The Qing Dynasty is the closest feudal dynasty to us, and our friends are also very interested in this dynasty. Today we are going to talk about the empresses of the Qing Dynasty. How many people are crushed by a filial piety, so the only person who can sit back and relax in the royal family is the empress, no need to compete for favors, no need to speculate on the thoughts of the courtiers, and one mind to be his own rich and idle person. But in the Qing Dynasty, many times the power of the empress dowager was also very large. Even courtiers would listen to the empress dowager from time to time, and at some point she had more power than the emperor.
The most powerful empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty was definitely Empress Dowager Cixi, but she had managed the Qing Dynasty for more than forty years, and had experienced three emperors, which was just a difference in the name of an empress compared with Wu Zetian. In the Qing Dynasty, there were actually many famous empresses, just like Xiaozhuang. Xiaozhuang and Cixi are the same, they are both people who stand up when the emperor is not able to run the government, but the difference is that Xiaozhuang knows how to give up power, but Cixi prefers power, and she even imprisons the emperor for her own power, even when she dies, she does not forget to take the emperor away.
Speaking of the empress dowager of the Qing Dynasty, the one who can't pass is Empress Xiaozhuang, who is one of the five great blessings of the Emperor Taiji and is given the title of Zhuang. Her relationship with Huang Taiji was not deep, but because she was blessed, this was not a reason, so she was placed by Huang Taiji in her harem. In the end, Huang Taiji died, and she used all her strength to maneuver between Huang Taiji's brother and son, pushing her young son to the throne. Later, Shunzhi died early, and he supported his grandson to succeed to the throne, helping Kangxi stabilize the situation. Politically, she was undoubtedly a successful woman. It's just that a woman's career is successful, and she still needs a man who loves her, but she has never met that person in her life. Or maybe she met, but at that time she didn't have time to go to her children's love.
The empress dowager during the Kangxi dynasty was a Mongol, and the Borjigit clan was jealous of Shunzhi, but only provided for it, and had no children. After Kangxi succeeded to the throne, she was invisible in the harem, after all, with the empress dowager, she was nothing. The empress dowager of the Yongzheng period was her birth mother Wu Yashi, but unfortunately Yongzheng had the same relationship with her, that is, she was still passable.
Next was Qianlong's birth mother, Empress Rongxian. She was also not famous for her son, and sat in the position of empress dowager for more than forty years, and her only contribution was probably to make Qianlong earn a filial piety. Qianlong was still very wary of her, and generally did not allow anyone to talk to her about the former dynasty.
Next is Empress Xiaohe, who was originally Jiaqing's side Fujin, and when she married Jiaqing, Jiaqing already had a proper wife. Unfortunately, this wife's life was not good, and Jiaqing had just succeeded to the throne, and she died. At that time, Qianlong was the Emperor Taishang, so he made Jiaqing set up a side Fujin as empress. In fact, it was an unruly thing to establish a new queen when the empress died, so he first made her an imperial concubine, acting as an agent of the six palaces, and when the empress's mourning period expired, he could officially seal the queen. After the death of the Jiaqing Emperor, she became the empress, although Daoguang was not her own child, but she was still born well, there was no ups and downs in her life, and she was the most comfortable empress dowager in the Qing Dynasty, and was deeply respected by the emperor.
Finally, there is Cixi, Cixi still has great power in the position of empress dowager, she is the Empress Dowager, and she has more confidence than the Empress Dowager of the Palace of Xianfeng. After Tongzhi's death, Cixi's power became greater, and he was the true emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Her power is not only in the harem, even in the former dynasty, she has her power and a stable position.