In May 1944, an article entitled "The Birth of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty" was published, which told the birth mother of the Qianlong Emperor from a new perspective and a dramatic story, so the dramatic bridge section greatly satisfied people's curiosity and caused quite a stir at the time.
The so-called hero does not ask the source, but as an emperor, if the name is not right, I am afraid that I will fall into the tongue. Qianlong was very young when he ascended the throne, and he was one of the longest-reigning emperors in history.
During Qianlong's reign, he promoted the writing of the Siku Quanshu, which is the largest official revision book in ancient mainland China. The economic implementation of the policy of "dividing the land into acres" and tax reduction activities have reduced the burden on the peasants and safeguarded the territory of the mainland.
The so-called "Kangqian" of "Kangqian's prosperous life" refers to the three emperors of Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong, and the traces of thick ink and color are left in the scrolls of history.
Having "many birth mothers"
Orthodox history is much for everyone to hear, and it is inevitable that it will be boring. If you hear some past stories about the emperor at this time, it is that the more you listen to it, the more mysterious it is, the more wonderful it is. Generally, the emperor is recorded from birth to death. Regarding Qianlong's life, there are many contradictions in the historical record.
There are several versions of Qianlong's lineage, the first of which is that a wife of a courtier surnamed Chen and Fujin of Yongzheng were born children, and Yongzheng stole the day to change the day and dropped the two children.
According to the world's legend, the Qianlong Emperor went down to Jiangnan six times and generally lived in the Garden of the Chen Family, and it is rumored that Qianlong did this to visit his biological parents. However, this claim was later denied by many historians.
In the second story, Qianlong's birth mother is an ordinary woman from a poor family, who was assigned to the Yongwang Mansion because of her beauty and was selected as a show girl, and was favored because she took care of Yongzheng, and later became pregnant and gave birth to Qianlong.
However, this statement was also refuted by a Qing Dynasty widow, whose system of selecting women was very strict and it was impossible to recruit women from ordinary families. It is even more impossible to blend in with show girls.
The palace maid was forced to die after giving birth
The third version is the most convincing and widely circulated, quoting Mr. Mao Guangsheng, a staff member of the Rehe Capital of the Qing Dynasty.
Mr. Mao said: Qianlong's birth mother was a Han Woman from Rehe named Li Jiashi. Because at that time, the name of the Han people generally had a good character, she was a palace girl of Rehe, according to the palace people described that this Li clan looked strange and ugly.
At that time, Yongzheng was still the Prince of Yong, and in the winter, Yongzheng was in Rehe, hunting deer in the Mulan paddock, shooting a sika deer, and directly cutting the blood of the fleshed meat deer. Deer blood has an aphrodisiac effect, and Yongzheng feels hot and excited after drinking it.
When we returned to the palace in Rehe, it was close to night, and I wanted to summon the accompanying concubines to be pampered, but I remembered that I did not carry concubines and retinues with me when I was hunting. When the palace maid reported to Yongzheng, she was favored by Yongzheng as a concubine. And this palace girl is Li Jiashi.
Yongzheng returned to the capital after he finished his business, and this memory was also forgotten. In the autumn of the following year, Kangxi came here to hunt and temporarily stayed in the Rehe Palace, and happened to meet a woman who was pregnant with Liujia, so he went forward to inquire.
Li Shi then told Kangxi about the incident, saying that he was pregnant with a dragon breed, and now that she was pregnant in October, she was about to give birth.
Kangxi was furious when he heard this and ordered a strict investigation into the matter. Under repeated questioning, it was confirmed that it was the fourth brother at that time, that is, Yongzheng.
Hurriedly let Yongzheng rush to Rehe, and as soon as Yongzheng arrived, Kangxi scolded Yongzheng. At this time, the palace maid was about to give birth, and the people were afraid of defiling the palace, so they pointed to a grass hut for horses next to it to give birth to the palace maid, and finally gave birth to a boy.
At that time, Yongzheng's eldest son and second son died young, leaving only one third son, and the birth of this boy at this time should have made Li Fly up the branches and become a phoenix.
However, the discrimination against the Han people in the Qing Dynasty at that time was very serious, and Li Jiashi, as a Han palace girl and her appearance was not good, could not get into the eyes of Kangxi and Yongzheng, and Kangxi would not tolerate a Han woman as the mother of the crown prince.
After the palace maid gave birth to the child, Kangxi asked the child to be taken away. How can you bear it as a mother? He cried and cried to see the child.
Because the palace maid was too noisy, Kangxi ordered her to be locked up in a garden, regardless of it. After a long time, the palace lady went mad, and it is said that she fell into the pond in the garden and drowned. Since no one had passed through the garden or gone to retrieve the body, the palace lady had been buried in the mud.
The boy born to the palace maid was later handed over to the Niuhulu clan, later adopted by Empress Xiaoshengxian. Then this child is Qianlong.
The theory that Qianlong was born in the grass shed comes from the palace people in the Rehe Palace at that time, and according to the research of historians, it is said in the Qing Shilu that Kangxi once summoned Yongzheng to Rehe, and the time coincided with the birth time of the palace women in this story.
In the "Rehe Zhi", a grass house is specially written, and the palace people describe this grass house that the Qing government will allocate funds for maintenance every year. If it is an ordinary grass house, how can it be specially recorded and repaired? So it's hard to avoid reverie.
The mystery of qianlong's birthplace
In addition to these, there are many versions, which are widely said, but the history books are also full of contradictions.
In terms of Qianlong's birthplace, qianlong's poems repeatedly emphasize that he was born in the Lama Temple, but an official who followed Qianlong at the summer resort told that Lion Yuan was Qianlong's birthplace, and the Lion Park was located at the Rehe River.
In addition to the official's poems, Qianlong's son Jiaqing also mentioned qianlong's birth in the Lion Garden in his birthday speech. Among the historians, there are two factions, one believes that Qianlong was born in the Lama Temple, and the other believes that he was born in the summer resort.
I thought that the matter would end here, but in the year of Jiaqing's death, the lion park was mentioned in the testament.
After the Daoguang Emperor ascended the throne, he changed the mention in the Jiaqing Emperor's poem that Qianlong was born in the Lion Park to the Lama Temple, a move that had made the birthplace of hundreds of officials suspicious and covered with a layer of fantasy.
As one of the longest-reigning emperors in history, he was full of mysterious colors from birth. Regarding the birthplace of Qianlong, the Daoguang Emperor gave a statement, and it was finally set at the Lama Temple, and it was only at this point that the birthplace of Qianlong came to an end.
Empress Qianlong and Empress Xiaoshengxian
Although each version of Qianlong's lineage has its own opinions, the first thing is to rely on the official history books, which clearly records the birth of Empress Xiaoshengxian in the Lama Temple in the Qing Dynasty's imperial genealogy, and can also have the same record in the Qing Shilu and Qing Hadiths.
Qianlong greatly respected and loved Empress Xiaoshengxian, and immediately after Qianlong ascended the throne, he established Shoukang Palace for the then empress dowager, that is, Empress Xiaoshengxian, as a place for empress dowagers to raise their children. During Qianlong's reign, he was accompanied by the empress dowager on his six southern tours, and he was also inseparable from the left and right on weekdays.
On the empress dowager's birthday, Qianlong would bring hundreds of officials to congratulate her, and on the sixtieth, seventyth, and other birthdays, Qianlong would also put on colored clothes and dance in front of his mother, making the empress dowager smile. All of these can reflect Qianlong's filial piety to the empress.
Qianlong's birth mother is also a mystery now, whether it is Yongzheng changing sons, Xiunu said, or the widely spread grass shed childbirth theory. It's all exaggerated and very dramatic.
Moreover, as a wild history, it is difficult to prove the authenticity, because some of them are only folk hearsay, and their basis cannot be verified at all.