Author: Zhen Huan Baifei
"Your Majesty, do you remember the summer rain lotus on the shore of Daming Lake?"
This classic line, I believe that friends who have watched "Huanzhu Gege" remember the relationship between Qianlong and Xia Yuhe from "sitting down to living".
In the play, Xia Yuhe waited for Qianlong all his life.
But in history, when Xia Yuhe was 14 years old, he entered the mansion of Qianlong, who was still Prince Bao at the time, and was named the imperial concubine after giving birth to two sons and a daughter.
She also became one of the top three contestants running for the position of queen with the background of a Han woman, and was buried by the queen after her death.
With such a large row, why is Xia Yuhe?
The prototype of Xia Yuhe, Su Shi, was not born on the shore of Daming Lake, but from the south of the Yangtze River.
According to the records in the "History of the Harem of the Qing Dynasty", the palace concubines will register the detailed background, their father's position, etc., only the Su family page only has the father's name.
This is extremely unusual in the harem, and it also reminds people of the mystery of Su's life experience.
It is rumored on the Internet that during the Yongzheng period, it was very popular among the eunuchs to buy beauties in the south of the Yangtze River and offer them to the palace.
But Yongzheng is not greedy for beauty, his life is Concubine Hua in addition to work, and he is also distressed to see so many beauties eating white rice in the palace.
In order to make the best use of them, Yongzheng rewarded them all to the brothers, including the Su family.
There is another saying that when Qianlong was still Prince Bao, he loved to go to the south of the Yangtze River.
Once when he went to the house of the wealthy businessman Su Zhaonan for dinner, he "met" a thin Ma Su clan that met his taste, and Qianlong liked it very much and took it home.
These two statements seem absurd, but it can also be seen that Su's appearance is absolutely beautiful and his background is extremely humble.
I heard that Su's portrait was auctioned for a sky-high price of 100 million in later generations, which was the highest starting price among the portraits of the twelve palace concubines, and it is no wonder that Qianlong loved her deeply.
When Su was 14 years old, he entered Prince Bao's Mansion as a waiter.
A few years later, she gave birth to the third elder brother Yongzhang and became the only concubine in the palace who had children except for Empress Fucha and Emperor Zhemin.
After Qianlong ascended the throne, perhaps because he was worried that the identity of the Han daughter of the Su family would be bullied by the palace maid from the bannerman, so he directly promoted her to the position of concubine and named her "Chun".
The following year, she was directly promoted to a pure concubine, breaking the ancestral precept that Han women were not allowed to be concubines, which shows that Su's status in Qianlong's heart is not light.
If you want to say that Fucha is Qianlong's white moonlight, then Su's is a cinnabar mole.
The pinnacle of Su's life was the birth of the fourth princess "Ziwei" and Jia.
At that time, Hejia had just been born, and Qianlong rushed to hug the baby with great interest.
But I didn't expect that as soon as I lifted the swaddling clothes, I found that He Jia's little hands were deformed, and there was a thin film between the fingers, causing the entire palm to be unable to open.
Qianlong's face suddenly darkened, and he roared angrily: "The princess has died, send it out and bury it." ”
Fortunately, the Su family had already ordered someone to find Queen Fucha to come over, and she knew that the queen was also pregnant and kind, and she would definitely help her keep her child.
Sure enough, as soon as Fucha came, he directly said that Hejia's hand was like a Buddha's hand, which was an auspicious gift from God to the Qing Dynasty, which immediately amused Qianlong Longyan.
Even the Queen Mother, who has always liked quietness, rushed to bring Hejia back to the palace to be raised.
In this way, Hejia became the favorite of the harem, and Su's mother became the first Han female concubine with her daughter.
After the death of Empress Fucha, the Su family and the Eight Banners noble concubine Xian Guifei became rivals for the position of queen.
Su's advantage over Concubine Xian is that she has two elder brothers, but she never thought that because of her elder brother's expression, she would miss the queen's throne and even be beaten into the "cold palace".
She still remembered that when preparing for the funeral of Empress Fucha, Qianlong saw who bit whom.
Some officials were thrown into prison because the eulogy was not well written, and some eunuchs and palace maids wiped the sacrificial utensils and were killed with rods without reflection......
Su Shi was puzzled, before Fucha's death, Qianlong didn't love so much, how could he become a love saint after his death.
It wasn't until her son's accident that she knew that Qianlong could love you in the last moment and take it back the next moment, Qianlong's love has a shelf life, once it expires, you are a fish.
The third elder brother of the Su family, Yongzhang, did not look too sad at the funeral of Queen Fucha.
was angrily reprimanded by Qianlong in front of the ministers: "A person who does not respect his mother-in-law is not qualified to inherit the throne!"
At that time, Yongzhang was only 14 years old, and he was a proud young man, and after being folded by Qianlong's expectations for the future, he was so angry that he vomited blood, and he has been sick ever since.
The Su family was also affected, although her position was not reduced, but Qianlong never came again, and her palace became a cold palace.
And her sixth elder brother Yongying was also succeeded by Qianlong to Yurao in "The Legend of Zhen Huan" as a son.
Her daughter and Jia married out of the palace, and in the whole palace, she was left to live alone. The torture of lung disease made her even more physically and mentally exhausted.
It may be the wedding of the fourth princess, which reminded Qianlong of the Su family he loved deeply.
So, before she died, she was canonized as the concubine of Emperor Chunhui.
However, what is the use of such a reward, all Su has asked for in his life is a love.
Because the son didn't understand the clothes of adults, he denied their old pleasures. It can be seen that Qianlong is affectionate and ruthless.
If you want to say who Qianlong really loved, it is estimated that only he is himself.
In the harem, those who seek love often end up with a sigh.
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