The eldest son of the Emperor of Shunzhi, Niu Niu, was born in November of the eighth year of Shunzhi (1651), and the Qing History Manuscript records that he died at the age of two. But in folklore he did not die.
His birth mother, Princess Bashi (also known as Pishhihe Erzhu Fujin/Pishhe clan/Balfujin/Bafujin/Balfujin/Bashi) is said to be a palace daughter, and after giving birth to him, she gave birth to the third daughter of the emperor (5 years old) and the fifth daughter of the emperor (7 years old) for Shunzhi, and Bashi was also the woman who gave birth to the most children for Shunzhi.
Niu Niu was born on the first day of November in the eighth year of Shunzhi (1651), and in August of that year, Shunzhi married Borjigit Meng Guqing (daughter of Wu Keshan, Prince of Horqin Zhuoliktu, niece of Empress Xiaozhuangwen, and cousin of Shunzhi) as empress, and held a very solemn ceremony at that time, and she was also the first Empress of the Qing Dynasty to be welcomed into the palace from the Taihe Gate. After getting married, because Meng Guqing loved jealousy, lived a luxurious life, and had a very bad relationship with the Shunzhi Emperor, two years later, in August of the tenth year of Shunzhi (1653), Shunzhi finally demoted the empress to Concubine Jing with "intolerable", and lived in the West Palace. She was the only deposed empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty. There are also legends that she was sent back to Horqin's house and gave birth to a child there. There is no record in the history of her death, as if she disappeared out of thin air.
A month before the empress was deposed, in July, the second son of the Shunzhi Emperor Fuquan was born, and his mother Xiaofu Jin Dong'eFei (later Ning Wufei), in December, Ba Shi gave birth to the third daughter of the emperor for Shunzhi.
Young Tianzi Hao Lei plays Concubine Jing
At the insistence of Empress Xiaozhuangwen, in June of the eleventh year of Shunzhi (1654), Shunzhi again made borjigit, the daughter of the Mongol Horqin Belle Erji, empress, and on March 18 of that year, Tong Jia gave birth to the third son of the emperor Xuanye (i.e., the Kangxi Emperor) for Shunzhi. In December, Ba Shi gave birth to the fifth daughter of the Emperor for Shunzhi.
"Young Heavenly Son" bouquet of flowers Papa prototype
It can be seen that Ba Shi was relatively favored by Shunzhi, and when she gave birth to children for the Shunzhi Emperor, she accompanied Shunzhi's biggest harem storm - the abolition of empress. Two years later, in August of the thirteenth year of Shunzhi (1656), Dong Eshi, the shunzhi emperor's favorite woman, entered the palace and was directly named Xigong Concubine and XianFei, that is, Xigong Dafujin. More than a month later, she was promoted to imperial concubine. The speed of promotion is unparalleled, and she is also the first imperial concubine of the Qing Dynasty.
In this complex and changeable palace fighting life, because of the humble origin of The Baba family, I am afraid that she and her eldest son Niu Niu will not be able to save their lives, and the mother and son are finally forced out of the palace, known as "the emperor's eldest son Niu Niu died prematurely". This statement was also adopted in the Qing history manuscript (because the authors are mostly Manchu Qing widows) for the sake of the face of the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty.
Legend has it that the eldest son of the emperor who left the palace, Niu Niu, eventually went into exile in Wuzhi (now part of Jiaozuo City, Henan Province), and when the Yellow River broke through at Wuzhi in the sixty years of the Kangxi Dynasty, the situation was very critical, and Niu Niu, who had lived on the edge of the Yellow River for many years and was well versed in the water nature of the Yellow River, risked his life to enter Beijing to recognize Kangxi and offered good strategies for governing the river. Therefore, the Kangxi Emperor made Niu Niu Niu the deputy imperial history of Zuo Du, served as the imperial envoy himself, and sent the emperor's fourth son Yin Chan (that is, the Yongzheng Emperor) to Wuzhi Toukou to work with Niu Niu to control the flooding of the Yellow River. After Niu Niu took office, he deposed Yang Zongyi, the governor of Henan who was not effective in managing the river, and killed zhao Shixian, the governor of the river, and finally successfully blocked the mouth of the Yellow River in Wuzhi.
After Yongzheng ascended the throne, for this uncle who had made great contributions to the governance of the river, he could not restore his royal status, nor could he be placed in the imperial court as an official, and Niu Niu himself did not want to be contaminated with the right and wrong of the imperial court. Yongzheng then ordered the construction of a Jiaying Temple, which was the final destination for his uncle. This is also the reason why Jiayingguan built the Appearance of the Forbidden City according to the royal specifications, and also painted 65 dragon and phoenix pictures in the Middle Hall.
勅造嘉應觀
Jiayingguan (commonly known as the Temple Palace, also known as the Yellow River Dragon King Temple, located in Jiayingguan Township, Wuzhi County, Jiaozuo City, Henan Province, China) is the Dragon King Temple of the Huanghuai Zhuhe River, which enshrines 15 heroes of the History of Biao Bing, and the East and West Dragon King Halls and the Middle Hall of Jiayingguan are dedicated to Jia Rang (Western Han), Wang Jing (Eastern Han), Xie Xu (Southern Song), Jia Lu (Yuan Dynasty) and Huang Shoucai, Bai Ying, Pan Jixun, Song Li, Liu Tianhe of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Zhixi, Li Yumei, Qi Sule, Ji Zengjun and Lin Zexu of the Qing Dynasty, respectively. In addition, there is a special identity of the hero of the river, enshrined in the middle hall, wearing a dragon robe, wearing a crown, the legend is the cow button.
Jiayingguan bull button statue
In the small biography of Niu Niu in the "Yuhe Zhi", it is said that "Niu Niu is proficient in practicing river work", but only his strategy and deeds in controlling the river in Wuzhi are recorded, and there is no record of his origin and whereabouts throughout the year. In the Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, other members of the imperial court who participated in the zhihe have biographies, but there is no biography of him. Maybe it was these Manchu Qing relics who avoided the royal family.