, and fields to show the Qing Dynasty's preferential treatment of Chongzhen's children. However, only a few months after the marriage, the 18-year-old Princess Changping died of illness in the sorrow of all thoughts and ashes, in the third year of Shunzhi (1646). She experienced the tragic fate of the collapse of the country and the death of her family in her short life, and what kind of ideological torment she endured during the years of the Qing Dynasty has become an eternal mystery for future generations.