There is a sentence in "Peach Blossom Fan" that is quite profound, "see him rise up a tall building, see him feast on guests, see his building collapse", this sentence seems to be plain but contains rich connotations and philosophies.
This script created in the early Qing Dynasty was adapted into various operas and widely circulated, even the eunuchs of the family also loved to watch and listen, but I don't know if the concubines of the Qing Palace had heard of this opera, if they really heard it, the feelings of some concubines were absolutely exceptionally deep.
"Daoguang Emperor XingLe Tu" Shu Mulu clan part
Among them, it is not possible to mention the Daoguang Emperor's favorite concubine Shu Mulu, who entered the palace at the age of 15 and was a noble concubine at the age of 20, and this promotion rate was not comparable to that of the entire Qing Dynasty, and she did not have a single child in the past five years, which also showed how favored she was at that time.
However, it took her 5 years to go from noble to noble, but it only took her 1 day from noble to noble, and when she returned to the noble concubine position again in her later years because of the honorific title, it had been a full 30 years.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="6" > young and popular, unlimited scenery of Tong Guifei</h1>
Shu Mulu was born into a family of middle-level officials, and her father, Yu zhang, was once directly subordinate to Rehe, but was dismissed from his post in the first year of Daoguang, but was later able to use it.
In the eleventh year of Daoguang, the 15-year-old Shu Mulu clan entered the palace and was named a Tong nobleman, and the highest general draft to enter the palace was the concubine position, which was rare in the entire Qing Dynasty, and it was not low to be crowned a nobleman. This year, the Daoguang Emperor was just 50 years old.
Daoguang Emperor riding a horse
The word "Tong" as a title in the history of the court of the previous dynasties is still the first time, the Chinese meaning of this word is red, meaning red and fiery, Manchu means "bright and beautiful", it seems that in the eyes of the Daoguang Emperor, Tong Guiren is a beauty, after all, the aesthetics of the Daoguang Emperor and most people seem to be different.
Shu Mulu clan of the Shu Mulu clan. Quality Bing Rou Jia. Sex is cautious. The eroding machine silk and the Xiangshi Pavilion Yang Fenpei Zhen Pipe to divide the pipe. Xuan Wei Xiqing. Empress Dowager Yi and Jin Feng'er were made concubines. - Records of Emperor Xuanzong of the Qing Dynasty
In April of the following year, the Daoguang Emperor decreed that Shu Mulu be made a concubine, and in the edict he called her "quality bing rou jia, sex into shu cautious", although this kind of canonization edicts are all routine, and all of them are good words, but generally the emperor will also choose some words that he thinks are suitable for concubines, so at least at that time, tong concubine's personality is still very gentle and cautious.
In the past few years, a major event occurred in the harem and even the entire Qing court, when the empress Tong Jiashi died, the Daoguang Emperor posthumously named her Empress Xiaoshen, the empress's position was vacant, but the harem could not be left alone, and Quan Guifei, who was originally the second person in the harem, was promoted to the title of Imperial Concubine of the Sixth Palace.
Portrait of Empress Xiaoquan
At the same time, the Daoguang Emperor was promoted to Jing Concubine and Tong Concubine was a Concubine Tong, and she was promoted to a concubine just two years after entering the palace, which shows that the Daoguang Emperor loves her. The following year, the noble concubine of the Sixth Palace, Niu Hulu, was in the middle palace and became a veritable lord of the six palaces.
Some wenyou who have some understanding of the history of the Qing Dynasty must have discovered that generally there is a 27-month mourning period for the death of the empress, and the empress Xiaozhao of the Qing Dynasty, the successor of the Qianlong Emperor, and the stepmother of the Daoguang Emperor, Empress Gongci, were all after the death period of the first empress had expired when she was succeeded to the throne. However, when the Niuhulu clan (because several Niuhulu clans are mentioned in this article, in order to avoid confusion among the literary friends, they are hereinafter referred to as the "Quan Empress") were established as the successors, Empress Xiaoshen had just died more than a year ago.
It can be seen that the Daoguang Emperor's favor for Empress Quan, but it can also be seen that he is cold to Empress Xiaoshen, and it is also that when he just ascended the throne and accompanied her for more than 20 years, the Fu cha clan of Fu Cha, the great side of the Fu Cha clan, was only named a concubine, and there was no longer a jin seal, and he liked the new and tired of the old, and there was nothing to say.
However, the Daoguang Emperor is such a character, love wants to live, evil wants to die, wants to be good to a person and hates to give her the best in an instant, but once he hates a person, he is also very determined, and he does not think of old feelings at all.
"Yonggong Style Fan" Shu Mulu clan part
Shortly after Princess Tong's canonization ceremony, her father Yu Akira made up for the affairs of LiuKulang, and it seemed that he had stained his daughter's light.
Cabinet: According to the will of Empress Dowager Yi, Concubine Tong was given the title of Concubine Tong and the noble guo jia was made a concubine. - Records of Emperor Xuanzong of the Qing Dynasty
Only two years later, the Daoguang Emperor crowned Concubine Tong as Tong Guifei, becoming the third person in the harem after the Empress and Jing Guifei, and began to enter the highlight moment of his life. From the Qing Palace archives, it can be seen that Princess Tong Guifei lived in Xianfu Palace at this time, and has been living here ever since.
Tong Guifei entered the palace at the age of 15 and was crowned a noble concubine at the age of 20, so the speed of such a promotion is very rare. Looking at the concubines of the Qing Dynasty, except for the Xianfeng Emperor's empress Dowager Niuhulu (Empress Dowager Ci'an), who had already been designated as an empress, concubines and concubines were just formalities, and the fastest from nobles or concubines to noble concubines was the whole empress.
The top five Daoguang Dynasty in this list accounted for four exclusively, and Yi Guifei was still a special situation, when the Xianfeng Emperor was 25 years old, but he only had one daughter, Yi Fei gave birth to the emperor's eldest son, naturally taking advantage of the time and place, and Feng Guifei was also a natural success.
However, Tong Guifei was different from the other top five concubines, she had no children and no pregnancy when she was crowned a noble concubine, while several others had already given birth when they were crowned concubines, such as Jing Guifei and Lin Guifei's Jinfeng were inseparable from giving birth to children (both of them had four children when they were crowned concubines).
At this point, we seem to have come to the conclusion that in the Daoguang Dynasty, Tong Guifei's favor was second only to Empress Quan, and even Jing Guifei, who later became an imperial concubine, was ranked second.
It was not until four years after the title of concubine that Tong Guifei began to give birth, when she gave birth to the seventh daughter of the emperor, the whole empress had died, and Jing Guifei was promoted to the title of imperial concubine and commanded the sixth palace, tong guifei naturally became the deputy of the harem, and in the next three years she gave birth to the eighth daughter of the emperor and the tenth daughter of the emperor.
Uyashi in film and television dramas
After all, in that era, the empress dowager was still more or less looking forward to having children, but at least it also proved that Tong Guifei was not affected by the ascension of the new favorite concubine Wu Ya (Daoguang twenty years of canonization), and was still favored by the Daoguang Emperor, but just a few months after the birth of the little daughter, a self-inflicted doom came.
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On the tenth day of September in the twenty-fourth year of Daoguang, a major event occurred in the Qing Palace, and the high-ranking Tong Guifei was demoted three levels by the emperor and became a nobleman, not even the lord of xianfu Palace. The Daoguang Emperor loved to demote concubines to the throne, but even demoting the third rank was only this case.
Before Tong Guifei was demoted, the Qing Dynasty's most serious treatment of concubines was to demote concubines by two ranks, such as the Qianlong Emperor's Concubine Shunfei demoted to a nobleman, and the Daoguang Dynasty's Concubine Xiangfei demoted a nobleman.
This incident was a great surprise, what happened to the noble concubine who had always been favored, and what a serious mistake had been made to be demoted to three levels in a row?
Compared with other court mysteries, the mystery of Tong Guifei's demotion was fortunately found.
In September of the twenty-fourth year of Daoguang, someone found a lot of things suspected to be royal objects in the residence of the eunuch Li Jinxi of the Xianfu Palace, and after receiving the message, the Daoguang Emperor ordered someone to investigate, and the investigators made a list of the items in Li Jinxi's room to the Daoguang Emperor, and the Daoguang Emperor found that most of them were gifts he had given to Concubine Tong.
However, this time, the Daoguang Emperor was still cautious, after all, he was a woman who had been spoiled for so many years, he asked people to take those things to see, it was really so, the Daoguang Emperor was furious, angrily rebuked "What a despicable thing Li Dexi is", saying that Tong Guifei "is really a great negative favor, and has the position of a noble concubine", so he demoted her to a nobleman, and the golden book treasure seal and the imperial crown were all taken back.
To tell the truth, this time the Daoguang Emperor's disposition of Tong Guifei is indeed nothing to say, think about it in other words, if your boyfriend and girlfriend (husband, wife) give you a gift to someone at will, will you also be angry?
Not only that, the Daoguang Emperor was not only a man and a husband, he was also a self-proclaimed supreme emperor, a favored concubine privately gave the imperial gift to the eunuch, this matter itself was a serious matter, as the number two person in the inner court, Tong Guifei could not be completely unaware of this matter.
The treasure of the Noble ▪ Concubine
If this is the case, then why should Princess Tong Guifei knowingly commit a crime? Can only guess that Tong Guifei is indeed a bit fluttery, in other words, called pampering and arrogance, perhaps Tong Guifei has done some things that make the Daoguang Emperor not very happy, but because she is not strictly responsible for her pampering, this time it is considered to find an outlet to beat Tong Guifei back to her original position. This year, Tong Guiren was 28 years old.
Who knows, this is just the beginning of bad luck. Three months later, on the fifth day of the first month of December, Tong Guiren's eldest daughter, The Seventh Daughter of the Emperor, was diagnosed with smallpox, and after half a month of treatment, she finally died on December 20, at the age of five. Only a month later, the youngest daughter, the Tenth Daughter of the Emperor, died prematurely.
In just half a year, the Shu Mulu clan was demoted from a noble concubine to a nobleman, and the eldest daughter and the younger daughter also died one after another, which was really unfavorable and bad luck.
Looking at the encounter of Tong Guiren, it really makes people sigh, the Daoguang Emperor is indeed too mean and widowed, regenerating her anger, after all, she gave birth to three princesses, and now she has lost two daughters at once.
The Tong Noble Man in film and television dramas
However, in a small-scale promotion in the twenty-sixth year of Daoguang, the Daoguang Emperor did not raise the Tong Gui person slightly, even if it was a concubine, the good villain was also the lord of the first palace, more or less comforting this once beautiful pet concubine.
In the archives of the Qing Palace Tai Hospital, in the last few years of the Daoguang Dynasty, the pulse cases of Tong Guiren were mostly treated by the method of "shu liver", which was caused by depression.
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After the death of the Daoguang Emperor, the fourth son of the Emperor Yixuan took the throne and honored his father's harem, of which the adoptive mother Jing Emperor Guifei was honored as the Consort of the Kangci Emperor, the concubine Lin Guifei was honored as the Lin Gui Concubine, and the other concubines were promoted to the first rank, and the Tong Nobles were also promoted to the title of Imperial Examination Concubine.
Subsequently, she moved from Xianfu Palace to Shouzhong Palace, accompanied by her only daughter, The Eighth Daughter of the Emperor.
Also: Princess Shouxi and Shuo are now referred to as Ruilin, the son of the vice-governor Xi Rab, as Heshuo's donkey. All places where it is proposed to appoint a minister of marriage and a ceremony of auspiciousness shall be handled as usual by the Minister of the Interior. - Records of Emperor Wenzong of the Qing Dynasty
Portrait of Empress Xiaode
Five years later, the Xianfeng Emperor crowned the eighth sister as Princess Shouxi and Shuo, and married him to Ruilin, the son of the vice-governor Xi Labu, and renamed Ruilin as Zara Feng'a, a donkey whose name is rare, but it is known that he was a Manchurian blue flag with the surname of Sakda.
As we all know, the original Filial Piety Empress of the Xianfeng Emperor was born in the Manchurian Blue Banner Sakda Clan, and was later raised to the Manchurian Yellow Banner, so whether this Zara Feng'a was a filial piety empress or not remains to be examined.
A few years later, the Anglo-French coalition invaded, and the Xianfeng Emperor fled to Rehe with his concubines and other concubines, and only five of the Daoguang Emperor's widows were taken away, and Tong Concubine was among them.
The following year, the Xianfeng Emperor fell ill and died, and his only son Zaichun took the throne, honoring his father and grandmother as concubines, of which Tong Concubine was promoted to imperial concubine. After returning to the palace, she moved to Shou'an Palace, and during the Tongzhi period, Princess Tong also met her sister and sister-in-law in the Xuanshou Hall of Shou'an Palace.
Five years later, Princess Tong's only daughter, Princess Shouxi and Shuo, died of illness at the age of 26, leaving no children, and now Princess Tong is alone.
Mu Dongling (Tong Guifei is in the third row, second from the left)
Emperor Wenzong honored him as Emperor Kaotong's concubine. Mu Zonglei was honored as Emperor Tong's noble concubine. - "Biography of the Later Concubines of the Qing Dynasty Manuscript ▪"
At the end of the thirteenth year of Tongzhi, the Tongzhi Emperor was critically ill, and the empress dowager of the two palaces was named Chong Xi and the concubines of the three dynasties of Daoguang, Xianfeng, and Tongzhi, and the Shu Mulu clan, who had been away from the throne of the noble concubines for 29 years, was honored as the emperor Zu Tong Guifei, so hundreds of times, and even returned to this position, which is also a legend, but unfortunately she is no longer the only one, only among the daoguang Emperor's widows there are also the concubines Niu Hulu and the Jia Gui Guo family.
A year later, it was already October of the first year of Guangxu, Tong Guifei died of illness at the age of 59, and in September of the following year, she was enshrined in Mu Dongling.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="67" > Weiluan said:</h1>
Tong Guifei's life can be described as ups and downs. She had been pampered, enjoyed endless scenery, but also because of the pampering and arrogance and defeat, and then the two daughters were martyred, she was depressed for half a lifetime, it was really a high-rise building, a high-rise building, but it was only instantaneous.
Companions are like companions, not to mention the Daoguang Emperor, an emperor with an impermanent heart and a mean and unkind nature, even if he can later return to the position of a noble concubine, but for her, the so-called glory and happiness are far away.