In the TV series, the Qianlong we see is a rich man who is merciful everywhere.
In the lower Jiangnan, he and the female Haojie Cheng Huaixiu had a moment of spring supper, and it was inseparable;
During his tour of Shandong, he had a dewy affair with Xia Yuhe on the shore of Daming Lake;
Sometimes I was fascinated by Xiangfei and was a little ghostly...
This is not the case with the real Qianlong.
He ruled the country, strategized, and was lenient and strict with his subjects, only in the face of the beloved in his heart, Qianlong was always a man with deep affection.
If Qianlong's life is a brilliant drama, his love with Empress Fucha is a poignant song in the play.
Ordained wife
There is such a sentence in the Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty:
"The wife star is the most virtuous and capable in fate, with a lot of children and a high life."
Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty was also the Qianlong Emperor.
When Qianlong was a child, the fortune teller gave a fortune teller, saying that he could marry the most virtuous and capable wife, and that he would have many children and grandchildren in the future, and that shou would be better than Nanshan.
Now that fate has been decided, there is only waiting. Wait until the right time to marry the right person.
At that time, Yongzheng had already made the fourth son of the Emperor Hongli a crown prince and chose a wife for him.
That is to say, in the selection of the future empress, to be born into a famous family, to be beautiful, but also to be pure in character.
The chosen lady is Fucha.
Fucha is her surname, one of the eight surnames in Manchuria, and is naturally a symbol of the gaomen nobility.
She's also very pretty.
At that time, an Italian named Lang Shining came to China to preach.
Later, he came to the capital and was hired as a court painter and painted a series of portraits of Qianlong and his concubines, including one of the Fucha clan.
In the portrait, the Fucha clan wears a crown and a court robe, dignified and elegant, with a white skin color, and two curved willow eyebrows that reveal a bit of beauty.
In the fifth year of Yongzheng, the Yongzheng Emperor held a wedding ceremony for Hongli and fucha at chonghua Palace in the Forbidden City.
She became his concubine.
That year, she was twenty-eight years old, and he was a year older than her.
She was his first love.
Newly married Yan'er, the two of them in the palace pavilion and spring flowers under the autumn moon, slowly taste the sweetness of love.
She was his wife for the rest of his life.
The young couple was harmonious and married her, so that he could understand "Guan Guan Ju Dove, in the River Continent." Lady, gentleman".
Later, she naturally became his first empress.
The clear stream of the harem
In the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, Yongzheng died, and Hongli succeeded to the throne, and was known as the Qianlong Emperor.
The Fucha clan was also made empress.
Although noble as empress, the Fucha clan did not dress up as pearlescently as other concubines.
She did not like to wear pearl emeralds, and only used natural flowers and herbs for a little modification, which is recorded in the history books:
"Decorated with grass velvet flowers, not royal pearls."
The temperament is elegant and virtuous, making her a clear stream of the harem.
There are three thousand harem beauties, and some of them are zi yan red.
Beautiful women, flying women, gentle women who seem to be watery, delicate and lovely women...
As the most powerful but also the loneliest man in the world, the real desire must be a word, an empathetic confidant who is close to his heart.
How fortunate Qianlong was, because he had received Fu Cha's confidant who was devoted to him.
As Qianlong's xiannai assistant, she kept the harem in good order and relieved the emperor's worries.
She can also be an interpretive flower, showing the warm nephrite side at the right time to comfort her husband.
One year, Qianlong took Fu cha to the summer resort.
The emperor reminisced about the past and recalled the difficult years when his ancestors opened up their territory and expanded their territory.
It is said that at that time, the ancestors lived a simple life, and the sleeves of their clothes were only slightly decorated with deer hair.
Unlike today's royal children, life is really extravagant.
The speaker has no intention, the listener has a heart.
After returning to the capital, the Fucha clan asked people to find a piece of deer tail fluff, personally sewed it into a purse, and then used deer hair to decorate the edges and give it to Qianlong.
Pockets are easy to get, deer tails are easy to get, and it is rare to have a heart.
Although the purse is small, the love is deep.
Qianlong was grateful for Fu Cha's intentions and wore the purse for life.
The Fucha clan not only took good care of Qianlong on a daily basis, but also cared for their husbands like ordinary women in the world.
She also handled the relationship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law very properly, with a gentle and smooth personality, a respectful and courteous attitude, and was deeply loved by her mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Chongqing.
Perhaps in Qianlong's heart, this woman who combines beauty and morality is impeccable and almost perfect.
The Prince who died prematurely
In the third year of their marriage, the Fucha clan gave birth to a son.
Yongzheng was very happy, and he gave the eldest grandson the name Yonglian, hoping that the child would inherit the great cause when he grew up.
Qianlong was even more fond of this son, praising him as "intelligent and valuable, and extraordinary in temperament."
Qianlong, who later succeeded to the throne, secretly established himself as crown prince and made Yong Lian, who was only six years old, crown prince.
Accompanied by good couples and young children in his arms, during this period, Qianlong probably felt that he was the happiest man under the heavens.
Many times, the plan is always lost to the unexpected change, and the accident always arrives before tomorrow.
At the age of nine, Yong Lian died of an illness.
Suddenly suffering such a blow, Fucha's serious illness.
Although Qianlong was distressed, he could not share the other party's sorrow except for visiting and staying overnight to accompany him when he had time.
Seven years later, the Fucha clan gave birth to a second son, named Yong Chun.
Qianlong praised this baby as "a woman of wisdom, a difference in appearance, from a concubine, and a brilliant person." ”
In his eyes, this son was smarter than the children born to other concubines, and he was born to a married wife, and his identity and status were naturally different.
However, Providence tricked people, and Yong Chun, who was only two years old, died of smallpox.
On this day, it was the Chinese New Year's Eve of the twelfth year of Qianlong, and the palace was full of jubilant and lively New Year atmosphere.
The Fucha clan, who had just recovered from the pain of losing his son, was once again thrown into the land of destiny by heaven.
There is probably no more painful blow in the world than the loss of a woman's child.
What's more, this is the second time that the Fucha clan has lost its son, just like after the loss and recovery, it has been lost again.
This year, she was thirty-six years old, and it was difficult to have more children.
Life and death, come and go, let you lose again and again, let your pain be difficult to dissipate, and the days will always go on.
Qianlong was not only his father and husband, but also the king of a country, and he also had to discuss family affairs, state affairs, and world affairs with the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu.
Sudden goodbye
Less than half a year after Yong Chun's death, Qianlong held his first eastern tour and went to Taishan in Shandong to worship Confucius.
Qianlong decided to take the Fucha clan with him on a tour of the east.
First, the red sleeves on the road add incense, exempt from loneliness;
Second, take this opportunity to let her relax and get out of the pain of losing her son as soon as possible.
Before leaving, Qin Tianjian, who was in charge of viewing the celestial phenomena, reported to Qianlong:
"The guest star sees the palace, and the middle palace has a gaze."
This means that there is a vision in the heavens, an ominous omen, and a point to the Lord of the harem.
Qianlong's heart was dark--what would happen to the empress?
He pondered for a moment, and his mood quickly turned from cloudy to sunny--the queen had just lost her beloved son, was this not a catastrophe in life?
When you think of it, you can relax your mind.
Qianlong left the Weiwei Palace with the Fucha clan and walked towards the nature of February outside the palace.
Spring is full of color, everything is revived, the new green of the yin, the small buds, seeing people are happy, the spirit is also inspired.
After paying homage to Confucius at Mount Taishan and passing through Jinan on the way back, Fu cha fell ill. Qianlong wanted to stay and return to Beijing when she was well.
However, fuchashi thought about the problem from Qianlong's position and did not want to delay the government because of his own sake, so he advised Qianlong to return according to the original plan.
On the way back, Fucha's illness worsened, and he eventually died in the boat.
She was unable to accompany Qianlong back to the former Chonghua Palace.
She was only thirty-seven years old.
At that moment, Qianlong could only send the sorrow in his heart to the silent words.
That night, he took up his pen and wrote an elegy:
Grace for twenty-two years, thirteen years of internal rule. Suddenly dreaming of spring breeze, biased to the shore of the brigade.
Saint Ci deeply remembers filial piety, and the palace pot is full of qinxian. Recite Guan Suishi, Zhu Qin has broken the string.
The river was gushing, the Qianlong Emperor was facing the void, and at the same time whispering to the Fucha clan in his heart, in this life, you and I have been husband and wife for twenty-two years, and you have helped me manage the harem for thirteen years.
Today, everything is scattered like a dream by the spring breeze on the shore.
The empress dowager praised you for your filial piety, and the concubines admired your merits.
Now that you have left me, I no longer have the heart to recite the Guan Ju in the book of poetry.
Even if you have great power in your hands, you can't save your lover's life.
At the end of the song, the strings break, the dreams wake up, the people scatter...
Never lose my love, yesterday is no more.
Endless nostalgia
In addition to holding a solemn funeral for the Fucha clan, Qianlong also directly gave her "Filial Piety" as a courtesy name.
Fu Cha's life had come to an end, and Qianlong's journey was only halfway through.
The two have been together for twenty-two years, the feelings are deep, and the two have been integrated into each other's life rings.
The sudden trick made it difficult for him to accept, and he had no intention of going up for several days.
Think about it by day, dream by night.
Qianlong dreamed that the Fucha clan had come to report to him that he was safe, asking him not to worry about it, and said that he could not let go of the empress dowager and the children...
When he woke up from the dream, the evening wind was cold, and the man who was the emperor was weeping in his heart.
The grief is too strong and will be slowly digested for the rest of your life. Where it cannot be dissolved, it condenses into a long stream of nostalgia.
Qianlong wrote in the Records of Chonghua Palace:
"Where the old sword is safe, the old sword cannot be forgotten."
Chonghua Palace is the place where he grew, studied, and lived, leaving too many good times here.
Today, the exquisite beauty between the carved columns and paintings is still the same, and the swaying posture on the rosewood of the Zhu Pavilion is still the same.
It's just that things are not human, and good people are gone.
Qianlong ordered that the furnishings of the Changchun Palace, where the empress once lived, should remain as they were, and that no table, chair, bottle, or furnace should be removed.
Every time the Queen's birthday came, he would come here to meditate and feel the thinner and thinner breath she left in the air.
Two years later, Qianlong crowned the Uranara clan as the new empress.
On the third anniversary of Fucha's death, Qianlong wrote a poem, both remembering the old people and examining his own heart:
The dudan song comes to three taboo weeks, and the heart is like a stream of faith in the years.
Will the new piano not be able to reach the end, and lose the old sword for a long time.
What was his mind?
The years are like a stream, and I have always been thinking about it, not that the "new piano" is not good, but the "old sword" is unforgettable.
People get along with each other, and sometimes they really have to talk about fate.
Some people can fall in love at first sight and are in agreement with each other; some people, no matter how they face each other day and night, are always like strangers.
Even if The new joy is accompanied by the side, even if the harem is as beautiful as a cloud, the share of the heart that was once shipwrecked by the sea is no one can replace it.
Thirty years after Qianlong, Qianlong toured the south again, and once again passed through Jinan.
Seventeen years have passed since the death of Fucha, when he passed by sadly, the past and the past all came to mind, and the love and hatred and sorrow still could not be released:
Four times Jinan does not enter the city, afraid of a hundred tragic lives.
Spring and March used to be partial to drama, and seventeen years of hatred were not even.
The utensils she had used, the places where she had sat, the landscapes he had seen with her, the sightings of people had become a casual thing in his daily life.
Spring and autumn come and go, and when the goose word returns, it always causes a wave of nostalgia... Whenever this happened, he wrote poetry.
After Fu Cha's death, Qianlong wrote more than a hundred mourning poems.
Fifty-five years after Qianlong, this monarch who Wen Tao ignored and strategized had entered the twilight years.
Once again, he came to the tomb of Fucha and wrote this poem:
Three autumns don't go away, a moment of sourness.
Summer and winter nights, only twenty years in the long run.
At this time, Qianlong was already eighty years old, and everyone said that he could live a long life of one hundred years.
In this way, there are still twenty years left on the life.
In fact, there was no waiting for twenty years, nine years later, that is, in the fourth year of Jiaqing, the eighty-nine-year-old Qianlong died in the Yangxin Hall.
In retrospect, half a century has passed since Fucha's death.
Qianlong's life drama came to an end, and he finally got his wish and met with the beloved in his heart in another time and space.
She accompanied him for twenty-two years, in exchange for his lifelong remembrance.
This is the story of Qianlong and Empress Fucha, like a drama, but it remains in the depths of history.
Author | Jiang Xu, a post-80s woman, cooked characters to cure hunger and borrowed a pen to draw a heart
Image | Stills from "Raiders of the Yanxi"