The Ming Dynasty, a glorious and colorful chapter in Chinese history.
During this period, the emperors had their own characteristics, including the wise and the powerful, the mediocre and incompetent, the indulgent, and the simple. Among the queens, each has a unique story, including those who are virtuous and virtuous, those who have the power to schem, those who have suffered tragedies, and those who enjoy glory.
Among them, the first abolished queen of the Ming Dynasty, Hu Shanxiang, has a striking experience.
Hu Shanxiang was born in a civilian family in Jining, Shandong, his father is a brocade guard, and his eldest sister is Shanggong.
She is beautiful and dignified, with an elegant temperament, and was selected as the imperial concubine by Ming Chengzu Zhu Di, and was later canonized as the crown princess and queen. He was loyal, kind, frugal and virtuous, and was deeply loved by Zhu Di and Empress Dowager Zhang.
However, she failed to give birth to a son and became Zhu Zhanji's deposed queen.
Zhu Zhanji, Ming Xuanzong, smart and clever, both civil and military. has a very different personality from his father Zhu Di, he is affectionate and loves his childhood sweetheart Sun Guifei.
Sun Guifei is outstanding and complements Zhu Zhanji. However, because she gave birth to Zhu Qizhen in the third year of Xuande, she gave Zhu Zhanji and Sun Guifei an excuse to abolish Hu Shanxiang. Zhu Zhanji abolished Hu Shanxiang as the queen on the grounds that he was "childless and sick", and Hu Shanxiang lived a life of monkhood.
Hu Shanxiang's abolition aroused dissatisfaction and sympathy from the government and the opposition. She was not at fault, but she lost her status as queen because she did not give birth to a son. Zhu Zhanji failed to treat her well, but let her spend her old age alone in the side palace.
Hu Shanxiang died of illness in the eighth year of orthodoxy at the age of 41. Her life is full of gains and losses and helplessness.
In his later years, Zhu Zhanji regretted what happened after the abolition and blamed himself for being young and impulsive. After Hu Shanxiang's death, his son Zhu Qizhen posthumously sealed her, built a mausoleum, and did not build a temple.
Hu Shanxiang became the first deposed queen of the Ming Dynasty and the only deposed queen to be posthumously crowned as the queen.
The life of this queen is one of luck and fate. Her name became a stroke in the history of the Ming Dynasty, leaving deep thoughts.
Her existence may be tortuous, her value may be overlooked, but her influence flows through history, reminding us of gain, loss and impermanence.