Whether in ancient times or in contemporary society, there are some people who will always be accompanied by good things after escaping great difficulties, usually we call it "great difficulties do not die and there will be blessings", and the woman I want to talk about today belongs to this situation, and this woman is also the concubine of a certain emperor of the Qing Dynasty, she is the concubine of the Daoguang Harem.
When studying the qing dynasty harem historical materials, it was found that the family history information of many concubines of the Daoguang Emperor was missing, and the appearance of this phenomenon had a lot to do with the frequent rise and fall of concubines, among the 23 concubines of Daoguang, there were as many as 13 people who had demotion experience, and Cheng Guifei was also one of them, so the family lineage information of Cheng Guifei was also deleted.
Judging from the available information, Cheng Guifei's surname was Niu Hulu, and in the eighth year of Daoguang, she was selected into the harem by Daoguang, who was 31 years older than herself, and was named a nobleman. Judging from the initial seal of Cheng Guifei, it is obvious that she came from the Eight Flags Draft, that is to say, it is extremely likely that Cheng Guifei was born with a yellow flag and a hongyi gong, and the family lineage should be very prominent, and Daoguang's stepmother Xiao and Empress Rui are from this family.
However, for some reason, Daoguang was dismissive of the 16-year-old girl and arranged for her to live in the side hall of the Yanxi Palace, where the main hall of the Yanxi Palace was inhabited by the concubine Fucha Clan, although he was an old person in the Daoguang Hidden Mansion, he was really a spoilless person. What is even more unexpected is that Concubine Cheng, who had only been in the palace for one year, somehow angered the Daoguang Emperor and was demoted to Yu Changzai in the second year of entering the palace.
In October of the sixteenth year of Daoguang, Cheng Guifei, who had been in the palace for eight years, finally ushered in the opportunity to be promoted, and was reinstated by the emperor as a nobleman, but the emperor's impression of her still did not change much, after which Cheng Guifei once again began a long wait in the Yanxi Palace, and what was unexpected was that she actually won the emperor's mercy because of a fire.
In July of the twenty-fifth year of Daoguang, a fire broke out in the Yanxi Palace, which almost burned the main hall and palace gate of the Yanxi Palace, and even the concubine Fucha clan was killed in this fire, but what was unexpected was that Cheng Guifei, who lived in the side hall, survived, perhaps out of appeasement of Cheng Guifei, Daoguang promoted her to Cheng Concubine, and Cheng Guifei became the lord of the first palace, and then moved to Xianfu Palace, this year Cheng Guifei was 33 years old.
However, the story of Cheng Guifei is far from over, just in June of the twenty-ninth year of Daoguang, that is, half a year before the death of the Daoguang Emperor, Cheng Guifei was demoted to a nobleman and returned to the starting point again, half a year later, the Daoguang Emperor passed away, and Cheng Guifei also moved to Shoukang Palace to live, and since then she has become a concubine, and she has been crowned by the newly succeeded Xianfengzun as the imperial concubine.
At this time, Cheng Guifei had reached the age of no confusion, for some things have been opened, the mentality is also optimistic a lot, and since then, the successor Tongzhi has honored her twice, namely The Emperor's Ancestor Chengfei and the Emperor's Ancestor Chenggui Concubine, did not expect that the lifeless Cheng Guifei actually won the position of noble concubine by life.
On March 30, the fourteenth year of Guangxu, Cheng Guifei, who had gone through the five dynasties of Jiaqing, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi and Guangxu, died of illness at the Shoukang Palace at the age of 76, although she did not get the favor of the emperor in her life, she was lucky to avoid the fire and finally gained a good reputation, which is also a lucky person in the harem of the Qing Dynasty.
References: Records of Emperor Xuanzong of the Qing Dynasty, Biography of Concubines of the Qing Dynasty, Draft history of the Qing Dynasty