As mentioned in the previous article about Princess Cuihua, the Shunzhi Emperor adopted the daughters of 4 princes because of their thin daughters. Today, I will talk about this Princess Gulun Duanmin.
Princess Guren Duanmin
Princess Gulun Duanmin, born to Prince Jidu of Jian, was the grandnephew of Nurhaci, the grandson of her half-brother Shulhaqi the Prince of Zhuang, and the second son of Zilharang the Prince of Zhengxian. Her biological mother was Prince Jian's concubine Fujigit of the Borjigit clan, and the younger sister of Empress Xiaohui (the second empress dowager of Shunzhi). Jian Fujin's sister married into the capital two years earlier and became Ji Du's wife.
Princess Duanmin was born in June of the tenth year of Shunzhi (1653) as the second daughter of Prince Jian, who had previously had one son (the eldest son, Mo Sheng, the daughter of the Mother Shu Fu Jin Ersai Li clan, and the daughter of Sai Yin Tu) and a daughter (the eldest daughter, the later feudal lord, the mother side Fu Jin Wurut Borjigit clan).
Although Duan Min was the second daughter, she was the eldest daughter of Prince Jian and her status was naturally noble. Just four months after her birth, an earth-shattering event occurred in the palace, Shunzhi deposed his first empress, Borjigit, and a few months later, he welcomed back from the Horqin steppe the second Borjigit clan (only 14 years old) as empress, that is, the later Empress Xiaohuizhang. In the same year, she was sent to the imperial palace by another Borjigit clan, who was later given the title of Princess Shuhui and was the sister of Xiaohui. The new empress was Duan Min's maternal aunt, and Duan Min's identity was naturally different. So she was raised in the palace as a princess at an early age.
Empress Xiaohuizhang in film and television
In November of the sixteenth year of Shunzhi, the prince of Horqin entered the capital to see his majesty, and the foreman entered the capital, the youngest of the four brothers of Empress Xiaozhuang's mother's compatriots, the king of Zasak Dorodarhan County (Later Jin and Shuodarhan), the palm banner of the left wing of the Horqin Central Banner.
Speaking of Manzhu Xi Lilly, his identity is really very special, and his deceased ex-wife is the daughter of Wang Yuetuo, a hereditary Keqin County adopted by Emperor Taiji. His daughter was a concubine of the Shunzhi Emperor (raised in the palace at an early age, because of his infancy, shunzhi died in the fifteenth year of shunzhi, posthumously honored as a mourning concubine). The newly established Empress Xiaohuizhang and Concubine Shuhui were both his granddaughters. Therefore, he was not only the older brother of Empress Xiaozhuang, but also the son-in-law of the former emperor Taiji, and the father-in-law of the Shunzhi Emperor. Xiaozhuang also treated this brother of a mother and a compatriot with courtesy, and in order to maintain the Manchu-Mongolian marriage relationship, Xiaozhuang mated Princess Duanmin, who was only 7 years old, to Manzhu Xili's eldest grandson, Bandi, who was also young. Since then, Duan Min has become the daughter-in-law of the Horqin people.
Portrait of the first King of Darhan
Time flew by, and it was the ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1670). In the past ten years, the people and things around Duan Min have undergone tremendous changes. First, in the seventeenth year of Shunzhi (1660), his father Jidu died at the age of 28, and the 6-year-old Desai (the third son of Prince Jian, also the eldest son of Princess Duanmin, princess Duanmin's half-brother) inherited the title; then a few months later, his adoptive father Shunzhi died; two years later, his biological mother died; the future grandfather of Kangxi, Prince Manzhu Xili, died; and the future father-in-law and Prince Ta of Kangxi died in the eighth year. Princess Duanmin, who had gradually grown up, lost almost all of her close elders. What struck her the most was the death of her brother Desai.
In Duan Min's eyes, although her father had twelve children, the only one she regarded as flesh and blood was this brother who was a sibling of her mother. As the eldest daughter of the concubine, Duan Min was a pampered baby maid at home, and later entered the palace to become a princess, and she was the pride of the entire Prince Jane's palace. Duan Min, who was superior everywhere, looked down on those brothers and sisters who were out of the house, and she did not originally think of these "brothers and sisters" in the palace.
Unexpectedly, in March of the ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the seventeen-year-old Desai died of illness. This news hit Princess Duanmin very hard, and at this point, she lost the last relative she recognized in her heart after the death of her parents, and what was even more helpless was that although Desai married a relative, she did not leave a son and a half daughter, and the title of Prince Jane was also suspended on the main branch.
In the film and television, Prince Jane Jidu
Prince Jian had five sons, and the three sons who lived at this time, the eldest son Mo Song, the second son Labu, and the fifth son Yabu (the fourth son Muji Gong Shunzhi died in March of the sixteenth year, at the age of 4). Eventually, the second son, Rabu, became the fourth Prince of Jane.
For Duan Min, it doesn't matter who the new successor is, it doesn't mean anything to her, because her only half-brother is dead. In September of the ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1670), at the same moment when Labu became the new owner of the JianFu, Duan Min was officially married and embarked on a journey to Horqin, where she would spend the next sixty years of peace.
The third King of Darhan Bandi
Since Duan Min's birth mother, adoptive mother, and adoptive grandmother are all Mongolian, the Mongolian language, customs and living habits are not unfamiliar to her, which allows Duan Min to adapt to the new environment of her husband's family quickly after marriage.
In the second year of Duan Min's marriage, her husband Bandi inherited the title of Prince of Darhan, and Princess Duan Min became the head of the left wing of the Horqin Central Banner. In Prince Jane's mansion, because of the identity of the princess, coupled with the fact that the elders have died one after another, there is no restriction, and Princess Duanmin has never said one thing at home. After marrying, her power tentacles gradually spread to the entire wang banner.
Duan Min's arrogant and indulgent style has caused the dissatisfaction of many relatives, but because of her identity, no one dares to show it in person, let alone ask questions. So Princess Duanmin lived her solipsistic life in Korqin.
In the twentieth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Prince Jian Died (like his father Jidu, he also lived to be 28 years old), and his brother Yabu inherited the title and became the fifth Prince of Jane. This news reached Duan Min's ears and made her extremely disgusted.
Labu and Yabu are half-brothers, the mother of the Jidu Shufu Jinhang clan, the daughter of Weng Puxi. At that time, Shu Fujin was actually a concubine who did not receive any title, and some of them may even be just concubines. Although the Hang clan is not high, it is quite favored. And she gave birth to a son for Jidu two months before the Fujin Borjigit clan. Two months before the birth of Duan Min's half-brother Desai, Hang gave birth to Ji Du's second son, Rabu. In the following years, Concubine Fujin did not come out again, and hang gave birth to Jidu's youngest son Yabu in the fifteenth year of Shunzhi. Until the seventeenth year of Shunzhi, JiDu died of illness.
It is conceivable that as a noble concubine Fujin, in the face of such a nameless concubine who is far inferior to herself, but is favored by her husband, Duan Min's birth mother will have a disgusting feeling. And this feeling must have also affected the young Duan Min, causing her to directly anger the children born to Hang.
According to legend, one year, Princess Duanmin returned to Beijing Province, and Yabu's Fujin Xilin Jue Luoshi came to the palace to ask for her peace, and as a result, She was hung in the concierge room by Princess Duanmin for most of the day, and finally did not see her face. This Fu Jin was extremely aggrieved, ran home to cry with her husband, And Yabu comforted her, saying that Princess Duanmin was arrogant and arrogant when she was born, and no one could afford to provoke her, so don't go to the door to touch the mold in the future. It can be seen that the relationship between the sister and brother is quite bad, and they have reached the point where they disdain to maintain a superficial relationship.
In addition to his own half-brothers, Duan Min had the same relationship with Kangxi. Although there is no record of the direct conflict between the two, in the face of her brutal personality, the Kangxi Emperor was probably a hundred unaccustomed. In the thirty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the emperor set up a guard for some of the princesses who were married according to the rank of Baylor. Among them were her daughters Princess Chunxi, Princess Rongxian, Princess Duanjing, and her aunt Princess Shuhui, but Princess Duanmin was missed alone. In other words, among the princesses who were still alive and married at that time, du du did not have the share of Princess Duanmin. The reason for this can be seen.
In the forty-ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1710), Duan Min's husband Prince Bandi died, and her son Lobzang Gunbu succeeded to the title of Prince of Darhan. At this time, Princess Duanmin was already an old woman of nearly sixty years old, but as she grew older, her flying and invincible personality did not change in the slightest, and the contradictions between her and the people could not be alleviated.
In the fifty-sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, the sixth Prince of Jian, Yaerjiang'a (whose father Yabu died in the forty-fourth year of Kangxi, nicknamed "Xiu"),) gave Kangxi a recital, which presumably said that Kangxi wanted to marry Yarjiang'a's daughter, and Yarjiang'a was very grateful for this, but the only request was not to give his daughter to Princess Duanmin's son, Cewang Dorji. Because princess Duanmin and Yabu have been at odds for a long time, they are afraid that the two families will be embarrassed after they marry.
When Yabu was a prince, he was loyal and diligent, and was very appreciated by the Kangxi Emperor, and the relationship between Yarjiang'a and Kangxi was also very close. In the letters of Yaerjiang'a to the Kangxi Emperor, they all directly called Kangxi "The Emperor's Father" like the emperor, which shows that Kangxi attached great importance to this nephew.
Therefore, at this time, the Kangxi Emperor would obviously be on the side of Yarjiang'a, and he replied in Zhu Ping: Shuo is very aware of this matter, and your request has been remembered. Not only that, Kangxi also added a sentence later: Princess Duanmin has a well-behaved and violent temperament, not only your father, she is at odds with everyone.
However, Princess Duanmin had a good relationship with the fourth son of the Emperor, Yin Chan, the later Yongzheng Emperor, and the main reason for this was that in the late Kangxi Dynasty's Nine Sons, Yaerjiang'a supported the Eighth Son of the Emperor Yin, that is, Yongzheng's opponent, and Duan Min hated his half-brother very much, and then hated everyone supported by his brother, and the enemy of the enemy was a friend, so he naturally walked with Yin Chan.
After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, in the first year of Yongzheng (1723), Duanmin was crowned Princess of Gulun, and it should be known that the title of Gulun was the only treatment for the daughter of the empress. Although Yongzheng's entry into the seal has its political significance, it also shows that the relationship between the two is definitely good.
On May 18, the seventh year of Yongzheng (1729), Princess Duanmin died at the age of seventy-seven, finally completing her life of arrogance and nobility, and she was also the longest-lived princess of the Qing Dynasty.