During the Qing Dynasty, in addition to designating Concubine Fujin or Side Fujin for the Prince in the Eight Banners Showgirls, the emperor would also give some coated women from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Prince, these Wrapped Women would serve around the Prince, most of them would be included in the room by the Prince, some people, with better luck, gave birth to children, would be given the title of Side Fujin, and some people, luckily, the Crown Prince ascended the throne, they became the Imperial Princess of the Qing Dynasty. In the harem of Qianlong, there was such a woman, she was given to Qianlong by Yongzheng as a concubine, did not expect to give birth to four princes for Qianlong, and finally buried with Qianlong, let us see what kind of woman she really is.
1. A cloaked man from the Ministry of the Interior
In July of the fifth year of Yongzheng, the fourth son of the Emperor Hongli (Qianlong) was instructed to marry fucha in the Forbidden City of Qianxi, but fucha was not the first woman in the Hongli calendar, and before Hongli was married, Hongli already had eight or nine waiting maids (Gege), including a woman with the surname of Jin.
What is the origin of this woman surnamed Jin?
It turned out that the ancestors of the Jin clan were from Yizhou, and their great-grandfather was named Jin Sandali, and during the reign of emperor Taiji, Jin Sandali led the clan to submit to the Qing Dynasty, and because of the small number of clans, they were incorporated into the Yellow Banner of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and became the wrapped slaves of the imperial family.
Although they are clothed slaves, after all, they are organized, and there is an essential difference between them and the people of Pingtou, and moreover, the Jin clan has always served in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, such as jin's father, Jin Sanbaoguan, the supreme secretary of the Yuanyuan, and the Jin clan also has a clan uncle named Chang Ming, who is said to be Kangxi's nanny, and he and Kangxi "have been playing together since childhood", and are known as "milk brothers", and yong is also a prince, and the relationship with Chang Ming is also very good, often coming and going, and Chang Ming later became the minister in charge of the Internal Affairs Department.
In addition, there is a hereditary Four Pins Clan In the Kim family, which shows that the Kim family is from the Family of the Interior Ministry. With such a family lineage, it is no wonder that Yongzheng will give the Jin clan to his son Hongli (Qianlong) as a concubine.
According to the data, the Jin clan is the eldest daughter of Jin Sanbao, and she also has three younger brothers, namely Jin Ding, Jin Hui and Jin Jian, the most prominent of which is Jin Jian, the official to the Minister in Charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the official Shangshu.
2. From the royal palace to the imperial concubines of the Qing Dynasty
About five years before Yongzheng, the 13-year-old Jin clan stood out in the palace women's draft held by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and was subsequently given by Yongzheng to the fourth son of the emperor, Hongli, as a concubine (Gege). Although this Jin clan was not obvious when Qianlong was the crown prince, she had been obscure and obscure, but after Qianlong succeeded to the throne, she was out of control.
In September of the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, Prince Bao became the new master of the Qing Empire, with the era name Qianlong, and on September 24 of this month, the Jin clan was ennobled as a nobleman (called Jin Guiren), and at that time, before the Jin clan, there were empresses, noble concubines, concubines (concubines), Su concubines (pure concubines) and Yi concubines (posthumously), and the Jin clan ranked sixth in the harem.
However, within a few days, this concubine died, and in the official canonization of Qianlong in the second year, the Jin clan had to be crowned Jia Concubine, that is to say, the name of this noble person was only a transition, and the Jin family's career in the harem actually began with Jia Concubine.
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At that time, when the concubines were drawing up the title, the Cabinet Classics Department provided the Jin clan with the four words "Ling, Wan, Jia, and Pure", and Qianlong chose the word "Jia", which means "commendable", and from the subsequent development, the Jin clan was indeed a woman worthy of praise. Also in April of the same year, Jin's father Jin Sanbao was transferred to the two Huaiyan government, Jin Sanbao asked Qianlong to let the second son Jin Hui and the third son Jin Jian study and shoot in lianghuai, which shows that the two younger brothers of the Jin family are still young, she is the eldest sister of the three brothers of the Jin family, and it should not be wrong.
On the fourteenth day of the first month of the fourth year of Qianlong, the Jin clan gave birth to the first prince since Qianlong succeeded to the throne, that is, the fourth son of the emperor, Yongjun, and Qianlong was very excited, and within a few days, he promoted Jin Ding, the younger brother of the Jin clan, to be a blue plume bodyguard.
On the seventh day of February in the sixth year of Qianlong, Haigui gave birth to the fifth son of the emperor, Yongqi, and six days later, that is, on February 13, Qianlong decreed that the Jin clan be made a concubine and the haigui as a concubine. It can be seen that the Jin clan and the Haigui people are "mothers and sons", and they were promoted by giving birth to a prince.
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In February of the eighth year of Qianlong, Jin Sanbao's father, Jin Sanbao, was seriously ill, and Shangshu asked Taiyi for diagnosis and treatment, and Qianlong immediately ordered that Taiyi come to Tianjin to diagnose and treat Jin Sanbao, and in April of that year, Gao Bin, the father of The Noble Concubine Gao, who was then directly subordinate to the governor, asked for the aggravation of the illness of Jin Sanbao to give grace, so it can be seen that the personal relationship between this noble concubine Gao and The Jiafei Jin clan should be good.
Note: During the Qianlong period, the relationship between the concubines of the various main positions should be good, not as serious as in the TV series, for example, Gao Heng, the brother of the noble concubine Gao (Huixian Emperor Guifei), was later punished for corruption, and the university scholar Fu Heng (the younger brother of Empress Xiaoxian) interceded for him, which shows that the relationship between the Empress Fucha clan and the noble concubine Gao clan should also be good.
On the third day of March in the tenth year of Qianlong, Qianlong and his concubines went to the Liugudao Funeral Palace to pay tribute to the newly deceased Concubine Huixian, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent four ox carts to transport the eunuchs under the concubines, the first one took the eunuchs under the empress dowager of the Xi'an Palace alone, the second took the eunuchs under the concubines of Yikun Palace and the concubines of Changchun Palace, the third took the eunuchs under the positions of Pure Concubines of Jingren Palace and Yonghe Palace, and the fourth was the eunuchs under the concubines of Chengqian Palace, Yi Concubine of Yanxi Palace and Concubine Ling of Yongshou Palace.
It can be seen from this that in the early Qianlong period, it was not Empress Xiaoxian who lived in Changchun Palace, but Jiafei Jin.
3. A noble concubine who has given birth to four children in a row
In the eleventh year of Qianlong, Princess Jia gave birth to the eighth son of the Emperor Yongxuan, the second prince born to the Jin clan.
On the first day of July in the thirteenth year of Qianlong, the Jin clan was promoted to noble concubine because of the birth of two princes in a row, ranking third after the pure noble concubine.
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In fact, another reason why the Jin clan was able to be promoted to a noble concubine this time was the death of Empress Xiaoxian, and the noble concubine Nala clan was designated as a successor candidate, so that since the system of double noble concubines created by Qianlong in the tenth year, there was a lack of a noble concubine, and according to the ranking, it should be sat by the Jin clan who gave birth to two princes.
It is worth mentioning that just eight days after Jin was promoted to a noble concubine (the ninth day of July), she gave birth to another prince, that is, the ninth son of the emperor, but the ninth son of the emperor died in the second year, before he could take a name.
In the sixteenth year of Qianlong, Qianlong gave two concubines a reward to their mother's family, one was the Jia Guifei Jin clan, Qianlong ordered the Jin clan to be carried out of the wrapped collar, which was equivalent to improving the status of the Jin clan, and the other was the Ling Concubine Wei clan, Qianlong ordered the Wei family to be transferred from the wrapped pipe collar (Xin Zhiku) into the wrapped and sacrament, which also enhanced the status of the Wei family.
On the seventh day of February in the seventeenth year of Qianlong, the Jin clan gave birth for the fourth and last time, and this time, she also gave birth to a crown prince, that is, the eleventh son of the emperor, Yong Mao. Also in October of that year, Qianlong brought empresses of the Nala clan and Jia Guifei Jin clan to the Shengshuiyu Underground Palace in Tanglin to participate in the feng'an (burial) ceremony of Empress Xiaoxian, Emperor Huixian and Emperor Zhexian' concubines.
Logically, with the seniority of the Jin clan, they are not eligible to be buried in the Yuling Underground Palace, and there are also pure noble concubines in front of her, but why did Qianlong not bring pure noble concubines, but brought the Jin family, and in the future, he will bury the Jin family in the Yuling Underground Palace?
We can look at the prince of Qianlong at this time, at this time Qianlong already has 11 sons, but the emperor's eldest son Yong Huang, the emperor's second son Yong Lian, the emperor's seventh son Yong Chun, the emperor's ninth son has passed away, and three of the remaining 7 sons are born of the Jin family, so the probability of the Jin clan becoming the birth mother of the future emperor is still relatively large, and the Jin clan naturally becomes a popular candidate for burial in the Yuling Underground Palace.
4. The imperial concubine who is buried in the imperial tomb
Although the Jin clan gave birth to four princes for Qianlong in a row, and ranked third in the harem, but the body was also greatly depleted, just three years after she gave birth to the eleventh son of the emperor, Yong Yao, that is, on November 15 of the twentieth year of Qianlong, this 43-year-old noble concubine died suddenly, according to the sacrifice text in the "Imperial Literature Code", the Jin clan died of bacidal disease, that is, a disease caused by a rise in body temperature, perhaps a fever or the like.
The day after Jin's death, Qianlong ordered him to be posthumously honored as an imperial concubine with the posthumous title of Shujia (淑嘉), or Shujia (淑嘉皇贵妃).
On October 23, 2002, The Noble Concubine Jin of the Shujia Emperor was buried in the Underground Palace of Shengshuiyu (Yuling) in the Eastern Qing Dynasty. In March of the fourth year of Jiaqing, the newly succeeded Jiaqing Emperor carried the Jin clan into the Manchurian Zhenghuang Banner, and in the 23rd year of Jiaqing, he renamed the surname of the Jin mother's family to the Jin jia clan.
After Jin's death, her younger brother Jin Jian was reused by Qianlong, and in the 37th year of Qianlong, he was promoted to minister of internal affairs and served as vice president of the Siku Quanshu, and three years later, Jin Jian was reappointed as Shangshu of the Ministry of Works.
In addition, Jin Jian was also entrusted with important diplomatic tasks by Qianlong, who received the British Macartney Mission, and the Korean envoy Lee Tae-yong reported to King Zhengzu in the fiftieth year of Qianlong (1785): "The Ministry of Works Shangshu Jin Jian also gave Him a blessing and a blessing to the Emperor. ”
Zichen said:
Shujia Emperor Guifei was a wrapped concubine who came out of Qianlong's hidden residence, and she who was not ranked high in the original ranking, relying on Qianlong's favor, gave birth to four princes, who were crowned noble concubines before they were born and crowned imperial concubines after their deaths, which can be said to have broken out of a world in the harem of the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, it is precisely because of the Shujia Emperor's noble concubines, the Jin clan has won the honor of raising the flag, and the younger brother Jin Jian is an extremely popular subject, it can be said that in the Qianlong harem, the Jin clan is definitely a member of sufficient weight.
References: Draft History of the Qing Dynasty, Records of Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty, Imperial Classics, etc