Looking back at history, we will find that the fate of most princesses in ancient times, many people will inevitably fall victim to political interests. Although they are high up in the sky and enjoy the glory and wealth from childhood, they cannot choose their own marriage. Even some princesses marry people who are older than their fathers and are not happy.
However, there is one princess who is an exception, and she is Princess Gulun Chunxi. As the only adopted daughter of Kangxi, she not only walked through more than thirty years of married life hand in hand with her husband, but also a longevity princess, living to the age of seventy-one, and her own title of Princess Gulun was also made by Yongzheng.
1. Kangxi's only adopted daughter
Historically, many emperors would choose some girls from among the prince's children for adoption. But this is not out of affection between the bloodlines, most of them are to fill the vacancy of the harem heirs and prepare for future political marriages.
Princess Chunxi's biological father was the eldest daughter of Kangxi's few brothers, Prince Gong Changning, and even if she had not been adopted, she would have been a noble personality as the prince's daughter. When ChunXi was two years old, she was admitted to the palace, left the protection of her biological parents, and began to live alone in the deep palace.
After Kangxi adopted her as an adopted daughter, he also loved Chunxi very much. In fact, Kangxi already had eight children at that time, but unfortunately, none of these eight children survived. This was not only a blow to his family, but also had a great impact on the future and the harmony of the Mongolian tribes. Therefore, Kangxi could only choose the right girl among his brother's children for adoption.
At that time, peace was the best way to avoid war, and marrying not only allowed the two hostile sides to turn each other into jade, but also achieved a good relationship. The Mongol tribes were eyeing each other, and in order to stabilize the situation, Kangxi had to consider ways of making peace. But helplessly, his children died one after another, and not a single bloodline was retained, so he had to adopt his brother's daughter.
Fortunately, after the adoption of Chunxi, Kangxi's harem actually came with good news one after another, the prince and princess were born one after another, and the cry of the baby made the originally cold and deserted harem suddenly lively. Such a happy event made Kangxi feel very pleased, believing that the arrival of Chunxi had brought hope for the reproduction of the heirs, and honored her as an adopted daughter as a grand princess.
As time passed, she also came to the age of harmony, and in the twenty-ninth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Kangxi named her Princess Heshuo Chunxi, and was close to the Horqin tribe of Mongolia. Her husband, the Bandi of the Borjigit clan, was the grandson of The King of Korqin County, And the Borjigit clan was the mother of Empress Xiaozhuang, which could be described as a marriage of kinship.
Although she was only an adopted daughter, Princess Chunxi lived a life of gold clothes and jade food in the palace since she was a child, which must be far from the daily life of the Horqin Department. Coupled with the long distance, the boat and car are tired, and the relatives must be a hard road. However, Chunxi did not complain, but gladly accepted Kangxi's marriage.
Chun Xi's husband Bandi was also very contentious, and later not only has been serving in the DPRK, but also has been highly valued, and the official has been led by a right-wing forward, and the husband and wife are very fond of each other, and their feelings are also very stable. Compared with other princesses who were close to her, Princess Heshuo Chunxi's marriage was still very happy.
2. Princesses who make exceptions
Chunxi, who grew up in the palace from an early age, was deeply loved by Kangxi as a child, and many princesses were sent to be married at the age of fourteen, but Chunxi did not marry until the age of twenty. In addition, she also got along well with other princesses and princesses, and the relationship between her sister and brother with the Yongzheng Emperor was even closer.
After Yongzheng ascended to the throne, he always remembered that this sister, who had married and kissed thousands of miles away in order to maintain the stable relations between the Qing Dynasty and the Mongol tribes, made an exception and named her Princess Gulun Chunxi. It should be known that in the Qing Dynasty system, the daughters born to the emperor and the empress could not be honored as Princess Gulun.
The Qing Dynasty borrowed from the titles of previous dynasties, referring to the emperor's own daughter as a princess, and calling the princess born to the empress as the Princess of Gulun, which shows that only the daughters of concubines can deserve this honorific title. He also called the daughter born to the imperial concubine princess Heshuo, and the daughter of the prince was called Heshuo Gege, and the rank of the princess was very strict and could not be called arbitrarily.
After Chun Xi was crowned Princess gulun, she also proposed to Yongzheng a wish to reward her daughter-in-law with the title. She said that it was already a great honor for her to be crowned princess of Gulun, and she had repeatedly received the grace of the Lord to heal her body, but her daughter-in-law had never been titled, so she made this request. Yongzheng received permission after receiving the request, and named Princess Chunxi's daughter-in-law Gushan Gege.
It can also be seen from this that Chunxi has always been deeply cared for by the royal family, and when she married, she was named Princess Heshuo Chunxi by Kangxi, and after Yongzheng ascended the throne, she was awarded the title of Princess of Gulun Chunxi, and even her daughter-in-law was also named Gege at her own request, which can be said that her status is very honorable.
Third, a long and stable life
After the death of her husband, Princess Junxi returned to the life of Kyoshi. The loss of a partner's Pure Xi became ill and affected his body. After Yongzheng learned of this, he not only personally inquired about the condition many times, but also sent an imperial doctor to diagnose and treat it, and later sent someone to take Princess Chunxi back to the palace for convalescence. It is already a great gift to know that the princess can return to the palace after marriage.
Princess Chunxi's son took over her father's position and remained in Mongolia, while she herself recuperated in Beijing. Perhaps because she had lived on Mongolian soil, or because she missed her husband, she wanted to return to Mongolia to have another look. However, due to her advanced age and illness, Chunxi died in the sixth year of Qianlong, and not returning to Mongolia may have become her most regrettable thing.
In ancient times, many people's life expectancy was not very long, due to the lack of medical conditions, physical illness could not be well treated, but Princess Chunxi was already one of the few elderly people at that time. She died at the age of seventy-one, and she had gone through three generations of emperors to ascend the throne in her lifetime, and her life was even one year older than Kangxi, which was enough to see that Princess Chunxi's life was stable and rich, and she had been living a peaceful life.
4. Summary
At the age of two, she was adopted by Kangxi as the only adopted daughter, leaving her biological parents to spend eighteen years in the Forbidden City; at the age of twenty, she was crowned princess of Heshuo Chunxi, and married alone to the Mongolian Horqin tribe; and later she was named Princess Gulun Chunxi by Yongzheng.
In the long years of more than 70 years, she has experienced three generations of emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong, and witnessed the most brilliant moments of the Qing Dynasty. Many people say that what she received was a royal gift, a blessing in her destiny, but in fact, if she did not have good character and gentle and virtuous, I think Kangxi and Yongzheng would not have taken such care of her.