Many people may have watched the TV series "Golden Branch Desire", in which the concubines were favored in the early days of the six palaces, and they were arrogant and domineering, and the real historical prototype of the concubines did exist, she was the obedient imperial concubine of the Jiaqing Emperor, the daughter of the niuhulu clan, the daughter of the main affair Shanqing, 27 years younger than Jiaqing, after four dynasties, but later lived alone in the deep palace, widowed for half a century.
Rufei was born in the fifty-second year of Qianlong, born in the Hongyi Gongfu of the Yellow Banner Niuhulu clan, belonging to the famous door of the Qing Dynasty banner people, she entered the palace in the sixth year of Jiaqing, only 14 years old, because of her outstanding appearance, she was left by Jiaqing, and was given the title of a nobleman, Jiaqing was born eight daughters of the emperor in the tenth year, and was crowned as a concubine.
Although the eighth daughter of the emperor born to Rufei soon died, but it did not affect the Jiaqing Emperor's favor for Rufei, Jiaqing fifteen years, because of the deep love of Jiaqing, was also promoted to Rufei, Jiaqing nineteen years, such as concubine Niu Hulu gave birth to the last prince Mianyu for the Jiaqing Emperor, Jiaqing in this period is 55 years old, Jiaqing has only 5 sons, the heirs are thin, so the rufei is more pampered, a moment of favor of the six palaces, the limelight is unique, so that the harem women are envious.
Rufei's title is "Ru", according to the records in the Qing Dynasty's Internal Affairs Department at that time, the Manchu meaning of Ru is "obedient, obedient", which shows that Rufei was deeply favored by the Jiaqing Emperor because she was gentle and lovely after entering the palace.
However, her favored days did not last long, on the one hand, Jiaqing as the emperor's harem beauty three thousand, triennial draft, let Rufei think about how to compete for favors every day to stabilize the position, on the other hand, Jiaqing Rufei is 27 years older, doomed to go to the end together.
At the end of August 1820, the Jiaqing Emperor deeply felt that the heat in the capital was unbearable, set off from the Yuanmingyuan, went to the summer resort, arrived at the summer resort a week later, on September 2, 1820, Jiaqing suddenly died of illness at the Chengde Summer Resort, at the age of 61, there are many opinions about the cause of Jiaqing's death, there are various theories, there are various theories, "Records of Emperor Qingren" records that Jiaqing's death was too hot, after the Jiaqing Emperor suffered heat stroke, he died of a sudden cardiovascular and cerebrovascular disease.
There is also a saying about Jiaqing's death that was electrocuted, probably the Jiaqing Emperor was lying on the bed resting after eating, suddenly the sky lightning thundered, there was a rolling thunder sneaked into the room where Jiaqing was resting, Jiaqing was electrocuted on the spot, and some said that Jiaqing was out hunting, suddenly lightning and thunder, pouring rain, suddenly a thunder, hit him, so Jiaqing collapsed.
In the current view, Jiaqing's illness and death is more likely, the theory of electrocution is purely deductive and folklore, and no matter how Jiaqing died, it pitied the concubines in his harem, after the death of the Jiaqing Emperor, the harem concubines cried darkly, including many concubines who cried and fainted.
It is not so much that the concubines are crying about the death of Jiaqing, but rather that they are crying about their future fate, some of them are still young, young and beautiful, but they want to live in the deep palace for a lifetime, living a life without a husband, also only 34 years old, and the gorgeous Rufei is also one of them.
After the death of the Jiaqing Emperor, the Daoguang Emperor ascended the throne, and the Daoguang Emperor was born to the original empress of Jiaqing, Xi Tara, because Rufei was a concubine during the reign of Jiaqing, and the Daoguang Emperor honored her as Emperor Kaoru's noble concubine and made her live in Shou'an Palace, second only to the two empresses of the Jiaqing Emperor and the concubines of the Heyu Emperor.
Jiaqing had many concubines, and the reason why Daoguang honored her as an imperial concubine was because she gave birth to the fifth son of the emperor, Prince Huiduan, during the feudal dynasty, her mother was noble, so her status was promoted.
Although Rufei's later years were of honorable status and her son was filial piety, the Jiaqing Emperor died prematurely, and she could only spend a long time in the deep palace, Xianfeng ten years, Rufei died at the age of 74, and was buried in the Changling Concubine Garden of the Qing Dynasty.
Although Princess Ru went through the four dynasties of Qianlong, Jiaqing, Daoguang and Xianfeng, she was lonely in the deep palace for half a century, although on the surface she was honored and favored, but she had no freedom in her life, and her youth and youth were all spent in the Forbidden City, perhaps she was originally a naïve woman who "did not love the palace wall willow", but as a noble woman of the Eight Banners, entering the palace was a fate that she could not escape. In this way, should we say that she is lucky or unlucky?