21 years ago, a "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" was popular all over the country, and we all know that Ziwei was born with the minnu Xia Yuhe during the Qianlong Emperor's eastern tour, and was named "Pearl Gege" after the truth was revealed. But isn't the emperor's daughter called "Princess"? Such as Princess Taiping and Princess Wencheng, what is the difference between the two?
Princess, is the ancient Chinese title of the imperial daughter, the royal daughter and the ancestral daughter, referred to as "lord", seemingly simple, but there are many exquisite in it. For example, if an imperial daughter dies early before she is married, most dynasties will not award her the title of princess, and the daughter of the monarch's same ancestor may also be awarded the title of princess.
The word Gege, in fact, is Manchu, meaning "miss" of a rich family who is not married. After Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty succeeded to the throne, in order to consolidate the thinking of the Han people, he began to gradually learn the etiquette rules of the Han people.
In 1636, Emperor Taiji began to call the emperor's daughter "princess", and stipulated that the daughter born to the empress was called "Princess Gulun", and the daughter born to the concubine and the adopted daughter of the empress were called "Princess Heshuo".
However, Xia Ziwei is only the daughter of a commoner woman, why can she be called "Gege"? Originally, the daughters born to the low-ranking concubines of nobles and princes were called Gege, although Qianlong liked and admired Xia Yuhe, but she had no status after all, and according to the concubines, her daughter could only be named "Gege".
But there are also special circumstances, the low-ranking concubines of the qing princes themselves, sometimes called "Gege", the status is below the side Fu Jin.
There is a particularly famous character - Empress Xiaoshengxian, she is Qianlong's birth mother, often appears in TV series, such as lafayette in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge", is The Filial Piety Shengxian Empress, she entered the Lama Temple at the age of 13 and became Yin Chan's "Ge Ge". Therefore, it can be concluded that the princess must be a gege, but the gege is not necessarily a princess.
In addition to the above-mentioned gege, there are also two types of gege, namely mongolian gege and Han chinese gege. Needless to say, the Mongolian Gege must be the daughter of the royal family, but the Han is different, in the early Qing Dynasty, there were more Han kings, and after Kangxi ascended the throne, no Han women were crowned.
The levels are different, and the treatment is of course different. If it is the "Gulun Princess" born to the empress, she will give 400 huo to the rice and 400 yuan to the silver one year; the "Princess Heshuo" born to the concubine will give 300 huo to the rice and 300 yuan to the silver two a year. Of course, this had to be decided according to the economic conditions at that time, but in any case, the level of treatment depended on the level of the princess herself.
In fact, these regulations are only a kind of constraint on paper, if the emperor especially likes a certain daughter, he can also raise her rank at will, such as Qianlong's daughter-in-law, and he Yan's daughter-in-law, the Tenth Princess. Qianlong even said that if you are a boy, the world is yours, and the ten princesses have been upgraded from "Princess Heshuo" to "Princess Gulun", isn't that the emperor's words?
It turns out that there are so many exquisite things hidden in the small title, not every Gege is the emperor's daughter, do you understand it today?