The 88 year old Qianlong Emperor married a wife on his deathbed

Mondo History Updated on 2024-02-13

Before the 88-year-old Qianlong Emperor died, he even planned to marry the 13-year-old show girl Fucha as his wife. Why did this emperor, who was old enough to be her grandfather, marry a young girl?

On the way home is Nian Behind this is a struggle for imperial power. In the third year of Jiaqing, the Fucha clan was selected in the draft, and entered the Forbidden City with the family's expectations and vision for the future. However, she did not become the concubine of Emperor Jiaqing, but was dedicated by Emperor Jiaqing to the 88-year-old Emperor Qianlong.

In 1795, Emperor Qianlong abdicated to his son Jiaqing and became Emperor Taishang himself. Despite the abdication, the government was still controlled by Qianlong. Emperor Jiaqing implemented a series of measures in order to win Qianlong's early handover of power, one of which was to send the Fucha clan to the palace, hoping that she could charm Qianlong and let him no longer intervene in political affairs.

Fucha is from Manchuria with the Yellow Flag, and is a member of the family of Empress Qianlong Fucha Rongyin, and is considered to be the niece and granddaughter of Empress Fucha in terms of generation. Soon after entering the palace, Qianlong named her a nobleman. But the elderly Qianlong didn't have much intimate contact with her, at most just talking.

In the deep palace, the Fucha clan spends most of their time alone and bored. At the age of 13, she should have been a youthful age, but her life was like a pool of stagnant water.

Less than a year after the Jin nobles entered the palace, Qianlong died. At the age of 14, she became a widow and was forced to remain a widow. Later, under Jiaqing's arrangement, she was placed in Shoukang Palace with some older concubines, and began to live a life of "living in peace" in advance.

When Jiaqing was in power, she did not canonize the Jin nobles, so she has always maintained her status as a nobleman. In the Daoguang period, the Jin nobles became the only living concubine in the harem of Emperor Qianlong. In order to show his benevolence, Daoguang promoted her to Concubine Jin and honored her as Concubine Jin.

However, despite the honor, from the moment she entered the palace, Concubine Jin was involved in the whirlpool of power and became a victim of politics. Her youth was buried in the deep palace and finally ended her life in endless loneliness.

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