Princess Yu

Princess Yu

Imperial concubine Yu of the Tongzhi emperor of the Qing Dynasty was the daughter of the magistrate Chongling. Born on the first day of June in the sixth year of Xianfeng, he was canonized as Yu pin in October of the eleventh year of Tongzhi. He was 17 years old at that time. His status was next to Hui Fei (the candidate favored by the Empress Dowager), even higher than Yu pin (ranking first), and higher than Yu Gui.

brief introduction

Imperial concubine Yu of the Tongzhi emperor of the Qing Dynasty was the daughter of the magistrate Chongling. Born on the first day of June in the sixth year of Xianfeng, he was canonized as Yu pin in October of the eleventh year of Tongzhi. He was 17 years old at that time. His status was next to Hui Fei (the candidate favored by the Empress Dowager), even higher than Yu pin (ranking first), and higher than Yu Gui. Five concubines were selected in the draft at the same time, but the three concubines, Yu pin, Yu pin and Yu Gui Ren, as the "extra staff" in the battle for the post between empress dowager and huifei (essentially the power conflict between the West empress dowager and her son Tongzhi emperor and the East empress dowager), were arranged to enter the palace one month after the Empress Dowager and huifei entered the palace.

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Yu's concubine was beautiful and resourceful, and Emperor Tongzhi was always lucky to her (and then she was a noble person) when she was in love with the queen. It should be said that she was still happy in the first time after her marriage, but it didn't take long. The empress of Tongzhi was a well-known talented woman at that time. She was "dignified and quiet, beautiful and virtuous". The Empress Dowager was afraid of such a woman, but she was inexplicably fond of huifei, who was only 14 years old and childish. Under the pressure, Emperor Tongzhi naturally hated huifei more and more, and there was a deadlock between the two sides. It's hard to avoid the disaster of Chiyu. Because the Empress Dowager forced Tongzhi emperor to "love the concubine she didn't love" (i.e. huifei), and interfered with the empress, Tongzhi emperor was angry, so he once left all his concubines to look for "wild fun". Together with the empress and huifei, Yupin and other three people had a taste of loneliness. Although the queen finally "pulled" Tongzhi emperor back, it was too late. In November of the 13th year, Emperor Tongzhi was seriously ill. The empress dowagers of the two palaces granted imperial concubines to pray for their blessings, and Yu concubines were also named Yu concubines in the Jin Dynasty. Soon emperor Tongzhi died. The empress could not bear to be bullied by the Empress Dowager and killed herself by swallowing gold. Huifei was named "Dunyi imperial concubine" and continued to be favored by the Empress Dowager. At the age of 19, imperial concubine Yu has to become a chaste woman and continue to bear the pressure of imperial concubine Hui, who is three and a half years younger than herself and is actually a child. I'm afraid it's a very painful thing. In the long years after that, imperial concubine Yu lived a painless but extremely depressed life in the harem. A Qing Palace poem records her life during the reign of Guangxu: "people from langmengshan (another name of Yufei) were like ice and snow, and Jieyu was very lucky. At that time, she was burning incense and worshiping Buddha and had a lot of leisure. She painted Lin Luan and wrote poems by herself." Empress Dowager Xi paid little attention to Yu, Yu and Yu's concubines. It is speculated that they "remind her of her dead son". After the marriage of Emperor Guangxu, what the Empress Dowager attached importance to was her political tool, the "cowardly" empress Longyu, who was not liked by her. In her life, she even preferred to be close to Princess Jin (her sister) rather than pay more attention to the concubines left by her sons. During this period, the greatest comfort for Princess Yu was that in the first month of the 20th year of Guangxu, the Empress Dowager of the West was promoted to Princess Yu on her 60th birthday. She spent too much boring time on painting and calligraphy. Many people began to confuse her with huifei, the first of Tongzhi emperor's concubines. Just as many deeds belonging to lifeI in the past (including the birth of the eldest princess) were wrongly put on the head of Empress Dowager Xi, who was then Princess Yi. In fact, the Empress Dowager Xi talked with huifei about three concubines, including Yu (and later Jin) (imperial concubine) the long night can only still write and draw lonely in the palace. In the 26th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, the Eight Allied forces entered Beijing. The Empress Dowager took Emperor Guangxu and empress Jinfei to flee and killed Zhenfei before leaving. However, she left all the concubines (including huifei) of emperor Tongzhi in Beijing and let them live and die on their own. The two imperial concubines left by Xianfeng in the palace are old and hard to rely on. Huifei has no insight and can only wash her face with tears day by day. The imperial concubine Yu had no choice but to try her best to keep her spirits stable. The imperial concubine closed the door to protect her, and called some foreign ministers in Beijing to discuss the countermeasures. Fortunately, the Allied forces did not plunder the harem. The commander-in-chief "saluted his concubine mu Zongyu" and no one in the palace was hurt. This became the highlight of imperial concubine Yu's life. But what made imperial concubine Yu miserable was that the Empress Dowager did not give her any reward after the disaster. On the contrary, a few years later, imperial concubine Hui (known as "imperial concubine Dunyi Rongqing") passed away. The Empress Dowager made great efforts to promote the death. Only when the golden coffin was moved to temporary security, she used 15000 liang of silver and renewed 22000 liang of silver. They ordered that the crown of Huiling imperial concubine be placed in the middle of the front row in the dormitory of Huiling imperial concubine's garden. Yu, Yu, Yu, and Yu had also built the crown in advance, but they were all placed in the back row. The underground palace of Huiling imperial concubine used stone coupons, while those of Yu, Yu, and Yu were brick coupons. They also ordered Huiling imperial concubine to build Fangcheng, minglou, Baocheng, dabaoding, dongxipeidian, and add shiwugong (which can only be regulated by Empress's underground palace) It's better to resist in secret. Huifei was posthumously named "imperial concubine Shushen", which seems to be a echo of the Western empress dowager's claim that huifei "serves the Great Xing Emperor (Tongzhi emperor) suzhao Shushen". In the end, Yufei had to succumb to huifei who is good for nothing but beauty. It was a sad thing to say. Puyi ascended the throne, Longyu was granted the title of empress dowager, Jinfei was also granted the title of imperial concubine, and Yufei didn't get any reward Full. According to the family law of the Qing Dynasty, when a concubine comes to see the empress dowager, she must call herself a slave. Yu Fei and Longyu should be equal, and Yu Fei is better than Longyu. When Empress Dowager Cixi was alive, Princess Yu was on an equal footing with Longyu because she was favored by Cixi. But now, she was reduced to a slave, and Princess Yu was very dissatisfied. Since the first day when Longyu was promoted to empress dowager, Princess Yu has not congratulated Longyu and ignored him at all. It's just that Longyu didn't pursue her because she knew that she was favored by Cixi. After Cixi died, she was buried in Dongling. Almost all the imperial concubines and Longyu went to Dongling to worship. Princess Yu felt that the time had come, so she stood out from the crowd and questioned the Regent Wang zaifeng in front of all the civil and military officials: "does the Emperor (referring to Puyi) follow only Dezong (referring to Guangxu) and not muzong (referring to Tongzhi)?" Zaifeng was asked at that time. After waiting for zaifeng to be silent for a period of time, he said that "he also succeeded Mu Zong." So imperial concubine Yu quit, pointed to zaifeng's nose and said, "in this case, empress muzong has ascended to heaven, and I am the only one left. If the emperor succeeded Mu Zong, why is empress Longyu called empress dowager and I'm still a slave? " Seeing that zaifeng didn't answer her question, Princess Yu began to wail. Cry Mu Zong's unkind, cry Cixi so love her, now Cixi died, people take her as a slave. Seeing imperial concubine Yu wailing in front of Cixi's tomb, zaifeng had no choice but to persuade her, and promised to make arrangements after returning to the palace. But imperial concubine Yu is still reluctant, in order to give Longyu good-looking, she must take a hand in front of the officials. Finally, when people came to persuade her, she stopped her tears and went back to her house with them. There was another story at that time. It is said that one night, there was only Longyu in front of Cixi. At this time, zaifeng ran in and told Longyu, "master, let's go. We can't wait. Just now, imperial concubine Yu and imperial concubine Jin discussed going back to the palace to get the Empress Dowager's gold seal. If they take the Empress Dowager's gold seal, then when they go back to the palace, you will not be the Empress Dowager. " Hearing this, Longyu was very angry. He didn't expect that imperial concubine Yu and imperial concubine Jin would do this kind of thing. It's just treason. But at present, this pass can't control so much, so he immediately ordered zaifeng to return to Beijing. So zaifeng and Longyu rushed to the capital overnight. When they got the Empress Dowager's gold seal, they watched imperial concubine Yu and imperial concubine Jin come in from outside the palace. Seeing Longyu, they were obviously very surprised. I wish I could chop off my feet. I only felt that I was slow. Even so, Longyu forgave them, but he didn't mention it to Princess Yu. Since then, there has been a lot of caution for both of them. A year later, when she paid a visit to Cixi and Guangxu the next year, Princess Yu came up to zaifeng and asked him the question again. But zaifeng couldn't make the decision in that situation, so he had to put it off. Imperial concubine Yu didn't care about that. At that time, she was splashing on the ground. The ministers came to persuade her. However, imperial concubine Yu seemed to have been prepared for a long time and said to everyone, "let me be a slave. I'd rather not go back to the palace than die here." So, Yu imperial concubine made an action of bumping against the pillar. At that time, the ministers were all there, so they held her tightly to prevent her from hitting the post. Everyone was afraid that she would be killed in that place, and that she would lose her royal identity. So Longyu discussed with everyone and agreed that she would be granted the title of imperial concubine in Jin Dynasty and would no longer be called a slave. Yu imperial concubine this just don't make, obediently followed everybody to return to the capital together. Jing Yi, the imperial concubine (1856-1932, February 5), was born on the first day of June, the sixth year of Xianfeng. However, after entering the palace, it was only sealed as

Yu pin

After more than two years, he was promoted to senior high school on November 15, 2013

Princess Yu

. In the first month of the 20th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu, Jin was granted imperial concubine Yu. On October 25 of the 34th year, four days after Emperor Guangxu died, Emperor Xuantong honored her as imperial concubine Yu

Imperial concubine Yu

. On March 12, 1913 (the fifth day of the second month of the lunar calendar), Pu Yi, the deposed emperor, honored her as the emperor

Royal concubine Jing Yi

. On February 5, 1932 (New Year's eve of the year of Xinwei in the lunar calendar), he died and died at the age of 77. The scene is unprecedented