"You are the wind, I am the sand, lingering to the end of the world......"
As soon as this BGM came out, I knew that the love story of Concubine Xiang and Meng Dan in "Huanzhu Gege" would be broadcast again.
In the play, Concubine Xiang was "tributed" to Qianlong by her father, but she had another love in her heart.
In order to keep her innocence, she waved a knife at the emperor, was almost given death by the queen mother, and finally eloped with Meng Dan, who risked death to enter the palace, to Yunnan.
History, however, is the opposite.
The real Meng Dan is just Concubine Xiang's scumbag ex-husband, Qianlong, who married for the second time, is the love of her life, and the Queen Mother is not a vicious mother-in-law, she is the backstage of her own promotion.
The prototype of Concubine Xiang, named Concubine Rong, is the only concubine from Qianlong's harem from Huijiang, and she entered the palace at the age of 26, which can be described as a legend.
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Concubine Rong, formerly known as Fatima and Zhuo, is known as Hezhuo.
Her father was the leader of one of the Hui tribes, Ali and Zhuo.
As a noble daughter, Fatima lived a life of fine clothes and food since she was a child, and when she grew up, she became the princess of another tribal leader, Xiaohe Zhuomuhuo Jizhan, because of her amazing beauty.
However, the good times did not last long, Huo Jizhan and his brother were imprisoned by the rebellious Zhungeer, and Fatima was also forced to become a prisoner.
Fortunately, Qianlong sent troops to suppress and rescue the two brothers.
But they didn't expect that these two brothers rebelled against the water, killed the deputy capital, occupied the land as the king, and began a large-scale armed rebellion against the Qing Dynasty, which is known as the Great and Zhuo Rebellion in history.
The Fatimid family did not agree with what they were doing.
Fatima's brother and uncle also took the lead in assisting the army sent by the Qing government to crusade against them.
For this reason, Huo Jizhan was extremely dissatisfied with Fatima, and after he divorced his wife, he not only did not allow Fatima to return home, but also locked her up.
It wasn't until the defeat and capture of the Great and Small Orders that Fatima was freed.
At this time, she was 26 years old.
Under Huo Jizhan's long-term torture, Fatima has long had no expectations for love, so she will acquiesce to her brother to dedicate herself to the emperor as a pawn to stabilize the family position.
And Qianlong is also extremely satisfied with this olive branch extended back to Xinjiang, after all, the turmoil in Xinjiang has just subsided, and he needs a stronger in-law to stabilize the situation.
The two parties hit it off, and Fatima was left with the queen to learn the rules.
Although Fatima only entered the palace at the age of 26 and was an outlier among the 13.14-year-old show girls, she looked better than Reba, and she had a strange fragrance on her body, like a ripe peach, Qianlong took a fancy to it at a glance.
Speaking of the fragrance of Fatima, it is also a mystery in history.
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Some archaeologists have studied Fatima's remains and found that there are no special sweat glands on it.
So it is speculated that the fragrance of Fatima may have come from the sachet worn.
The sachet may contain a fragrant sand date flower, which is rumored to have been transplanted by Qianlong from Huijiang, just to relieve Fatima's homesickness.
It is also rumored that women from the Western Regions are good at enchanting and will stuff concocted spices into their navel eyes to increase their charm, so the aroma of Fatima may also come from this.
There is an even more outrageous statement, that is, Fatima is the same as Yang Guifei, she has a fox smell, and in order to hide the smell, she will soak in a petal bath every day and rub a strong fragrance balm.
That's why later generations will describe the peculiar fragrance of Fatima, which is a slightly fishy and spicy musky fragrance.
However, having a strange fragrance is not a magic weapon for Fatima's favor.
The biggest reason why she is favored is that she is Fuwa.
It is reported that when Fatima first entered the palace, the lychee trees transplanted from the south in the palace suddenly bore fruit overnight, and more than 200 red ones were very auspicious.
When the Queen Mother saw such an auspicious rui, she liked Fatima very much, and the filial Qianlong was of course also favored, after all, beauty is easy to get, and Fuwa is hard to find.
So, as soon as Fatima entered the palace, she skipped the official woman, agreed, and was always at the third level, and was directly promoted to a nobleman.
2 years later, the Queen Mother directly issued a mercy decree and canonized her as Concubine Rong, and after 6 years, she was named Concubine Rong again. It can be said that the Queen Mother is Fatima's biggest backstage in the palace.
This is very different from the Queen Mother in "Huanzhu Gege".
It is also because of the queen mother's favor that Qianlong can treat her well without scruples.
For example, the Baoyue Building where Fatima lives is a small building built by Qianlong for the view, and the outside of this small building happens to be the "Huizi Camp", a gathering place for Huijiang people.
For this reason, Qianlong did not hesitate to run half an hour away from Qianqing Palace to Baoyue Tower to meet her.
Fatima was also the only one who was allowed by Qianlong to wear her own national costume in the palace. You must know that in the palace, even Mongolian ladies have to wear full clothes.
Moreover, Fatima also has a private stove, she believes in Islam and can't eat pork, so Qianlong found her a chef to return to Xinjiang and concocted hometown food for her every day.
Not only that, Fatima also followed Qianlong many times to the south of the Yangtze River and Shandong.
In order to take care of Fatima's diet, Qianlong also gave her more than 80 kinds of meals to suit her appetite, such as hand-caught mutton, wild duck with milk ghee, and stewed mutton with wine.
The only regret in Fatima's life is that he has no heirs of his own.
However, she is also relieved, after all, sugarcane is not sweet at two ends, if she hangs the title of Fuwa and gives birth to a child, it is also a mystery whether this child can grow up safely.
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Perhaps because of her wide heart, Fatima boiled all the concubines above to death, became the third person in the harem at the age of 48, and lived to the "advanced age" of 54 years old.
This is also a rare long-lived concubine in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
According to online rumors, before she died, she had mentioned to Qianlong her last wish to return to her hometown, but the concubine could not be buried outside.
In order to fulfill Fatima's wish, Qianlong deliberately found someone to make a model with the same shape as her and sent it back to Xinjiang, which is the tomb of Concubine Xiang we see today.
The favor that Fatima wanted all her life got here in Qianlong.
However, she knew that Qianlong's heart was not exclusive to hers, his heart was very big and wanted to give every girl a home. If he had been born in modern times, he would have been a proper Sea King.
However, what about the waves, the women in the harem are lonely, and Fatima can afford to take it and let it go.