"Emperor, do you remember the summer rain lotus on the shore of Daming Lake eighteen years ago?" I believe that the 80s and 90s are particularly familiar with this sentence, it comes from the popular TV series "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" in 1998, this drama is too hot, the year of broadcasting created the chinese TV drama rating myth, to this day, the summer vacation TV is still playing "Huan Zhu Ge Ge".
The Qianlong Emperor played by Zhang Tielin is a wonderful Xiao, born heroic, loves the people like a son, the key is also particularly "windy", how did Ziwei come from? It was that Qianlong encountered the beautiful Xia Yuhe on the south tour road, and after spending a few days together, there was Xia Ziwei, Qianlong gave a bunch of promised flowers, and he did not take Xia Yuhe into the palace as agreed, so there was a story of "Xia Ziwei thousands of miles looking for her father".
Friends familiar with history will know that in fact, most of the characters in "Huan Zhu GeGe" have historical archetypes, such as Fu Kang's prototype is Fu Heng's son Fu Ling'an, and the prototype of the five brothers is Ai XinJue Luo Yongqi, but unfortunately he died young at the age of 25. Today, let's talk about the historical prototype of "Summer Rain Lotus on the shore of Daming Lake", in fact, Qianlong did not live up to her.
Pure Hui Emperor Noble Concubine Su Shi, born in 1713 (Kangxi fifty-second year), daughter of Su Zhaonan, is a Han Chinese, her origin is very mysterious, many Qing Dynasty historical materials are only a stroke, but all indicate that Su Shi is just a Han woman from the folk.
As a Han commoner woman, in fact, su clan can not become an imperial concubine at all, because the Manchu Qing imperial family stipulates that "flag people do not marry", for the sake of Su clan, Qianlong actually upgraded the Su family to the white flag, which shows that the status of Su clan in Qianlong's heart is very high.
As early as the Yongzheng period, Su entered the palace of Prince Bao and became the maid of Prince Bao Hongli (Qianlong), and at the age of 22, he gave birth to the third son of the emperor Yongzhang, and in the same year Hongli succeeded to the throne as Emperor Gaozong of Qing and named her a pure concubine.
Although Qianlong liked her very much, but after all, the Su clan was born low, even if he later gave birth to a son for Qianlong, he was only a pure concubine, but the birth of his daughter Heshuo and Princess Jia made the Su clan "mother and daughter gui" overnight, and in 1760, she was promoted to imperial concubine, here we take a look at what "imperial concubine" means.
Imperial Concubine, one of the ranks of the ancient Chinese emperor's concubines, there was an imperial concubine under the empress, and the first imperial concubine of the Qing Dynasty was the Shunzhi Emperor's favorite concubine, Dong Efei, who expressed his special favor for her, but for various reasons could not make her an empress, dong Efei and Su Shi were like this.
However, the development of the Qianlong Emperor here, there have been a number of imperial concubines, Qianlong set up a total of 7 imperial concubines, but 4 of them were posthumously sealed, when they were alive, only 3 people were named imperial concubines, in addition to the Su clan, the other 2 are very noble, which also shows Qianlong's love for the Su clan.
However, Su's blessing was too shallow, only 26 days after becoming an imperial concubine, he died at the age of 48, but during her illness, Qianlong actually went to see her, according to the regulations of the Qing Dynasty, the concubine was sick The emperor could not and would not visit, because he was afraid of getting sick, Qianlong only broke 2 cases in this life, once for his favorite woman, Empress Xiaoxianchun, Fucha, and the other time was Su.
From this point of view, Qianlong actually did not live up to his "Summer Rain Lotus", what do you think?
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, General Examination of Qing Literature