The emperors of ancient China have always been harem beauties and concubines, and the Kangxi Emperor, who reigned the longest in history (61 years), was no exception. Among his concubines, 67 are recorded in history, and those who do not have a low status and surname are said to have more than 200. Korean historical records even say that the number of women in the harem of the Kangxi Emperor reached about 3,000 at its peak, of which the youngest was only 12 years old.
However, among the 67 concubines recorded in the record, only 55 were buried with the Kangxi Jingling Tomb and the concubine garden bed next to it, of which the Kangxi Jingling had 4 concubines after 4, the Jingling Concubine Garden bed had 12 concubines, 8 concubines, 10 nobles, 9 Chang Zai, 9 promised a total of 48, and there were 2 in the adjacent double concubine garden bed, a total of 55. So who were the other 12 concubines, what kind of story they had, and where did they end up? Let's explore and understand together.
Schematic diagram of the Kangxi Jingling Concubine Garden
Among the 12 concubines, there were 6 Manchus and 6 Han Chinese. Each half is very much in line with Kangxi's way of balancing.
Let's start with these 6 Manchu concubines.
Honorific concubine Wang Jiashi
According to research, the concubine Wang Jia is actually a red flag Manchurian complete Yan clan, belonging to the Donggui lineage, and his people first proposed that their own branch was inherited from the Jin Dynasty Completed Yan clan, and the Wang Jia clan was a surname used after the family was Sinicized. Concubine Jing's father, Hua Shan, was a member of the Zhengsanpin Protector Army, who was in charge of the Guardian Army, and belonged to the Kangxi Dynasty, and the Concubine Jing was born relatively high. She first appeared like Concubine Li at the time of the first great seal of the harem in the sixteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, and the concubine was ranked second among the seven concubines, and there has been no record of any records since then, no deeds of his father, and no examination of his descendants.
In the article on An Concubine, it is mentioned that people found portraits of Kangxi An Concubine, Duan Concubine, He Concubine, Concubine Cheng, Concubine Hui, Empress Xiaochengren (Hesheli Clan), Empress Xiao Gongren (Wu Ya Clan, Mother of Yongzheng), Empress Xiao Zhaoren (Niu Hulu Clan) and others in the East Cabinet. Among the concubines, there were only portraits of Concubine An and Concubine Duan, and at that time, both the Concubine and the Concubine were in the concubine position, but none of them left behind the portraits. It is possible that the concubine Wang Jiashi was missing before the death of concubine Xue, that is, before the forty-first year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1702), so that he could not leave a portrait. It is also possible that when the Eight-Power Alliance invaded Beijing in 1900, some of the paintings and furnishings of the Shouhuang Palace were stolen and are still in the hands of overseas collectors and private individuals. Among them, the portraits of other concubines of Kangxi, including concubines, are also unknown.
The concubines in "The Biography of Zhen Huan" are certainly not the same person
There are 2 nobles of the Nara clan and 2 nobles of the Guo Luo Luo clan
Noble Nara clan, daughter of the Horse Riding School Zhaoge, the first nobleman. Kangxi fourteenth year (1675) was born on the eighth day of the first month of October, Kangxi eighteenth year (1679) the first month of the twenty-ninth day of the death, at the age of five, unordered teeth, the actual Kangxi 9th son. On February 30 of that year, the Nala clan gave birth to Yin Yu again, who died on the second day of the first month of April in the nineteenth year of Kangxi (1680), living only 14 months, with unordered teeth, and was actually the 12th son of Kangxi. Even if she gave birth to two princes, but they all died one after another, this noble man of Nala must have been sad, if one of the two sons had survived, her ending would have been very different. Even she lost her beloved son and did not have any subsequent records, and her whereabouts were eventually unknown.
In addition, the "Qing History Manuscript" records that the birth mother of these two princes was the daughter of Tong Concubine Na La, the daughter of Chang Subao, the seven-pin supervisor, and was a nobleman when serving Kangxi. In the twenty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1685), the tenth daughter of the Emperor was born as the sixth princess, and later the princess of Heshuo Chunwu was married to the king of Khalkha County. In June of the second year of Yongzheng, because of his son-in-law's meritorious service, he was honored as the concubine of the emperor. On June 23, the ninth year of Qianlong (1744), Tong Concubine died, and the next day, Qianlong ordered Erzhu Celing to worship when he came to Beijing on the New Year Festival. On October 16, 1745, in the tenth year of Qianlong (1745), Feng An slept in the Jingling Concubine Garden.
However, in the genealogy of the Royal Population of the Qing Dynasty, the "Genealogy of Ai Xin Jueluo", it is said that the second mother was a noble noble nala, the daughter of Zhaoge of the Xiao Riding School, because of this.
Kangxi also had a noble man, the Nala clan, who had nothing to show and no deeds to examine. Only one sentence is left in the "Genealogy of Aisin Kyora": The noble Nara clan, the daughter of Nadanzhu.
The nobleman Guo Luoluoshi, in the Qing History Manuscript, recorded as the sister of Concubine Yi. There are also some Manchu archives of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that record that this Guo Gui's name is Na lan zhu, which means "love", and he entered the palace later as a widow, which should be the sister of Concubine Yi. Both claims are not yet conclusive and remain to be examined.
On May 27, the eighteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1679), the nobleman Guo Luoluoshi gave birth to six daughters of the emperor, and the preamble was the fourth princess. On the fourth day of December of the same year, Concubine Yi gave birth to the fifth son of the Emperor, Yin Qi (actually the 13th son of Kangxi).
On August 27, the twenty-second year of Kangxi (1683), Yifei gave birth to the ninth son of Emperor Yinyu (the 17th son of the actual Kangxi), and on October 11, The Noble Concubine of Wen Gave birth to the tenth son of the Emperor Yin (actual Kangxi 18th son), on November 23, the nobleman Guo Luoluo gave birth to the crown prince Yin Yu, and the Kangxi twenty-third year died in June, the unordered tooth (actually the 19th son of Kangxi). On the seventh day of the first month of the twenty-fourth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1685), Concubine Yi gave birth to the eleventh son of the Emperor YinChen (who died at the age of 11, but was actually the 20th son of Kangxi).
Deng Jie plays Concubine Yi
The two sisters were favored at the same time, and gave birth to children for Kangxi for kangxi twice in succession in the same year, and Concubine Yi gave birth to three sons in a row, and the sisters' flowers must have been infinite in the harem at that time, and therefore they would certainly be hated and jealousy by other concubines.
Since the nobleman Guo Luoluo gave birth to the crown prince Yin, there is no record of her. Her previous daughter, Princess Heshuo Kejing, was married to King Dob Dorji of the Burjigit clan of Northern Mongolia.
Before this, there was a cloth nobleman, kangxi thirteen years in early May six born five daughters of the emperor, the order of the tooth as the third princess
。 And just three days ago, kangxi's first empress, Hesheli, gave birth to the prince Yin Rong and died in childbirth, although this Bugui man said that he gave birth to a daughter, but he was a bit unchallenged, so he was not very favored in his life, and later her daughter Princess Fenghe Shuo Duanjing married the second son of the king of Duling County, Karaqin Province, the second son of the king of The Mongol Duling County, Ulzang of the Wulianghan clan. When Bu Guiren died on the eleventh day of the first month of the 56th year of Kangxi, Kangxi remembered that she was the biological mother of the third princess, ordered to handle the funeral according to the "concubine" routine, and later buried in the Jingling Concubine Garden, but her identity was still Bu Guiren.
Although the crown prince Yin Yu, who was born to the noble Guo Luoluo, died early, her daughter The Fourth Princess was very outstanding, and even participated in the discussion of politics and the supervision of the country in Mongolia after she married. Became the famous "Princess of the Sea Clam" (sea clam is a Manchu, Chinese meaning staff, deliberative), the power of Mongolia in the south and north of the desert. In February of the first year of Yongzheng, she was crowned Princess Gulun Kejing. Her daughter was so excellent, and she was the sister of Kangxi's favorite concubine, Concubine Yi, that it was reasonable to say that her ending should be much better than that of The Bugui, but in the nearly 40 years from Kangxi twenty-four to Kangxi sixty-one, no record could be found, and even when her daughter Princess Kejing was married in the thirty-sixth year of Kangxi, there was no record of her words. She seemed to have disappeared out of thin air, her whereabouts unknown, her year of death unknown, and she did not know where she was finally buried.
A few years ago, I saw a post in a post bar saying that there was an imperial concubine in the tomb of the Guo Luoluo family, and I don't know if it was related to this noble Guo Luoluo.
Princess Qing Gulun Kejing Mansion
Concubine Niu Hulu clan
Concubine Niu Hulu of the Shu clan, kangxi forty-seventh year (1708) on November 19, 20 daughters, died in December. Although the surname of this NiuHulu clan is the first surname of manchuria, it is estimated that the family lineage is not high, and her position in the palace is relatively low, although she is very fortunate to be favored by Kangxi, once fortunate, the pearl fetus is secretly knotted, originally thought that giving birth to a prince himself can fly yellow Tengda, did not expect to finally give birth to a daughter, but also partial birth is not the time.
In August of that year, The Eighteenth Son of the Emperor, whom Kangxi particularly loved, died of a sudden illness at the age of 8, and Kangxi was very sad and thought that he had not taken good care of him. In November, Crown Prince Yinrong was deposed for the first time and imprisoned in Xian'an Palace, and the emperor's eldest son Yinfu and the eighth son of the emperor, Yin yu, were also implicated in this and were questioned and imprisoned. The other princes were also trembling, and a month later, the crown prince Yin Rong and the eighth son of the emperor Yin Yu were released one after another, and the prince was restored in March of the following year.
In this storm of deposing the crown prince, everyone in the palace was in danger and panicked, who cared that this relatively low-ranking concubine Niu Hulu had a daughter and died prematurely, probably only she herself was silently suffering, depressed, and nothing was left, only a cold record in the "Qing History Draft": Concubine Niu Hulu Clan, female one, martyrdom.
Gegzarut Borzigit clan
The Manchu records of the Kangxi Dynasty have recorded that in Kangxi's harem there was once a Zarut Borjigit gege, who lived in the Western Sixth Palace but was not crowned as a concubine, and was later sent back to the Mongol mother's house by Kangxi.
This Zarut Borjigit clan had no examination in her life, and she could be selected as a Mongolian concubine in the Manchu harem, the daughter of the general Mongolian noble family, she may have made some mistakes, Kangxi considered the influence of Manchu-Mongolian relations, did not deal with her directly, but directly sent her back to her mother's family.
This also confirms from the side that the legendary first empress of Shunzhi, Borjigit, was deposed and demoted to a jing concubine, and it is possible that she was sent back to her mother's family, Mongolian Horqin, as the Korean historical records say.
Image from the web.