In his lifetime, the Kangxi Emperor destroyed Aobai, Pingsan Domain, took Taiwan, fought against Russia, and pro-conquered Gardan, and it can be said that the entire Qing Dynasty was unparalleled, and he not only achieved remarkable political achievements, but also the longest reigning emperor in Chinese history, and in his sixty-one years of imperial career, he also had countless children.
According to statistics, after the Manchus entered the customs and before Puyi abdicated, the Qing Dynasty experienced a total of 86 princes, and the sons of the Kangxi Emperor accounted for 35.
The daughters of these ten emperors totaled sixty, of which twenty were the blood of the Kangxi Emperor, and overall, the children of Kangxi alone accounted for more than one-third of the entire Qing Dynasty.
That said, fourteen of the thirty-five sons died before the age of ten, with a mortality rate of 40 percent, and the number on the daughter's side was even more staggering, with ten of the twenty princesses not surviving to be ten years old.
Marriage is destined
According to the etiquette system of the Qing Dynasty, the emperor's daughter must be ten years old before she can perform the "preamble tooth" ranking, after which she can be called a "princess". Among Kangxi's daughters, there were only eleven who could be called "princesses", ten of whom were Kangxi's biological daughters.
Princess Chunxi, as the Grand Princess, was adopted by Kangxi. Princesses of the Qing Dynasty were not free to love like the princesses in film and television dramas, as was the case in many dynasties in history.
Although you are princesses, their names are basically not recorded in the history books, and there is a high probability that the emperor will not name his daughter at all.
Most of the names we have given to many famous women in history have come from their titles or from later generations of their names. And their marriages are basically the product of political marriages.
Taking the Qing Dynasty as an example, when the Qing Taizu Nurhaci raised an army, the Manchus attached great importance to establishing political alliances by marriage, the most important of which was the alliance between manchus and Mongols, and the Manchu-Mongolian alliance was generally presided over by Manchu khans or emperors.
Emperor Taiji of the Qing Dynasty had five Mongolian wives and concubines in his lifetime, and the famous Empress Xiaozhuang in history was a Mongolian woman who married into the Manchus. Empress Xiaozhuang's son, The Shunzhi Emperor, also married five Mongol wives, of which the Borjigit clan was a large surname of the Mongols.
By the Kangxi Dynasty, although the Manchus had already conquered the Central Plains, he still married two Mongolian wives in order to unite Manchu and Mongolian and stabilize the north. Even the emperor had to participate in the political marriage, and as the emperor's daughter, several princesses naturally avoided it.
In the end, seven of the Kangxi Emperor's daughters were married to Mongol princes, including the grand princess who was adopted by Kangxi, Princess Chunxi.
Lucky political marriage
Princess Chunxi was not the biological daughter of the Kangxi Emperor, but her biological father was the Kangxi Emperor's younger brother Prince Gong of Aixin Jueluo Changning.
The reason why the Kangxi Emperor adopted his niece was first, to bring him closer to his brother and unite the clan; second, because the Kangxi Emperor had already died four of his five children at that time, and one of the surviving daughters died of illness two years later. The Kangxi Emperor adopted Princess Chunxi, in large part because it was used to remove "obscurity".
Perhaps there is really a saying of "heavenly induction", after Princess Chunxi entered the palace, the two princes of the Kangxi Emperor were born one after another, and grew up healthy and healthy. For a time, the Kangxi Emperor took great care of Princess Chunxi. At the time of the "Prelude", although Princess Chunxi was not her own child, the Kangxi Emperor ranked her as the "Grand Princess".
After being crowned Grand Princess, Kangxi gave her almost all the favors of her own daughters. By the age of twenty, Kangxi arranged for her to marry, and the eldest princess married the Mongolian nobleman Ban Di at that time, who was one of the best in the whole family in terms of ability and personality.
After the two married, Ban Di did not indulge in arrogance and indulgence, and worked diligently all the way to achieve the unification of Mongolia with yellow flags, serving as an official for more than twenty years, not making a single mistake, and not receiving a single accusation from the Kangxi Emperor.
At the same time, Ban Di also loved the Grand Princess, and whenever the Grand Princess wanted to return to Beijing to visit her relatives, Ban Di followed him around, and the two were always paired, which was unique among the nine sons-in-law of the Kangxi Emperor, even in the political marriage of the entire Qing Dynasty, it was extremely rare.
A favored princess of the Three Dynasties
In addition to her father Kangxi and her husband Ban Di, the eldest princess's younger brother was also very fond of her, and this younger brother was Yin Chan, the future Yongzheng Emperor. After the death of the Kangxi Emperor, the Yongzheng Emperor changed the title of Grand Princess from "Princess Heshuo" to "Princess Gulun".
According to the ancestral system of the Qing Dynasty, the title of princess has a high and a low, of which the daughter born of the empress is titled "Princess Gulun", which represents the absolute status and glory; while the daughters born of other concubines can only be named "Princess Heshuo", which shows the feelings between Yongzheng and the eldest sister.
When the eldest princess got married, the Yongzheng Emperor was thirteen years old, and the grand princess had always taken very good care of him, although the two were half-married, but the grand princess really watched the Yongzheng Emperor grow up, and the relationship between the two was unquestionable.
Even if the news of the grand princess's ill health came from the grassland, the Yongzheng Emperor also sent an imperial doctor to heal it at the first time, and the Yongzheng Emperor basically agreed to the Grand Princess's request. When the eldest princess wanted to request a title for her daughter-in-law, the Yongzheng Emperor did not say a word and gave the title of "Gushan Gege".
In 1726, the eldest princess's husband Ban Di died, and Yongzheng was afraid that his sister was lonely and sad in the steppe, so he specially ordered his sister to be taken back to the capital to live and let people take care of her. The grand princess, who was nearly sixty years old, was still regarded as a princess by her brother The Yongzheng Emperor.
In this way, Princess Chunxi spent most of her life in favor, and until Qianlong succeeded to the throne, her treatment did not diminish in the slightest.
One day in 1741, Princess Chunxi suddenly felt unwell and knew that time was running out. She applied to her nephew Emperor Qianlong to return to the Mongolian steppe where she and her husband and children had lived for more than thirty years, and to enjoy her old age in the place where she used to live with her husband, and in the face of her aunt's wishes, the Qianlong Emperor did not hesitate to approve it.
Even in the countdown to life, the grand princess still misses the time with her husband on the grassland, which shows the husband and wife relationship between the two at that time, and the life of Princess Chunxi in that era of unfree marriage is really a complete script.
Finally, in the winter of that year, Princess Chunxi, who had been favored by her father, brother and nephew, died at the age of seventy-one in her home in the Mongolian steppe.
Although her life is not like the vigorous love of the princesses in the later film and television dramas, in her plain and happy life, there is a father who loves herself, a husband who hurts herself, a brother who cares about herself, and a nephew who respects her nephew.