The curse of the Yehnara clan
The curse of the Yehnara clan refers to the poisonous oath made by the general of the Yehnara tribe when Nurhachi destroyed the Yehnara tribe when he was dying, and the general of the Yehnara clan at that time was dying, which roughly read: "After my death, even if there is only one woman left in my descendants, Manchukuo will definitely be destroyed."
Ruins of the ancient city of Yehnara
Since then, there has been a message from the people that "the dead Qing Dynasty will be Yehenara clan". There are even rumors that the Qing Dynasty royal family once had an ancestral precept that "the Yehenara clan is not allowed to enter the harem", which means that the Yehenala clan cannot be included in the emperor's harem, so as not to disturb the monarch's heart and lead to the demise of the dynasty.
There are also rumors that when Huang Taiji was building the Forbidden City, he dug up a stone tablet when digging the foundation, and the stone tablet read "Destroy the Qing Dynasty, Yehenara". However, no one has ever seen this stele in later generations, so the veracity of this rumor remains to be verified.
However, it is interesting to note that the fall of the Qing Dynasty did have an inexplicable relationship with the two female descendants of the Yehnara clan. The two famous queen mothers of the late Qing Dynasty were both from the Yehenala clan. One of them is the Empress Dowager Cixi and the other is the Empress Dowager Longyu. Needless to say, the Empress Dowager Cixi said that several treaties of the Manchu Qing Dynasty that lost power and humiliated the country were signed during her reign. And Xuantong's abdication edict was also signed by the Empress Dowager Longyu, which is very consistent with the rumors.
Although there are various rumors among the people, the Manchu royal family does not take these things seriously, after all, the curse is originally nothing. If the Manchu royal family had taken this curse seriously, the later Cixi and Longyu would not have been elected to the palace, and Huang Taiji would not have married two Yehenala women. Therefore, the rumors are not credible, the curse is not credible, and the destruction of the Qing Dynasty is not something that two women can do.
Photo of the Empress Dowager Longyu (right).
Empress of the Yehnara clan
The Yehenara clan produced a total of three empresses in the Qing Dynasty, they were Empress Xiaocigao of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Cixi of Emperor Xianfeng, and Empress Longyu of Emperor Guangxu.
Empress Xiaoci Gao, Menggu of the Yehenala clan, was the side concubine of the Qing Taizu Nurhachi at the beginning, and later gave birth to the eighth son of the Qing Taizu, Huang Taiji, her life was short, only a short 29 years.
When Empress Xiaoci Gao was eight years old, her father, who was the patriarch of the Yehnara clan, saw that Nurhachi was extraordinary, and immediately promised to marry her at the age of eight to Nurhachi, and when she reached adulthood, she would be sent to Jianzhou to complete the marriage. When she married Nurhachi, the Aixin Jueluo tribe at that time was already a big tribe of the grassland, and Nurhachi also married the noble women of the major tribes next to her.
The status of Meng Gu, who gave birth to Huang Taiji, began to improve a little, but because of the long war between Ai Xinjue Luo and Yehenala because of Dongge, Meng Gu in the palace was even more unpopular, plus she was introverted and never talked to people. In the end, her health was getting worse and worse, and although she became Nurhachi's concubine because of her own child at this time, it didn't help. In the end, at the age of 29, she died depressed with the longing for her mother.
Empress Cixi, named Cixi of the Yehenala clan, the favorite concubine of Emperor Xianfeng, controlled the Qing Dynasty for 47 years after Emperor Xianfeng's death, and finally died of illness at the age of 72.
Empress Longyu, named Yehenara Jingfen, the empress of Emperor Guangxu, because she was the queen handpicked by Cixi, so Emperor Guangxu was not very interested in her, and the relationship between the two was not very good. After Cixi's death, she was appointed as her heir, and ordered her confidant eunuch Xiao Dezhang to assist her, which led to the later Xiao Dezhang controlling the entire government, and finally the 46-year-old Empress Dowager Longyu died of illness in Changchun Palace.
Yehnara clan Donggo
Yeh Nara Dongge, formerly known as Bushia Mara, was also known as "Yeh Old Girl", the first beauty of the Jurchen at that time, and the history books called her "famous since childhood", and even the wizard of the Yeh Nara clan even said "Bushia Mara, the world will prosper because of him, and it will also die because of him".
Portrait of Tungko
The Yehenala clan used Dongge's beauty to seek a lot of benefits for themselves, and their favorite thing to do was to pretend to give Dongge to the leader of a certain tribe or the son of a nobleman, to seek benefits for their own tribe, and then repented of marriage under various pretenses, and two tribes were deceived by him.
In the fourth year after the Yehenala clan was defeated by the Aixinjue Luo clan led by Nurhachi at that time, in order to please the Aixinjue Luo clan, he promised Nurhachi to marry Dongge to him, when Dongge knew that he was going to marry his uncle, he resolutely disagreed, she proposed to her father to carry out a marriage, promising that whoever could kill Nurhachi, she would marry, her father agreed, and unilaterally broke the marriage contract with Nurhachi.
Dongge's conquest led to many tribal leaders in the steppe desperately waging war against Nurhachi, but the powerful Aixin Jueluo tribe at that time was not afraid of the attacks of those tribes. Under the leadership of Nurhachi, they defeated one tribe after another, annexed one piece of land after another, and the Aixinjue Luo clan grew stronger step by step, and it can be said that Yehnara Dongge helped Nurhachi unify the Jurchen tribes to a certain extent.
Since no one could kill Nurhachi, Dongge's marriage dragged on like this, and she was not married until she was thirty-three years old, from which the title of "Old Lady Yehe" came from. When she was thirty-three years old, his brother decided to marry her to Mongolia in the hope of being sheltered by Mongolia, but to his surprise, Dongge died less than a year after marrying Mongolia.
Nurhachi's marriage of Dongge to Mongolia was also successfully exploited by Nurhachi, who sent troops to annex Yehbu in the second year of his reign.
Descendants of the Yehnara clan
Yehenala clan, also translated as Yehenalan clan, one of the ancient Manchu surnames, the surname originated in the Jurchen era of the Five Dynasties period, that is, the ancestors of the Yehenala clan led the whole clan to relocate to settle near the Yehe River, and the tribe was located in Yehe, and the people in the tribe were surnamed Yehenala.
"Yehnara" means powerful sun in Mongolian, and the Yehnara clan was once prominent on the grassland, and they also became the leaders of the grassland for a time.
The harem of the emperor of the Qing Dynasty was only able to compete with the powerful Niu Co Lu clan at that time, and the women of the Yeh Nara clan had strong political talents, and the Empress Dowager Cixi at the end of the Qing Dynasty was from the Yeh Nara clan, and the Empress Dowager Longyu, the successor of Cixi, was also from the Yeh Nara clan. In addition to several queens in the Qing Dynasty, the Yehenala clan also had more famous male descendants, the most famous of which are Nalan Mingzhu, Nalan Xingde and Suke Saha.
Nalan Mingzhu, a powerful minister in the Kangxi period, was an official to the crown prince, and was later removed because of the dispute between friends, although he was later reactivated, but he no longer has any real power. Policies such as cutting feudal domains and reunifying Taiwan during the Kangxi period were all put forward by Nalan Mingzhu.
Nalan Xingde, the son of Nalan Mingzhu, a famous poet of the Qing Dynasty, "one of the three masters of Qing Ci", a twenty-two-year-old Zhongjinshi, a second-class guard, and a third-class military attaché.
Suke Saha, a minister during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, had outstanding military achievements, and was an official to the crown prince. After Shunzhi died, he became the minister of Tuogu and was one of Kangxi's "four auxiliary ministers", and was later killed by Ao Bai and beheaded by the whole family.
In addition to the emergence of many celebrities during the Qing Dynasty, there are also many celebrities today, the most famous of which are the famous singer Na Ying and actor Wu Jing.