There are many differences between ancient society and modern times, and what we are going to talk about today is the age of marriage. In ancient times, girls had to face the matter of marrying when they were teenagers, and not marrying in their 20s meant that they were leftover women. The legal age of marriage for our modern girls is 20 years old, and when they are nearly 30 years old, they are counted as older leftover women, which is basically pushed back by ten years.
Today we are going to tell a Qing Palace woman, she is Empress Xiaokangzhang. Empress Xiaokangzhang, Tong Jiashi, her status is very honorable, but throughout her life, she is also a tragic figure. Throughout her life, she played two roles, one was the empress of the Shunzhi Emperor, and the other was the birth mother of the Kangxi Emperor. But judging from the identities of the two characters closest to her, she was really a lucky woman, but the truth was not so, as the emperor's empress, she did not get the favor of her husband, and as the emperor's mother, she did not enjoy the filial piety of her son and died.
Like most women, she was elected to the imperial palace at the age of 13 and became a concubine of Shunzhi, and when she first entered the palace, she was full of longing for love because of her young age. She hoped that she could be favored by the emperor in the harem and could experience beautiful love, but the reality was very cruel, because of the existence of Concubine Dong, the Shunzhi Emperor did not pay attention to all the women in the harem, and in this environment, Tong Jia's love fantasy was also shattered.
People can't just fall into love in their lives, and Tong Jiashi didn't give up her life because she lost love. In that environment, she no longer put her mind on love. At present, the question she should worry about most is, how can she survive in the harem without pampering?
Fortunately, two years after entering the palace, she gave birth to a son because of occasional favors, that is, the future Kangxi Emperor Xuanye, and the mother had this son by zigui, and she also had hope in the harem.
Many people wondered why Tong Jia's son could become emperor so much that Shunzhi liked Concubine Dong E. There are two main reasons, in the Qing Dynasty there was a very dangerous disease, that is, smallpox, the chance of survival of people with this disease will be very low, but Xuan Ye had smallpox when he was young, but he was lucky to survive.
This was an advantage for him, and he was also very smart himself, and the other was that Princess Dong's son died shortly after birth, so in the end Xuan Ye could stand out among many princes. When Xuan Ye was eight years old, his father, the Shunzhi Emperor, died, and he successfully inherited the throne and became the Son of Heaven, and his mother Tong Jiashi naturally became the empress dowager. Originally, he said that his son was called emperor.
She could enjoy the blessings of empress dowager, but she did not expect to die at the age of 24, the year after her son ascended the throne, when Kangxi had not yet taken power. This is really a pity for her, Kangxi was just a small emperor without political power when he just succeeded to the throne, but after he grew up, his life as an emperor was very exciting, and he also did a lot of things that made history worth recording, but these his mothers did not enjoy, Tong Jiashi is really an unblessed person.