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As we all know, the Guangxu Emperor had an empress and two concubines, and these two concubines were siblings. However, after entering the palace, the fate of the sisters was completely different, the younger sister Zhenfei was favored by the emperor but died at the age of 28, and the sister Jinfei had been unknown but lived until the thirteenth year of the Republic of China (1924 AD), and was still the head of the "Four Great Concubines". Today, Ziyuan will talk to you about The life of Concubine Jin.
▲Guangxu Emperor stills
In the fourteenth year of Guangxu (1888 AD), When Princess Jin was exactly fifteen years old, she and her thirteen-year-old sister were elected to the palace at the same time, and both sisters were initially named concubines—the older sister was called Jin Concubine, and the younger sister was called Zhen Concubine. The sister is slightly fat, while the younger sister is pretty and delicate, and she is also more lively and cheerful than her sister in personality. As a result, the lonely and depressed Guangxu Emperor fell in love with Zhen Concubine at first sight and pampered her. Her sister is like an ugly duckling around her sister, and she can only choose to be indisputable from the world.
Why is It that Concubine Jin is not beautiful and can also be elected to the palace as an imperial concubine? It all happened thanks to her father. As the head of the Right Attendant of Tobe, he was bent on sending his two daughters into the palace to become the emperor's concubines. The younger daughter is beautiful and moving, naturally there is no problem, but the eldest daughter looks a little "unsatisfactory". In order to achieve his wish, ChangShu found Li Lianying, a big red person around Cixi, and gave him a heavy gift. Li Lianying said many beautiful words in front of Cixi, and Cixi agreed. Then Li Lianying went to the Guangxu Emperor to brag about how good these two girls were, and over time, the Guangxu Emperor readily agreed.
▲ Zhenfei stills
In the eyes of the Guangxu Emperor, Empress Dowager Cixi insisted on marrying the daughter of her own brother Guixiang, later Empress Longyu, to Guangxu. The Guangxu Emperor himself did not like Empress Longyu, but was forced to agree under pressure from Empress Dowager Cixi. At this time, when Li Lianying bragged about these two girls, the Guangxu Emperor felt that he might find true love between the two, so he nodded his head in agreement. In the twentieth year of Guangxu (1894 AD), Cixi celebrated her sixtieth birthday, and the two sisters were promoted to concubines. However, not long after, her sister Zhenfei rebelled against Cixi, and Concubine Jin was also implicated and demoted to a nobleman.
▲Stills of Empress Dowager Cixi
It was not until the following year that Concubine Jin was able to resume her throne and continue to live in the Yonghe Palace, but Princess Zhen was imprisoned. In the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu (1900 AD), the Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, and Empress Dowager Cixi fled with the Guangxu Emperor and Concubine Jin, and when she fled, Empress Dowager Cixi summoned the noble concubines who were imprisoned in the three Shou pharmacies in the north and drowned in the well located in the Zhenshun Gate of the Cining Palace, at the age of 28.
▲Zhenfei Well
After the death of the Guangxu Emperor, Puyi ascended the throne, and Concubine Jin was promoted to the rank of Concurrently Emperor Kao Jin's concubine. After the death of Empress Longyu, Princess Jin was already the head of the "Four Great Concubines" in the palace, and the title of Princess Duankang was Emperor Gui, and Princess Jin, who had been an ugly duckling for more than ten years, finally survived on this day. Because of the "big neck disease", Princess Jin's neck was very thick, her eyes were bulging, and her temper became more and more irritable.
Princess Jin, who had been suppressed for nearly thirty years, gradually became overbearing and domineering, not only often scolding the palace maids and eunuchs, but also expelling people who did not like her from the palace at every turn. In the end, she even interfered in politics everywhere, not taking the little emperor in the slightest, and forced Puyi to call her Emperor Aniang (Empress Longyu was the Imperial Concubine). In Puyi's eyes, At this time, Concubine Jin seemed to be imitating the former Empress Dowager Cixi in every word and deed.
▲ Old photo of Concubine Jin
With the passage of time, many people in the palace, including Puyi, had long held grudges against Concubine Jin. One day, Puyi was instigated by the people around him and had a big fight with Concubine Jin, which made Concubine Jin suffer a great humiliation. In order to get out of this evil breath, Princess Jin specially summoned Puyi's grandmother and mother into the palace and reprimanded them sharply, and the two were frightened to kneel and prostrate, desperately apologizing to Princess Jin. Puyi couldn't resist the bitter pleas of her grandmother and mother, and was eventually forced to apologize to Concubine Jin.
▲Puyi childhood stills
Puyi's biological mother, Guar Jiashi, could not stand this humiliation because of her strong personality, and after returning home, she swallowed opium and committed suicide. After Princess Jin learned of this, she was afraid that Puyi would pursue retaliation in the future, so she changed her attitude toward Puyi and no longer interfered in politics, and the relationship between the two began to ease somewhat. In the thirteenth year of the Republic of China (1924 AD), Concubine Jin died of illness at the age of 51, and the Sunqing court posthumously honored her as "Noble Concubine of The Wenjing Emperor".
▲Chongling Concubine Garden Sleep
However, in less than half a month, Puyi was driven out of the Forbidden City, and at this time, Concubine Jin's coffin was still parked in the palace. After another half a month, his coffin was removed from the palace and buried in the Concubine Garden Mausoleum next to the Chongling Tomb of the Guangxu Emperor. Princess Jin's life, compared with her sister, although she was not as good as her sister in the first ten years, the ending of her life was much better than that of her sister. It's just that as far as her life is concerned, in her early years, she was oppressed by Cixi but went against the grain, but in her later years she took the initiative to emulate Cixi, which is really both sad and hateful.
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