What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
Many of the harem concubines, empresses, and princesses of the Qing Dynasty are well known to the public, but counting the events that happened to them, most of them are "exaggerated" and are not legendary.
For example, when it comes to spoiled concubines, they mention Hai Lanzhu and Dong Efei, but in fact, there are not a few who enjoy exclusive favors, and what makes them famous is still the sad color from the story; when it comes to princesses, everyone mentions the tenth daughter of Qianlong, but this is not the emperor's favorite, in the same period, there are also daughters who are married to Mongolia, but they have the permission of their fathers to establish a princess palace in the capital.
With this mentality, we went to those who were "not very famous" to look for special, and really found one: the empress of Jiaqing, the Hitara clan, she was born as a slave, but she could become an empress, with a son and a daughter, the man became the crown prince, and the woman was the last princess of the Qing Dynasty.
Before the Jiaqing Emperor, the empresses' origins were very prominent: two empresses of Shunzhi, both from the Borjigit clan of Xiaozhuang's mother's family; kangxi had three empresses, one from the auxiliary chancellor Sonny's family, the Shubilong family, and the state uncle's family; Yongzheng's concubine Fujin, who was the daughter of Feiyanggu, the Manchurian White Banner; and Qianlong's original wife, who was also the governor of the Chahar Department.
The Hitara family, on the other hand, was born in the "wrapping".
The so-called wrapping is the subordinate of the Eight Flags family, managing finances and trivial things for them. Among them, the Shangsan Banners are managed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is relatively prominent, and their daughters can also participate in the palace draft, but most of them are elected, and they are not titled in the early stage. (See Yongzheng's biological mother, Wu Yashi))
According to the "Eight Banners Tongzhi", the uncle of the Xitala clan came to Bao because he was old and hard at work, Qianlong specially raised the flag for him and entered the Manchurian Zhengbai Banner, this time was the sixth year of Qianlong, the Xitala clan was born in the twenty-fifth year of Qianlong, that is, the empress was fortunate to be born in the era of the family raising the flag, which also paved the way for her to become a "princess concubine" later. (Note: There is no prince in the secret reserve system, so to clarify the timeline, that will jiaqing not ascend the throne)
For Jiaqing, it was really coincidental that his birth mother, Concubine Ling, was also a slave of the Qing Dynasty at the beginning, because the ancestors made mistakes, they were relegated to the Shangsanqi Xinzhi treasury, and it was not until the forty years of Qianlong that the flag was raised.
Continue on to the Hitara clan.
She was born in 1760, and Jiaqing was also born in 1760, only 42 days older than his wife.
At the age of fourteen, through the draft, Qianlong immediately fell in love with his future daughter-in-law and hosted a grand wedding for them.
The history books do not record in detail the talent and character of the Hitara clan, but it can be believed that it must be the best among the peers. Because just one year before the marriage, Qianlong would make the fifteenth brother Ai Xinjue Luo Yuyan the Crown Prince through the secret Chu Chu. According to Qianlong's consistent style of conduct and his pursuit of the "Perfect Old Man", this princess must be a perfect person.
Only one year after the marriage, the 15-year-old Hitara gave birth to a daughter, but unfortunately died. Ten years after marriage, she gave birth to another daughter, and when Jiaqing ascended the throne, she was crowned Princess Jinggulun of Zhuang.
According to the Qing Dynasty system, only the daughter of the empress enjoyed the title of "Gulun", which means concubine to show nobility, and the daughter of the concubine was Princess Heshuo.
It is worth mentioning that the emperors from Jiaqing onwards, Daoguang, Xianfeng, Tongzhi, Guangxu, and Xuantong, their wives have not been able to give birth to daughters, or they have given birth to daughters but they have died prematurely. In other words, Princess Zhuang Jinggulun, born of the Hitara clan, was the last princess of the Qing Dynasty.
In addition, the Hitara clan also gave birth to Jiaqing's second brother, Ai Xinjue Luo Mianning, who was the future emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Daoguang.
Although from birth to marriage, the Queen Kitara clan belonged to a very fortunate person, but she could not escape the fate of untimely death, and only became an empress for two years before she died of illness, and finally Chinese New Year's Eve seven years old.
This is very similar to her mother-in-law, Qianlong's wife, Empress Fucha. Fu Cha clan is the daughter-in-law of YongZheng's first glance, when married, Hongli has also been secretly established; after marriage, she gave birth to daughters and sons, and her daughter was crowned princess of Gulun, and her son was Qianlong's second brother Yonglian, who was initially made crown prince, but died young; Fu Cha clan did not do long Before the empress also died, the same age was thirty-seven years old...
After the death of the Xitala clan, Jiaqing also established Fu jin on the side of the former fuzhong, and Niu Hulu clan as the empress of the middle palace. But at the same time, did not forget the wife, according to the ancient books, Jiaqing wrote more than a hundred poems for the deceased wife before his death, only in the year of the death of the Hitara clan, there were thirty-seven poems, most of which were scenes of wandering in the palace and viewing relics. Some of them can taste affection through their names, such as: "No Sorrow" and "Fat Jade Double Crane". Until the twenty-third year after the empress's death, there was still a poem entitled "Empress Xiaoshu's Mausoleum and Drunken Zhiyi". It can be seen that the relationship between husband and wife is quite good.
Although Empress Kitara had little topicality in her, the emperor's love for her was no less than that of other famous pet concubines.